On Sunday, I saw Matchbox Twenty at the Concord Pavilion, with Matt Nathanson opening. It was a great show. Matt Nathanson closed with the one song of his I remember, and Matchbox Twenty played a good balance of stuff from throughout their career, which of course has included a couple of extended hiati from recording new material. In addition to pretty much all the big hits, they played a good ... » Continue Reading
I've been thinking about this a lot after watching something a few days ago. And I'm cross-posting this on most of my sites, with different levels of editing depending on who is reading it. I've been thinking a lot lately about the concept of social media influencers. I tend to look unfavorably upon the whole concept, mostly just because it is a culture that I do not understand and am not part o... » Continue Reading
Just ruminating… but I promise I have a point. I've been binge-watching How I Met Your Mother again. I've had a complicated relationship with this show over the years. I did not watch the show when it first premiered in 2005. During what would have been season 4 (2008-09), I made some new friends, and a lot of them were pretty much obsessed with HIMYM. I started watching it off and on for a while.... » Continue Reading
I put my Christmas tree up on Thursday. It's the same plastic tree I put up every year. But this year, I noticed that, at some point during the eleven months that it was stored in the garage, the plastic base cracked, and the tree had become unable to stand on its own. I managed to get the tree to stand up eventu » Continue Reading
Usually, on my Song of the Day page ( click ), I just post a song, embedded from YouTube with no further commentary. Every once in a while, I will add a few words to the post, either an interesting fact about the song or the band that I happen to know, or a “rest in peace” message if someone in the band has recently died. I have a lot to say about today’s song, and I was going to post this on the ... » Continue Reading
I saw Carbon Leaf live last week at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. It was my 23rd time seeing them. I took a few videos at the show, but I didn't do any of the really well known songs, since I'd seen and shared those many times before. I did two older songs and two newer songs. » Continue Reading
This week's Mixtape Exchange was to make a best of CD for one artist. I did Carbon Leaf. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMmNZc9rPIA-MNVGBg38dMucFWuSY0_aO » Continue Reading
This playlist is for the Mixtape Exchange group. I hated country music on principle until around 2005, but I like some 80s and 90s country now. (That includes a lot of songs that I didn't know existed in the 80s and 90s, but to keep with the theme of "songs I once disliked," all the 80s and 90s country music here are songs I definitely knew existed back then.) My brother loved gangsta rap in its ... » Continue Reading
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMmNZc9rPIA_BJX53YkyjZDwdSHEdAk3i 1) Smooth - Santana featuring Rob Thomas. The only song I ever heard on the radio four times within half an hour, back in 1999 when it was getting played on both classic rock and pop stations and I used to flip around on the radio dial a lot in the car. 2) Good Time - Owl » Continue Reading
This is a playlist for the Mixtape Exchange group https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMmNZc9rPIA-chZ921Ki98-QtA99F8uzN The topic was "B-sides," but these days most music doesn't come from physical media, and when it does it isn't usually the type that has sides, so that topic was somewhat open to interpretation. I went with the theme of artists' lesser kno » Continue Reading
This post was originally for the Mixtape Exchange group . I didn't include songs where the cover is more well known these days than the original, since that's probably a good topic in its own right. I also didn't include any artist or lead vocalist more than once. I also leaned toward covers that I have specific memories tied to, or out-of-genre covers because those are always fun. I'm going to... » Continue Reading
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