I’ve already written at some length about Jim McAuley’s remarkable solo guitar album Gongfarmer18 (I scribbled a little review for Amazon and have a proper writeup coming out in Signal to Noise), one of my favourite releases of 2005. It arrived as part of the usual disparate but intriguing crop of discs from Nine Winds, [...]
Well, so much for the job at LexisNexis — got let go without warning. I’m not experienced in sensing oncoming changes of the weather in the office climate, so it was wholly unanticipated — indeed, I’m still scratching my head over it, considering that the department was already hopelessly short-staffed (five employees in a row [...]
Just got a packet of new releases from Emanem in the mail — always a welcome event. Some interesting new stuff in there (including the 2CD set of Freedom of the City 2005), but for me the biggest pleasure was seeing the reissue of News from the Shed, a quintet improv LP from 1989 originally [...]
Brian Olewnick kindly posted a link on Jazz Corner to this epic thread (begun in 2003 & still rolling) — appallingly funny, but NOT for the squeamish: life lessons from the ER. Have fun, folks!
This weekend was Anne’s birthday, a great day but unfortunately followed by her falling ill with a one-day flu bug. I [...]
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