Pony
In "Pony," Frida sings:
Stephen Mejias
Making Love Out of Nothing At All
Dear Frida,
It is official: I have a crush on you, and it feels good. I woke up this morning with your words circling through my foggy mind. Don't you worry, love. Let me help you love. There you go, love. Oh that's brilliant love.
It is official: I have a crush on you, and it feels good. I woke up this morning with your words circling through my foggy mind. Don't you worry, love. Let me help you love. There you go, love. Oh that's brilliant love.
Santana III
I didn't know what this was when I picked it up. The jacket offers no band name or album title. Kind of like the Park Tavern on West Side Avenue in Jersey City; there's no way of knowing it's the Park Tavern unless you walk in, and once you're in, you never really want to leave.
Big Top Hi-fi, or: Hi-fi Takes Manhattan
I was flipping through the current issue of Rolling Stone (RS 1068/1069, with a mustachioed Brad Pitt on the cover) and stopped at their "Rock & Roll Gift Guide."
The ARChive Record Sale
Though it seemed to have been fairly well-scavenged by the time we arrived on Saturday afternoon, the ARChive of Contemporary Music's Winter">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/926_new_stock/">Winter Record and CD Sale held many great treasures.
In My Notebook
She wrote your name down in my notebook and circled it and drew a bunch of funny pictures of cats.
A Picture of Something
She had short brown hair, brown eyes, and wore a brown bomber and a blue and green checked ivy cap. Every ten minutes, we'd have to stop so she could take a picture of something.
Dark End of the Street
It was November 1999, in New Orleans. I had been on the road for almost a month, traveling on my own aboard Amtrak trains. I had a rail pass that allowed me to get on and off wherever I pleased. That freedom was great, but I became terribly lonely. Part of the deal was I had to make at least two stops in Canada. So, I went from New York City to Rochester to Niagara Falls and then up to Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, and Toronto. All the while reading crazy shit like Pauline Reage's Story of O or Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy, meeting beautiful people, falling in love with perfect strangers a hundred times a day, discovering wonderful new places and then leaving almost as soon as some hint of a connection was made.
Check's in the Mail
The new high gloss, high performance Rega">http://www.stereophile.com/turntables/708rega/">Rega P3-24 turntable complete with TT-PSU power supply (sold as an option with standard finish P3s) is now available. The updated P3 was a big winner in our Products">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/">Products of the Year celebration, taking home awards for both Analog">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index3.html">Analog Source of the Year and Budget">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index7.html">Budget Component of the Year.
Deep Listening: The Video
Well, I wasn't able to attend Saturday's "Deep Listening" discussion at the Philoctetes Center. A plane to Mexico was missed and I wound up drinking exotic beers and helping newlyweds plan their honeymoon. Long story.