20120414

I Can’t Live Without My Radio

Do you remember your first boombox? My first radio was a Panasonic Tape/AM-FM, no CD player yet at the time – I had to hook up my dad’s Discman using the tape adapter to listen to CDs on it. It… [Continue]

20100622

Nostalgia For Things Unexperienced

Last year I made this info graphics calendar plotting information from the Promo Only charts in conjunction with Billboard charts, and for one month I chose to use people’s youtube comments to certain songs, atleast the ones that were interesting… [Continue]

20100308

Happily Ever After

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory. (transcript) TED talks are usually informative and fun to burn 10-20 minutes on and learn something new, but I’ve probably watched/read this one multiple times now – it’s really affected me and… [Continue]

20090730

Open Season

no throwback here, just a youtube recommendation that is warming my already-warm state this summer day. + bEnt or diE does some amazing circuit bending trickery with battery-operated music gadgets. some of these tracks straight up sound like they could… [Continue]

20090624

That Certain Sound

so for a few months now, i’ve been posting throwback tracks of the week along with why/how it throws me back – recalling certain memories about my life that i associate with said track; i end up doing the same… [Continue]

20090608

When I Look At You

i grew up with a very healthy bossa-nova influence. on any given weekend, my dad might have been so inclined to bump some stan getz, astrud gilberto, sergio mendes, and/or mongo santamaria. my fondest memories would be cleaning the house… [Continue]