Stephen Mejias

As I was leaving Maxwell's last night, I ran into Melissahttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/092805withloss/">Melissa;.

It's a good thing I did my listening before the Mets' tragic loss because, afterwards, everything sounded horrible. I started with the brilliant Arsenio Rodriguez composition, "A Bailar Mi Bomba," off of Roberto Roena's outstanding Lucky 7. When I listen to this song, my head bobs about like mad and my shoulders shake like maracas, I come up with desperate ideas about trading in my guitar amplifier for a conga set and a cowbell, I consider saying goodbye to everything and moving away to Puerto Rico. It's that kind of song.

I was in an elevator with several others, coming down from the penthouse floor of an ordinary building on 32nd Street. My companions for the ride spoke in Spanish, lovely currents of flowing sound like:

Michael Fremer, Stereophile's senior contributing editor, has been everywhere lately. First he was Gizmodoedhttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/gizmodo_hearts_audiophiles/">…;, then he got Boing-Boingedhttp://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/15/gizmodo-audiophile.html">Boing…;, and now he's">http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/06/on-being-gizmodoed-b.html">he's boinging back.

Hey ma.

Remember last week at dinner when you guys asked me, "What's new?," and I stuttered, hesitated, and tried telling you about the Home Entertainment Show?

Here's a sneak-peek at Mikey Fremer's upcoming DVD, "It's a Vinyl World, After All," scheduled to be released later this year. I swear: Mikey doesn't always talk like this. It's just that it's loud at the RTIhttp://www.recordtech.com">RTI; pressing plant, and Mikey's a little excitable.

Today a rare sun of spring.

&#151Sebastian Dangerfield