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I listen to a number of different radio stations when I am driving around. Sometimes I listen to the classic rock station, sometimes the “variety” station or the new/pop music station, the oldies or news, you get the idea. One artist I heard crop up the last few weeks on a couple of different stations…
This is the first year in several that we are not going to sign up for the Mariners Kids Club. No, I’m not particularly happy about it. As long as I’ve had this blog we have been attending Mariners games with the aid of the Kids Club. It was a great deal because each membership…
I have mentioned before that I do spin classes. I have also mentioned before that I don’t particularly enjoy them. It’s not the instructor’s fault, or any problem with the studio. It really is my own disposition, along with the disagreement my body seems to have with the process. One of the things that I…
Alright, so it’s been a couple of months, and I’ve addressed part of that earlier this week. Let’s just jump into the pictures and catch up on things. We’re going to start off with a picture of Grace, smiling as usual. Tevye attended his first birthday party back in December. It was at a bouncy…
This month’s Geek Fuel box arrived and the contents were well met. There was a nice retro theme to the whole affair. First up is the shirt. It is a pretty cool old-school Transformers design. Then a journal, one of four possible, and it seems that August got the one he would prefer. This month’s…
As of today it has been over a month since my last blog post. There are three primary reasons for this, some more valid than others. First up, and initially, there is inertia. A blog at rest tends to stay at rest. But that is nowhere near the whole story. I was gearing up for…
This was the album I wasn’t looking forward to. When I decided to examine Lou Reed’s solo career this year Lulu was the album I was looking forward to the least. I am not a fan of Metallica. Lulu is a collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica. I understand the two wanting to work together….
There isn’t much to say about this album. It has four “songs” and the first two are approximately 30 minutes each. Lou Reed created these pieces to help in his meditation. So yes, this is mostly ambient music, a real departure from what we expect from Lou Reed. There are two shorter pieces as well,…
I got to see Lou Reed live in 2002, at the annual Bumbershoot festival. He was touring behind his previous album, Ecstasy, but also previewing his currently in-progress work, based on the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. I thought this was going to be a great album, a great marriage of Poe’s words and dark…
With this album that comes four years after Set The Twilight Reeling, an album about Lou Reed’s newfound adulthood love that made him feel like a child again, we get a return to the two guitars, bass and drum format that was largely absent on the previous album. Here Lou Reed employs a second guitarist…