Flash back with me to November 1998*. I was a junior in college, but I was actually living in Lexington, Kentucky on co-op. For the first time in my college career I had a car. This would come in handy when I needed to drive from Ohio back to fabulous North Dakota, but what about the tunes? MP3s had caught on among the most wired people, but MP3 ( Read more... )

tigerlily_blue has worked for the CDC for two weeks. The fellowship she got put her at CDC Headquarters in Atlanta for a year, and then in 2008 she went to Alaska for two years. When it came time for her to move, she shipped most of her stuff to Anchorage and then the two of us drove from Atlanta to Seattle. Then we stuck her car on a boat and she flew up to ( Read more... )

So says Mojo Nixon, and now you can legally download a huge chunk of Mojo Nixon's discography from Amazon.com.

EDIT: Dad, you'll probably like this. Very fast rockabilly with a silly sense of humor.

PK sent me a link to this free sampler from Daptone Records on Amazon.com. Fourteen tracks are included, including three by Miss Sharon Jones and another two by the Budos Band. Need I remind you that I've been shilling for Miss Jones for nearly four years? Now, I'll grant that her recorded tracks don't come close to the live show, but it won't cost ( Read more... )

I ask for help or recommendations or suggestions pretty frequently, but I don't often report on the outcomes of those requests. It is time to fix that.

My request for a suitable men's clothing store led me to Men's Wearhouse. I dropped a lot of money to cover all the formal wear I should need for the next 20 years or so. And I spent enough that ( Read more... )

I've ripped 100% of my CDs, and a good 90% of xhollydayx's CDs. All of my radio shows have been imported, other than Fall Semester 2005 (electronic), which seems to have disappeared, although I have hopes of finding it on a decommissioned hard drive somewhere. I'm now up to 8015 songs, nearly 44 days worth of music. Almost more important for my anal ( Read more... )

Having completed the ripping of my CD collection to MP3, I'm now working on xhollydayx's CDs. She being less of an OCD freak than I am, she I've had to alphabetize her CDs, check to make sure they are in the correct cases, and then after ripping integrate them into our newly fused CD collection, with the duplicates being set aside to unload. During this ( Read more... )

I re-alphabetized my entire CD collection. Note that this is not a complaint about my leading a tedious life - I had a great time doing it. I found so much stuff I hadn't listened to in months, and even a few things I'd forgotten that I had. A big chunk of the collection was still in boxes from moving back in March, so pretty much every CD I've ( Read more... )

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I acquired a big pile of music in the last 8 days.

( Last Friday )