I’m sittin’ in my room, I’m starin’ out the windowAnd I wonder where you’ve gone Normally I go hiking Monday night.  But yesterday we had this rainstorm that not only inundated the mountains, making the trails too slippery to navigate, it came down so hard that my house was surrounded with water, for a while […]

We used to be fans of the artist. Maybe that’s why baby boomers continue to buy albums.  Not because they don’t know how to download, but they remember when you could still believe in artists, when their albums were a statement. Think of it like love.  You can be attracted by a pretty face.  But […]

Before you slip into unconsciousness… Yes, this week I talk about how "The Crystal Ship" hooked me on the Doors.  This podcast is all about their very first album.  Still their best. And in listening to it myself, I realized if the band had licensed the tracks to corporations they wouldn’t mean the same to […]

So Harry’s giving me a tour of Barnes.  His hood, as the homies would say. It’s just west of where Richard lives.  Across Putney Bridge.  There’s a main drag, or as they call it here, a HIGH Street, with an endless row off non-chain shops.  Even an electrical shop, where Harry had his Dyson fixed.  […]