Posts Tagged: Music and Sound
Oh For The Days Of Wine And Vinyl
Posted by on Thursday, June 5, 2008 in - 1 comment
I still have my lps. Somewhere I have a box of 45s and in there I know I have a few marked "promotional - not for resale." I expect half the people who ever worked for college radio do, too. My greatest regret in life is actualy that I did not lift the Toto promotional lp that contained band …
The One Set Of Friday Bullets You'll Need Today
Posted by on Friday, May 9, 2008 in - 3 comments
May. Almost mid-May. This is the best part of the year, right? Is there anything better than the pre-black-fly world? It's like mosquitoes (is there an "e"?) don't exist, let alone wasps and hornets. It's still all about the plants but not quite yet the mowing. May is a time of imagination …
Bullet Points For The Week Of The Idle
Posted by on Friday, March 28, 2008 in - 2 comments
It ended up not being that idle. Taxes yesterday. Driver's license renewal Tuesday. I'm wiped. Must save up energy to pray for Morton tomorrow. • Here is the sound of someone singing in 1860. Here is what it means. • Funny how people have long memories.Interesting to note that baseball …
Useful Things To Know In The Coming Depression
Posted by on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in - 1 comment
While I am dutiful most times, I missed this over at Unkabugs unt Auntie F's: • It will be important to know, in the coming tight times after twenty years of lavishing ourselves on credit, how to entertain. Music hall matinées will make a comeback, not needing the electricity that other …
Bullets For A Rainy January Day
Posted by on Friday, January 11, 2008 in - 4 comments
Good thing we didn't get the tornadoes off this front like the good folk further south did. Good thing global warming is a myth. • Update: The Scots - US Gospel singing connection explained. • Just in case you were wondering, Dice-K is already working out. • Boing Boing Bingo. Gold …
A Pause To Remember Something From 26 Years Ago
Posted by on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 in - 1 comment
What Would I Pay For A Zed Zep Reunion Ticket?
Posted by on Sunday, December 9, 2007 in - 1 comment
Two hundred for starters. Gotta happen. And that Queen reunion tour hoodie I did not buy for seventy-five bucks? I did not buy that one so that I would have space for the $125 Zep hoodie.
Bullets For Black Friday And The First Of The Snow
Posted by on Friday, November 23, 2007 in - 9 comments
The first snow settled in to Easlakia just when a rotten creaky achy cold arrived as well. Days and days of not June. But, still, the holiday feeling is starting already. Just four work weeks to go, after all. But everything is not as jolly as it should be. • The spirit of the season appears to …
Friday Bullets For The End of October
Posted by on Friday, October 26, 2007 in - 10 comments
We stayed up for the whole game. What the hell is the dea with the 8:25 pm starts? The game ended at 12:45 am. It's a work day for flibbertyjibberty's sake - though there is some question whether Friday is still a work day. After game one, I heard Joe Morgan on ESPN radio say that he didn't care …
Friday Bullets For The Membership Drive
Posted by on Friday, October 19, 2007 in - 11 comments
So by now I expect you all have given to the NCPR membership drive. I listen to the station in the car, at work and as my wake-up call. I own a banjo and a mandolin because of the show "String Fever" that plays bluegrass. What other station responds to requests for ska? You'd be more like me if …
