The Mini Mini
The Solo Mini Mini Cooper. Vroom vroom.
Stephen Mejias
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Places Shape Lives
The sun is almost all gone now and the streetlamps along Newark Avenue are just beginning to take on a sort of greenish glow. The sky has become a shadowy mess. We're trying to postpone something. Who would want the day to end like this?
A Better Personal Listening Experience
They're opening a Starbucks and a Duane Reade directly across from the Grove Street PATH station, where I catch the train to work each morning. This will certainly bring more people to my growing neighborhood. This morning, the train was so crowded that I couldn't read my book, Murakami's colorful <i>Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman</i>. So, instead, I did what I always do when there's no room to read:
Fourteen Words
Out of habit now more than anything else, I keep my cell phone on the floor beneath my bed while I sleep at night. In the morning, when I wake, I still check my cell phone for any messages.
The MP3 Talk
Back around Christmastime, when everyone around me seemed to be receiving iPods and gift certificates to the iTunes store, I thought I should give my loved ones <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/123107talk/">The MP3 Talk</a>. Now, John Atkinson, has prepared another version of <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/features/308mp3cd/index.html">The MP3 Talk</a>—live and in color with all sorts of cool graphs and stuff!
Come On, Skinny Love
Like <a href="http://stereophile.com/thefifthelement/208fifth/">John Marks</a> and my uncle <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/021308sing/">Omar</a>, I am prone to enthusiasms. It's not unusual for me to hear some new piece of music and wind up feeling that I need it—<i>neeeeeeed</i> it. So what? Music is great. It <i>is</i> unusual for me, though, to hear some new piece of music and be so moved by it that I leave work early, race up Madison Avenue, charge down into Grand Central, take the 4 to Union Square, and face the many temptations of the vast Virgin Megastore to buy that new piece of music.
Harlem Rent Parties at EZ's Woodshed
<i>Photo credit: Gordon Polatnick/Big Apple Jazz</i>
Wood Docks and Cammo Caps
Christian wrote:
Meeting and Forgetting
<i>From left to right: <a href="http://www.selfdivider.com/base/index.php">Selfdivider</a>, AlexO, <a href="http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/jules/jules.html">Jules Coleman</a>, JackCrank, and <a href="http://www.jeffwong.com/">Jeff Wong</a>. Friday, February 29, 2008, at In Living Stereo.</i>
Rockit!
Yesterday's episode of Sunday Morning on CBS included a segment with Herbie Hancock, whose <i><a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/fredkaplan/101507jazz/">River: The Joni Letters</a></i> won two big prizes at the 50th annual <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/musicroom/robertbaird/021108/">Grammy Awards</a>: Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album.