Autumn came without calling first. It snuck its way in through the cracks of my old kitchen windows and made itself at home. I've asked it to spend nights on my orange couch, but, while I sleep, it comes into my bed and hogs all the blankets. It's cold in my apartment.

Steve Reich's 70<SUP>th</SUP> birthday celebration is currently keeping NYC concert-goers pretty busy, but you can participate at home, thanks to the Whitney Museum's web-casting of its October 15 performance event.

Add this to the ever growing list of stuff I didn't know.

All five of these guys need to find a new line of work.

What the heck is it? "Cathedral is an on-going interactive work of music and art designed specifically for the Web. Media artist Nora Farrell and composer William Duckworth created it."

Good music <I>vs</I> evil music.

Kee-rist&mdash;an <I>irony</I> mark? BMAFG!

Possibly not, according to John Gibbens. He says the records we all know (and many of us worship) have always been played at the wrong speed.