2019-04-01: I was 10 years old in 1984. On April 1 of that year Marvin Gaye was shot by his own father. I …
2019-03-17: We made it out to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve today! Wasn’t as dramtic as ive seen …
2019-03-15: 🎵 A chiptune arrangement of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” …
2019-03-07: I’m really having a tough time after reading Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate …
2019-03-02: This is absolutely bonkers. My jaw hit the ground several times. 🔗 How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a …
2019-02-26: Micro.blog friends, I’m going to Seattle next week for work. I will have some non-work time. …
2019-02-26: Ozzie has his first ever bowl of Apple Jacks. We went to a birthday party the day before and instead …
2019-02-26: TFW you panic because it’s a few minutes past the hour and you swear you’re late for a …
2019-02-23: The Tim Hecker show was amazing last night, as expected. Kara-Lis Coverdale and the Konoyo Ensemble …
2019-02-22: Headed to see Tim Hecker and the Kinoyo Ensemble with Kara-Lis Coverdale opening. Expectations are …
2019-02-17: I do not understand people that want, or especially need, a product like Tile in their life.
2019-02-17: 🔗 The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet
2019-02-16: The New York Times wants to hear your stories about losing your privacy in the digital age. …
2019-02-15: Horse hair was found in our sofa. That is all.
2019-02-15: CMV: After weeks of deliberation and analysis paralysis, I settled on Google Wifi, especially with …
2019-02-14: Kirsten Lewis is one of my favorite people at Sonos. I feel so fortunate to be at the same company …
2019-02-14: Me and the wife took the afternoon off to see wonderful contemporary art the Broad Museum, held …
2019-02-12: Gotta give credit where credit is due. Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android is really great. Using …
2019-02-12: I’m done trying todo list apps. Done. No more.
2019-02-12: I keep reading doom-and-gloom articles about the collapse of nature. Leave it to Tyler Cowen to calm …
2019-02-12: This is seriously the best chocolate I’ve ever had. Glad I bought a 4-pack!
2019-02-11: TIL “Voices Carry” by ‘Til Tuesday, written by Aimee Mann, was about her relationship with Al …
2019-02-05: I have a deep appreciation for restaurants that put carpet or some other soft material on the …
2019-02-01: Flight attendant comes over to my row and says, “Mr. Barrish?” I think to myself, ‘why yes, I will …
2019-01-31: Last night in Boston. Keeping my cold at bay.
2019-01-29: Just finished recording the first episode of Departed at the PRX Podcast Garage In Boston. …
2019-01-25: I got another Outcome Unknown newsletter out. Can’t wait to see how many people unsubscribe …
2019-01-25: A co-worker snapped this. He calls it “Between Two Sensavaria” 🤪
2019-01-24: Over the last couple weeks of 2018 that I had away from work and, to some degree, parenting I …
2019-01-24: Just ordered something on a web site with Apple Pay integration. That’s some magic!
2019-01-24: Kashmir Hill is doing a really great series for Gizmodo called Goodbye Big Five. She spent six weeks …
2019-01-22: The Pixel 3 camera really never disappoints.
2019-01-20: As good as I could get with the neighbor’s telescope. Happy Super Blood Wolf Moon!
2019-01-19: I had been using Apple Mail and Gmail for iOS for a long time. I consolidated on Outlook for iOS and …
2019-01-16: Our sweet Cassidy turned 6 today. She got to be boss of the family. She had chocolate ice cream for …
2019-01-15: The first music magazine (really a fan zine) I fell in love with was Maximum Rocknroll. They …
2019-01-12: 🔗 I’m sure a lot of you have probably already seen this, but Motherboard has a great article …
2019-01-11: 📽️ Nice to see that Gary Hustwit’s latest film,“Rams”, a film about Dieter Rams, …
2019-01-11: 🔗 From Rolf Degen via Twitter, picture taking diminished the enjoyment of and engagement in highly …
2019-01-10: My god, I hate the new WordPress interface so very much. I cannot even believe they pushed this. Why …
2019-01-08: Deleted my 23andMe data (after downloading everything, of course). Slowly cleaning things up and …
2019-01-06: Really excited about a podcast project that’s been brewing for a few months. It has a name. I …
2019-01-04: 🔗 The WELL’s State of The World 2019 is always a good read. If you know The WELL, you’re old (like …
2019-01-03: Way Home in Carbondale, CO gets a 👍 for carrying large bottles of Topo Chico.
2019-01-02: Look both ways.
2019-01-02: Today, then tomorrow, then back home. Soaking up every minute.
2019-01-01: Happy New Year from Colorado. 🎉🥶
2018-12-30: Peace on Earth! Hello from Snowmass.
2018-12-25: 🎵 I put together a playlist of songs I enjoyed in 2018. You can listen on Spotify or Apple Music. I …
2018-12-24: To all who celebrate, a merry Christmas to you. I hope everyone is enjoying some time with family …
2018-12-21: 🔗 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
2018-12-20: I am really conflicted about keeping my Instagram account. I have the account deletion page open in …
2018-12-19: 🔗 StopDataMining.me is the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data …
2018-12-18: As someone who has had packages and mail stolen from their porch, I got tremendous joy from watching …
2018-12-11: Just started the import of thousands of posts from Wordpress to Micro.blog. 🤞
2018-12-08: My brother and his new baby. Glad I brought the good camera.
2018-12-07: I’m visiting family in Kansas City. We were on our way to take the kids to Science City and we were …
2018-12-07: TFW you bring your good camera on a trip and realize you lost your lightning SD card reader.
2018-11-30: If you’ve been considering getting started with a Sonos system, adding to an existing one or …
2018-11-30: Super bummed that my GR-1 arrived defective. Huckberry is taking care of it and I let GORUCK know …
2018-11-29: In preparation for the transfer to the new GORUCK GR-1, here are the contents of my bag.
2018-11-29: Working on a few year-end lists. Just saw the NY Times top 10 books list and was proud to have read …
2018-11-28: Shadows
2018-11-26: 🔗 For you Nirvana fans, The Ringer posted an oral history of the Unplugged show. It’s a fun …
2018-11-26: 📖 I was able to nearly finish -An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard over the last week …
2018-11-26: The title to Rands' most recent post is, Traveling with Me is a Nightmare, but I’m not sure …
2018-11-22: A Thanksgiving prayer, by William S. Burroughs
2018-11-17: I’ve been using Twitter (passively) a lot lately because of the fires. There’s really nothing else …
2018-11-17: The bad air is coming back, just in time for the weekend. 😫😷
2018-11-13: I just told Laura I was sad Spike Lee died. She was in utter shock. I didn’t understand why she was …
2018-11-10: The air is so bad, I’m actually considering taking the kids and leaving LA for a while. Not exactly …
2018-11-10: Winds must have shifted. Neighborhood is enveloped in smoke. You can smell and feel it. Horrible. So …
2018-11-06: Gonna be tough to focus today. It’s a really important day. Some are saying perhaps one of the …
2018-11-04: Daylight Saving was clearly not invented by someone with kids. It should be abolished.
2018-11-04: 🔗 This is incredible. Just… Wow. My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.’s Cult of …
2018-11-03: 🔗 How Hip-Hop Learned to Pose for the Camera
2018-11-01: This is a really thick book. Can’t wait to read every page. I did get the audiobook as well, so I’ll …
2018-11-01: I entered the stairwell of the WeWork in Century City, CA after my appointment to get a second …
2018-11-01: 🔗 NASA x Vans! I’m going to buy everything.
2018-10-29: 🔗 Stallman interviewed in the New Left Review.
2010-10-14: Testies
2008-12-03: The Top 25 Albums Of 2008 Flying Lotus - Los Angeles Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Sigur Ros - Með Suð à Eyrum Við Spilum …
2008-09-11: Today would have been your 63rd When I woke up this morning, I forgot for a moment what day it was. And then I didn’t forget …
2008-09-02: Waiting For Chinese Democracy Over the weekend I slapped up a quick site to help Laura sell some of her awesome shirts. They got …
2008-08-18: Being down For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved to wallow. I kinda like rolling around in my own …
2008-08-13: Another pair of sneaks Thanks to Daily Drop for pointing me to these sweet “Un-Futura†Nike SB Dunk Highs. Picked …
2008-08-11: Exercising without the gym I’ve always had trouble motivating myself to exercise. I know it’s good for me. I know …
2008-08-05: Some current favorite albums I think about my music listening habits all the time. The music sometimes reflects my mood and …
2008-07-25: Randy Pausch has died There was an amazing video that someone passed along to me. It obviously hit a nerve and was very …
2008-07-23: It's been a while This site has been neglected for almost a year now. So much has happened and I think about my dad …
2008-02-07: 1 Year Later As the sun comes up in the morning, it will be the 1-year anniversary of my dad’s death. I …
2007-12-12: Top 25 Albums of 2007 There were a lot of great albums released this year, many of which didn’t make the Top 25. …
2007-11-13: Fired I just fired a guy because a 12-day job hit the 10.5 week mark. Where the hell do you find …
2007-09-10: Happy Birthday, Dad Dear Dad, This is the first year I’m not able to call you and tell you happy birthday, but I …
2007-09-07: Patrick howls Many of you have met Patrick. If you haven’t, you’re missing out. He’s the most …
2007-07-22: Lead Over the last week I’ve received a lot of advice on leadership and it’s something to …
2007-07-20: Today It’s old news now, but the day of the steam pipe explosion in NYC was a traumatic and scary …
2007-07-17: Audrey get stalked by the Ecorazzi Audrey and I were at Giants Stadium for Live Earth and she was working the press and celebs like …
2007-07-10: A little press While I was in Chicago last month for the Mandy Moore show, we had a couple of reporters there doing …
2007-07-09: Live Earth in photos I’m in the process of going through over 400 photos and writing a wrap-up, but until then …
2007-07-05: Live Earth: The Arrival It’s pissing out. Thunder, lightning… The whole shebang. Good thing it let up for a bit …
2007-07-03: If Audrey and I were Simpsons characters It would probably look something like this.
2007-06-26: Control Room immaturity at its finest I filmed a short video while we were editing a show in Chicago earlier this month. When I played the …
2007-06-26: Happy birthday Audrey Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.
2007-06-26: Can't make it to Live Earth? Check out parties going on around you. The online stuff that Live Earth is doing is incredible. I …
2007-06-23: Another chapter. Another verse. I just finished reading a big stack of letters that people wrote to dad when he was sick and shortly …
2007-06-23: Get the latest issue of Rolling Stone It has a whole thing about Live Earth in it. You cancheck out the feature online as well.
2007-06-21: What I've done to help with global warming I’ve always been conscious of the impact my daily habits have on the Earth. I grew up in a …
2007-06-20: Going to Live Earth I finally got word today that I will be in New Jersey for the US Live Earth concert. While …
2007-06-20: Can you say 12 steps? Here’s a graph illustrating my reading habits. It’s a little misleading because I …
2007-06-10: Out loud, in the car I was driving alone last night, coming home from dinner with some friends and I was thinking of you, …
2007-05-30: Nightmares I rarely have nightmares. I don’t actually remember the last one I had, but last night I had …
2007-05-25: So much has happened So much has happened since I wrote last. Things ave been busy as I’ve been getting back into …
2007-05-25: The container As some of you know, Audrey (my girl) and Oona (her mum) are in the middle of constructing a mixed …
2007-05-04: Action for Everyone The first internship I had was with the ACLU. Of course dad had everything to do with that, as he …
2007-04-30: The body I was having a conversation with someone today. They also lost a parent to pancreatic cancer. We …
2007-04-18: Comments off I have to turn the comments off. The amount of comments spam that I’m having to deal with is …
2007-04-12: Apocalypse Now I’ve come home to find Apocalypse now on TV a few times in the last week. It’s one of my …
2007-04-10: More Live Earth announcements We made some more announcements today about the US and UK shows. Check out liveearth.org for all of …
2007-04-09: Del.icio.us Cancer While dad was dying, I frequesntly looked for other people that had a “pancreatic” tag …
2007-03-27: Things I'd like to do before I die I was inspired by watching the trailer for The Buried Life, so I figured I would start compiling a …
2007-03-25: Life happens I’ve been thinking about dad a lot lately and I’ve been sad. Life has been moving fast, …
2007-03-25: Albert Ellis Institute blirb The Albert Ellis Institute has a memorial blirb up on their web site. Dad was a Supervisor and …
2007-03-03: On the plane There’s a plane flying right next to us. It’s far enough to not freak me out (for now). …
2007-02-25: KC Star feature The Kansas City Star ran a feature on dad in Saturday’s paper. You can read it online.
