Five Songs, 7/15/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 2006! I finally made a move in 2006 that I’d been needing to do for a while. I was working at a place that I really quite liked. The...
Five Songs, 7/12/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 2007 was a big year in my life. I switched jobs that year, going from a sleepy and stable job to a startup, which was a lot of fun and...
Five Songs, 7/8/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 2008 was much like 2009, at least for what I was doing with myself. It was a very busy year at the startup I was working at, as we had...
Five Songs, 7/5/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Feels a little weird to be going backwards in time, honestly. It was kind of fun thinking through the little vignettes of my life...
Five Songs, 7/1/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, well, well. I’ve run out of years to talk about in here. Unless…we go backwards! And, hell, why not. 2010 ahoy! In 2010, I was...
Five Songs, 6/28/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We’ve reached 2024 at this point. I’m running out of room here, what with the passage of time being what it mostly is. And since I...
Five Songs, 6/24/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 2022! A year that for sure happened, of that I have no doubt. Looking at my pictures, it seems that mostly I hung out with my dog....
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...
