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This is what five days on the road will do to you.

Earlier this week we roared through Cleveland, OH while we listened to Ian Hunter extole the virtues of the city.

I spent 5 days in Montreal recruiting last week. The days were filled with back to back interviews, which helped me hone my interviewing skills, but were also very tiring.
I made lots of trips to Montreal in high school as a part of French classes, but that was nearly twenty years ago. […]

I have been on the road or interviewing people for the past 10 days. Patty and I just completed another cross-country drive (Ludlow, VT to Kirkland, WA).
I started out my travels by flying from Seattle to Detroit and then on Albany, NY. The flight to Detroit was punctuated with a blow out […]

The noodles‘ fourth cd, God Cable, starts with a low rumble that builds into the rocking guitar and catchy chorus of “She, Her”. At times, the song echoes the pissed off rock of Courtney Love and Hole, but less annoying some how.
The album as a whole exudes fuzzy, grundgy guitar sound that works […]

The Fantagraphics Blog (Flog!) has a story about the Schulz Cartoon Library opening as a part of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Where the hell was the Center for Cartoon Studies when I was a teenager?

Looking for info on Aki Kaurismaki, I found a link to this interesting Japanese movie, entitled Linda, Linda, Linda.
The review on The Japan Times Online describes the movie as a teen band movie that is missing the pre-requisite scenes of humiliation and defeat that culminate in triumphant success. Sounds kind of like […]

Today was a weird day. Every day for the past month I listened to Jim Dale reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on the way to work. Today it was KEXP.ORG and j-music on the iPod. It will take some getting used to this.

Thanks to No Tyme Records I can now enjoy a piece of the soundtrack to my teenage angst in digital format.
Dirty Looks (and not the metal band) was a power, pop and punk band from Staten Island, NY. For more details on the rise and fall of the band, see the 13th […]