The October 2008 Music Mix has been posted. It can be downloaded onto your iPod, you can listen to the individual files, or listen to the whole mix here.
Enjoy!
October 2008 Music Mix Track Listing

1. Dress the Stage - You, Me, & Iowa
2. Chemtrails - Beck
3. Hooray For Tuesday - The Minders
4. Space Ho's Coast to Coast - Madvillain
5. Come Over - Estelle w/Sean ( Read more... )

It's been kind of a rough week. It's been kind of a rough couple of weeks, to be honest, and I haven't had a chance to jump online until now. However, I am finally here with a wrap up of the fantastic time I had at ACL this year-with videos ...

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You ever get the impression that everything is going to hell? I mean, don't get me wrong - I'm not about to walk around downtown Dallas with a cardboard sign saying that The End Is Near or anything, but it sure feels like if the end ain't near it's only a couple of neighborhoods away.

Look at the evidence - We have a vice-presidential candidate ( Read more... )

So, it's that time of year again. I'll be heading down to Austin in a little less than two weeks for the Austin City Limits Festival.
So, for the third year, the September Music Mix is a collection of bands playing the festival. I surely won't have a chance to see all of these bands, but I'm going to do my best ...
This 2-hr mix can be downloaded ( Read more... )

Man - politics have taken a strange dark turn when the best political analysis is coming from Diddy ...

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Recently I've been reading A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. In all honesty, it's not the best book on earth.
It's a little cold and 'scholarly' without the sense of excitement and wonder that the better musical books have (Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, and The Act You've Known for All These ( Read more... )

So - Steely Dan was fantastic, despite to major drawbacks:
1) The opening band was an atrocious light-jazz band. They were called something like Michael Rosenburg and the Fabulous Drip Drops or some shit. It was like a dentist office just throwing up all over me.
2) Now ... how can I tactfully put this ... I know I'm not exactly rico sauve or ( Read more... )

So, I may not be online as often as usual since - in their infinite wisdom - my company has decided to block Livejournal. Along with kgsr.com, kexp.org, and any site with the words "journal" or "blog" in their URLs. It seems these sites "might negatively affect network capacity" which is odd since, for the past 7 and a half years, the capacity has ( Read more... )

Ain't that a bitch ...

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Man, as goofy as it might be - I love this commercial, if only for another chance to hear the best version of the national anthem ever ...

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