While putting together yesterday's entry, I stumbled upon this video of Mike Bones performing a version of Grinderman's excellent "No Pussy Blues." This was back in the summer of 2007, during a music festival in New York City's East River Park. I wasn't there.

Though he, like many others, moved to New York City as soon as he could, Mike Bones is <i>from</i> New Jersey. Bloomfield, or Belleville, or maybe Bayonne. Somewhere around there&#151somewhere not far from a good view of the Manhattan skyline. You can hear it in his lyrics. Only a boy from New Jersey could write and sing a song called "Today the World Is Worthy of My Loathing."

Is it possible to make a $700 "mainstream-audio" power amplifier sound exactly like a high-priced perfectionist amplifier? <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/">Bob Carver</A>, of Carver Corporation, seemed to think he could, so we challenged him to prove it.

Is it possible to make a $700 "mainstream-audio" power amplifier sound exactly like a high-priced perfectionist amplifier? <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/">Bob Carver</A>, of Carver Corporation, seemed to think he could, so we challenged him to prove it.

Is it possible to make a $700 "mainstream-audio" power amplifier sound exactly like a high-priced perfectionist amplifier? <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/">Bob Carver</A>, of Carver Corporation, seemed to think he could, so we challenged him to prove it.

Is it possible to make a $700 "mainstream-audio" power amplifier sound exactly like a high-priced perfectionist amplifier? Bob Carver, of Carver Corporation, seemed to think he could, so we challenged him to prove it.