Stephen Mejias

I guess I lied when I said "More tomorrow." That should teach me something about making promises during "Recommended Components" time. I'm sorry.

I woke up this morning with the sun in my face and Heather Duby's "Places">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/031908heatherduby/">Places Shape Lives" churning through my mind. I heard the old moan of cello and the aching melody, the hypnotic precision of the just-tuned drums, the constant trembling of the strangled guitar, and I knew it would be a good day.

Written in blue ink on the white space of pages of Fast">http://www.fastcompany.com/homepage/index.html">Fast Company magazine, while waiting for the plane, yesterday morning, at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas.

The October issue of Stereophile shipped to press yesterday afternoon. (Hallelujah.) We are already deep into the November issue, while our new editorial assistant, Ariel">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_young_guy/">Ariel Bitran, is tackling the 2011 Buyer’s Guide. In addition to all of that, and on top of the regular stuff, the entire office is in the">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/boltz_cd_rack/">the process of moving onto the 6th floor of our 261 Madison Avenue location. Construction crews are tearing down walls and building new cubicles, painters are turning white and gray into blue and cream, movers are carrying tables and desks up flights of stairs. My office is cramped with boxeshttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/buried/">boxes;, but this time they’re moving boxes.

Hola Familia.

I hope you're all doing very well. It's an unusually cool and rainy day here in NJ/NYC.

In today’s previous entry, I mentioned that Standish/Carlyon’s Deleted Scenes reminded me of Peter Gabriel’s early solo work. Fans of FX’s outstanding TV series, “The Americans,” will have noted that the season’s finale made fine use of Gabriel’s hit single “Games Without Frontiers.” That is, if those fans were already familiar with the song. I was not.