2007-02-22: He gave me music There was talk about playing music at the funeral. He was really into Snoop Dogg, which cracked me …
2007-02-20: Another close call While I typing the last post, I kept thinking about the conversation that Brother and I had with …
2007-02-19: Emotional constipation Mom called and said that she, Brother and Sister had all talked to the reporter already. Apparently …
2007-02-18: Missing inaction I went to bed without setting an alarm last night, even though I knew I had to get up. I had an …
2007-02-15: S.O.S. / Live Earth announced Some of you may know that I work for a company called Control Room. This morning our CEO, Kevin …
2007-02-15: Wheelhouse Pickles Dad’s best friend’s son has his own pickle company that’s absolutely fascinating. …
2007-02-15: Privacy It’s safe here. No one knows this is where I’m keeping my thoughts. The first go at this …
2007-02-15: No tears I spoke to someone else this evening. Her mom passed away from the same disease and she was having a …
2007-02-09: Dad's eulogy This is what I read at my dad’s funeral this morning. It was one of the most difficult things …
2007-02-08: Dad on adversity My dad and I shared a love of public speaking. Last Father’s Day dad gave a talk on adversity …
2007-02-07: Obituary Irving Jay Barrish, Ph.D. Overland Park, Kansas passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on …
2007-01-14: Ditching the Jack for the Berry I couldn't take it anymore. While the BlackJack is nice to look at and the 3G stuff is kinda neat, I …
2007-01-14: What A Dick I’m sure John Stewart will have something to say about this on Tuesday, but let me direct your …
2007-01-10: Make Your Own Banksy Print Banksy is making some pieces available for download that you can freely print on nice paper or …
2007-01-09: Thoughts On the iPhone In case you were under a rock all day, Apple announced the highly anticipated iPhone. Every time …
2007-01-04: In Search of Emptiness I just got finished reading Paul Theroux’s editorial in the NY Times. He talks about how …
2007-01-02: My First I got to work this morning and started the new year off in an awesome way. I received my first …
2006-12-15: Top 10 Live Shows of 2006 (In no particular order) Radiohead @ Greek Theatre - I’ll let my previous review speak for how …
2006-12-15: 2007 Predictions (Please STFU) As 2006 comes to pass there are a lot of predictions that are floating around about what will happen …
2006-12-04: Arlo Will Rock You I’m speechless. [via a.whole]
2006-11-30: Phenomenal Menomena I did a show with Nada Surf last year and had a really nice experience with the fine folks at …
2006-11-30: Google Google Google I was talking to Michael earlier today and urged him to give gmail a try. His reaction was something …
2006-11-29: Gadget Envy I’ve not only had the same Blackberry for well over a year, I’ve had the same RAZR for …
2006-11-23: Happy Thanksgiving [youtube]C7Z_08o108E[/youtube] Without checking, I’m pretty sure I point people to …
2006-11-17: Free Art For Your Phone I’m a huge fan of Start Mobile and have spent quite a few dollars on their awesome mobile …
2006-11-13: eFax Sucks I’ve been an eFax customer for a number of years and I’m sick and tired of them raising …
2006-11-11: The Week In Concerts Monday I saw Modest Mouse at The Wiltern, which I wasn't terribly excited about. I've never been a …
2006-11-10: Flock Messed Up My del.icio.us Bookmarks Ok, this is killing me. I installed Flock to take it for a spin and configured the integrated …
2006-11-10: Trying To Be A Lefty I’m having a lot of pain in my right wrist because I spent a lot of time in front of a …
2006-11-09: The Results Are In I had a conversation with my dad on Tuesday night. We were both saying how it would be so nice if …
2006-11-07: About Some Questions: Answers from Michael Azerrad After seeing Kurt Cobain About A Son, I congratulated Michael and let him know I was going to be …
2006-11-06: A Mix For November I’m not going to bore you with how long this one took. Actually, yes I will. It took me a long …
2006-11-06: About A Film: A Review of Kurt Cobain About A Son I emailed Michael Azerrad on August 23 of this year. It was the day I found out Kurt Cobain About A …
2006-10-31: Vote Next Week One week from today are the mid-term elections and they’re important. If you don’t know …
2006-10-30: Joel On The Gum My good friend Joel appears on Stereogum today. The new Earlimart is coming. From the songs …
2006-10-29: Thom on The Big Ask Check out an interview with Thom Yorke on why he has joined up with The Big Ask. [via Chris] …
2006-10-26: No Containing The Thermals The Thermals were setting up and soundchecking and lead singer Hutch Harris decided it was time. And …
2006-10-25: iStill Like Mog From the makers of Garageband.com comes iLike, a new music-centric social networking site. I …
2006-10-23: A Quick Bridge School Benefit Review I just got in my car and drove. Saturday morning, I was up early. The first solo road trip since… …
2006-10-20: Going To The Bridge School Benefit This Weekend I’ll be taking off for a quick jaunt up to Mountain View for the annual Bridge School Benefit. …
2006-10-19: Tangerine is a Peach Potion Factory released a beta of their Tangerine application yesterday. It analyzes the BPM and …
2006-10-18: Angels From Austin Last night’s Black Angels show was one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time. …
2006-10-16: 2 New Technologies for Music Fanatics Being a music fanatic has some drawbacks. The main one is that there are a ton of bands that I love, …
2006-10-16: Just Ordered a Koobnik for the MacBook I have a really nice skin for my iPod to protect it, and I just ordered a cool Koobnik for my black …
2006-10-16: Is This Really Beatboxing? Mad editing skillz. [youtube]o9698TqtY4A[/youtube]
2006-10-15: Lily Allen Has A Lot To Learn If you attended the show in LA (or any of the other cities on her promo tour), you’ll know …
2006-10-14: For The Spiders This is just a test post for my Technorati Profile
2006-10-13: Quentin vs. Robert If you haven’t seen the trailer for Grind House, you must. [youtube]bUuuBe4Glmk[/youtube]
2006-10-13: Apple vs. Microsoft Daniel Eran writes a good article on why Microsoft can’t compete with iTunes. I was listening …
2006-10-13: Lebowski Phonetics As much as I try to use the NATO phonetic alphabet when I’m spelling my name or street name or …
2006-10-13: Product Red A bunch of companies came out with some neat stuff today as part of product RED. My favorite item, …
2006-10-12: Without Humans There was an article in the New Scientist today that I finally got around to reading. It talks about …
2006-10-12: I Love Steven More Than Star Wars I do like Star Wars though. A while back Steven Colbert challenged all the nerds out there to take …
2006-10-11: Best Pitchfork Review Ever? Joel was, um…kind enough to send me Pitchfork’s review of the new Jet album. I …
2006-10-10: It Worked! If you are reading this, it means DNS has propagated and you’re looking at the new and …
2006-10-10: About The name whatevernevermind was inspired by Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” …
2006-10-10: I'm Now A Fonero I signed up to be a beta tester of the FON community. It essentially involves paying a minimal fee …
2006-10-10: The Music Photo Archives All of those photos that I used to have on Jeans And A T-Shirt are slowly being uploaded to my …
2006-10-10: 1st and Hope The Malloys and Brian Lotti have a new skate film coming out called 1st and Hope. The trailer is …
2006-10-02: Open and Closed At The Same Time Dearest Lazyweb: I have a fair amount of experience with networking, but I have a problem for which …
2006-09-01: e4b Review I don’t remember where I read about e4b, but I impulsively purchased one of their sampler …
2006-09-01: Email problems If you don’t get excited about MX records, DNS propagation or technical explanations you might …
2006-08-24: Stop The Fear Already! Raed Jarrar was asked to remove a t-shirt that contained the phrase “we will not be …
2006-08-24: More on Terrorism There are a few reasons that I dwell on the topic of terrorism, but the top reason is that I have …
2006-08-17: Terrorism Ze said it best, but isn’t everything more impactful and impressive when you get a bunch of …
2006-08-17: Rising Son If you live in LA (or OC), head down to Huntington Beach tonight to Quicksilver HQ - 15202 Graham …
2006-07-10: On Vox: A Mixtape for July Graham Coxon's new album is more of the same, and that's fine by me. His solo work just rocks. He …
2006-07-10: On Vox: Trying This Out I've been trying out a couple of interesting new blogging sites in the past few weeks and now it's …
2006-06-27: Gore Movie Is Accurate It will come as no surprise that "An Inconvenient Truth" gets five stars for accuracy from …
2006-06-20: Wrapping Up The Futureheads and French Kicks Network LIVE captured Vagrant Records/Startime International recording artists The Futureheads with …
2006-06-16: sXe Partnership For A Drug-Free America thinks being straight edge is cool and will encourage teens not …
2006-06-16: Defacing Wolfmother Someone has defaced Wolfmother's video for "White Unicorn." How dare they! I saw …
2006-06-12: Can You Hear Me Now? This is so dumb... Have you heard the new ringtone kids are using? Apparently adults aren't supposed …
2006-06-11: What's in Chris' gadget bag? I'm definitely an admirer of Chris Anderson and I love finding out what people like Chris carry …
2006-06-11: Who Blogs? Well, maybe not all of them, but Pete just started to again.
2006-06-11: My Digital IQ Mine was 178. What's yours?
2006-06-10: Surprise: Tattoos Are Popular A new study being released Monday on the American Academy of Dermatology web site will suggest that …
2006-06-09: EFF vs. MPAA Read as John Perry Barlow leaves Dan Glickman in the dust. You're 55 years old and these kids are 17 …
2006-06-09: Sunday Bloody Sunday As performed by George Bush.
2006-06-08: YouTube - THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH I'm Juggernot Bitch! It gets a little tedious. 9 minutes is a little long. You pretty much get the …
2006-06-07: Amnesty International Ad Campaign Wow, that's some ad campaign!
2006-06-07: Humans Not From Monkeys I try not to talk much about work-related stuff here, so you'll have to excuse me if I make fun of a …
2006-06-05: The June 2006 Mixtape I can't remember where I heard +/- for the first time, but it was recently and I'm in love with this …
2006-06-05: Lose Your Religion I don't read AlterNet very often. I used to read it much more, but it started getting a little to …
2006-06-05: Colbert Commences Apparently Colbert gave a fine commencement speech. I'm looking for the audio now. Perhaps …
2006-06-05: Geneva Shmeneva What the hell is going on in our country?! The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee …
2006-06-04: Cheap MP3s In case you missed it, Russia has lax copyright laws that allow allofMP3.com to exist. As you can …
2006-06-04: What Would Al Say To Bill? I would pay good money to see Al Gore debate Bill Gray.
2006-06-04: Thoughts On An Inconvenient Truth I saw An Inconvenient Truth this afternoon. It was a mature, and dare I say, balanced look at the …
2006-05-25: Color Photos of WWI I had no idea that color photos existed during WWI. Pretty incredible.
