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On Newsstands Now: Stereophile, Vol.32 No.1 (January 2009)

Stephen Mejias Dec 22, 2008 First Published: Dec 22, 2008 0 comments

The January 2009 issue of Stereophile is now on newsstands. Volume 32 Number 1 is pretty much bursting at the seams with radicalness. I received a voicemail from a long-time subscriber telling me so. It went:

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Strike the Harp and Join the Chorus

Stephen Mejias Dec 19, 2008 First Published: Dec 19, 2008 0 comments

Dear colleagues:

The year is almost over. The air has grown cold. Our rivers are stuck in deep, deep thought. Outside my 6th-floor window, countless, swirling bits of snow are decorating this gray city like little answers blowing in the wind, like so many true loves: A sure sign that the annual Consumer">http://www.cesweb.org/">Consumer Electronics Show in glittery Las Vegas is right around the bend. It opens on Thursday, January 8th and runs right on through Sunday, the 11th.

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Pony

Stephen Mejias Dec 18, 2008 First Published: Dec 18, 2008 0 comments

In "Pony," Frida sings:

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Making Love Out of Nothing At All

Stephen Mejias Dec 18, 2008 First Published: Dec 18, 2008 0 comments

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.

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Santana III

Stephen Mejias Dec 17, 2008 First Published: Dec 17, 2008 0 comments

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.

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Big Top Hi-fi, or: Hi-fi Takes Manhattan

Stephen Mejias Dec 16, 2008 First Published: Dec 16, 2008 0 comments

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."

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The ARChive Record Sale

Stephen Mejias Dec 15, 2008 First Published: Dec 15, 2008 0 comments

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.

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In My Notebook

Stephen Mejias Dec 10, 2008 First Published: Dec 10, 2008 0 comments

She wrote your name down in my notebook and circled it and drew a bunch of funny pictures of cats.

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A Picture of Something

Stephen Mejias Dec 10, 2008 First Published: Dec 10, 2008 0 comments

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.

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Dark End of the Street

Stephen Mejias Dec 10, 2008 First Published: Dec 10, 2008 0 comments

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.