Snow on the San Gabriels

And the air, as always when the winter rains come through, is scrubbed clean so the view can actually be seen, however distant. Winter does have its advantages around here…

New post over at Chain of Knives on the cassette revival

The post is new but the meme isn’t, I’d like to make clear. Anyway, just wanted to use Chain of Knives to bash out some thoughts I’d had kicking around my head for a bit about the format’s low-key but now definitely on a roll resurgence. Thoughts, as always, welcome.

Storm remnants over a forthcoming dawn

A bit of a sequel to yesterday’s photo, around the same time of day but looking a different direction twenty-four hours later. Supposed to be clear the rest of the week but we’ll see…

Not Just the Ticket — audience question number 3

Okay, middle of the week, time for a new question for everyone!

Out of all the possible answers you might have, what was the one show you knew was happening, that you knew you could go to, but that you didn’t and have been kicking yourself about ever since? To be clear, shows that you didn’t know were happening don’t count. There will ALWAYS be examples in retrospect for people to go ‘if ONLY I had known!’ about.

For me I think it would have been the Pet Shop Boys’ first full tour of America for Behaviour — their tour date in LA was right during spring break, which when I usually went home to chill for a bit. I could have easily made it a shorter break home but for whatever reason I did not do so. Sure, the tour’s on DVD and all now, but Jesus H., what was I thinking? (And to this day I still haven’t seen them…)