I’m having a weird week, about which I shall expound more later. Part of the weirdness has resulted in my watching a lot of television, ‘though that really has nothing to do with Saturday night. Beginning at 10:30 on Saturdays, I get SNL, then (often) Soundstage, then (usually) Austin City Limits. One of the things [...]
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Last weekend: Reid’s daughter’s first birthday party. Also, Mothers Day. This weekend: My cousin’s graduation dinner. She finished her studies at UH Manoa and is about to move to Los Angeles. I am not complaining. Despite myself, I am enjoying spending time with friends and family. I just have difficulty doing that stuff AND keeping [...]
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Wow. Wow wow wow. This is the craziest week of the year. Can’t get into details about why (yet) but I’m going to be one grouchy, stressed, sleep-deprived, sad, human merely being until early next week. I should be in bed, now that I’m finally done for the night, but I hate the thought of [...]
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A couple of years ago, Reid and Larrilynn were expecting their first kid, and Don planned a baby shower for Reid’s friends, which brings up something else I need to rant about, but not tonight. Let’s just say I was opposed to the entire concept but of course I’m not going to miss a thing [...]
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This is the Lovell Sisters. It’s from the group’s 2009 Time to Grow album and is my pick for prettiest song of 2009. Isn’t it just too lovely? My ‘net access is going to be a little weird for the next couple of days, but I expect I’ll still be able to write. I’ve decided [...]
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From Music Memoirs: Top 5 One-Hit Wonders You know, a lot of people use the term one-hit wonder kind of mockingly, but I was thinking about this the other night, and I think it’s more of a wonder that musicians come up with more than one hit in a lifetime. When you consider how many [...]
I signed up on Formspring.me when I saw a few friends doing it. It’s kind of a fun idea. You ask people questions and they answer them. My profile is here. Leave me some questions, either anonymously or onymously. Yesterday, I discovered Between the Buried and Me, a band whose website I shan’t link to [...]
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This is how I turned into a late-blooming bluegrass fanatic. I was watching The Late Show with David Letterman on April 26, 2007. The musical guests were Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck. Of course, I’d known forever that Martin was a serious banjo player, but I’d never heard him perform. Tony Trischka and [...]
Look, don’t just skim the playlist in the widget without reading what I have to say. I’ve put a LOT of thought into this list. I’m leading with the widget so you can listen to the songs while you read my explanations. First, this is how I approached the making of the list. I can [...]
So I was out sick all last week, beginning Saturday and going into this morning. Same symptoms in the same order as last year, only a month early. Felt myself coming back, though, and had the energy to get back to work, ‘though JUST enough to make it through the day. Got home and crashed, [...]
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