Once in a Lifetime

Posted February 12th, 2008 and filed under comedy, music.

Let’s get serious here. What’s better than Kermit the Frog singing the Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime“? I can’t think of anything.

A Saturday Night Memorial

Posted February 10th, 2008 and filed under Los Angeles, music.

One of my wife’s friends died a few weeks ago. He was only 41, a manager in the music industry, and he had battled cancer for a long time. His wife held a memorial service — a Catholic mass — on Saturday night, and hundreds of people attended. The mass was held at a smallish… Read more »

Tombstone Blues

Posted October 4th, 2007 and filed under music.

Again I’ll say it: Best line ever in any rock n’ roll song: And dropping a barbell He points to the sky, saying “The sun’s not yellow. it’s chicken.”

Lately in Los Angeles

Posted August 1st, 2007 and filed under Los Angeles, music, My Life.

Last night Tricia and I went to see Tamar at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. She played a great set and we had a good time. We didn’t get home until after 11, and I couldn’t get to sleep. I was up until 1:30am reading Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. What… Read more »

The Bleeding Edge of Music

Posted July 11th, 2007 and filed under music.

A perfect t-shirt for the cool kids in the music industry …

Creating Smarter Playlists

Posted June 14th, 2007 and filed under music, popular, Software.

Let’s say you want to create a smart playlist in iTunes that will contain the 25 highest-rated Beatles or Bob Dylan songs that you haven’t heard in a while. That would be pretty cool, right? It’s not that simple, but it can be done. I’ll show you how. The main roadblock you’re facing is that… Read more »

We Got to Install Microwave Ovens

Posted June 8th, 2007 and filed under music.

Y‘know what song holds up well? Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing. You realize the song is frickin’ 22 years old? We got to move these refrigerators. We got to move these color TVs.

Maps

Posted May 17th, 2007 and filed under books, music.

Somehow I managed to forget to write about this wonderful book. I read Miles Harvey‘s The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime over a year ago and it is brilliant. I’ve been thinking about it lately because of the awesome song “Maps” by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs. You see, I have… Read more »

I Once Had a Girl

Posted May 4th, 2007 and filed under music.

She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh. Funny. Very funny. Keep laughing, sweetheart. You just go to sleep giggling your pretty little head off while I am stuck in the freaking bathtub. How is that fair?

Dropkick Murphys

Posted April 29th, 2007 and filed under music, technology.

I bought a CD today. It was a little bit strange. I can’t remember the last time I bought an actual compact disc. I’m sure this isn’t the first one I’ve bought since I moved to LA seven years ago, but I know that since I got my iPod the number of CDs I’ve purchased… Read more »