Pacer Image via Wikipedia I spend entirely too much time these days at The Truth About Cars. It's partially my MI/IN auto-town nostalgia coupled with a need to forecast the outlook for the the local eighty-seven-year-old's pension checks from GM and Chrysler. A post today encouraged readers to list ...

Image via CrunchBase Clusterstock links to what is supposedly economist Paul Krugmans' Amazon wish list. I agree it's a bit on the "wussy new age" side of the musical spectrum. But hey, even mine is idiosyncratic (and reminds me I still want to buy the punk rock version of West Side Story. Composer ...

Cover of Trout Mask Replica I collect books. I have over 180 different editions of Don Quixote, covering 17th-20th century. Safely in storage. Along with around 36,000 others. Ran out of money to build my library. One day…. (confused of calcutta). Impressive. He also admits why both he and Dick Ch...

Image via Wikipedia • Kermit the Frog sings LCD Soundsystem's New York, I Love You...Surprisingly poignant given that he's a puppet. YouTube via MBV. • I don’t remember John Lennon being killed. It would be more accurate to say I don’t remember John Lennon being alive. His murder is the firs...

146th St, Carmel, IN via Wikipedia Street Spirit (Funkagenda Remix). Radiohead. From Hype Machine, the driving beat doesn't sound as grafted on as one might imagine and there might be traces of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra. Backdrifts. Radiohead. This is a live MP3 via artdecade.us ('Specializing in mu...

Image via Wikipedia HurdAudio: Aside from the tracks filled with midi-esque timbres and the sometimes difficult vocal intonations of Terry Riley (not to mention the hippie overtones) one finds these hardened, well arranged gems that are revealed within the symmetrical sequencing of tracks. Riley's v...