2006-05-23: Is It Live? When is live better than the original? goodhodgkins.com takes you through several songs where the …
2006-05-23: I Heart eMusic Ars Technica has a cool profile of eMusic up on their site. I'm a subscriber and emusic enthusiast. …
2006-05-22: YouTube - K-1 Ernesto Hoost - gaki no tsukai I have no idea what the hell this is or where it airs, but I want to see more. A small crowd …
2006-05-22: Vans Hosoi LTD SK8-Hi Skate Shoes - CLOTHING > Shoes > Skate Shoes I am so gonna buy some Hosoi Vans.
2006-05-21: Stewart vs. O'Reilly I have watched this video several times and sent it to everyone I know.
2006-05-21: The Myths and Realities of Ethanol Business Week has a great article on Ethanol, which apparently is partially to blame for the …
2006-04-15: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WARNING: Extreme Geek Link - Best YouTube video I’ve seen in a while.
2006-04-14: Ray's So Crazy Ray LaMontagne covers Gnarls [MP3 link via Stereogum]
2006-04-11: Howl 50 years ago Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was published. I read it for the first time …
2006-04-08: Boot Camp You've probably read everything about Apple's new Boot Camp technology. It's been generating more …
2006-03-11: Look At The Mini Guts Audrey got me a Mac Mini Intel Core Duo last weekend. No special occasion, she’s just sweet …
2006-02-28: Using Backpack Offline Your Backpack data can now be used offline with PackRat. AND it can sync with your online data. I …
2006-02-25:
Online Offline
At the beginning of the year I made the decision that I would try and move as much of my life online …
2006-02-23: Nada Surfing Last night's show with Nada Surf, Rogue Wave and The King of France was awesome! We really couldn't …
2006-02-21: Sound Of Traffic If you’re into space music and all things sonically trippy, turn off the lights, turn up your …
2006-02-19: It May Just Fit Another trip to Ikea this weekend resulted in a bit of a change. I decided to go with the media …
2006-02-16: Kids Love This Demetri Martin is The Daily Show's newest addition and I love him already.
2006-02-12: Never Gonna Fit I decided to go to Ikea at the last minute to pick up some cheap shelves to display the CDs that …
2006-02-11: So Not The Grammys Today is the first day in weeks that I feel somewhat rested. The last few weeks everyone has been …
2006-02-04: New Songs and Albums for February Pay attention or this will all pass you by and you'll never catch up... Wolfmother is hands-down the …
2006-01-31: Ink for Jason My good friend Jason had a nice interview posted on PaidContent about heading up Cordless, Warner …
2006-01-28: You Are What You Read All kinds of inspirational things come to mind and fall right out because I never have enough time …
2006-01-24: KT, WIlly and Me [sic] So let me just start off by saying that Chicago is really cold. Seriously... REALLY cold. I arrived …
2006-01-24: Belmont And Clark I arrived to Chicago 10 minutes early, at 1:10am. There was lots of snow on the ground and it was …
2006-01-15:
MLK
Tomorrow is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in America tomorrow. If you are in the Los Angeles area, I …
2006-01-15:
Signed Led Zeppelin Artwork
If anyone is feeling particularly generous, I would like one of these. It would look quite nice in …
2006-01-11: Zoe Radio Man, I can only hope to raise a kid with such exceptional taste in music. [via Boing Boing]
2006-01-07: Beta Testing Newsvine I sign up for beta tests pretty often and sometimes I get chosen. Apparently, I’m one of the …
2006-01-05: I'm ResolvingDetermining Again I'm going to write more. There, I said it. I'll repeat it every day if I have to. I even started a …
2006-01-05:
KJHK Still Rules
About 2 months before the holidays came around I got an email from a fellow KJHK alum (who now is …
2005-12-21: What Song To Use? Despite my working later than usual this week (so far), I'm already stressing about a radio show I'm …
2005-12-18: Fuck Christmas I'm not sure who wrote this, but they're brilliant. Such a firm grasp of English profanity too! At …
2005-12-17: Set Your Radio I'll be travelling back to Kansas at the end of the month. I'm super excited because on December 29, …
2005-12-17: Skin Deep Reading through the Washington Post this morning, I stumbled upon an article about how scientists …
2005-12-13: Reflecting on 2005 : Music One of the things I discussed with various people this year was the change I have noticed in how I …
2005-11-24: Happy Thanksgiving May you and your loved ones have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
2005-11-05: Last Night In London The trip is coming to a close. It’s been amazing. I was reflecting upon the last year, and I …
2005-11-04: Demon Days Live I've been in Manchester since Monday. The company sent me to see Demon Days Live. I was explaining …
2005-11-01: From A Room In London Actually, I’m in our London office right now. How cool is that? London office. All kinds of …
2005-10-31: Arrival in London I landed in London a few hours ago and my head is spinning. I did what I was told and slept as best …
2005-10-24: It's Going To Get Harder Currently playing: Starsailor “In The Crossfire” from their new album, On The Inside. I …
2005-10-21: Don't Call It A Comeback Don't Call It A Comeback Currently playing: Silversun Pickups "Kissing Families" - It's …
2005-08-07: Home Improvement: Week 5 Summary Work and home stuff is taking up all of my time. I even forgot to snap photos throughotu some of the …
2005-07-31: Rockin The Net With No Warm Water We're in the new place now. We moved all weekend into our house that has no hot water, barely any …
2005-07-17:
Home Improvement: Week 2 Summary
I'm at the apartment relaxing for the first time this weekend and just uploaded a bunch of new …
2005-07-15: From Record Store Employee To VP There was quite a bit of press surrounding the announcement of Network LIVE. One of the more …
2005-07-12: Network Live Has Launched The company was officially announced today. Now I don't have to be so elusive when people ask me …
2005-07-08: Elizabethtown Trailer Cameron Crowe’s new film now has a trailer. I can’t wait to see it!
2005-07-08:
Home Improvement: Week 1 Summary
Audrey and I bought our first house in Venice, CA. We bought it with the intention to fix it up and …
2005-07-01: Pictures From London Candice sent over some pretty amazing photos that she took during rehearsals in Hyde Park.
2005-07-01: Live 8 Coverage: 1 Day To Go Our resident technical advisor, Christopher Levy is in Philadelphia for the Live 8 show. He snapped …
2005-06-29: Live 8 Coverage: 3 Days To Go I'll be watching on Saturday from the comfort of my own home. Even though we're not directly …
2005-06-04: Those In The Know Coolfer reprinted a scathing letter from Andy Gershon (head of V2 Records) to Leonard Beer (Editor …
2005-06-01: LIVE 8 See that little banner to your left (near the top of the page)? Click on it and read about the ONE …
2005-06-01: Yay, [The] Adam Brown I bookmark so much stuff, it always amazes me when I can't figure out how I came across something. I …
2005-05-28: Sneaking Up On Michael Miller I saw Michael Miller play at the Hotel Cafe on Wednesday evening. When I walked in, I saw michael …
2005-05-24: Nice Hair, Phil That is some nice hair, dude. I can't stop staring.
2005-05-19: Flippin' Dance! Learn to dance with Napoleon. I'm so practicing this weekend.
2005-05-17: Socially Networked I've been exploring social networking sites over the last month. Doing a little …
2005-05-12: This Is An EP I composed this post about the state of the online music stores and digital downloading. I was in …
2005-05-11: Only 1833 Days Left Owen sent me an IM to ask if I was going to his 31st surprise birthday party. Owen isn't 30 and …
2005-04-27: Music Data Thanks to Om for pointing me to Mobster. I'm always interested in programs that take pay attention …
2005-04-23: Flickr Pro Account Give-Away I have a flickr pro account to give away. I would prefer to give it to someone with an established …
2005-04-23: New Internet Adaptive Path is pretty much THE company when it comes to Information Architecture (IA). As I've …
2005-04-09: Places To Go, People To See It's easy to miss my del.icio.us bookmarks at the bottom right of the screen (scroll down all the …
2005-04-09: Making Things Happen It's always gratifying when you set goals or determiations and are able to reach them. Long before I …
2005-02-28: Digital Mu$ic Prices: Going Up? According to a Financial Times article labels are looking to raise the price of digital downloads. I …
2005-02-27: Picking Up Chicks I'm a taken man, but if I weren't I would likely hang this on my wall and read it like it was the …
2005-02-26:
$20 Jeans (A Short Story)
We were having a conversation about the fact that the guy that Elizabeth had started dating a week …
2005-02-26: Muppets Over Time Shayna showed the way to a magnificent short film in honor of the late Jim Henson.
2005-02-26: Breakin' With as much rain as we've been getting, I seem to need a little extra sunshine these days. I can …
2005-02-26: NYT on Lawrence My good friend Missy (and fellow Kansan) sent me a cool write up about Lawrence, Kansas. What a town …
2005-02-19: When I Grow Up... When I'm sitting around thinking about the fact that I am never satisfied with what I am doing in …
2005-02-17: War Causes Terrorism Reading over some news, I came across a pretty fantastic quote from CIA Director, Porter Goss: …
2005-02-17: Gaga For Google I love Google. It really all comes down to that. If you haven't read about the buzz surrounding …
2005-02-14: Theoretical Fun marv on record shows you how to download 252 80-minute CD's worth of music from Napster (and keep …
2005-02-14: Happy Valentine's Day The web's favorite funny man (or at least mine) made a little movie for Valentine's Day. It will …
2005-02-13: Hosting Complexities This gets a bit confusing, so just read through the entire thing before throwing in your $.02. I …
2005-02-12: DNC Dean Howard Dean is good news for the democrats. This morning he was elected chairman of the DNC and this …
2005-02-09: Pazz & Jop 2004 The Pazz & Jop Critics Poll has finally been posted. And to think I was tired of reading …
2005-02-08: Mac Geekery: Security Last night I happened upon a well-written article on why and how to secure your email over a …
2005-02-02: Marine Layer A little over a week ago, I was at A's house getting some work done. Her living room overlooks the …
2005-02-02: Still More Gmail Invites Get this: I have 50 Gmail invotes to give away. I can't imagine there are 50 people that need them, …
2005-01-26:
Remembering Auschwitz
Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most notorious Nazi death …
2005-01-25: Flip The Switch Did you get the new Chemical Brothers album today? No? Well, then at least pick up the new bootleg.
2005-01-24: Stephen Colbert on Fresh Air Check out Terry Gross' interview with Daily Show news correspondent, Stephen Colbert.
2005-01-23: My First Weblog In going through the archives this afternoon, I found a screen grab of my first personal web site …
2005-01-23: Nostalgia The year was 1996(?) and I was sitting in my home office in Lawrence, Kansas. I had just finished …
2005-01-22: Bookmarks To The Right In case you hadn't noticed, I stopped the script the was posting my del.icio.us bookmarks every …
2005-01-19: My Brother, The Author My brother has been working on a book over the last year and it's finally hitting the shelves in the …
2005-01-18: California Love California is very fortunate to have such an amazing senator. When you read about all of the back …
2005-01-12: Visiting The Skaters Nearly two weeks with out sun light really sucks. At least I know I would never be able to live in …
2005-01-11: Over-Blogged Bands Coolfer vents about the most over-blogged bands of 2004. Some of it is pretty genius, like this bit …
2005-01-10: Abuse Is Like Cheerleading Everyone else is talking about this, or rather they are posting links with very few words. I mean, …
2005-01-10: Greg Dulli In The House Thanks to Largehearted Boy for bringing Uptown Lights to my attention.
2005-01-05: I Believe, But Can't Prove The Edge asked some of the greatest minds of our time, "What do you believe is true even though …
2005-01-04: Grand Creation[ism] All of the questions I had as a kid about how the Grand Canyon was formed has been shattered. I'm so …
2004-12-31: Happy New Year May you all have a happy, healthy, safe and peaceful new year. May we all be a little more …
2004-12-30: Letter to CNN I was so disgusted by a CNN.com story that I wrote an email to Honkybitch, who then suggested I …
2004-12-29: Rating The Charities Benjamin Rosenbaum posted a nice table listing the top charities with ratings by watchdog …
2004-12-29: 40 Beatles Songs In 1 THE Beatles mashup to end all Beatles mashups. I am totally flipping out over this song.
