Dear Christmas Marketing Team, I would like to remind you that Christmas does not come earlier this year. Unlike Easter, which happens on different days depending on factors best left to Wikipedia articles, Christmas has a long standing tradition of being on the same day (namely, December 25th). By most accounts, there are still 33 [...]

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Aw, you thought I had forgotten about this Rush listening retrospective, didn’t you? Truth be told, these are harder to write than I originally thought. You go through all of your albums for an artist that pretty much spans your lifetime, and write something intelligent about their albums. Anyway, enough of my excuses. Let’s roll [...]

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OK, can someone explain to me why there are so many damn phone stores out there? I can’t believe how many stores are out there nowadays. I can’t believe the major companies like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint can afford to have so many stores in prime locations. In downtown Royal Oak, where the rents are [...]

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I’m not sure, but I don’t think Roxy Music was popular anywhere in Michigan.

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Trying to come down from quite a weekend. On Friday (since I had it off) JoDee and Sarah and I went to the land of Ikea, whici is kind of like Oz, except the road through has arrows, the food consists of meatballs, and you can take parts of Oz… I mean Ikea, home with [...]

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YouTube – Gentle Giant – On Reflection Amazing musicianship. I heard about these guys from the Spock’s Beard mailing lists, and found them to be a major influence on them. Picked up a live album used, and was completely blown away. Quite possibly, this is one of their finer musical pieces. Check out some of [...]

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Borrowed Funkadelic Live from the library, and have been listening to it at work. If there is an album that will drag your sorry ass up from the depths of despair, and smack you around out of your funk with some FUNK, this is the album. “We are not of your world, but we have [...]

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I ended up spending way too long messing with audio components last night. We managed to get an audio rack over the weekend, so I decided to try and consolidate / rearrange some of the components so they weren’t a complete rat’s nest of cables and what-not. I started around 7:30 putting audio components into [...]

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Happy Birthday, Kayleigh! Hope you have a very first birthday!

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Rush Blog – Rush is a Band Blog: New Neil Peart news update (Taking you to the place where I found this nugget) out of courtesy to them, and because they do a great job with Rush news). I think sometimes these music rag writers forget to realize that behind the exteriors these performers put [...]

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