I miss being able to browse. Let me explain. I was watching the movie Before Sunset over the weekend. The movie is the second in a trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Toward the end of the movie, Jesse (Hawke) walks into Celine’s (Delpy) apartment in Paris and begins wandering around. He looks at the […]
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Coldplay – Viva La Vida Live
Link: Coldplay – Viva La Vida Live I was listening to this last night and decided to share. It’s one of my favorite tracks
A Day with Spotify
Yesterday I signed up for Spotify, the music service that has been around for a while but is just now available in the US. I signed up for the Premium Service because, well, that’s what I do. I wanted the whole enchilada. The features with Premium are: You get to use Spotify on your mobile […]
Sorry, Girl Talk. I Don’t Get It
I was in Phoenix last week and had the opportunity to go see Girl Talk “live.” I say “live” because, while Mr. Talk was definitely alive, as was the arena, the music was not. I don’t mean it wasn’t a quality production, but at the essence of things, he is really just clicking a mouse […]
Don’t Go Away Mad, and Other Random Thoughts From Today
I was a huge fan of 80’s hair bands when that was fashionable ( and even when it wasn’t ), and occasionally I feel the need to introduce my kids to some of my favorites from that time. Tonight, for some reason, my wife wanted to listen to ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn.’ She had […]
This is 40
Today was one of those days where each time you turn around something else seems really wrong. It’s also one of those days where you are thankful for another day of health and opportunity. In the small school where my daughter used to attend, the father of 2 young girls died from complications from a […]
Christmas in October
Last Saturday night in Raleigh, my wife and I had the good fortune of taking in the U2 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium. This was my third time seeing them, the last time being in 2005 when we traveled to Philadelphia. If you have read about my experience seeing Coldplay back in August, you know that […]
Coldplay is offering their new live album for free
For those of you that are fans of Coldplay, I got a tweet from them this morning about offering their new live recording for free on their site. Here is the link: http://lrlrl.coldplay.com/leftright.html It is really, really good. Grab whilst the grabbing is good.
I was wrong about Coldplay
I have said for quite some time that I thought Coldplay was just another band from the UK trying to sound like U2. However, I happened to catch a live concert the other night from this old church in England that I think was filmed in 2006. I was very impressed. I have since started […]
The Police – Underwhelming
“We are the Police, and we are back!” Thus began a thoroughly underwhelming performance by the Police at the Grammys last night. I was expecting some screaming performance of “Message In A Bottle” or “Synchronicity II”, making me salivate for the upcoming world tour. Instead, it was a boring rendition of “Roxanne” that landed with […]