A New Song
I've been paying more attention to my trembling hands. I wonder if they shake while I'm playing guitar. Does it contribute to my style? Has it determined the way I fret and strum?
Stephen Mejias
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Best Laid Plans
It turns out that Dr">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/031606howto/">Dr. L.R., PhD, does not have two first names. While her last name is spelled just like a very ordinary first name, it is pronounced in a way that makes it something entirely different.
How to Do Things
I had no idea at all. The first one, recommended to me by my primary care physician, wouldn't accept my insurance, but would be happy to give me a discounted rate of $40 for the first two sessions. Afterwards, we'd have to discuss and determine an amount that would be fair. Besides this small inconvenience, she would be away for the entire month of April. While she'd be willing to see me for at least one session before flying off to South America — "How does that sound to you?" — I'd be left alone immediately after.
Built for Audiophiles
JA, the industrious, is home today, working on his review of the Slim">http://www.slimdevices.com/index.html">Slim Devices Squeezebox, which will appear in our next eNewsletterhttp://www.stereophile.com/enewsletters/">eNewsletter;. This makes me happy. Happy, not because JA, the boss, is home, but happy because he's working on his review of the Squeezebox. And, the Squeezebox, as">http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21628">as we know, with all of its delicious features and its oh-so-sleek-and-simple lines that fit snugly in the tiniest of corners to broadcast your Editors and Jimmy Edgars and Pink Martinis and Sonic Youth-slash-Fugazis from your office to your kitchen to your bedside window ledge to your broom closet and back into your sweetly pitter-pattering music-loving heart,
Learning to Listen
"Thanks for listening."
I wish she would call.
I wish she would call.
A Fe(a)st of Sorts
Tomorrow, music editor Robert Baird is off to Austin, Texas, for the South">http://2006.sxsw.com/">South By Southwest Music, Film, and Interactive Fest. He attends year after year.
Interrogating the Angles
I know that I can hear differences between... I mean: I know that music sounds different when...
Location over Emotion
Alan is very laid-back. I almost typed "laid-baked," which would be an equally appropriate description. It seems to me that this laid-backness, not to mention laid-bakedness, is a fine quality in a bass player.
A Few Random Musical Notes
1. My system, with the Moscode in it, seems to achieve greater soundstage width. In Ryan Adams' "Mockingbird," a tambourine rattles away far in the righthand corner of my room. It startles and impresses me every time.
And Dragonflies and Bumblebees
On the streets today, people seem so smart and full of Spring. Though the temperature has dropped ten degrees from its high, the sun is still shining. It's 32 degrees and sunny in New York City.