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 [...]

Concerto for a Rainy Day

It was a rainy morning today. I had an errand to run, and I took my time getting home. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fond of rainy days. I used to think that sunny days distorted one’s personality, and that people were closer to the way they really are on a [...]

I Do the Rock

There are 282 songs in my library that have titles beginning with the word “I.” And that doesn’t count “I’d,” “I’ll,” “I’m,” and “I’ve.” And when I cued up the list and hit “shuffle” this afternoon, here’s what came out:
“I Never Think About You”/Huey Lewis and the News. This is a mid-tempo tune from the [...]

Calling America

(With this post, we’re going on vacation, and I have resolved that I’m not going to blog while we’re gone. There will be a new robo-post here on Friday July 11, and my regular features will continue to run on their regular days at WNEW.com, but there’ll be nothing else here until at least Tuesday [...]

One Hundred Forty-Six With a Bullet

In case you care, I am still without my own computer after last week’s adventure. About the time I wrote that I was waiting for the tech to call me back with an update, he was performing the last rites and pulling a sheet up over it. My new laptop is supposed to arrive later [...]