I’ve been lazy. I’m not a stupid person (all of the time, anyway), but it took me several months to figure out the best way to move all of my iTunes files from my near-obsolete desktop to my near-obsolete laptop. Once I discovered a nifty advanced “Consolidate” function in iTunes, I had it [...]

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My friends are nearly apopleptic. In a good way. The internet rumor mill (and, no doubt, a solid bit of guerrilla marketing) is churning out near-daily stories about the possible reunion of this generation’s jam band, Phish. Pauly is already promising to give up his lucrative poker writing to follow Phish anywhere. [...]

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Bomp, bomp, bomp…bomp bomp.
How many Dead shows have you been to? See them play Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away?” Okay, not a Dead Head? Then how many of you saw U2 perform “Desire?” Hell, I’m sure there is at least one George Michael fan out there who loves “Faith?”
Know what they all [...]

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Just try.

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I’m going to do something I thought I never would on this blog.
I admit it. I watch American Idol.
I don’t know how it happened. First, it was just a way to spend time with my wife. Then it was an opportunity to chat with some friends from around the country. [...]

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I’ve managed to make optimism a fault. I don’t know how it happened, but some time in the last decade, I’ve figured out a way to find silver linings in sow’s ears (not to mentioned mixed metaphors) and do it so incessantly that I don’t think anything will ever go wrong. It’s a [...]

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I’m a little busy over the next few days with work and side-work projects. When I get busy, I start listening to lots of music. By accident, I found that one of the contractors working on my house gets into my kinda music. So, I’ve been sticking pretty much with stuff [...]

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From time to time, I like to throw out a few recommendations. It’s not that I have particularly discerning tastes. I’m actually a pretty average guy with pretty average likes and dislikes. I think that qualifies me in the “try this out” area. Here are a few things I’ve tried recently that I [...]

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By the time Sam Bush stepped to the stage on Friday afternoon, the south Florida sun had breached the clouds and enforced every sunscreen rule my mother ever preached. I sat on the ground in front of the Swamp Stage and readied myself to see the show. The Joker brought me a frozen drink, [...]

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I would’ve liked to have been in on the meeting at which someone decided to book R.E.M. for Langerado. I might have suggested to the promoters that festival attendees are more interested in music than they are preening, whining, self-important stars of a previous century. I might have suggested that Michael Stipe’s two-minute [...]

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