2004-12-28: Words And Actions You know, I've been wondering where our president has been while all of the news is unfolding about …
2004-12-28: Indian Ocean Earthquake I've been watching the news since I saw the story break online. In case you've been living under a …
2004-12-27: Table Candle Happy birthday, Corina.
2004-12-24: Gmail Accounts Available If you don't have a Gmail account yet and you want one, just post a little something in the comments …
2004-12-24: Venice Skate Park I was walking back home from the bank and decided to take the long way home and see what was …
2004-12-22: Pitchfork Tops Those indier-than-thou kids at Pitchfork have posted their top 50 albums, singles and reissues of …
2004-12-22: Happy Holidays And A Peaceful New Year I just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays and a peaceful new year. As a little gift to you, I am …
2004-12-22: More On BitTorrent Susan Mernit was kind enough to post an excellent article written by Mark Pesce that explains …
2004-12-21: Meet The Beastles I haven't listened to it yet, but someone has gone and done a mash-up of the Beatles and The Beastie …
2004-12-21: Working In Hollywood For as long as I have lived in Los Angeles, I don't think I have ever seen the Hollywood sign as …
2004-12-20: PJ Harvey Done? NME is reporting that PJ Harvey is calling it quits. What gives? Just cuz Uh Huh Her sucked, doesn't …
2004-12-20: Murder + Internet = Stupid If you're looking to get away with murder, you may not want to email your victim. [via Boing Boing]
2004-12-20: Patrick Photo Shoot Patrick and I spent some quality time together today for a special photo shoot. His mum wanted some …
2004-12-20: Holiday Road I received an email this morning from the Matt Pond PA mailing list letting me know they covered …
2004-12-20: Making Smarter People Smarter In today's L.A. Times there's an interesting article on mind-enhancing drugs. No, not the illicit …
2004-12-19: Request For Temporary Server Space This is probably going to be a long shot, but is there anyone out there with some server space and …
2004-12-19: A Little Change If you actually visit the site (as opposed to reading posts via RSS), you'll notice that I updated …
2004-12-18: BitTorrent: An Explanation BitTorrent has been in the news quite a bit in the last week. The Register has a good article …
2004-12-14: I Want A Cool Header See that title thingie at the top of the page? It's boring. Yeah, I realize the site isn't fancy …
2004-12-14:
The Year In Albums
This was the first year in quite a few that I consumed less music. I saw fewer shows, bought less …
2004-12-14: New Band-Themed iPods I'm SO getting the Coldplay edition. Just Like the U2 iPod, except the device is exponentially more …
2004-12-14: Reforming Queen I'm not so sure about this. I'm a huge fan of Brian May, but his web site is awful!
2004-12-13: Fantasy Music League I'm gonna be a music mogol!
2004-12-11: Best of 2008 I'll bet you thought you were going to see my picks for this year, didn't ya? Not quite done with …
2004-12-11: My Dad, The Switcher We were eating lunch in Kansas City on Thursday and I'm not quite sure how the subject came up, but …
2004-12-08: Oh, Sweet Rumsfeld When Rumsfeld was asked about long deployments and a lack of armored vehicles and other equipment by …
2004-12-08: TiVo User Experience Matt did an awesome job Interviewing Tivo's Director of User Exeprience, Margret Schmidt. Ever since …
2004-12-07: Favourites Of 2004 My top lists for the year are nearly complete. The trouble with compiling this late (?!) in …
2004-12-07: Illiterate Emailers There is nothing quite as annoying and completely rude as when someone sends out emails devoid of …
2004-12-07: IBM + Apple = Love? O'Reilly has an interesting editorial in The Register about a possible partnership of some kind …
2004-12-06: So Frustrated I am so over this weblogging thing. \Hell, it's not like I even put much effort into any of it. Not …
2004-12-06: Like A Bowl Of Cilantro Great article on Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make. I don't really visit band or label sites …
2004-12-06: 100 Things To Do Before You Di A Team of British scientists came up with their own list of 100 things to do before you die. I'm …
2004-12-06: Amazing One-Man Band! McRorie is the man. Set aside a few minutes to watch this amazing mulleted superstar. Note: Site …
2004-12-06: Growing Up With Wires Kids who grew up with the internets are adults now. Wow, no way! You means to tells [sic] me that …
2004-12-05: Takin' It To The Booth Cell phone booths are the best idea I've read about all year! [via Boing Boing]
2004-12-05: Hurting The entire left side of my body hurts. Not like an I-just-worked-out kinda pain, but an …
2004-12-04: First Snowboarding Trip Of The Season I wanted to go snowboarding a couple of weeks ago when Big Bear got their first big snow of the …
2004-12-01: Brian Cares This year Brian Wilson will receive MusiCares Person Of The Year Award. It about time they honored …
2004-11-30: Buy A Mac NEWS FLASH: PCs are much less secure than Macs, which are among the most secure computers in the …
2004-11-30: Real School Of Rock? Xfm has posted the entries for their Rock School contest. October's version of "T.N.T" …
2004-11-29: Keep Government In Check Wired has a great article on keeping the government in check. Make sure you visit the links.
2004-11-29: Musicians On Call Musicians On Call is a cool place to send those CDs that you can't sell to the used stores. [via …
2004-11-29: Recycling Guide The World's Shortest Comprehensive Recycling Guide. I'll have to remember to throw away the tops …
2004-11-28: Dumped On Check out the gorgeous new Oxfam campaign. Donate some money for the holidays.
2004-11-27: David Markey Tribute In L.A. (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale is set to premier at the Egyptian Theatre on December 9. It will …
2004-11-27: Nirvana Nirvana Nirvana With The Lights Out was officially released last Tuesday and The Internet Nirvana Fanclub has been …
2004-11-25: Salvation Geek I decided to volunteer during the holidays for the Salvation Army. I was at the Santa Monica shelter …
2004-11-25: Happy Thanksgiving Bill Burroughs is so festive. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
2004-11-24: Them's Is Fightin' Words Ms. Magazine has a great article on church and state. [via MeFi] Update: Apparently, Steven Williams …
2004-11-23: New Sedaris Story From The New Yorker.
2004-11-23: TV-B-Gone Is Genius!! OMG. I must have one of these! Too bad my neighbor listens to the radio so loud. Surely they can …
2004-11-22: What Do You Mean?? This site would be so much cooler if the songwriters posted what the songs were about. Most of the …
2004-11-22: Beautiful Sewers Welcome to Tokyo. These are our sewers. [via TMN]
2004-11-22: Telegraph Picks 50 Best Covers The Telegraph weighs in on the 50 Best Cover Songs Ever Recorded. [via Kottke]
2004-11-21: How Did We Get Here? Some say evolution, but most say God. To be sure, most Americans are not scientists, and it's …
2004-11-17: What's A Box Set Trailer? Buddyhead showed me the way and I just sat and watched it. [QuickTime required].
2004-11-17: The MP3 Webloggers Decide On The Top Bands A handful of folks with some of the better (and more popular) MP3 weblogs decide on The Top 40 Bands …
2004-11-17: Dean Lays Into News Media Howard Dean is a good man. He's smart, well-spoken and I truly believe he cares about this country. …
2004-11-17: The Grey Video A little Jay-Z with your Beatles, sir? Yes please.
2004-11-10: Archives Near Completion I finally used some of the extra free time I've found myself with to import archives from the past …
2004-11-10: Pistols Or Swords? I love Maureen Dowd.
2004-11-10: Pro-Life Pharmacists That this is going on in small pockets doesn't matter as much as the fact that it's going on at all. …
2004-11-09: Asscroft "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been …
2004-11-09: Dying With Dignity The oh-so-compassionate Bush adminstration would like it known that they will not stand for anyone …
2004-11-09: Largest Collection Of The Who JE$U$!
2004-11-08: Firefox 1.0 Released If you are using any other browser, you're an idiot. Firefox rules. Note: If you have trouble with …
2004-11-08: Delicious Stuff I don't think they are related (perhaps someone in-the-know can chime in), but two fairly new (and …
2004-11-04: Thank You, Lisa Lisa posted some clips from The Daily Show's post-election coverage. As usual, good stuff.
2004-11-03: Another Four Years While I’m glad the election is over, I’m crushed by the results. I’m scared of …
2004-10-29: Just In Time In a last-ditch effort to educate the public about the election, the Intenets Veterans For Truth …
2004-10-26: Nazi In Sherman Oaks I never (and I mean never) watch local news broadcasts. Something got into me last night and I …
2004-10-23: Clinic = Snooze I went to see Clinic last night at the Henry Fonda Theatre and walked out 40 minutes into the set. …
2004-10-23: More On The Election I’ve been so busy reading all of the poitical email (and responding) that I haven’t …
2004-10-15: American Hero: Jon Stewart A few hours after finishing the cover story in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Michael alerted me …
2004-10-13: Youth Ask For Answers The youth of America (18-35) ask the questions and the candidates (and/or their people) answer. …
2004-10-11: Listening To My Own Mixes Someone emailed me the other day asking me if I just put my monthly mixes together for my site. The …
2004-10-10: No Room For Humor I’m not a big fan of t-shirts that say anything on them, but I did purchase a Stewart/Colbert …
2004-09-29: Bush On Tribal Sovereignty Clearly, Bush is no idiot. [via TMN]
2004-09-29: Learning From The Bubble Paul Graham wrote an interesting and informative essay on the dot.com bubble, which I happened to …
2004-09-29: Debates? It concerns me a great deal that the “debates” will not showcase the candidates, but …
2004-09-29: What's The Problem? Certainly, you must be tired of reading headlines with ‘vote’ in them? I’m gonna …
2004-09-27: Stewart On O'Reilly I read the transcript on Wonkette last week, but random($foo), to whom I don’t usually look …
2004-09-26: Voting For Dummies Jason Kottke (with the help of others) has come up with a handy Voters Information Guide. Read it …
2004-09-21: Computer Industry Lies To Entertainment Industry And boy is it funny [via Boing Boing]
2004-09-21: Register To Vote! Do I really need to explain to you just how important it is to register to vote? And hey, if you …
2004-09-21: Random Stuff (The Geek Edition) A. and J. are growing tired of the mix that I did for the store. It’s 325 songs, but they have …
2004-09-14: Stewart Colbert 2004 Yes, I would vote for them. [via AWLN]
2004-09-08:
The kmotiv Interview
I came across Kevin Kelsey (a.k.a. kmotiv) when I was reading Silence Is A Rhythm Too one day. I …
2004-09-07: Mac + PC Using A Single Monitor I have to think there are some smart, technically inclined people that visit the site every once in …
2004-09-02:
A Garden State Mix
I’m a little behind on my mix this month. Earlier in the month I did a mix called …
2004-09-02: More Gmail Invites For You I have 6 more Gmail invites up for grabs just be one of the first 6 people to leave a comment …
2004-08-28: A Gmail Account For You I have six Gmail invitations. The first six people to leave comments win, just make sure you fill in …
2004-08-27: Scary Stuff I don’t even pay attention to what the Department of Homeland Security has to say. The warning …
2004-08-27: That's B (As In Boy)... Every once in a while I give my email address to people over the phone for one reason or another. I …
2004-08-25: Putting The iPod Down Gabriel Sherman wrote a hilarious bit for the New York Observer about his personal addiction to his …
2004-08-24: Down With Grokster Last week StreamCast Networks (makers of the Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa) won a monumental court …
2004-08-24: West Indian Girl : An Endorsement I don’t usually take the time to call your attention to albums here. That’s what the …
2004-08-21: Jesus & Jihad I was talking on the phone with my dad this morning and he said, “do you have time for me to …
2004-08-21: Pimpin' For The Kids For all you parents out there (holla!), dress our kids up right this Halloween. [via Kottke]
2004-08-21: Revising My Position On Gmail If you read my previous post on privacy concerns with regards to Gmail, you will most definitely …
2004-08-16: Rock Photos Posted I’m finally getting around to posting albums of my old rock show photos (look to your left). …
2004-08-12: Garden State: A Short Review I had a day off yesterday and went to see an afternoon screening of Garden State. The movie …
2004-07-30:
The Ryan Schierling Interview
I don’t even remember how I came across Ryan’s photography. I think one of us had …
2004-07-22: Someone Call Laird Rogue waves, schmogue waves. Someone from the European Space Agency needs to give Laird a call and …
2004-07-22: On The Personal Front... Since you asked… I’ve been trying to stay away from the computer lately, but that …
2004-07-19: Wolverine Is Pissed! I don’t usually post much, if anything about Hollywood bullshit, though I’ll admit to …
2004-07-16: Worried About Homos? If you are as concerned as I am about children growing up to be full-blown homosexuals, contributing …
2004-07-15: You Should Know 10 Stories the world should hear more about. [via Kottke]
2004-07-15: Ernest Miller RIAA Letter Mashup If you have a few minutes, read a letter that the RIAA submitted to Congress regarding the INDUCE …
2004-07-14: Ali G Lives! Someone at Harvard decided that Ali G should give the commencement speech. You iz de elite, u will …
2004-07-13: Not So Chic, Geek Does it make you look like a geek? No, it makes you look like a nerd. I thought that maybe the …
2004-07-10: Support Gay Marriage If you live in California, you can make a quick phone call (takes less than a minute) to Governor …
2004-07-09: A Riding Giants Review Of Sorts Stacy Peralta and company are back with another outstanding documentary, this time on big wave …
2004-07-09: Protect The Children And Don't Let Them Share There are a few causes that will inspire me to write a letter to Senators, members of Congress and …
2004-07-08: Pete Townshend vs. Michael Moore I’m preparing a review of the film (including my feelings on Moore), but in the mean time …
2004-07-08: Heart Strings And Addiction Over the last couple of days I’ve read some particularly sad stories online. Well, one of them …
2004-07-08: SENT SENT opens on Saturday at the Standard Hotel in downtown LA. Get down there for the reception from 7 …
2004-07-08: Riding Giants Tomorrow Riding Giants opens tomorrow in select cities. Can’t wait.
