Today is April 7th which happens to be the immortal Bille Holiday's birthday and that means there is a day long birthday broadcast on WKCR-FM in NYC. But not to worry you can listen online at WKCR , either in Real audio or as an MP3 stream. So tune in and enjoy. (And find out why Madeleine Peyroux is no Billie Holiday, not now, not ever - period. And I'm not willing to discuss the issue since there is absolutely nothing to discuss.)

JA wrote "there was no easy way of selecting individual songs from the comfort of my listening room" in the recent eNewsletter regarding computer location and iTunes.

I just recently bought a copy of Salling Clicker software to run on a little PDA. It controls iTunes wirelessly, either through bluetooth or a wireless network. It is fast, easy, and the modest investment (software $25, PDA 200+) has made the biggest improvement in my computer based system I have experienced.

Well, it's only a CD 'cause I'm sitting at the computer, but I've kind of neglected David Bowie's Earthling for too long.

Lots of sonic detail, but a pitiful dynamic range - it's all "house mixed" up, but great tunes and lots going on.

It's better than Lortab!

I'm gonna go over to Gemm and buy it on vinyl.

I think I'll go pull out some Diamond Dogs or Ziggy Stardust after this.