Tag Archives: The Beach Boys

Planning to Vote Today? You Might as Well(s)

November 4, 2008 – 10:30 am
It’s Tuesday, November 4th, which means that all across the United States of America it’s Election Day. Today, we elect a new president for our nation. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I want Barack Obama to be that president. But whoever wins (just let me go on record here […]
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Fresh From the Frialator

October 8, 2008 – 10:30 am
As I noted in yesterday’s blog entry, UK Indie-Dance outfit Hot Chip holds the top spot for most listens out of all the music on my hard drives and hand-held digital listening devices according to the calculations of Last.fm and their Audioscrobbler software. I make no bones about it either; I love the shit […]
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It Sure Beats Trepanning

June 19, 2008 – 11:34 am
This week has been full of ruminations on the bio-mechanical impetus behind man’s desire to create music. I discussed the transformation of our perceptions of natural, spiritual & psychological reality via the electric impulses our brain & body utilize to process and act on those perceptions into sound that in turn has the power […]
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Two Swedes Who Wish They Were Californians and a Los Angeleno Who Looks Like a Swede

May 28, 2008 – 10:21 am
Waking up in a sweat, be it cold or hot, is never a good feeling. Frustratingly enough, that’s exactly what happened to me Tuesday morning. And with Summer-like warmth, stagnantly humidity, thunderstorm warnings and heavy rainfall the order of the day I remained pretty uncomfortable until the almost tropical moistness gave way to […]
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Forget Your Politics For a While

May 20, 2008 – 10:41 am
If you’ve gleaned anything from reading this space over the last year-plus it should be that I love a lot of music. Loving music in a general sense and being a genuine fan of a specific band are two totally different things though. And while loving as many bands as I do makes […]
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