Playlist on shuffle

Slow, mellow music has filled my iTunes playlist this evening. No particular reason; it just seems to go better with the early spring evening. Any other night it might be something a bit more high energy, but that just does not fit the atmosphere. My time away from work has become a somewhat predictable routine [...]

A righteous babe

Tonight we went to a concert at the Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church of Country Music and a large cornerstone in the Music City, USA moniker that sets Nashville apart. But our pilgrimage was not for a country performance but instead for a rock-folk fusion packaged in a short woman named Ani DiFranco. I thought [...]

No Justice in the Desert

I downloaded “Christmas in Fallujah” off iTunes after hearing a bit about the song itself. Billy Joel wrote the song but had no desire to sing it because he did not believe he had the right voice for it. For that, he chose Cass Dillon. It probably will not be unseating “White Christmas” from its [...]

Hockey Tonk

Hockey season is back in Nashville despite some uncertainty earlier this summer. Samantha and I went to the game Saturday night (Predators 5, Hurricanes 1) with some club-level tickets from her employer. Her company jumped on the the season ticket push bandwagon, and I am incredibly grateful for it. It has always been one of [...]

That guy

I did something today that I am not particularly proud of. No, it was not that I bowled a 58 in the second game at the company outing (the first game was a 104, still the lowest score on my foursome). No, it was not that I impulsively came home from that outing and immediately [...]

Bet he uses GarageBand

Last Friday (Aug. 3) we went to the John Mayer and Ben Folds concert (with special guest James Morrison) at the Sommet Center. It was the first time I had ever attended a concert at the arena, so I opted for the club seats to stay away from the screaming teenagers. No such luck. Between [...]

He lives down my street

August arrived with little fanfare, although I was surprised that I missed Al Gore launching a television network in the headlines. My take on Current TV is that it looks like VH1 or MTV before they became hyper-obsessed with reality television. I don’t see it being added to the UT Martin lineup anytime soon, however.
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