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Today, I received four CDs that I ordered at the beginning of May, but I don’t think I’ll be putting them in my computer to rip them. Imperial Age is a symphonic metal band. I ordered these CDs from the band’s Web site, signed, and then I got to thinking. Because Imperial Age is a […]
It was March when I last updated you, gentle reader, as to my musical purchases and checked to see how balanced they were between heavy metal and jazz songbirds. I’ve been a little naughty in buying CDs here recently, so I thought I’d go back through time to see how I’m doing. In the last […]
I go on and on about how my musical purchases tend to fall neatly into two camps: Heavy metal and jazz songbirds (or maybe three if you include “Pop Music Recommended By Mr. Hill). But the truth is much more complicated. Okay, it’s not. I will also buy CDs of local artists when I find […]
Well, perhaps it’s not the music library and more the recent purchases. As I’ve mentioned, my music purchases tend to fall into two camps: Heavy metal and female jazz vocalists. However, the I recently noted that I’d bought a run of metal: Danger Danger Return of the Great Guildersleeves Fozzy Judas Danger Danger Danger Danger […]
It’s been last August since I’ve spoken of my musical purchasing balance. As you might recall, I tend to end up buying fairly equal amounts between jazz songbirds and metal. When last we spoke, I’d boughten slightly more metal than jazz songbirds (eight to seven, I think, over four months) which sort of balanced a […]
You know, WSIE, the former jazz station and now smooth jazz “The Sound” from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, is not afraid to mix in some interesting musical choices. In addition to Sacha Boutros, Janet Evra, and Ashley Pezzotti (along with other favorites like Hiroshima, Keiko Matsui, Cindy Bradley, Al Jarreau, and so on). Sometimes, they mix […]
It’s been like eight months since I posted about my musical balance, wherein I prove yet again that my musical taste runs in jazz songbirds and heavy metal. Well, Brian J., you ask. How have you done over the Christmas season, where the One For You/One For Me protocol takes effect? Well. Last Christmas, the […]
So I listened to Perry Como’s By Request, and it has the song “Once Upon A Time” as the lead song on side 2. And I thought, You know who else does this song? Frank Sinatra. You know, I think Frank Sinatra is best when he does songs of reminiscence and regret; this song appears […]
Not that you’re keeping track, but my musical purchases have, in fact, remained in balance the last few months. As I’ve pointed out (originally here), my music purchases tend to be two types of music: Jazz songbirds and heavy metal. Over the last year and a half, this balance has been remarkably consistent. Sometimes, the […]
As you might recall, gentle reader, for the last part of a year, I’ve highlighted how my CD purchases tend to be balanced between heavy metal or hard rock bands and female jazz singers. (See here, here, and here.) You might also wonder if the trend continues. Indeed it does. Here are the last ten […]
on a warm spring night, a little chilled white wine is a treat. You know who agrees with me?
On one of the listicles that they’ve started running on PJMedia entitled Top Five 1980s One-Hit Wonders to Rock the Midterms, we have this gross mischaracterization: Grim Reaper would seem to have had it all, a catchy Sabbath-esque riff, one of the most piercing song-ending screams in the history of headbanging, Satan on a stick. […]
I kind of feel under attack from various sources lately as I am known to read less-than-high quality poetry, cheap men’s adventure paperbacks, and artist monographs from artists that I don’t like and who lack basic technical skill if not fine motor control. First, Friar tries to stage an intervention by linking to a First […]
As I mentioned the other day, I pre-ordered the debut album by Damascus and got it on the first day it came out. Damascus is the project of a guy I went to high school with who goes by Butch. I’m not sure if that’s his given name–it’s in the yearbook, so perhaps. He was […]
I might have mentioned that I have an aunt who might be terminally ill in St. Charles. I have been remiss in visiting the St. Louis area and seeing her in the last ten years since we bought Nogglestead–I might have been back only two or three times–so I have been inventing excuses to drive […]
This weekend, or more to the point, this Sunday and Monday, I traveled to a work retreat in the Washington, D.C., area. When I travel, I like to pack my personal item with magazines that I can read and discard on the way, which means my bag gets lighter as I go. As I might […]
I got this book at LibraryCon 2019. The author/artist had a couple of regular, staple-stitched comics that I bought as well as this collection which has a flat spine and hence gets counted as a graphic novel and eligible for my annual reading list and an official MfBJN book report. This book is a collection […]
So I was looking at the Smooth Jazz Cruise 2021 because Keiko Matsui lists the 2020 cruise on her tour dates page, and my beautiful wife has been jonesing for a cruise for about a decade now. Unfortunately, the 2020 cruise with Keiko Matsui is sold out, and she does not appear on the 2021 […]
So I went out for a run last night, which makes it sound like I’m a runner, which I am not. I am not the sort of person who’ll take off from my driveway and go for a little run, mostly because I don’t really like to run and also because I live in the […]
Springfield native Molly Healey has a new album coming out. She plays cello and violin and sings, but she’s a is a little too folk to be in my wheelhouse: But if I run across one of her CDs at a silent auction, I’ll probably overbid on it.