Archive for the 'The Music' Category


London/Philly/Toronto

It’s kind of like listening on your transistor. Our transistor radios were like the iPods of today.  We didn’t have enough money to buy them, our parents laid out the dough.  We kept them in leather cases to prevent them from being damaged.  And, at night we put them on the dresser by our bed, […]

Pink Floyd Via P2P

Can you live without the Pink Floyd performance from Live 8? Not me. And there you’ve got it.  A system that’s not set up to meet demand.  An entrenched bureaucracy so out of touch with its consumers that it confuses desire for acquisition for piracy. MTV doesn’t respect the music. EMI doesn’t respect the music. […]

Live 8

Are you watching this on MTV??  Like the limeys say…FUCKING ‘ORRIBLE! Today the Web comes of age.  Makes me want to hook up my PowerBook to watch it on my TV.  What’s up with the fucking COMMERCIALS???  Couldn’t these companies just make a donation to the cause, do SOMETHING, and let their names be scrolled […]

Mother Lode (10/21/02)-in case you missed it

1Growing up on the east coast, the distance between towns was never very far.  Seemed like the whole eastern seaboard was one big suburb.  A megalopolis.But Idaho was different.I was living in Salt Lake City.It had been a strange time.  I’d graduated from college.  Which freaked me out just like everybody else.  I’d lined up […]