Tag: Music

Sometimes, it is okay to go all fanboy. Gonna do that right now…  

For those who are not long time readers, I have mentioned my retreat into music in prior blog entries.  I grew up in Central Illinois with seasonal allergies that made […]

Wil Wheaton on crying hey man this is babylon :  See, this is why the loss of Tower Records is going to seriously hurt a generation of young artists, because […]

Sadly, musician and songwriter Dan Fogelberg passed away on Sunday after a prolonged battle with prostate cancer.  His official website posted this message for fans: “Dan left us this morning […]

Yesterday, Wil Wheaton (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com) had this to say on nostalgia (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/09/in_the_heat_of_.html): "It's music, too: Squeeze, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, The The, and Oingo Boingo." "It's movies: Batman, Blade Runner, […]

This Wapsi Square comic cracked me up (http://wapsisquare.com/d/20060814.html). It may not make sense to some younger Generation Y'ers, but if you came of age in the 1980s, you'll get the […]

For the last month, my nine-year old son has been riding with me to work (one hour each way) since his day camp is about 2 miles from my office.  […]

Mark McDevitt, writing in the February issue of Giant in Morrissey and Me: I still listen to the Smiths — though maybe not as obsessively as I once did, and […]