Category: Listening

My dinner with Brian

In the late winter of 2005, I had been checking the Brian Wilson official site as soon as I got home from work each day, to see if they had finally announced the winner of the “Become a Video Hero” contest.  The announcement had been delayed several times at that point.  I remember it was […]

Music: ex:el (808 State, 1991)

Let’s face it: most electronic music, when there isn’t a regular vocalist, doesn’t have much of a distinctive sound that one can associate with one particular person or group. Unless it is somebody like Nine Inch Nails or Moby (and, for the latter, only as concerns a couple of albums), it would be difficult to […]

Music: The Pod (Ween, 1991)

My wife is currently down with some sort of stomach bug, and I’m just waiting for it to hit me, too. Should that happen, I will doubtlessly be spending some time with the only album I think of that feels like being under the weather, and that is Ween’s sophomore release, The Pod. This disc […]

Jesus: A Mix

No comment. Take away from this selection any meaning you wish. “Walking with Jesus” by Spacemen 3 “Jesus” by The Velvet Underground “Jesus Was a Cross Maker” by Judee Sill “Jesus Gonna Be Here” by Tom Waits “Jesus Came from Outer Space” by Supergrass “I Just Want to See His Face” by The Rolling Stones […]

music hot takes

I never need to hear anything by Led Zeppelin ever again. I heard them too much back in the day when played by almost every guy I knew in high school, and then you couldn’t get away from them on most of the radio stations I liked. Not that I actually dislike the band that […]

Music: 90125 (Yes, 1983)

I blame the album cover.  Once I saw it as a kid, I knew I had to have a copy of this.  It was cold and clinical, and somehow a tad intimidating.  It definitely wasn’t warm and welcoming.  For possibly the first time, I was seeing something that was obviously put to paper without the […]

Motormouth Mix

This is an odd one. I found myself noticing more and more songs where a torrent of words go by quickly and wondered how many I could think of. The answer: not that many, so I augmented those selections with some spoken-word selections. “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I […]

The very, very tired mix

As I write this, I have no idea how the election will have turned out. For all I know, we will find ourselves in a horrible scenario where it won’t be decided for a long, long time. All I know is, I’m probably going to be exhausted, and I likely will be for a while. […]