Five Songs, 6/21/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Onward to 2021! Pretty much the same as 2020, which is kind of the overall thesis I’m working on here. Work from home continued, in...
Five Songs, 6/17/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, we’ve reached 2020, a year where I don’t need to explain why it was important. On March 12th, I was told to stay home from work...
Five Songs, 6/14/2026
Anything On Your Mind? As we move into 2019, my notes from 2018 still apply. Still have a crazy job, still have the same sense of cultural stagnation, still...
Five Songs, 6/10/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 2018! This year further helped blur my days together, because I started a new job at a certain Seattle tech giant whose name starts...
Five Songs, 6/7/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Onward to 2017, a year when we entered the broad cultural moment in the US that we still inhabit. Really, in retrospect, we entered it...
Five Songs, 6/3/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, that’s more than a month of the reboot, 10 of these things, and it’s still feeling pretty good and sustainable. I even have a...
Five Songs, 5/31/2026
Anything On Your Mind? In addition to my slow walk through the 2010s, I have a Music League going right now that is going through the 90s. I hadn’t really...
Five Songs, 5/24/2026
Anything On Your Mind? All right, let’s check out 2014 now. I think of this year as the year that I kind of woke back up to music, but as I look over the...
Five Songs, 5/27/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 2015! If my internal narrative is right, I should see this year as being more in-step with what was going on with music. In this...
Five Songs, 5/20/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Let’s set aside our slow stroll through my Music Idiot years for a show report. But not just any show report, it’s a show report ala...
Five Songs, 5/17/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Let’s move on to 2013. First, a bit of business. If you want someone with actual taste, writing chops, knowledge, and everything else...
Five Songs, 5/13/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, it was fun visiting 2011, so let’s maybe consider 2012 while we’re at it. As mentioned last time, 2012 was a mess for me,...
Five Songs, 5/10/2026
Anything On Your Mind? I was chatting with a buddy about music the other day, as you do, and I mentioned that I have a pretty big blind spot in music...
Five Songs, 5/6/2026
Well, I’m still tinkering a little bit with how the pages interact with the RSS feed (which, in turn, is what powers the mailing list). I’m using Buttondown...
Five Songs, 5/2/2026
Well, that was fun. The RSS was goofed up (it wasn’t doing full text), which I fixed by updating the RSS template on the site. The email subscription was...
Five Songs, 4/29/2026
Welcome to the new Five Songs! The plan is for me to post a weekly thing rather than the previous daily-ish ones. We’ll see how the format is going to...
