Year: 2014

  • How Vinyl Saved Music… For Me

    Yes is my favorite band of all time.  This, of course, is evidenced by the fact that they were my most listened to band on Last.fm with almost double the number of plays as my next most listened to band. On a whim, I picked up a couple of their albums on vinyl, Fragile and…

  • How Last.fm Killed Music… For Me

    When I discovered Last.fm, I thought I’d stumbled upon a really useful service.  If I installed the scrobbler app on my computer, it would count every song that I listen to, upload the data to my profile, and use the data (or “scrobbles”) to provide me with new music recommendations based on my tastes.  I’d…

  • The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime

    When I was younger, one of my best friends was kid named Mark.  He was strange:  the kind of strange that makes you want to hang around as much as you can.  Mark always seemed to know about cool things that I’d never heard of…

  • Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

    I suffer a great appreciation for stories that can move me emotionally, and one of the easiest ways to move me is to appeal to the love that I feel for my family.  If you can evoke something akin to the affection that I feel for my brother, then you have accomplished something wonderful.

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