Ah, it's late on the next to last night o' the year. I'm the last up as the youngest has a friend sleeping over, and I fed 'em all into stupor (thank you, Alton Brown, for the homemade corndog recipe).

So, keeping things keeping on, here's my fave three albums of the year:

3. James - The Morning After . . . The Night Before: This "double album ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everybody! Warmest thoughts this holiday season from the chilly South!

I'm curious how my fellow eMusic subscriber friends are handling eMu's recent and controversial changes: the $ pricing system, the dropping out of some significant Indie labels, the big dump of major-label material ( Read more... )

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Way back in 1999 I discovered two artists whose work still resonates, though only one is still recording new music. I went to a show in a club featuring Richard Buckner (touring in support of his album "Since") opening for Those Bastard Souls (touring in support of their second and, dammit, final album "Debt and Departure ( Read more... )

Cool healthy and economical advice of the day: Minute Maid has a pretty damn awesome pomegranate/blueberry drink that retails for @ $3 a bottle. Here's the thing to do: Buy one and drink half; then, add spring water to the bottle (it will actually taste better: more subtle); drink up; then buy another bottle, and pour half into the now empty old ( Read more... )

Just received the Evelyn Evelyn disc and assorted goodies straight from Amanda Palmer's website on Saturday. Very awesome stuff, and worth hearing. If you haven't heard (or gotten pissed off about it): Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls) and Jason Webley have created a sort of Blair Witch Project of a musical project, inventing a pair of conjoined ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxWskedKAVU

As a parent, all one can do is try to protect a child from making the wrong choices. But sometimes, despite our best efforts, other forces intervene. My eldest was at a sleepover this weekend and got exposed . . . and now he is in the kitchen, playing Styx's "Mr. Roboto" album at full volume.

I'm thinking I might need to stage an intervention.

Kenneth turned 13 today, which makes me the parent of a teenager. Fortunately, he's been acting like a surly teenager for at least two years now (he's a chip off the ol' blockhead), so I'm already practiced and prepared ( Read more... )