You gotta wonder if anyone walked out of there alive. Phish - 11/3/2018 - "46 Days" Lighting Time-Lapse Phish — YouTube
Taylor Swift has turned into Donald Trump. Ah, shit. It's only entertainment and very finely constructed, but listen to what she has to say. I Did Something Bad
They say I did something badThen why's it feel so good?They say I did something...
Every year from Dec. 4th (the date of Frank Zappa's death) to Dec. 21st. (the date of his birth), the world celebrates Zappadan. It's a chance to remember Frank Zappa and all he contributed. Frank created some astounding music and had a unique ...
This is a VERY debated over topic, especially with those of us in the music community. Everybody has a different preference whether it be listening with playing these types of groups.
Chamber Music (Quartets, Octets, Duets) usually involve muc...
People are angry that the Russians interfered in the 2016 US elections. Rightly so. The idea that Putin's Kremlin worked to put a thumb on the scales is almost unthinkable. But are elections fair game in modern warfare? Reading Rosa Brooks' How ...
I grew up listening to KZSU, a small FM radio station broadcasting from in some basement at Stanford university. Wikipedia says the station was 10 watts at the time, so it reached maybe 30 miles? The station was all about music. They ran as lit...
Noir cyberpunk science fiction is Richard K. Morgan’s speciality and he’s damn good at it. This stand-alone work is the best of his I’ve read so far. Published in 2007 as Black Man in the UK and Thirteen in North America, the book won the Arthur...
I should be so lucky as Tsukuru. Things do get better. Basking in the warm glow of this book, it’s interesting to reflect on how I came across it.
There was the Nobel prize news which vectored across my attention: Haruki Murakami, once again...
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are officially back together?? What?? It has been quite a while before the pair split up in 2011. They were on and off for 5 years!! This below is Jelena before
I'm sure everyone has their own opinion on them an...
Theater has always been apart of my life ever since I was pretty little, but it was recently reintroduced into my life as something way more important.
Before, I believed theater and acting was mostly about learning your lines, and pretending ...
Taylor Swift, 27, can easily be named as one of the top artists and celebrities of the 2000s. Sure, we all know her as the 'cute country girl' who always has the adorable 'surprise face' when she wins an award, but is she really even anything l...
James Lee Burke is a masterful writer. His command of language is nothing short of breathtaking. For this novel, come for the language, stay for the story and linger over qualities of the characters in the drama. Wayfaring Stranger didn’t ti...
I guess I was looking for something harder-edged. Actually, that's a pretty safe bet. The best politico-econo-philosophy books I've read in recent years have all been more confrontational. I liked John Dean's book on the mind of conservative...
Looking for an engaging cop thriller to pass a few hours? J.D. Barker's The Fourth Monkey is a great place to land. The story revolves around a serial killer who's been plaguing Chicago for some 5 years. No one's been able to crack the case. T...
Who hasn't heard of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale? Even in passing, it's hard not to pick up the vibe: Dark. Depressing. Sad. Important. Landmark. Something that you really should read. It's on all the lists. From a distance, the book...
This was my second time through this book. The first time I listened to it. It was one of my first audiobooks after my library started lending the format. While they say that listening to books is basically the same as reading them, it does take...