I am sitting at a dining room table in a “vintage” house in suburban Chicago. It is not a big house but it is sturdy and tidy and has a huge elm tree in the front yard. It represents the middle of middle class living in the middle of Middle America. We may have a [...]
So, someone dropped the ball on today’s playlist. (Yes, it was me. And, yes, apparently Thursdays fall apart when Dave’s not around to keep them going…) But, because Thursdays have been ever-changing, ranging from (initially) regular posting slots to short reviews to open threads to (most recently) playlists, I was wondering…
Should we keep up with [...]
Among my internet time-wasters are a small handful of photo-heavy blogs maintained by total strangers. I follow a couple of them on a daily basis, and others I check in on every other week or so. Almost all of the bloggers are friends and link to one another’s websites, so it’s easy to [...]
Thanks to Bryan “Johnny Recordseed” Waterman, who led the West Coasters down the Record Club path two summers ago and taught us the importance of strict rules, the LA Record Club is still going strong. As Jen noted yesterday, the club met in Palm Springs this past weekend, supposedly for some hard-core listening. [...]
West Coast record camp began with a trip down a desert road
to a beautiful house with a pool.
We swam
We ate and ate
we dj’d
We played Crack Dice
We discussed turntablism, record club policy and canine hegemony
Things can get kinda rulesy at record camp.
Biffy flew in from the cape and surprised us with his charming presence. [...]