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A Little Good-bye Note

"Write about me in your blog," she said, waving good-bye.

About five years ago, I walked out of our old 110 Fifth Avenue office and turned left onto 17th Street, where, continuing west, I'd soon meet Latarria Hardy for lunch at Maroon's. It was so hard to decide, but I had the baked catfish. Tari had the jerk chicken.

She was just starting with Primedia, and would be taking over our classified advertising. She would, in fact, be our Classified Ad Department. I'd be happily handing over to her all of Stereophile's very delicate accounts, making her familiar with the system,…

The 89 Most Redundant, Repetitive Clichés In Music

Because 100, would, like, be a cliché.

Via JA, who spotted it in The Lefsetz Newsletter.

First to Relativity?

Had James Clerk Maxwell lived to a ripe old age, might he have beaten Einstein to the theory of Relativity? Francis Everitt seems to lean that way.

Leaving that question aside, Maxwell's a pretty amazing fellow.

The Loudness War, Chapter 1139

Today's chapter: Seeing is believing.

Chatanooga Choo Choo

Glenn Miller Band with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers.

This is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

With every new video I see of the Nicholas Brothers, the more convinced I am that they were the greatest dancers to ever don tap shoes—they trump Astaire's natural elegance and Gene Kelly's athleticism.

Wowsers.

Choosing DVD/CD Archival Media

Because what you store it on makes a difference.

The Jamaican-Jewish Wedding

From Mikey Fremer comes Beyond the Pale's first music video. They aren't the first group I know of to compare Jewish liturgy and Rastafarian song (there's "By the Rivers of Babylon" of course), but this one's a goodie.

A Modest Proposal

Mark Cuban has a new business model for the music industry: Give it away.

He calls it Googlenomics.

Well, Maybe 20-Odd

A list of "33 Names of Things You Never Knew Had Names."

Something in the Way

It's stupid to lose control of something as simple as sleep, but I've been having trouble with it.

I should be more specific. I've been having trouble staying with it. I've been having trouble staying asleep. Falling asleep is easy: I get in bed, I'm gone. Invariably, however, some time around 3 or 4am — maybe because an outside noise cuts a hole into my dream, or maybe because the dream itself is somehow unpleasant, or maybe because JA once told me that most people who die in their sleep do it at around 3 or 4am, when their body temperatures are lowest — I wake up.…