Well I am enjoying a delightful bottle of Juan Benegas (an amazing malbec, if you like wine, you really should try it) so I decided that I should do another MP3 post.  If you want to check out these songs, please download and listen, and buy more songs from these artists at Amazon, eMusic, iTunes, or your local music store.

Eyedea & Abilities - Spin ( Read more... )

So I was just going to check my flist quickly before I settled in to write a bit, but in Neil Gaiman's latest post, he'd added some widgets for his Last.fm account. And I've never bothered to pay attention to that site before, but the fact that one of his most frequently-listened-to songs right now was by Brenda Kahn made me check it out. And I ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago, I'm driving home from work and not really paying that much attention to the Current because they're playing a hiphop song and I just don't like hiphop. But as I'm exiting onto 94, I suddenly went, "Wait a minute? Did this guy just mention Sylar?"

I figured I'd just misheard it and didn't really think much about it afterwards.

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Do you know what I'm watching on the Science Channel right now? Worm pr0n. No, really. They're taking to this German scientist who films worms mating with a redlight camera. Aaaand now they're showing electron microscope photos of what worm skin looks like after sex ( Read more... )

Have you ever gone from not even knowing something existed, to falling in love with it and desperately needing it, in the space of 30 seconds?

I stopped into Electric Fetus to buy another album and there was a song playing that just grabbed me.  Turned out it was a used CD that they'd just stuck on the sound system, so I bought it on a whim and ( Read more... )

I now feel much less groused about the late start for the 07.07.07 Prince concert.  The Star Tribune requires registration before you can view articles, and they remove access to them after a couple of weeks, so I'm just going to post an excerpt from Jon Bream's story below:

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Wanna know why Prince might have been so ( Read more... )

So...I just got back from the Prince concert.  You may all touch me now.

I'd say more except I'm too tired to be coherent.  Just...the last time I saw him, he brought out Morris Day & The Time.  Tonight, he brought out Sheila E and Wendy Melvoin--WENDY!!!  I love you Wendy!  I'm more exhausted than normal because we got there at 8:15, and the ( Read more... )