‘Summerteeth’ Turns 25, Pye Corner Audio Worship, And Faex Optim Filling A BOC-Size Hole

25 years ago this past Saturday I was sitting in a mildly dumpy hotel room in Fresno, California wondering what the hell I was going to do with myself. I’d flown into town for work. I was Distributor Inventory Auditor for a Midwestern orthopedic company in the late 90s. In simple terms, I traveled to […]

I Could Use Some New Boards Of Canada Right About now

Last Boards of Canada album came out in 2013. It’s been 11 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived and gave me hope for the future of electronic music. It was the first BoC album to come out since I’d gotten into them, which was 2008. Before that the last new full-length Boards album was 2005s The […]

Road Trip, BBQ, Sunday Jazz, Birthday Celebration

Weekend came and went as usual. The space/time/weekend continuum continues to baffle and astound my regular guy brain. I’ll never quite understand how five days feels like 10, while two days feel like an afternoon nap. And yet despite that glaring disturbance in the force I’m still 50-years old with a sizable 401-K, a nearly […]

Friday Check-In : March 1st Edition(Watching The Wheels)

Hard to believe it’s March 1st. I mean, if I’m being honest I’m still trying to catch up from Christmas. The fact that it’s now March of 2024 is kind of insane to me. The last four years all feel like a big, messy blur. Four years ago we were looking at the real possibility […]

Old Wounds, Slow Weekend, More Painting

I called off work on Monday. I’d been having lower back pain for a few days, which culminated Friday with a dull ache in my upper right leg and down to my knee. At first I thought I’d pulled a muscle in my leg, as I didn’t really have a lot of pain in my […]

Classical Wax : Albums I Bought On Looks Alone

When I first started collecting vinyl I padded my collection heavily with wax from the used bins. It was a good way to build the collection without sinking my bank account. But even used albums weren’t dirt cheap(unless you were pulling from milk crates underneath the record bins.) If they were too cheap then you […]

New Songs For Those Night Thrills

Before you could say “Please, no more music” I’m here dropping new music. Yes, I’m currently sitting on a back log of new music I recorded starting in October. If you’re paying attention I released a 4-song EP of instrumental music just a couple weeks ago, but those were all a year’s worth of music […]

The Last Few Days, In A Nutshell(A Large Nutshell)

It’s been a busy last few days. Where to begin… Last we spoke it was Valentine’s Day. My wife and I had a nice evening out. We headed to the little big town of Wabash, Indiana and enjoyed a very lovely dinner at Ninja Express. It’s a good thing we’re more concerned about the food […]

Valentine’s Day Hustle

Was it that 40+ years ago Valentine’s Day meant something more? Or was it just because I was 10 years old 40 years ago that it meant something more? It was a big deal back in those days. I mean it wasn’t Christmas or Memorial Day-level big deal, but it was pretty big. Mom took […]

Moving Sale, Processing Trauma, Green-Tinted 60s Valentine

We’re three days away from loading up a rented UHaul with my oldest’s things and moving them down to their new apartment in Indianapolis. This has been their plan since last fall, when they told the wife and I. It’s not that I didn’t believe it was going to happen, it’s just that when they […]