I'm among the last people who still haven't seen that movie everybody's talking about (we'll finally go tonight), so instead I'll say a little about my reactions to the OLD movie I finally saw a couple weekends ago....

( Quadrophenia )

I know, most of what I post here seems to be about cool music I've discovered, or am about to go see, or that others should go see. And these days most of it came to me via podcasts. So here's some more....

A band called Mutiny was recently played on The $250 Million Radio Show podcast. They call their music "folk punk for punk folk," while I'd ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I discovered a hidden cache of Macintosh Powerbooks sitting unused at work, and managed to take possession of one of them. I figured these are good machines and it shouldn't be too hard to bring them up to date for use in our current environment (a mix of MacOS X, Linux, and Windows).
I was wrong.
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Saturday evening we returned from Pennsic, and I'm almost caught up with life again.

( The Evil Vortex of Youngstown )

It seems that in high school in the early 60s, John Kerry played bass in a rock band, The Electras, and they released a 13-song record (making 500 copies). Now that record has been dug up and released on CD ( Read more... )