FISTFULAYEN

I was just trying to get Lucinda to take a nap, unsuccessfully teaching her to sleep without bouncing on the exercise ball, and listening to The Rhyme on XM. “That’s The Joint” by Funky 4 + 1 was on, not the most common lullaby but it was working just fine for us. But next up [...]

Paranorm sent me an email tonight with some news I hadn’t heard: Alice Coltrane died today. I’d heard about Michael Brecker this morning, but Alice C was news to me. Rough day in the jazz world. Driving home down Lincoln blvd from LAX a few years ago I was completely mesmerized by a track on [...]

Paranorm, Alan, Zoe, and I are headed to Anaheim tonight to see if Sly shows up. Alan was there at his last performance (aside from the Grammys last year) in 1987. In his words, “Can’t be as bad as that was…he says…as a challenge.” The OC Register article The LA Times article I’ll report back [...]

WFMU posted the classic “Rappin’ With Gas” cut. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/01/365_days_12_rap.html ian

As promised in last week’s post, here’s the podcast of Dave talking to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch on TalkCrunch. My attempt at answering the Amie St question fell a little flat. Let me know if you’d like any clarification in the comments and I’ll attempt to clear things up. ian