CES 2006 Mix CD: The Only Love
I tried to bring together songs that I love, songs that should prove fun and exciting to listen to, with an interesting variety of sounds and emotions.
Stephen Mejias
A Good Bit of Music
It's important to have at least a little bit of fun. "Do">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/110205not/">Do doingfully," says JA.
A Year of Distance and Difference
To be clear: I'm not really considering messing around with a different pair of loudspeakers.
They're Not?
"So, you've got a">http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=January&Numb… hankering for a new pair of loudspeakers?"
The Eternal Return
...All configurations that have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again.
— Heinrich">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine">Heinrich Heine
— Heinrich">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine">Heinrich Heine
Someone Must've Pinched My Front Legs Off
Here in the office, on Christmas Eve Eve, it's just me and the crickets. Wes Phillips, man">http://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips/">man of many links, tells me that crickets">http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1648623,00.htm… are known to shed a leg if they get caught in a sticky situation, but only if they have had sex first.
Transit Strike: Day 3
"Do you want a ride to work?"
"What?"
"Are you going to Manhattan?"
"Yeah."
"Do you want a ride to work?"
"What do you mean?"
"I've got my car over there. I'm going to 58th Street, but you need four people in a car to be allowed to drive into the City. You wanna ride?"
"Nah, man. You're a stranger. Good luck with that, though."
"What?"
"Are you going to Manhattan?"
"Yeah."
"Do you want a ride to work?"
"What do you mean?"
"I've got my car over there. I'm going to 58th Street, but you need four people in a car to be allowed to drive into the City. You wanna ride?"
"Nah, man. You're a stranger. Good luck with that, though."
Tris McCall's Pop Music Abstract
Tris McCall has posted his 2005">http://www.trismccall.net/pop_music_abstract_2005.htm">2005 Pop Music Abstract.
Some Days Yes
During that brief, but sad, period when the">http://www.donewaiting.com/nyc/archives/002253.php">the Multi-Purpose Solution wasn't making music, I spent some time booking shows at the now gone, but not forgotten, Jersey City rock venue, Uncle Joe's.
Transit Strike: Day 2
Madison Avenue is normally a nearly impenetrable fortress of buses. Crossing it is a choking, weaving, stuttering adventure; a New York City version of Chutes and Ladders.