Today is July 20th, 2009.

Music that moves me

I have two albums that I consider my “get’er done albums”, meaning that I turn them on when I need to do something I don’t want to do, and the music moves me into doing them.  Since I’m cleaning the Black Hole today, I really needed those two albums.  The first one is:
So, by Peter [...]

Today is July 19th, 2009.

Sunday hodgepodge.

It’s about 12:30pm on a Sunday, which is the first day of my weekend, and is when I get most of my food shopping done.  I do this on Sunday mornings for 2 reasons: the grocery store is still fairly empty, and it’s the only time I know I will be able to find a [...]

Today is May 25th, 2009.

“you don’t meet nice girls in coffee shops”

Tom Waits is my favorite musician, songwriter/composer and singer.  Yeah, that’s right, I said it.  Singer.   A lot of people don’t actually realize he can sing, which is unfortunate, ’cause he’s great.  For some reason, when most people think of Tom Waits, they think of his weirder, growly piratey songs, which, while they are amazing, [...]