Category Archives: Music

Best Albums of ‘78

I did my favorites of ‘68 a while back. Now, on to ‘78. Instead of explaining anything, I hunted down some (awesome!!) YouTube videos…

Coldplay and Hannah Montana (taste and identity pt. 1.5)

After writing about taste and identity, and specifically mentioning Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana, I saw this oh-so-newsworthy news item about how Coldplay’s Chris Martin likes Miley/Hannah. Martin says of Cyrus/Montana, “She’s doing something quite different…I just think she seems to have a sweet character.”
Which reminds me. Soon after I started listening to Miley Cyrus, [...]

taste and identity

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned the relationship between taste in music and identity. It sparked a good start-of-a conversation between Katy and me. She suggested that it was common to our personality type. I’ll agree that it probably is very common to our personality type, but not at all exclusive to [...]

GDMNJ #5


Led Zeppelin Week (in your pants!)

I was going to title this post “Led Zeppelin Week In My Apartment,” but that reminded me of that fortune cookie joke, where the reader of the fortune appends the phrase “in your pants” to the fortune. Also acceptable: “in bed.”
At any rate, I am devoting this week to listening to Led Zeppelin. [...]