After being stuck at home for nearly a year, I am feeling especially wistful of those late nights spent curating music for folks at my local watering hole. My main weekly residency before the pandemic was strictly vinyl, which meant mostly 60-80s music, but some of my most fond memories are of the handful of …
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Amtrak cuts through Snow
Bald Eagle looking over Hudson River
Albums to Exercise to
If you really want to get anything out of a workout, you should be at it for over 30 minutes. Music can be a great source of motivation for exercise, but playlists on YT or Spotify are never perfect. So something I’ve gotten into recently has been to engage in interval training for the duration …
Squabble 2021
Another year of Squabble is coming! Join today and trade five tapes with five random music fans! The original 65-tape edition will continue with SQU-066+ in the mail March 14, 2021. As tapes can be hard to source, this year I am offering tapes at cost to participants. If you are interested in joining Squabble, …
Trisodium Phosphate: Response from General Mills
Last month, I wrote a letter to General Mills outlining my concern over the inclusion of cleaning agent / lubricant / degreaser trisodium phosphate in their breakfast cereal products. Last week, I received a response. I appreciate knowing my thoughts were considered, but I see their repsonse as little more than lip service. TSP is …
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Haiku – “Two Peacocks”
They never fight, and They are always together. I won’t separate.
Trisodium Phosphate
How many people eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch every day? How many eat Lucky Charms? Maybe this is a better question: How many children eat both of these products every day? And how many of them adhere to the nutrition facts’ recommended serving size of just one cup? These and other General Mills products contain trisodium …
Technics RS-676US Restoration
See idler tire replacement procedure here. I picked up a top-of-the-line 1974 Technics tape deck two years ago and it has been an ongoing project to restore the machine to function. Apart from taking a pretty bad smack over the years which damaged the VU meters, its only major issue was that the Rec/Play switch, …
RATE THE COMP: The Best of Roxy Music
Notes: Comps tend to suffer from recency bias Ferry’s eye patch worn for the Love is the Drug video was mistaken as a fashion statement; the eye patch was for an eye injury! In Every Dream Comp, a Glaring Omission Opening instrumentals are India off Avalon & Slave to Love off Ferry’s 1985 solo album …
Leon Ferri 