[Listening to: Como Fue by Nachito Herrera and Puro Cubano from the album Live At the Dakota] The Windows Live Writer plug-ins are starting to trickle in. So far I’ve loaded up the Currently Listening To and Flickr4Writer plug-ins. I just hope I don’t have a long wait till someone puts a Blog This plug-in [...]

The following is the contents of the login quote file from L-Space: vaxjo: this is a test! Mainsail: Oh dear..It’s the brain again…Will someone kindly beat me senseless? Glyph: And then there was…. well, something resembling a great big mess. Mainsail: BBC Reporter talking about the Middle East conflict: “The Lesban..Libbanese…Lesbian Millitant….Oh damn…Lebanese Millitant Group [...]

I bought an incredibly good techno-jazz album over the weekend: Saint Germain des Pres Cafe II. It’s a compilation of various French techno-jazz pieces, and some of them are incredibly good. If you’ve heard any of the Hotel Cotes compilations, or like St Germain, you need to hear this. Tags: album, Music

A short list of interesting bands/musicians you probably haven’t heard, but definitely should: The Dent is a pop trio out of the northeast that has a great sound, and incredibly catchy lyrics. Available on CD Baby! Noe Venable is a solo female pop singer with a knack for spacey soundscapes in kind of the same [...]

Listening to the Empire Brass album Braggin’ In Brass it’s really obvious what the difference between technically well executed jazz, and really good jazz is. Unfortunately, this is only an example of technically well executed jazz. It’s good to listen to, but it just sounds so clean and sterile. Good jazz to me is anything [...]

Finally found a source for the first Throat Culture album, “A Cappella Head”, which features the fantastic track “Easter Island Head”. If you like aCappella music, you should really look into these guys. The discs are somewhat rare, but worth looking for. Tags: album, Music