I was doing some spring cleaning in my hard drive, spurred by the sudden realization that I no longer had space in my second 160gb drive to save the latest House, MD episode. Great. Time to finally clean house (no pun intended).
I know where most of the duplicate files are, for the most part. They’re in the mp3 folder that [...]

In his book A Way To Be Free, Ben Okri writes:
…the highest things are beyond words. This is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric [...]

It’s a cold and wet day today, perfect for brooding or reflecting. Except, I usually listen to music instead. The reflecting usually comes later.
So meanwhile, let me post a few of the tracks I dug up today from the dark recesses of my hard drive that’s already bursting at the seams. (And I thought there was no way I could [...]

As if to make it even more final, a stripped down look to the Gray Charles site signaled that this was really the end. The man who inspired so many of us to re-discover music with a healthy dose of intelligent humor and snark has closed shop with these words:
Do I owe someone an explanation? A story perhaps? A clean [...]