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I’ve subscribed for the past few years (my wunnerful girlfriend actually helped me make the leap from newsstand customer to subscriber) and I’ve noticed over the past year or so that it’s a real conversation starter if I get a cup of coffee or something after I get the new issue out of my mailbox. […]

The odds of my having a best-music-of-2006 list I can live with by the end of first quarter 2007 are not looking good. Today I added two new candidates to the list.
The central problem, I think, is that 2006 was a year with a ton of extra base hits, but very few home runs (ooh! […]

Why does this happen to me every year?? Most of my friends that pay attention to this sort of thing have already finished their year’s-best-music mixes. I still have a list of releases I have yet to hear but suspect could be contenders, and a list of records I’ve heard, but need to listen to […]

I didn’t really set out to boycott major label recordings (at least those that don’t have software nasties), and the fact that I’ve kinda been doing so for the past several years is more a byproduct of how I’m exposed to and purchase music than a deliberate strategy.
Since I joined La La, I’ve gotten […]

Or how can anything little be so undeserving

On my commute, I see maybe a couple hundred cars, of which from 0 to 3 do something to piss me off on a given day. I see maybe half a dozen other cycle commuters (more if I go in late) of which from 0 to 4 piss me off on any given day. Hence:
You’re […]

Confused!
(from allmusic.com)

(sing it to the tune of NIN’s “terrible lie”, or GbV’s “lords of overstock”)