Stephen Mejias

Since <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_room_today/">the transformation</a> of my living room into a listening room, my record collection has been a woeful, helpless mess. Albums are grouped together more by my fleeting mood or by date of purchase than by anything usefully intelligible, or at all resembling order, such as genre or artist name. If, on some strange and rainy Saturday, I happened to have listened to albums by Mal Waldron, Crazy Horse, and Beach House, these albums will be found shelved together.

Are taken, yes they are.<br>
This video is just like my life. Sing it, brother.

Dear <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/021308sing/">Uncle Omar</a> in Italy,<br>
You missed a fine party. Though we were downright heartbroken that you could not attend, we managed to nevertheless have some fun. Fortunately, Uncle Norbert brought his new video camera, and we were able to capture much of that fun on tape! For your convenience, I've attached my favorite bit of footage, which came during one of our spontaneous sing-alongs.

To woo a mate, the male bowerbird builds <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/bowerbirds/laman-photography"… elaborate nest</a>.

<i>Tris McCall has some trouble getting a hold of Joanna Newsom. Apparently, he’s not the only one. Photo: Annabel Mehran</i>

I took her advice and went for a walk, but didn’t get more than half a block from the office before spotting two large, green dumpsters filled to their brims with paperwork, notebooks, and other office supplies. As I approached, something else caught my eye. Atop the pile of stuff were two fully-stocked, wooden cassette shelves in very good condition.

The July 2010 issue of <i>Stereophile</i> is now on newsstands. It had been far too long since we received a letter complaining about our love of reviewing insanely expensive products, so we decided to make this our “Special Aspirations Issue,” featuring, almost exclusively, products you’d have to be CEO of BP to afford.