Isn’t the Light OK?

A long decem­ber and there’s rea­son to believe
Maybe this year will be bet­ter than the last
– Count­ing Crows, A Long December

For once I’m actu­ally excited for the new year in a pos­i­tive way, instead of a “Well, it can’t suck as badly as this past year did!” way.
Happy New Year, everyone!

I dis­cov­ered jefi­to­blog this past week. Most MP3 blogs I find either too “Indier-than-thou” or too focused on strange sub-genres to hold my inter­est. Not so with jefi­to­blog. It’s not hip, it’s not cool, and I like it that way.
Every Tues­day, he hosts a “Com­plete Idiot’s Guide to:” seg­ment, sys­tem­at­i­cally assess­ing the entire recorded out­put of […]

In case you don’t go snoop­ing around the other pages on this site (and really, who would blame you?), I’ve been adding some con­tent to the Music and About Me sec­tions. Check out the aqua­ma­rine page if you’re inter­ested in hear­ing a dif­fer­ent musi­cal side of me.
Through­out the next year, I hope to turn this place […]

Geof Mor­ris gives us the low­down on Audioscrobbler/Last.FM. It was at my urg­ing that Geof first started using the ser­vice. Now, he’s seed­ing the net­work with music 24/7 and has logged over 100,000 songs to his pro­file.
Guess I’ve got some catch­ing up to […]

No room at the inn

…and when there was no room at the inn, Mary, Joseph, and the baby took shel­ter under a way­ward truck cap.
This pic­ture doesn’t do the scene jus­tice, but Carla and I cracked up when we saw this on a street­corner a few miles from […]