Just about every year since I got my first iPod, Roland, I’ve been keeping track of the most popular songs of the year. Since I got my iPod in March, the timing is a bit…
Browsing Category Music
1.1 hours of pure pop perfection
I’m in the midst of a project that requires a lot of formatting of text. It’s one of those projects that is wonderfully mind-numbing and kind of fun because it takes you out of your…
Confessions of a wannabe: I often have awful taste in music
For most of my life I’ve wanted to be a musicgeek. A musicgeek like guys are musicgeeks, memorizing record labels and producers and studio musicians like they’re some sort of baseball stats. I wanted to…
Whitney’s death brings out the assholes on Twitter
My niece and nephew, Jaycie and Max, have reached the age where they’ve become big fans of Saturday Night Live. At fourteen and thirteen, they’re probably growing right into SNL’s target audience. I can say…
The Book of Drugs
I’m a big believer in that adage about not meeting your heroes because they’ll just disappoint you. The same can probably be said about reading memoirs by your heroes. Ignorance really is bliss, people. What…
Romeo & Juliet: An Appreciation (for the song not the play)
If you had a crisp dollar bill for each time I had listened to “Romeo and Juliet” today, you’d have yourself a tidy sum of $17, soon to be $18. Yeah, I’ve been listening to…