Living in future’s past.

My two sons now have iPods. For their birthdays this year they each got one, a Nano for the older boy and a Shuffle for the younger. But, neither have purchased or downloaded any music for themselves and honestly, I’m not even sure if they would know how to. It’s not that I’m controlling their […]

Death by shuffle mode

This past week I read an interesting article about “the death of the album.” It gave me pause and I suddenly realized that lately, to me, yeah the album has been pretty dead. I used to have quite a voracious appetite for new music. Even when I was younger I can remember trips into New […]

Slacking…

Just this past week I considered something I never, ever thought I would: eliminating the iPod from my life. Well, maybe not entirely, as I do use it a lot for games and watching videos. I’m talking more as my primary music player. I’ve come to realize in my life that I just don’t have […]

Radio Ga Ga Saved My Life Tonight

When I was a kid, up until about the age of eleven, we moved around a lot. My father’s engineering job took us to such exotic locales as Port Huron, Michigan and Norcross, Georgia. It also dumped us in Wiesbaden, Germany for about 8 months in 1976/1977. Seeing as how I didn’t really speak the […]

Taking a Night Flight…

Recently MTV “opened” its video vaults online but I have to give it a big MEH. I mean, it’s all good and fine if you’re at a computer and want to watch Dio’s “Rock N Roll Children” in all its cheesy goodness. But I’m more of a passive person. I want to turn on a […]