I’ll Do It, Maybe

At this blog, I pride myself on offering not merely entertainment, but anything else you, the esteemed blog reader, might need. I have limits, however. Here’s a short list of six things I’ll do, and four things I won’t.
“I’ll Make Love to You Anytime”/Eric Clapton. From Backless, an album that many critics consider lifeless to [...]

Three Minutes

The standard length of a pop song has long been considered three minutes, even though pop songs haven’t consistently been three minutes long for a generation or more. The creep began in the 70s—American Top 40 went from a three-hour show to a four-hour show in October 1978 because the records were getting so long—and [...]

We Get It Almost Every Night

From time to time, we give ourselves over to the shuffle gods and see which of the nearly 12,000 tracks in my laptop music stash will come up first. Despite the fact that the stash contains everything from Monty Python to John Coltrane to the Starland Vocal Band, there’s not a single train wreck on [...]

On the Road

I am having one of those weeks when actual remunerative labor gets in the way of blogging, so here’s a quick burst of randomness from the 11, 331 songs currently in the laptop music stash to get us both through the next day or two.
“Desperado”/Eagles. This version is from a bootleg called Second Night MTV [...]

Guitar-Hero Face

I hit 10,000 songs on the laptop this week. If I played them all start-to-finish, it would take 724 1/2 hours—a whole month. So this seems like the time to put the stash on shuffle and check .001% of it.
“Max Is Making Wax (aka ‘Chance It’)”/Miles Davis Quintet/The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions. From a 1955 [...]

Time Slips Away

The laptop music stash is up over 9,400 songs now, all on a little portable drive I can slip into a shirt pocket. (In many ways, the 21st century is really, really cool, although I don’t understand the attraction of Twitter.) Late yesterday afternoon while I was killing time waiting for The Mrs. to get [...]