Category: Music
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The Darkest Hour
There are a set of songs that always provoke a visceral reaction in me, with symptoms including tingling, goosebumps, teary eyes and, on some occasions, even sobs. One such song is Long Time Gone, by Crosby, Stills and Nash, which I just played, and which had the intended cathartic effect. Amy has been in more…
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Roadcasting: All the Road’s a Stage
Roadcasting is a prototype (really, a meme) in which people can share music in and through wirelessly networked car audio systems. The concept was articulated by a team of graduate students at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. There are some graphical and textual descriptions available at the Roadcasting web site, and a…
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Easy Living, Listening, Eating and Drinking at P&G Speakeasy
Amy and I went to dinner last night at the P and G Speakeasy Cafe, a great good place in Duvall, where everything is "handmade, homemade and never boring." We enjoyed a simple, tasty and inexpensive meal of spaghetti and meatballs, with caesar salad and garlic bread, accompanied by their last bottle of Montevina 2001…
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CSN @ CSM
I went to see Crosby, Stills & Nash at Chateau Ste. Michelle last night with Amy, Bruce & Mary; it was the last concert of the season for both the band and the winery. Bruce arrived when they opened the gates and braved the rain to secure fabulous, front-row, center, lawn seats for us. By…
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Kokopelli Redux?
I’ve joined the ranks of Native American flute players, with my purchase of a High Spirits “Golden Eagle” flute in F# (cedar, with turquoise inlay), after a rather synchronistic series of events. On my way home from a particularly moving Reiki session with Eileen Wurst, I decided to stop by East West Bookshop to look…
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Ethereal Cafe
This morning, I was on my way to Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont, when I passed Ethereal Cafe & CDs (note: web site is "under construction" but it can be found in the physical world at 254 NE 45th St, Seattle), which had a banner advertising fair trade Kenyan coffee, organic teas and vegetarian & vegan…
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Music ID
AT&T Wireless recently announced a new music recognition service that will enable customers to use their mobile phones to identify music they are currently listening to. By entering “#ID” on the keypad and placing the phone near the source of the music, the service will send a text message with to the phone with the…