Greetings from the Century City Apple Store! I made an appointment at the Genius Bar to get my keyboard replaced.  The original white plastic Apple keyboards have a tendency to stick after a while, which is about a year if you’re a mad typist like myself.  I was worried I might be late, there’s a […]

Last Sunday night I went to the Wiltern to see Ray LaMontagne. I am not a fan of the act, but I am of the manager, so as a favor I went.  I wasn’t closed.  But the throng in attendance was.  It was a veritable babeathon.  I saw Joey Lauren Adams downstairs by the bathroom, […]

Maybe we do. The hoopla surrounding the sales of AC/DC’s "Black Ice" at Wal-Mart has superseded the scary underlying fact.  That even including digital downloads, album sales last week were down 25% from the equivalent week in 2007.  And 2007 SUCKED! If the major labels didn’t have the power known as their catalogs, we’d have […]

Do you know the song "Sand In My Shoes"? It starts with an ethereal figure, like something off the great "Moon Safari" by Air, then slowly penetrates the atmosphere, comes down to Earth with an acoustic guitar and Dido starts to sing: Two weeks away it feels like the world should’ve changed But I’m home […]