Well, there's another one of those "culture hasn't changed in twenty years" articles out again by yet another delusional cultural crony in a state of personal decay. This time it's Kurt Andersen at Vanity Fair, the January 2012 edition, in an article titled "So you say you want a devolution ( Read more... )

1. Black Tables and For 12 by Other Lives. Other Lives' sound is a little like Coldplay meets Broken Bells and I'm falling in love with this album. I bought those two songs (or perhaps Black Tables was a free iTunes download). This week I bought their album Tamer Animals and I'm pretty much enjoying every song so far: Desert, Tamer Animals, and ( Read more... )

I love mp3s for one simple reason. I love programming my own endless radio station in iTunes. I have a few specific playlists to the side, but I rarely listen to them any longer. I have one playlist simply called "Radio" that could play for 24.1 days, contains 8621 items, and takes up a whopping 58.6 GB ( Read more... )

1. Adele's 21 ( Read more... )

What Else Is There ( Read more... )

This song list works well together, if you have this stuff ( Read more... )

I've gone off in a strange direction musically, filling in some country, western, and western rock holes in my iTunes collection. Cash, Campbell, Hank Williams, for God's sake, and The Eagles. ( Read more... )

My new favorite song this week is "Full Steam" by David Gray featuring Annie Lennox. A lovely song about a couple at the end of their lives, in their golden age, having expected a great Valhalla in retirement they now face the great disappointment ( Read more... )

Lyrics from this fascinating song ( Read more... )

Can I tell you how much I love this man's music? Especially his solo work?

I have been unearthing my CDs ever so slowly from storage, and just now I slipped his 1998 CD Contact From the Underworld of Redboy into my little boombox in the corner. Rhapsody and emotional chaos ensues. ( Read more... )