WTMD favored us with a Beatles marathon today. Nothing but for 12 hours. I don't usually spend most of the day with the radio on or earbuds in, but I did today! Well, at least until my ears hurt from the buds, then I took a break for a couple hours. I also sang away in the car and did some singing and air drums in the office until the junior ( Read more... )

My preferred radio station, WTMD (streaming at http://www.wtmd.org) is pledge-driving. That part isn’t pleasant. The good part is that to promote it, they’re asking listeners to create 3 song ‘mixtapes’ and they’re playing the ones they like. I tossed one in yesterday - ‘Songs I Heard for the First Time on Homicide’. Apparently, the announcers ( Read more... )

Yonder local public radio station, WTMD, has decided that it's time for the world to have a 'Music Madness' tournament. Worst case scenario, should be good for a lot of musical arguments. Starting with they included a lot of local artists in it, which isn't a problem per se, except that those local artists took tourney slots that might be better ( Read more... )

And this time I'm not talking about the countdown, although there's been a surprising number of post-1980 songs in the top 100 and an amazing dearth of Beatles/Stones/Dylan/Springsteen. Haven't heard any of them today, although there was Judy Garland sandwiched between Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.

No, the geeking is over video games this time. I ( Read more... )

Short shots ( Read more... )

WTMD does love them some countdowns. This time it's the '500 All Time Best Songs', but unlike the previous go-round, it's members-only voting. Personally, I had a horrible time coming up with 5-10 and I've heard plenty in the countdown already to make me question my own choices, but hey, it's fun. The first thing I heard this morning, on a rock ( Read more... )

Here I am, to recap yesterday at Hot August Blues to the best that I can, given how utterly wiped I am right now.

( Longish writeup and a LOT of photographs under the cut )

So I figured I should give you a quick rundown on who you're dealing with :)

Female, 40(!) and in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (for my new UK friends, I'm about an hour's drive northeast of Washington DC). I'm a klutz who keeps breaking bones and tearing ligaments, and presently I'm finishing up therapy for a shoulder injury. I'm an administrative ( Read more... )

I have never been to the Hot August Blues Festival in Hunt Valley, MD, mostly because of the 'hot' and 'August' parts. It's usually bizarrely hot and humid that day and spending the day outside? Not my first choice. But this year, I'm making the exception ( Read more... )