July 31, 2004. Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is traded (indirectly) for shortstop Orlando Cabrera and first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz. It was the strangest thing—a large group of us had collected at our friend Hector’s (false name) suburban backyard to celebrate his thirtieth birthday party. The news rolled out fast, someone probably shouting from the […]
“Be careful, this might make you believe in God.” – Me, after giving a CDR (!) of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Ascension to a friend for his birthday Coltrane released Ascension in 1966. I first heard it in the late nineties and finally bought it in 2003 or 2004. It continues to challenge […]
[This is not my first-ever post—“So I’m a blogger” on, yes, Blogger (Biff! Bang! Pow! “Vol. 1”) blazed that derivative trail in August 2005. However, as the timeline suggests, I didn’t care for much of what I wrote in my first four years and sought a do-over. Four thousand words of anticipated “retrospective self/music criticism” […]
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