Stephen Mejias

Saturday, December 5, 11am–5pm: Talk">http://www.talkofthetownvideo.com/welcome.html">Talk of the Town will host an “Audio, Video, & Home Theater Demo Day.” Show highlights will include demonstrations of SIM2’s C3X Lumis Host projector; Marantz’s 9004 Reference Blu-ray player; Totem Acoustics’s Wind">http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/totem_wind_design/">Wind Design loudspeakers; Classe’s SSP-800 preamplifier-processor with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA surround decoding; McIntosh’s MA7000 integrated amplifier; and Meridian’s DSP 5200 digital active speakers and Sooloos Music">http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/">Music Server System.

I dreamed that I was back in">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/what_happened_in_puerto_rico/… Puerto Rico with the Vivian Girls. They asked me to work on a new song with them. We decided to set up a rehearsal space at my aunt’s beach house. It was taking us awhile to get the instruments properly set up, and Katy was becoming anxious, but I soothed her nerves with a stunning spread of snacks and candies: finger sandwiches, kiwis, grapes, pomegranates, baskets of popcorn, bowls of pretzels and chips, towers of Twizzlers, tall pyramids of Almond Joy…

This past Saturday night was Sonic Youth at Terminal 5.

You don’t have to wear a thin mustache and skinny jeans to rock the new Betty Davis t-shirt from American">http://store.americanapparel.net/6401vbty.html">American Apparel. (Really, I promise.) The t-shirt comes from a partnership between the hip fashion outlet and Anthology">http://anthologyrecordings.com/newspost.asp?blogid=140">Anthology Recordings, an all-digital reissue label devoted to rare and out-of-print music from around the world. For $27, you also get a digital compilation, curated by Anthology, featuring tracks from Betty Davis, Karen Dalton, Father Yod, Telegraph Avenue, Shoes, and other obscure, forgotten artists.

Hey, have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a Stereophile staffer? (I have.)

The December 2009 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. Our final issue of 2009 includes our annual “Products">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index9.html">Products of the Year” feature. People love this feature. We’re already receiving fun complaints from manufacturers whose products are not pictured in the article, complaints from readers because we only vote on products we’ve actually listened to, complaints from angry moms because we didn’t pick their children to play one of the lead roles in “A Christmas Carol.”

Well, here’s another great video from Grizzly Bear. The band is like a bottomless cup of creativity. How do they do it? Don’t they have record reviews to write? Don’t they have issues to ship to press?