Category: music

• Two-Track Tuesday: The Dream Academy

  Sep 23

  It was 1985, and I thought that the world would freeze. “The Dream Academy.” What could be a more pretentious, schmaltzy name for a band? For an album? To some… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Rising from the East

  Sep 16

  Bally Sagoo is one of those rare musicians and DJs who can take something as ethnically cramped as a Bollywood hit and make it an international sensation. I don’t remember… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: 1999

  Sep 9

  I was dreaming when I wrote this. Who knew that way back in 1982 we had the technology to cram 11 rather long songs onto one two-track cassette? What took… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: There’s nothing casual …

  Aug 19

  … about being a casualty. Listening to these songs in the parking lot this afternoon made me feel a bit antisocial and embarrassed. I was sitting in the car with… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Boomtown

  Aug 12

  David + David’s Boomtown is not the kind of cassette you want to have in your pickup truck as you peel out of the gravelly parking lot of some abandoned… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Reflections

  Aug 5

  I cried a tear.You wiped it dry.I was confused.You cleared my mind.I sold my soul.You bought it back for me.And raised me upAnd gave me dignity.Somehow you needed me. Thus… more ›

• ♥ + 5

  Aug 1

  While driving to Allen last weekend for a fiasco of a cook-out, we heard Haircut 100’s “Love Plus One” on the radio. Afterwards, I confessed that when I was in… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Legacy Content

  Jul 29

  I came up with the idea for this latest series a couple of weeks ago when I realized just how many cassettes I have stored away in my living room… more ›

• Bliss

  Jul 11

  In an attempt to show my dearest (and some of my oldest) friends some love and support, I decided to jump on their bandwagon a bit this Friday and post… more ›

• Istanbul 04: The Dervish

  Jun 5

  By revolving in harmony with all things in nature–with the smallest cells and with the stars in the firmament–the semazen testifies to the existence and the majesty of the Creator,… more ›