strictly roots.
While it is bedtime, the current plan is to get down to business, at least a little, on a mixtape for a long-distance pal. My main challenge right now is to resist the urge to weigh it down completely with cheesy ’70s rock, the like of which I’ve been rocking almost exclusively lately (with the [...]
Total recall today brought to mind the day I was in the Builder’s Square in the Braddock Hills Shopping Center with my dad, probably about 9 or 10 years old, and “Deacon Blues” was on the radio in the store, and it was the first time I paid attention to the song — like, REALLY [...]
Cultural artifacts consumed/given up on, ca. 6/24/06: – Truman Capote’s Music for Chameleons, finished in its entirety. This was the first thing in quite a while that I really enjoyed reading, to the point where I didn’t want to put it down. Highlights included “Handcarved Coffins,” the veracity of which is apparently still totally in [...]
Of late, I have deemed both Yes albums I have acquired (Fragile and The Yes Album) to be truly righteous jams. I liked Yes a lot when I was about 10, then it sort of fell off and I began to think they were just ridiculous. They are ridiculous to an extent, to be sure, [...]
This weekend, I: – Went to a Pirates game for the first time in five years. They were ahead for a while, then it was tied, then, of course, they lost. But I saw a two-run homer off Jack Wilson’s bat, and some fireworks, and the people around us (with the exception of the young [...]
Tonight, I’m taking my dad to the Pirates game. They’re playing the Twins. I haven’t known anything about the Twins since Kirby Puckett’s day. Who the hell is even on the Twins? Maybe that means we have a chance to win? I remember when I used to know about baseball. That was about fifteen years [...]
Someone at the Tennessee Valley Authority (which is still in operation, much to my surprise) came to my blog by searching blogger for “Tennessee Valley Authority.” For whatever reason, this makes me feel a little better about sometimes vainly googling my own name — see? Even the TVA does it! (What I secretly hope is [...]
Hello, dear reader. Apologies for the dearth of updates lately. I’ve perhaps been too busy with the mundane to regale you with tales of the fantastic. Class, while not difficult, takes a good six hours (okay, six hours soaking wet and after a big meal) out of my week, then there’s band practice, and going [...]
As we speak, I dispatch from the home of my parents, where I am spending the day chilling and mowing the lawn. Seriously, it’s a big lawn, it takes most of the day. And this isn’t one of those wuss tool-man riding mowers, this baby’s gotta be pushed. And I’m hopefully making things, and catching [...]
The days act like weeks lately, it seems, and also I lose track of when I last wrote and when I last saw, heard, or did something worth writing about. I see something that I misplaced and forgot about at work and feel like it’s been ages, and I’ll be in huge trouble, and find [...]