Today’s selection for The Monday Rotation holds a special place in my music catalog as it is my reading/thinking/writing/chilling go-to music. “Explosions in the Sky” is an instrumental rock band from Texas that I discovered 5-6 years ago. Yes, instrumental rock, no vocals, which is a major turn-off to many people but as pure music it [...]
While I was searching for Radiohead tickets a few years ago I stumbled onto a video made by a die-hard fan looking for tickets to a Thom York show in San Francisco. This couple apparently traveled all the way to Tokyo years earlier just to see Radiohead play. It is obviously an amateur production but I have always [...]
Great tunes: CHECK, a bunch of chicks: CHECK, free booze: CHECK and a cool venue: CHECK. I went to a bumping warehouse party on Friday with a couple of friends. It was in a random building near downtown Sydney that they is being demolished today. I didn’t know who was putting it on or what it was for, I [...]
There is so much bullshit out there. New bands, movies, books, porn, and youtube clips are thrown at me from the minute I get up every morning. The majority of which are total crap. I am always interested in knowing about new music, movies or just media in general that I have missed or classic stuff that I may have passed [...]
One of the nice things about being at a remote office away from my company’s headquarters is that I don’t have to deal with the various bullshit that comes with having a bunch of “bosses” all in one place. I am virtually done with useless company “all-hands” meetings, executive ride-alongs to customer visits, and other forms of [...]
Concerts are fantastic. As I have outlined in previous posts they are the perfect storm for many of the things that I love – music, people watching and substance abuse. Two weekends ago I flew to San Francisco to hang out with one of my friends that moved there recently (lets call her “TK” for [...]
There is nothing I like better than going to check out some bands play. Some people prefer tailgating, going out dancing or sitting at home on the couch watching Three’s Company reruns on a Tuesday afternoon to get their “drink on” but, for me, concerts are the best all around drinking pastimes. The people watching [...]
For the remainder of December I will be dedicating Top Nine Friday to a “Best of” series for the decade (I know its fucking crazy, the 00′s are over and no flying cars, wtf?) I am going to start with something very close to my heart – the Top Nine Albums. I have pretty much [...]
What is it about music that makes people say they are interested in all types and really “don’t like any specific style”? A guaranteed response from anyone who you ask “What type of music do you like?”, will be, “Nothing specific really, I like everything except maybe X style and Y style of music.” No other [...]