2004-07-07: Lego Spidey Spider-Man 2 was fantastic, but some guy did a Spider-Man Lego mini feature that was pretty amazing …
2004-07-04: July Updates Happy 228th America. I’ve updated the right hand column, including a new mix for the month, …
2004-07-02: You Whores The URL is at least worth a laugh, but dig a little deeper and it turns out it’s a neat idea. …
2004-07-02: Belt-Clipping One of the dumbest headlines I have read in recent memory. People, do not wear your mobile phone, …
2004-07-02: Leaking Antics I was doing some morning reading and Largehearted Boy was reporting that Antics, the new album by …
2004-07-02: Ray LaMontagne Coming To LA It looks like Ray will finally be making it to LA to play one night at the Hotel Cafe. Ugh, …
2004-07-02: Early Morning Ocean Watch I took a nap earlier this evening. It’s been a long day and I was feeling extra drained. I …
2004-06-30: Help In Sudan If you don’t know what’s going on in Sudan, you must educate yourself immediately. The …
2004-06-27: War Costs Support the war or not, there are costs. Here’s a breakdown. If you don’t want to read …
2004-06-27: Largehearted Halftime Report Largehearted Boy posts his favorite albums of the last 6 months. I don’t know some of them, so …
2004-06-27: Don't Let The Boys Near The Phone A new study finds thet your sperm count can be reduced by up to 30% from exposure to your mobile …
2004-06-24: Get Involver I present to you Involver. Music and politics. You know what to do.
2004-06-23: Don't Vote Ralph I think it goes without saying, but I will say it anyway… Bush must go. I was watching The …
2004-06-23: Healthy Bullshit I spotted a billboard for the new Coke C2 yesterday that said ‘1/2 the politics and all of the …
2004-06-23: Photographer's Rights So, you got a new mobile phone with a camera on it. Perhaps you carry a digital camera with you at …
2004-06-22: Bill Clinton Blogs Who knew? I plan on reading his biography as soon as I finish Dress Your Family In Corduroy and …
2004-06-22: My Lotion May Cause Cancer I was having a discussion with A. the other day… Come to think of it, cancer has been the …
2004-06-22: Political Dating Apparently the next big thing in online dating is Love In War. Seems like a cool idea to me, but …
2004-06-21: BMG Sony: A Step Closer In the latest episode of Watch The Major Labels Consolidate And Make Room For The Second Coming Of …
2004-06-21: GMail Invites I have a couple of GMail invites to give away. Just be the first couple of people to leave a …
2004-06-18: Save LA Music LA Weekly posts their bets on the bands that will save the scene. I don’t know any of them. I …
2004-06-18: Rivers Does Annie, etc. Rivers Cuomo has posted a few demos to his myspace.com site. Songs included are Ann …
2004-06-18: The Next... I don’t know… Just watch travis dancing in his back yard. Not once, but twice. [via …
2004-06-17: Listen To A Book for $9.95 Just a quick tip for those of you Audible members (and non-members), pick up your favorite audio …
2004-06-16: The Next Eminem I cannot do anything else but watch this kid.
2004-06-16: Smoking Banned On Venice Beach? You certainly wouldn’t know by walking around the beach. I mean the intentions are all fine …
2004-06-15: Nice Videos Just a cool site with good videos. [via redboy]
2004-06-15: Speaking of Earlimart... Since their crack [smoking] team of people can’t figure out how to post anything, I’ll …
2004-06-15: Spood Fed Joel Earlimart and Largehearted Boy both pointed out that Spoon have posted some songs (including a …
2004-06-15: Sedaris Answers Time.com asks David Sedaris 10 questions. He may be funny, but I don’t know about this whole …
2004-06-15: On The Cheap While I may have a problem when it comes to dropping a pretty penny on a good gadget, I also like …
2004-06-15: FGI You will ask Google before asking dumb questions. According to Jason, it’s the new RTFM.
2004-06-15: Pitchfork Genius If you don’t read Pitchfork, this isn’t gonna make much sense, but some genius came up …
2004-06-11: Finding Memo For those of you sad sad people that don’t watch (or TiVo) The Daily Show, please watch this …
2004-06-08: A Review Of The 50 Coolest Song Moments Okay, granted when the drum solo kicks in on Phil Collins' “In The Air Tonight,” I …
2004-06-08: Get On The O.C. Yeah, I have a season pass on the TiVo. It’s a guilty pleasure. The music on the show is the …
2004-06-08: Morrissey Fans Don't Like Bush He wished it were Bush, not Reagan.
2004-06-07: Road Trip Iraq While I sweat over the fact that I have to drive across town because of how much gas it will take, …
2004-06-07: Boosting Kerry In hopes to get Kerry in and Bush out, my brother is helping out the Kerry campaign. Perhaps you …
2004-06-06: Helping Him Get An iPod This is geeky. Please disregard. Nigritude Ultramarine.
2004-06-04: Listen Up Kids Don’t fuck with your parents. (Thanks Michael)
2004-06-04: Bank Of America Setting An Example And for once, it’s not by charging me $60 for a $5 overdraft. As much as I hate Bank of …
2004-06-04: Waiting On The Giants I just saw the trailer for “Riding Giants” and cannot wait! Oh, and speaking of surf …
2004-06-03: A Most Respected Celebrity When someone asks me a question to the effect of, ‘which living celebrity do you most …
2004-06-02: Fahrenheit 9/11 Trailer Posted Apparently it will hit theaters beginning on Friday, but you can view it now on Michael …
2004-06-02: Your New Bill Of Rights Thanks to the Telecommunications Consumer Bill of Rights, you will now have 30 days to figure out …
2004-06-02: Paying Attention I was having brunch with Kelley on Sunday. The check had come and we were waiting for our waitress. …
2004-06-01: Bukowski: Born Into This - A Review At the last minute (because unemployment allows me to do things at the last minute), I went with …
2004-05-31: Welcome Previous Jeans Readers Welcome (again) previous Jeans And A T-Shirt readers. Please make sure to update your bookmarks, …
2004-05-30: McSweeney's Weighs In Leave it to the smart mind of John Moe at McSweeney’s to lay out the pros and cons of John …
2004-05-30: Joseph Hathaway Joseph emailed me today to inquire as to what happened to the old site and to let me know he wanted …
2004-05-30: Geek? I fancy myself a geek, so it was of little surprise that this exhaustive (and hilarious) test proved …
2004-05-28: The Way The Music Died - 2nd Coming In case you missed it the first time around, there’s another chance to see the Frontline …
2004-05-28: Another Jeff Buckley Release? When I read stuff like this, I can’t help but feel a bit sad and want to cry, …
2004-05-28: Free Again I will start the month of June as a free agent. Yep, that’s right, I’ve left my job. And …
2004-05-27: Poj Masta : Mashing Favorite Poj Masta, in case you aren’t in the know, is one of the best (and youngest) underground mash …
2004-05-27: MP3 Weblogs Thom has posted a nice list of MP3 weblogs. A lot of the people running these sites have damn good …
2004-05-27: Rodeohead Thank you to the always fantastic for showing me the way to Rodeohead.
2004-05-25: FOX 5 in Atlanta Mishap I have watched this video at least 10 times, and I can’t stop laughing. I know… …
2004-05-24: Make Voting Even Easier The one thing that’s always bugged me about voting is that I have to figure out where and …
2004-05-21: Nick's Never Too Old To Rock The Morning News never fails me. Today they point me to a great piece in the New York Times by Nick …
2004-05-20: The Ultimate Music Searching Tool MusicPlasma has tons of applications, but for someone like me it makes getting any work done …
2004-05-20: New David Sedaris Book On June 1! Hot damn! There’s even an excerpt from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim at the WNYC …
2004-05-20: I Like Pens While I’m not an illustrator, I’m a freak when it comes to the type of pen I use and I …
2004-05-19: You're Fired Because... I have a lot to say about Bush (and Kerry), but for now I’ll let McSweeney’s add some …
2004-05-18: The Morning News Declares Excellence I saw it earlier today, but forgot to draw some attention to the fact that The Morning News posted …
2004-05-18: You're A Good Man, Jon Stewart I think the world of Jon Stewart (host of The Daily Show, which I TiVo every evening). His sense of …
2004-05-17: Camino Reborn, etc. If you’re a Mac user, then you owe it to yourself to download (and use) Camino. It’s …
2004-05-13: Welcome To The New Place After years (yes, it’s been that long), I’ve decided to do something else with …
2004-05-12: We're Beta Testing, Can't You See? I’m beta testing Movable Type 3.0, which is creating quite a few glitches. Bear with me while …
2004-05-10: Some Thoughts On Iraq Unless you’ve been under a rock, haven’t read, watched or heard the news, then you know …
2004-05-10: Help A Brotha Out I really want to make the right-hand column a separate blog, so that I don’t have to go in and …
2004-05-10: RSS = TiVo For The Web...Kinda I started using NetNewsWire a couple of weeks ago to get RSS feeds. My surfing and reading habits …
2004-05-05: No, I Don't Like Our President Not that I needed another reason to mistrust our President. And for all you conservatives thinking …
2004-05-05: And The Login Is... Everyone hates the fact that you have to register for quite a few of the news sites… Well, I …
2004-04-29: 99 Problems New Jay-Z video for “99 Problems” is Fantastic. Rick Rubin in da house!
