Several months ago while I was in Goodwill I noticed an interesting song playing over the radio. I thought it sounded pretty nifty, but figured since I had no tape recorder with me there would be no way I’d ever be able to figure out who it was. It wasn’t until the last ten seconds [...]

I don’t have a whole lot of things from my dad. I was in college when he died at age 50 from oat cell cancer, and the few things I have are letters (most of them not fun reading), the screenplay he sold to Michael Douglas with an autograph to me (never produced), and [...]

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an [...]

A friend just sent me a little ditty called Old Time God. (WARNING: not work or kid safe!). I haven’t laughed that hard in a while, and wow does it get stuck in your head.
Enjoy.

Seeing this article in the LA Times today finally kicked my ass into accepting that invite from La La I’d had sitting in my mailbox for weeks. (Note: if the link goes to the usual “you need to register” bullshit, try BugMeNot. BugMeNot is your friend!). La La is pretty cool, and easier to use [...]

Ok, so, um…let’s lighten things up a bit. A new album on high rotation: Colour the Small One by Sia. If you like Zero 7, you’ll love this. Mellow and featuring a song co-written with Beck, it’s perfect driving music to drown the sounds of the fighting in the backseat.
Sia’s site, song samples here. [...]