Mike sends over this gem of YouTubity: Carlos Santana shreds. I believe the audio for this was recorded at our local Guitar Center. Or if it wasn’t, it sure sounds like it was. Also worth your time: Eddie Van Halen shreds.
I saw last night that Ryan Adams and the Cardinals (whose website is a mess, but who play so well, don’t you agree?) are coming to Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox Theater, which is freakin’ awesome. I’ve been regretting not going to see him at the Tabernacle for several months; now I can fill that void […]
Creative Loafing has a pretty good article about the ideas that are being tossed around about what to do with WREK (previously covered here): WREK-FM faces proposal to go commercial I love the photograph of Jeremy in the vault, surrounded by vinyl. It screams oppression of the helpless non-profit! Which isn’t too far off the […]
Many years ago (1999, apparently) I saw Ira Glass on David Letterman. He was fairly nerdy and talking about some sort of public radio show that he did that had become a success. The show: This American Life. It took me a couple years to actually tune in, but it easily became […]
Early on in our exponentially expanding pinball hobby, I learned that Williams’ Medieval Madness (1997) is generally considered among the “best” and most sought-after of all pinball machines. It’s generally priced accordingly, so you don’t tend to see many around, even in collectors’ homes. I’ve seen two in homes, but they were both […]