2004-04-27: Hot Shit! I wouldn’t know anything about this because I was inside all day, but WOW.
2004-04-12: A New Home I moved to Los Angeles a little over 7 years ago. One of the main reasons I decided to move here was …
2004-04-12: Best Songs Ever Vol. 1 We were given an assignment at work. I was dreading it, if for no other reason a lot of my CDs are …
2004-03-17: StopFCC.com We the undersigned pledge our support for freedom of speech and expression on our airwaves, print, …
2004-03-17: Save Rock? In case you were wondering, there’s science behind who will save rock.
2004-03-01: America Speaks... I love The Smoking Gun.
2004-02-26: America?? [UPDATED] Howard Stern has been taken off “suspended” from the air by Clear Channel. Not …
2004-02-17: Don't Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture Thank you to Jason for pointing me to the real answer about whether or not to shake a Polaroid …
2004-02-14: Wheel Me Downstairs (Beta) I finally picked up a copy of iLife ‘04 for my Mac. I had been reading so much about …
2004-01-22: Mix CDs - Salon's View Just thought I’d point out a decent, albeit kinda newbie, editorial on making mix CDs.
2004-01-21: I Want To Hate As much as I want to hate Courtney Love’s music, I can’t. It rocks. I love it. There, I …
2004-01-12: Mahalo Nui Loa I just returned from one of the most amazing vacations I have ever taken. If nothing else, it was …
2003-12-28: The Top 20 Albums Of 2003 2003 was a year of re-prioritizing. There were very few shows (comparatively speaking) that I …
2003-12-19: Holidays, etc. I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy holidays and thank you for all of the …
2003-11-17: Cover Up I don’t know who most of these people are, but there’s a lot of talented people out …
2003-11-17: Happy Hunting: November 2003 I’m excited for all of this music to come out. Some of it is already available, but …
2003-11-16: Bon Weekend I had some time this evening to finally get to work on this month’s mix, but it’s just …
2003-11-13: Just So You Know... I didn’t change my link color to green for the holidays.
2003-11-13: Does It Matter? I’m sitting in my office (at home, for once), listening to Ryan Adams' Love Is Hell, Pt. 1 …
2003-10-29: Lots Of Catching Up I haven’t had a computer at home for over a week (!!) and now I do. I’ll explain more …
2003-10-11: My Grandmother, The Bodhisattva On Tuesday afternoon my grandmother had a heart attack while she was trimming the bushes. Less than …
2003-10-05: Damien Rice @ The Henry Fonda Theatre I was one of the lucky ones to experience Damien Rice last night at The Henry Fonda Theatre. Despite …
2003-10-01: The Next Big Thing It’s not often that I sit down to write about music and feel like I just can’t do it …
2003-10-01: Voting No On The Recall As much as I hate the state (no pun) of things in California, the recall is just ridiculous. …
2003-09-30: Stop With The Distractions Today’s New York Times Op-Ed piece was a good one (free registration required). David Brooks …
2003-09-30: Ferris Timeline = Fucked I’ve seen “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” more than any other film, though …
2003-09-29: Thankful For Urinals A female co-worker announced this morning that there was “poo” on the women’s …
2003-09-22: Cat People Stink Sure, it’s an extreme example, but add this to my list of reasons why I thnk cats suck. [via …
2003-09-21: All I Do Is Mix (Or So It Seems) I just noticed the last two entries were mixes (neither of which are available anymore) and I …
2003-09-14: Mixing You Back To School At the suggestion of a friend, I decided to make a Back-To-School mix for this month, which of …
2003-08-22: It's The Best I Can Do For August I feel like I need to apologize for the amount of stuff I can’t make available. I would be …
2003-08-21: Dumb Dumb Dumb Would someone please explain this to me?
2003-08-12: What's Your Earworm? Science is shedding light on the darnedest subjects.
2003-08-12: The Long Shortlist The long list of nominees for the Shortlist Music Prize have been announced. Man, they aren’t …
2003-08-11: Dave Eggers Kinda Sucks And so does his taste in music. As a side note, I actually like the guy’s writing, but …
2003-08-10: Pancakes, Anyone? Thanks to the Annals of Improbable Research, I can now sleep better at night. It is now …
2003-08-01: Add The Pope To My Poop List Gay couples adopting children = “doing violence.” I poop on you, Pope. How about all of …
2003-07-31: Our Homophobic President, etc. I woke up yesterday to President Bush’s press conference, which because it was not totally …
2003-07-31: Shut Your Hole Over the last week, I’ve been reading and hearing stories about how the hole in the ozone …
2003-07-28: Tribe.net Tribe.net is the new Friendster. The servers are always up (for now). Pass it on. [via Boing Boing]
2003-07-19: McSweeney's Outdoes Itself Best. List. Ever.
2003-07-11: Free Slurpees For All! In case you aren’t in the know, today is 7-11, which means FREE SLURPEES! Be careful of the …
2003-07-10: Stock Up On Yr All Stars Nike is buying Converse and all I gotta say is, I’m stocking up. Fuck sweatshop All Stars. …
2003-07-10: Matrix Ping Pong I laughed pretty hard at this one. [via kottke.org].
2003-07-10: Hunted By A Freak, Indeed I just finished watching the video for “Hunted By A Freak,” by Mogwai. Freak is the …
2003-07-09: A Playlist For July Another month, another bunch of songs to keep you entertained. This compilation in particular …
2003-07-03: Mushy This is just to precious (at times) for words.
2003-07-03: Mas Influencia Jane’s Addiction was one of the first bands that I remember having a tremendous impact on me. …
2003-07-02: Fuck The Morning News And I mean that in the nicest way. Thanks to TMN for pointing me to the New York Observer, which …
2003-06-23: I'm Still Too Accessable, But... WARNING: IF YOU ARE BORED BY MY TECHNICAL AND TOTALLY GEEKY RAMBLINGS ON GADGETS YOU MAY WANT TO …
2003-06-23: Suck My Tat A good friend just launched a nifty site for you tattoo fans (even if you don’t have them). I …
2003-06-18: UPDATED: Destroy My Computer?? I was doing my regular reading when I happened upon a story about Senator Orrin Hatch saying that he …
2003-06-18: I'm Officially Too Accessible Anyone who knows me knows that I love gadgets, especially the mobile variety. I’m a sucker for …
2003-06-16: Turin Brakes [Finally] Play Los Angeles Turin Brakes @ The Troubadour (Los Angeles, CA) 06.14.03 The Troubadour always proves to be one of …
2003-06-13: A Playlist For June Another month, another mix. It’s been rather inconsistant, at least with regards to sharing …
2003-06-13: A Couple Of Small Changes I’ve been neglecting the site again. What, haven’t noticed? Okay, good. I added a master …
2003-05-24: Dreaming Of Death I don’t remember the last time I had a dream I was dying. From what I can remember, and mind …
2003-05-19: Kevin Aaron : June 7, 1975 - May 10, 2003 Growing up, I had this friend. His name was Kevin. He was a part of a group of friends that helped …
2003-05-18: It's Not All About The Music Part if the reason I started this new format of the site was to make things a bit more personal. …
2003-05-12: [Blank] I have things to say. I keep bookmarking articles to refer back to, but they just keep piling up. I …
2003-04-29: For The Apple Geek In You (And Me) Unless you’re used to keeping tabs on all things Apple, as I tend to do, you may not have …
2003-04-29: Travis Reappears Combing NME online, as I do when I have time, I came across some news on that band Travis that …
2003-04-29: I Just Can't Enough Rosecrans & Andrew 4 eva (even if they are kinda…umm…queer).
2003-04-27: Streamcast And Grokster: Not Guity Judge Stephen Wilson should be commended for handing down a major blow to the music and film …
2003-04-24: Madonna? Who Gives A Shit? (Part 2) I’m kind of on the fence about the following comment from Madonna. You can read the full text …
2003-04-23: Madonna? Who Gives A Shit? Madonna released her new album yesterday (Tuesday), though it was available for several weeks on the …
2003-04-23: Roll Your Own White Album If you’re one of the many who thought that The Beatles' White Album should have been released …
2003-04-21: This Is [Your] Brain On MP3s Some fancy-pants kids at Caltech and Harvard came up with a pretty cool new plug-in that actually …
2003-04-21: Peace To You, Nina Nina Simone, one of the finest female artists of the last century has passed on at the age of 70. …
2003-04-21: An Interesting Read On Napster Salon posted an except of All The Rave by Joseph Menn. I thought it was an interesting read. Perhaps …
2003-04-21: Charming There’s something charming about someone who likes to pick on Dave Eggers and has “A …
2003-04-21: If Only I didn't Have A Job Back when I wasn’t so employed, entering a rock critic contest would have been fun. I guess it …
2003-04-17: My Birthday is coming up right around the time that Radiohead is taping a speical performance for MTV. Feel free …
2003-04-10: TV Star ≠ Rock Star Umm…I…Uhh…Oh My God!
2003-04-10: Take That! You go, Dean Woodbeck!
2003-04-10: Get Your War On 23 There really just isn’t a better comic out there.
2003-04-10: More Than You Need To Know About DRM There was a pretty good discussion, if I do say so myself, going on within a post I made several …
2003-04-10: Kings I Can't Wait For I usually don’t like to repurpose news from other sites unless it’s something I think …
2003-04-10: Download Away Just go download stuff. Peter Gabriel is a co-owner, so it can’t be that bad, right? I …
2003-04-07: Grohl Gets Behind Another Kit According to this Billboard article, Dave Grohl will be gracing the new Killing Joke album, …
2003-04-06: About Last Night I know I’m getting old when I’m real happy to hear about a show starting at 7:30, which …
2003-04-06: Get Your Lead Pull up a cozy sofa or something and read of Let Them Eat Lead No. 4. And in case you missed them: …
2003-04-06: A Dream Come True It’s about time the Internet was used for something good.
2003-04-06: No Airplay For Copy-Protected CDs? According to an Aussie news article, it seems that stations who use a digital playout system may not …
2003-04-05: A Playlist For April In my ongoing crusade to spread the good word about great bands, here’s a playlist worth …
2003-04-03: They're Coming To Take You Away And it ain’t to the funny farm. 4 students have been sued by the RIAA for allegedly hosting …
2003-04-03: Mull Historical Society Dates UK import, Mull Historical Society will be playing a handfull of dates in the US. His latest album, …
2003-03-30: Copyproof Ready To Go? What’s laughable about the efforts of the labels trying to to curb the piracy of music is that …
2003-03-30: Harvard Student Writes His Thesis on Weezer I started reading it and about three pages in, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. All of the …
2003-03-30: Hail To The Thief, Indeed Several people have emailed me with information regarding a leak of the new Radiohead album to the …
2003-03-28: Rock On In most cases, anyone with the twelve dollars to get in the door can rock. This does not mean just …
2003-03-27: Rolling In Money I’m so rich. Exactly how rich am I you ask? If everything goes as planned, I’ll be …
2003-03-27: R.E.M. Announce North American Tour I’m not sure what the name of the album is they’ll be supporting on this tour, but …
2003-03-25: Watch The Man Sing Joey, lead singer of Wild Gift, will be playing a solo acoustic (?) show at Molly Malone’s - …
2003-03-25: Isn't That Conveeeeeniant The Sydney Morning Herald (amoung others) is reporting that a unit of Haliburton, a company once run …
2003-03-24: Radiohead Album Details Radiohead revealed that the title of the new album will be Hail To The Thief and will be released …
2003-03-24: Dumb Bullies There’s a reason I don’t watch much TV, but this made me want to stop reading …
2003-03-24: March Of Death Featuring Zach de la Rocha and DJ Shadow.
