Greased Melon

Razorlight [America, In the Morning]
Remy Zero [Fair, Goodbye Little World, Life in Rain]
Bonobo [albums Days To Come and Dial ‘M’ for Monkey]
Built To Spill [Else, Strange, You Are, Liar, Saturday, The Wait, Conventional Wisdom]
Paolo Nutini [Last Request, Rewind, Million Faces]
Amy Winehouse [Rehab]
Lo-Fi-Fnk [City]
Go! Team [Everyone’s a V.I.P. to Someone]
Snow Patrol [Set the Fire to the […]

I’m in Portland for Thanksgiving, visiting my brother and sister in law and my cooler-then-a-new-Apple-product nephew, Elliott. I arrived late Wednesday night on the non-stop Southwest flight that featured a duo of morons who drank too much Bud Light and talked about every subject they’d heard of through their trach tubes. My noise-cancelling […]

I went to see the new James Bond flick on Sunday night: Casino Royale. It’s probably one of the best movies I’ve seen this year.
The movie is about the first mission of Bond’s as a double-oh. Like any Bond movie, the plot isn’t really that complex. It’s all about fast cars, beautiful […]

John was told last week by Harry–the Harry in “Harry’s Country Club“–that they “have kegs of Nutcracker Ale just sitting in the basement.” The deal was that they had to sell the rest of the Bob’s 47 before they could put Boulevard’s next seasonal on tap. Whell then.
A group met there last night […]

I stumbled on the Songbird project earlier in the summer but didn’t get around to using it until a couple weeks ago. It’s rather interesting.
It’s the convergence of two apps: an iTunes-like music player and Firefox. So, it manages your library / plays music and lets you browse the web.
Where the convergence […]

What on earth are old people doing raking leaves at 6:30 in the morning? On several occasions now during my ride to work I’ve seen them out. Bless them.
There are a lot of leaves in Prairie Village. A LOT.
I want a funicular instead of a gondola from Union Station to Penn Valley […]

Kansas City voters just passed Light Rail.
I’m.
Just speechless. I.
Yeah. I.
A’hem. I never thought it would happen. At least not with this plan. Wow.
More later. Because I can’t. Yeah.