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I discovered Erik Satie while in college. The music seemed perfectly fit for such strange and brightly-colored cartoon mornings, rainy afternoons, very sad and lonely drunken nights. Perfectly fit for a dude who felt out of time with himself, a mishmash of incomplete angles and ideas, a dance party, a moonlit walk along a muddy trail, a stranger, a desperate fuck.
The Naxos recording of Satie works performed by Klara Kormendi was one of the few discs I brought along with me when I fled New Jersey for a semester in England. At Fairleigh Dickinson University's Wroxton Abbey in…
The Smithsonian has a nifty slideshow on Harry Houdini. It's mostly posters, but the action shots are worth checking out.
We're so excited about the new Photo Gallery, and so happy with the steam it's building, we've come up with another section to the album: The History of Stereophile.
This, I think, is very cool. Our magazine has been around for over 40 years, has seen so much life, told so many stories, sung so many songs. This is rich, rich soil; deep, deep soul.
It started in J. Gordon Holt's bedroom in Pennsylvania, moved out west to New Mexico, came back east to New York City. It stayed out after its curfew, got drunk, pissed in sewers, vomitted in subway cars, experimented with the…
I love the 33 1/3 series of books, but each book I buy costs me at least one CD. LargeHeartedBoy 'splains it's worse than that.
Huckleberry is appalled.
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
Bagheera gets rude.
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
Okay, indigenous Columbians want to make Cola with real Coca? Why is everybody freaking out about this? It's not the same thing as cocaine. I used to live in Peru and we would drink herb tea made from coca leaves all the time. It's got about as much kick as caffeine—maybe even less, since I'd have no qualms about drinking a cup before bedtime.
Like all herbal infusions, there's a lot of folklore about which ailments coca tea could cure; our neighbors swore it was good for altitude sickness and queasy stomachs. Anecdotally, it worked pretty well for both—I drank a lot of it when I was…