2003-03-24: Traffic Report It’s interesting that within a few days of switching the site around, my traffic has dropped …
2003-03-24: Queens Of Shynola New Queens Of The Stone Age video for “Go With The Flow” by Shynola. I just fell in love …
2003-03-24: New R.E.M. Song Released On Internet “Final Straw” was released today through R.E.M.’s official website. While only a …
2003-03-23: Stay Active Find out about events in your area.
2003-03-23: Some Thoughts On The State of Things I do not support our invasion of Iraq. I think what President Bush is doing is an atrocity and a …
2003-03-21: Cool Band Alert - Nerami Just discovered a cool new band, and lucky for all of you Angelinos, they’re local. Check out …
2003-03-21: Coiffed [updated] He said, “coiffed." HA HA! UPDATE: The Smoking Gun comes through with the footage.
2003-03-21: New Get Your War On Posted It needs no explanation.
2003-03-20: Phair Looks like Liz Phair is getting ready to release…something. I’ve had the chance to hear …
2003-03-20: Dr. Suess is Rolling Over In His Grave Someone else did way better than I could do.
2003-03-20: Gag Me Some people in San Francisco decided that vomiting on the sidewalk, in and around the Federal …
2003-03-20: Fuck The War (Part II) I love Michael Moore. I think I’ll just let his letter speak for itself. A Letter from …
2003-03-20: Fuck The War (Part I) In case you hadn’t noticed, I haven’t said much about the war, our President or anything …
2003-03-20: No More Apologies So, as it turns out this thing has come full-circle. When I started Jeans And A T-Shirt, it was …
2003-03-19: Postal Service They’ve announced a tour to support their exceptional debut album, Give Up. Here are the …
2003-03-19: Cream Lock the doors, hide your children, they’re back!
2003-03-19: TiVo On The Cheap Seems there was a little leak that allows one to get a TiVo for $249. Did I mention it’s the …
2003-03-16: A New Day It was the wind that I heard blowing tonight that brought you back to me. It was your breathing, …
2003-03-12: Goodbye Holly Holly September 10, 1997 - March 12, 2003 Holly had been suffering from stomach cancer, or so it had …
2003-03-09: 50 Words Or Less - Ether Songs Turin Brakes have not only followed up their critically acclaimed The Optimist LP with something …
2003-03-01: The Top Three Answers to 'Who Could You Take In A Fight?' In the Nov. 5th edition of The Onion, their A.V. Club feature was pretty damn good. They went around …
2003-02-27: Michael Music I’ve been spending most of my time listening to music I don’t really care a whole lot …
2003-02-26: Intelligent Speak: The Grammys b: Did you see the Joe Strummer tribute? m: Si - one of the ONLY musical stints that worked on the …
2003-02-24: Sniffle Cough I haven’t been this sick for a while. It has to have been at least a few years, if not more, …
2003-02-24: Goodnight It’s been a while since I’ve gotten to use my iBook so much. It’s very handy when …
2003-02-17: A Monthly Mix Test The latest montly mix has been posted (along with the downloadable files). If our bandwidth usage …
2003-02-16: Gaz for President Supergrass @ The Roxy (Los Angeles, CA) 02.13.03 The last time I saw Supergrass I was among …
2003-02-16: Whip It Good “Whip it on” is the debut EP from The Raveonettes. They are a two piece act from Denmark …
2003-02-13: Introducing Vikter Duplaix You’ll thank me later for introducing you to Vikter Duplaix. The music is awesome. I’ll …
2003-02-13: More About My Job One of the problems with working (on average) 11-hour days is that I don’t get much of a …
2003-02-12: I Haven't Forgotten I know it’s been a while since I updated the site. Having a job that demands 10+ hours a day …
2003-02-07: Spare Us All I just came back from seeing Michael Miller and company put on a really nice (albeit short) set at …
2003-02-04: A New Home Because of the hosting costs involved with Jeans And A T-Shirt, I figured it would be smarter to …
2003-02-03: Let Them Eat Lead I’ve finally gotten around to reading this great electronic magazine that Vince and Laura were …
2003-01-29: The Michael Miller Interview Local troubadour, Michael Miller has just released his second album to the public. He’s been …
2003-01-28: An Update I sure have thought of a lot of things that I should have been doing during the year that I …
2003-01-23: We Concur Audrey, over at melodynelson.com beat us to the punch on The Stills, certainly one of the most …
2003-01-23: A Michael Miller Release Local favorite and troubadour extraordinaire, Michael Miller has gone and released his second …
2003-01-23: Congrats To The Modern Age We couldn’t think of a more deserving music site than The Modern Age for a 2003 Bloggie for …
2003-01-20: Hornby On Adams As previously mentioned, Nick Hornby has released a new book of essays called Songbook (available …
2003-01-17: The Start Of Something There’s something to be said for starting things over again. A clean slate. Change is good, or …
2003-01-14: Sorry About The Monthly Mix Despite us updating our hosting plan to allow for more bandwidth, we are well on our way to exceding …
2003-01-14: Ramones Tribute To Finally See The Light Of Day The Ramones tribute album, We’re A Happy Family will finally see the light of day on February …
2003-01-13: An Entry From The Sidekick While the last post was done on my Mac, this short post was done from the Sidekick, which is pretty …
2003-01-13: Geek With A Sidekick In addition to having a weak spot for music, I also have a weak spot for gadgets. Even as …
2003-01-13: Help Out, Won't You? I’ve been putting this off for a long time because, well I don’t like to ask for money …
2003-01-06: Don't Miss This Mix The year-end, double-disc monthly mix has been posted for your downloading pleasure. Disc 01 is the …
2002-12-27: Inspiration? It’s pretty often that I’m overcome with a feeling of creativity. I feel like doing …
2002-12-18: Another Top List I recently wrote a feature for The Morning News, which ran in today’s issue. You’ve …
2002-12-16: Inspired By Will I’ve been reading Dave Eggars' latest book, You Shall Know Our Velocity. I started it sometime …
2002-12-15: Tops It seems like the first half of 2002 was pretty uneventful, or maybe I just remember the last half …
2002-12-10: The Tops (Slightly Revised) It seems like the first half of 2002 was pretty uneventful, or maybe I just remember the last half …
2002-12-06: Secret Auf der Maur Shows In Los Angeles We wanted to be the first to let you know (if you don’t already) that Melissa Auf der Maur …
2002-12-06: Nic Harcourt Sounds Off Back in October when I was at KCRW to do a small feature on Spoon, I had the opportunity to speak …
2002-12-02: November's Mix Has Been Posted I’ll go so far as to say this is one of the finer mixes I have compiled in some time. A …
2002-12-02: Getting Rid Of More Stuff In the spirit of getting rid of stuff I don’t need*, I sold nearly half of my DVD collection …
2002-11-24: Ellen I was going to write a little something about Ellen Feiss. I think Dennis had a better idea. Thanks …
2002-11-22: Wondering About The El Rey? This is really only going to be significant for people in and around Los Angeles, but I figured I …
2002-11-22: Hornby For The Holidays Any music snob has read (or should read), High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. It’s one of the most …
2002-11-20: It Sure Is Dusty In Here Dear bradbarrish.com, I apologize for the lack of attention. I love you. I really do. I would not …
2002-11-18: Want To Help? Jeans And A T-Shirt will be getting a new look around the first of the year. The thing is, I …
2002-11-08: The Rocktober Mix The new monthly mix, Roctober, has been posted. Yeah, it’s a little late. So sue us. Now, get …
2002-10-30: Uproarious Interview It was earlier this year when I discovered Silent Uproar, one of the many music news (and content) …
2002-10-29: Thursday Three (R.I.P.) In case you didn’t notice, which you most likely didn’t, Chris and I shut Thursday Three …
2002-10-29: Rockaholic I was talking to a couple of people today about music. Go figure. It’s come up, especially in …
2002-10-21: Get Involved While we near the end of Rocktober and move into November, I can’t help but start reflecting …
2002-10-10: Thurday Three - Television Better late than never. Participate. Do you believe the general public spends less time watching …
2002-10-04: About Chuck On September 23 I rushed to Borders Books to get a copy of Lullaby, the new novel by Chuck …
2002-10-03: Thursday Three - Lying Participate in the Thursday Three every week. It’ll make you cool. 1) What do you lie about? I …
2002-10-03: The New Mix Is Up The new monthly mix has been posted for your listening enjoyment. All kinds of amazing music (of …
2002-10-03: Some New Desktops I posted a couple of new desktop pictures (look along the left side) of the giant windmills I …
2002-09-30: Joshua Tree I had never been to Joshua Tree before, which is somewhat weird, considering it’s so close to …
2002-09-29: A Reminder Plenty of you have already signed up on the Jeans And A T-Shirt guest list, but those of you who …
2002-09-26: Thursday Three - Concerts 1) What was the first concert you attended? The very first one was Pat Metheny. I don’t …
2002-09-25: She's Back It is with great enthusiasm that I point you to dooce.com. She’s decided to start publishing …
2002-09-24: How To Set Up A Mac I realize that 99.9% of you don’t come to my site seeking advice on Macs, but the thing is, I …
2002-09-24: We Have A Winner! Thanks to everyone that entered (and is still entering) the contest for the Spoon tickets. Simone of …
2002-09-23: A Worthy Read The news-for-nerds site, Slashdot.org have posted an impressive and insightful interview with …
2002-09-22: "You Know You're Right" Leaked The unreleased Nirvana track, “You Know You’re Right,” has surfaced online, in its …
2002-09-19: Thursday Three - Heroes Go get your Thursday Three on. 1) What makes a person a hero? To paraphrase, the dictionary refers …
2002-09-17: Win Tickets to See Spoon in Los Angeles In getting ready for the month of Rocktober, Jeans And A T-Shirt is proud to present the first in a …
2002-09-16: How Indie Am I? I don’t usually participate in the ‘How ___ Are You?’ quizzes, but Laura said this …
2002-09-12: Thursday Three - September 11 1) Do you feel online sources covered the story better or worse than mainstream media? What are some …
2002-09-11: With Love I woke up this morning knowing that I would be reflecting on what happened a year ago. Despite my …
2002-09-11: A Rush of Coldplay at The Greek Theater A minute after the lights went down, signaling the beginning of one of the best shows I’ve …
2002-09-09: Getting Rid of Stuff I did it. Today was the day that I got rid of an entire collection of magazines. Yes, even three …
2002-09-06: Friday Five...NOT There’s nothing I like better than a good pissing match. What should show up in my inbox this …
2002-09-06: Travis Previews New Track Online House favorites, Travis have released “Love Will Come Through” for the Moonlight Mile …
2002-09-05: Interview with VP from Braquage.com It’s always nice to find people that are as geeky and snobbish about music as I am. I stubbled …
2002-09-05: In Other News... Just a quick note to let all of you know that a new site has launched. It’s called Thursday …
2002-09-05: Thursday Three - Digital Music Thursday Three has officially launched. phew 1) Is the 7% drop in CD sales over the last year a …
2002-09-03: Thursday Three Coming Soon Chris and I have been working on getting Thursday Three ready for launch. If everything goes as …
2002-09-02: Monthly Mix : August 2002 The latest monthly mix has been posted. Comprised of almost all new music, this one is sure to be …
2002-08-30: I Heart Pitchfork There are many great music sites that update their content on a daily basis, though there are only a …
2002-08-30: Aww Heather & Jon got married in Yosemite. Congrats kids.
2002-08-29: Thursday Three - Feelings 1) How are you feeling right now? I’m feeling a bit on the tired side at the moment. I spent …
2002-08-27: Queens of 2002 The moment that “Millionaire” kicked in, my mind was blown. Everyone in the immediate …
2002-08-25: I Missed The Party I woke up in a panic. I thought there was a massive earthquake, but i was just my body. The …
2002-08-24: A Rant On Life It’s amazing what getting out of my apartment did for my spirit. As you know, if you’ve …
2002-08-22: Amnesty International Knows How To Throw A Party I just had to post a quick review of the show, which was simply amazing. When you have the chance to …
2002-08-22: All Is Forgiven! Hurrah! Coldplay has developed into a powerful live band! It’s amazing what a difference 2 …
2002-08-22: [Nearly Late] Thursday Three - Work 1) What good is employment if you can’t enjoy it? I guess the obvious answer is that it pays …
2002-08-19: New Blood Diane Tanaka has joined the contributing staff at Jeans And A T-Shirt. She’s currently working …
2002-08-19: Less For More I’m glad to see artists speaking out about high-priced CD’s. The lower prices for …
2002-08-19: Interview with Laura from Coaxme.org I thought it would be cool to interview people that run some of sites we feature on the site. Our …
2002-08-15: Thursday Three - Now It Begins Understand that we have been forced to take a good idea, and make it better. In an effort to better …
2002-08-14: Lovely Trouser If you haven’t read it somewhere else, then let me be the first to inform you of the re-launch …
2002-08-09: Friday Five - Cars?? I dunno how much longer I can keep doing The Friday Five. They need some better questions. Cars?? …
2002-08-07: Rejection Sucks I suggest that you keep these numbers handy. Perhaps you should memorize them. By all means call …
2002-08-06: Scared Shitless Most of the day Brutus is confined to the kitchen. He’s a 90 pound doberman that my parents …
2002-08-06: Dressing You Up I’ve added a desktop pictures section (to your left) to help dress up that boring desktop of …
2002-08-02: No Friday Five This Week I thought the questions for this week’s Friday Five totally sucked, and thus I am not going to …
2002-07-31: Monthly Mix: July 2002 July’s edition of the monthly mix has been completed and is ready for your listening pleasure. …
2002-07-28: Migrainus Peculiarus I went blind twice today. I was in front of my computer when it started to go the first time. It …
2002-07-26: Friday Five - Blogging 1) How long have you had a weblog? I’ve had one, in some form or another, since 1997. That was …
2002-07-22: Readying The Next Album Ever wonder what it’s like when AC/DC gets together to talk about the next album? Angus: Okay, …
2002-07-21: Progress You’ll notice that I’ve made a few layout changes to the site. I’m making some …
2002-07-19: Friday Five - Habitation & Travel 1) Where were you born? Kansas City, MO. I only lived in Kansas City for a year before we moved to …
2002-07-17: Neighbor Problems: Part 1 The Cunts live just above me. At first there was only one Cunt, and that wasn’t her name to …
2002-07-16: The UFB Video Shoot: Day 3 I arrived on the set around 11:30am, which was again, at ACCD. Smoke was billowing out of the doors …
2002-07-15: The UFB Video Shoot: Day 2 The second day was shot on location at a house in North Hollywood, CA and at The Art Center College …
2002-07-12: Drummer? I’m usually the one behind the camera, but during the Ultimate Fakebook video shoot I was …
2002-07-12: The Friday Five - My Own Since the real Friday Five is not being published this week, I figured I would make one up. Feel …
2002-07-07: Belated Friday Five 1) Where are you right now? Sitting on my red velvet chaise. I’m pooped. I had every intention …
2002-07-07: Since April?? “Hi Mr. Barrish. We have had your clothes since April. If you could please come and get them …
2002-07-05: Ever Smell A Dead Rabbit? I’m not talking out-of-the-pot-or-oven dead rabbit. No sir. I’m talking …
2002-07-01: Speechless I don’t know what to say, but fuck if I didn’t laugh real hard. Quite possibly some of …
2002-07-01: An Important Announcement I NEED A JOB! Just thought I would put that out there. Here’s my resume. Hire me. Someone. …
2002-07-01: What's Goin' On: Music and The Internet (Part I) In August 1999, the world saw the first public release of Napster. That moment set off a chain of …
2002-06-29: Adventures With Hair [WARNING: The photos attached to this story contain from-the-waist-up nudity. If you are offended by …
2002-06-28: Friday Five - When Was The Last Time You... 1) …sent a handwritten letter? I wrote my dad a letter for Father’s Day. Other than …
2002-06-27: The Monthly Mix - June 2002 The Monthly Mix for June has been posted. Get to downloading some fine music. Upcoming releases that …
2002-06-27: Who Is Crushing? I find it a little ironic that days after posting the fact that I placed an online personal, I get …
2002-06-27: No Sleep Till... No Sleep Till… When asked about what I would wish for, if I was given a single semi-realistic …
2002-06-26: Oh My God Oh My God As a child I never thought about the words I was reciting when, with the rest of the …
2002-06-26: South Park Me While the novelty of the show has worn thin, I was incredibly amused by the wonderful South Park …
2002-06-25: I'm A Whore And so are you. A few months back I got curious about what would happen if I placed an online …
2002-06-24: A Modern Age Retort The Modern Age can be counted on for many hours of entertainment, and I mean that in the kindest way …
2002-06-24: Short Thoughts On Westerberg I’m sitting here listening to the Paul Westerberg in-store from Chicago. I currently own …
2002-06-24: Home? Kansas…It feels like home when I go back, but the weather is just one of the reminders of why …
2002-06-21: On Second Thought... As much as I want to do a jeansandatshirt.com web radio station, it just doesn’t look like I …
2002-06-21: Friday Five - Habitation, Etc. 1) Do you live in a house, an apartment or a condo? I live in an apartment. It’s a two …
2002-06-20: Like A Ton of Yellow Bricks I flew home to Kansas today. Flying Southworst wasn’t as bad as it usually is. Aside from the …
2002-06-17: AudioGalaxy and RIAA Settle “The message is clear – there is no place on the Internet for services that exploit creators' …
2002-06-17: 1 Thing That Really Pisses Me Off I was on the unemployment web site today, getting everything ready to submit and wouldn’t you …
2002-06-14: 10 Things I Will Miss About My Job A window that opens and has a scenic view of Los Angeles. Two Macs in front of me (if I’m in …
2002-06-14: Broadcasting The Goods I’m tired of laziness, especially the musically lazy. You know the ones. They listen to the …
2002-06-14: Friday Five - Laundry Habits I’m finally going to start participating in the Friday Five. It’s been a long time …
2002-06-12: Unemployed Again As of Friday I will be unemployed again. Five months of searching for a job, two months of part-time …
2002-06-12: A [Temporary] New Beginning This is what the site was meant to be. A place for me to post writings and photography of mine. This …
2002-06-11: Minus 5 Announce Tour With Friends The Fast Horse Summer Hootenany 2002, featuring Wayward Shamans, Tuatara, Minus 5, and Cedell Davis …
2002-06-08: A Faultline Album Review Faultline - Your Love Means Everything (Blanco y Negro/Warner Music UK) While some may want to …
2002-06-07: A Doves/Elbow Review Doves/Elbow @ The Mayan Theater (Los Angeles, CA) 06.06.02 I can’t get enough of Elbow. …
2002-06-06: The Vines Announce U.S. Tour Aussie music darlings, The Vines announce a slew of dates across the U.S. (and a couple in Canada). …
2002-06-05: that new site smell... Welcome to jeans and a t-shirt. You’ve been waiting. Admit it. Over the past several weeks …
2002-05-26: About A Show My back is bruised from fighting you off. Elbows, heads, and shoulders pressing against me, trapping …
2002-05-26: Thinking of Quitting It’s smokey because I made a choice. The stench wafts through the apartment. The taste is in …
2002-05-17: what's goin' on: an introduction Over the coming weeks I’m going to be writing a in-depth look at the digital music landscape. …
2002-05-17: courage: the bill maher monologue Someone fowarded me a copy of the monologue that Bill Maher will be using this evening on …
2002-05-07: i'm cool Rolling Stone has posted their “50 coolest” and “50 uncoolest” albums. Out …
2002-05-04: A Few Things You Should Know Verisign sucks. Spider-Man is good. Heather and Jon are real people. Illume candles smell nice.
2002-04-29: Postcards From People You Don't Know I received a postcard in the mail today. I laughed, but I didn’t know anyone named Dennis that …
2002-04-14: gateway rules I wouldn’t normally comment on what a computer company is doing to market itself, but Gateway …
2002-04-10: the horror “We’re trying our best to rescue these clerks, but, realistically, there’s not a …
2002-04-06: a trail of the dead review ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead @ The El Rey Theater (Los Angeles, CA) 04.05.02 The …
2002-04-05: a few words about kurt April 5th will mark the 8th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. As I sit here thinking about …
2002-04-04: it's all in the rider I’m not talking trucks here. I’m talking about the legal document that promoters get …
2002-03-20: an open letter to matthew (opening band for starsailor) Dearest Matthew, I had heard good things about your music, so I was interested to see what you had …
2002-03-11: Sugar Comas and The City of Angels It was just a couple of days. Saturday and Sunday are just like any other day, really. With the …
2002-03-04: zach is cool I waited in line for at least two hours in the unseasonably warm Los Angeles weather. I tried to …
2002-03-04: a moby thought So just a little thought: could you imagine if the only people involved in the music business were …
2002-03-04: bloodying up the horse a bit more This may be a bloody horse, but it’s certainly not going down any time soon. As if it …
2002-02-28: green with grammy disgust As I sat watching the 44th Annual Grammy Awards I started to get queasy. Not at John Stewart’s …
2002-02-17: Brad Violations - Part 1 I have these rules. Actually, there’s an entire user’s manual for me, but for the sake …
2002-02-14: I Love I can’t really get behind Valentine’s Day. I’m not much for celebrating much of …
2002-02-12: Rock 'N' Roll On a recent trip to Virgin Megastore I purchased The Very Best of The Doors. I have all of their …
2002-02-12: Hold On, Please Steve Rubenstein should be commended. He proposes that instead of slamming the phone down on …
2002-02-09: a foo fighters review Foo Fighters @ House of Blues (Anaheim, CA) 02.07.02 Within nineteen seconds, the show was sold out …
2002-02-06: Give Me Something It speaks for itself. And when it stops, let me know and I’ll mirror the video on my site.
2002-02-06: Kiss Me “The notion is if you’re going to welcome me with open arms, you also have to welcome me …
2002-01-30: state of the union I didn’t watch the State of the Union last night. I’m pretty sure I had better things to …
2002-01-26: I Hit Your Car It all started a couple of years back. I dunno, maybe it was less than that. I was pulling into a …
2002-01-22: You Suck Ed Harvilla, a well known free speech lawyer, is making sure that your dissent for companies is …
2002-01-22: barely enough to keep me interested Stereophonics @ House of Blues (Hollywood, CA) 01.21.01 I timed my arrival at House of Blues just …
2002-01-22: Truth The Internet is home of many truths. There’s the truth about who wrote the bible, the truth …
2002-01-11: Call It A Day Wanna know what I did today? I woke up at around 11am, though my alarm blasts begining at 10:30am. I …
2002-01-07: Sweet Home California I love Los Angeles, and especially on days when you can see all of the city from the top of a …
2002-01-03: So Not Ace Using “ace” as a synonym for “awesome,” “tops,” …
2002-01-03: Dave Pell Predictions Dave Pell, writer of the NextDraft email newsletter listed his predictions for 2002. I especially …
2001-12-25: Have A Burroughs Christmas There isn’t much about William S. Burroughs' writing that I find as interesting as the man …
2001-12-12: Working Dog At least someone in the family is working.
2001-12-10: Moodstats Plug With so much time to do things that I would not normally do, I have found that Moodstats is a nifty …
2001-12-10: Top Sites of 2001 Among other things that I am currently “working” on, the Top 100 Albums of 2001 has …