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What to Make Of Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV

Published on March 27, 2008

Everyone has a band or singer-songwriter who spans a generation with them; the artist whose career runs through peaks and valleys along with your life. For me, that artist has been Nine Inch Nails.
I discovered the music of NIN as a sophomore in high school in 1991. A girl I was dating gave me a […]


Concert Review: Zero 7 @ Webster Hall, NYC

Published on September 23, 2006

Sometimes you just get lucky. You have to smile when you arrive at a concert venue ten minutes before the doors open, and somehow end up standing first-row-center-stage of general admission. However, this was the case on the evening of September 16th for Ms. S. Rod and I when we saw the group Zero 7 […]


Book Review: GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

Published on January 5, 2006

When I began using Apple’s music recording program GarageBand six months ago, I started playing around without any instructions. But after some of my first compositions cracked windowpanes and exploded dog heads, I deemed it prudent to learn more. Another couple months of experimenting passed and I still felt like there were too many elements […]


Review: Motion Sickness

Published on November 29, 2005

Mother Nature tried her best. But she could not make me lose my lunch.
While traveling on my honeymoon this month, I had the ‘good‘ fortune of experiencing three of the four forms of motion sickness and emerged unscathed. Okay, perhaps the memory remains, but the nausea did not humble me like a college freshman’s […]


Review: Defensive Driving Class

Published on September 28, 2005

I confess my guilt: it was wrong of me to complain about my speeding ticket in a public forum. Luckily, I had many people who were more than happy to call me out as a “naive” twentysomething trying to apply the logic of common sense and safety to a system based solely on revenue. So… […]


New Review for ‘The Art of Getting Bent’

Published on September 5, 2005

We’re happy to report a recent review for The Art of Getting Bent by M. Sahm, that was published this past Sunday at the pop-culture megasite Blogcritics.org.
Read all about it here, and be sure that no matter what— promise me— you keep reading the review past the first paragraph.


‘Sith’: A Worthy Closure

Published on May 19, 2005

After seeing the midnight show last night for Revenge of the Sith and getting up for work on three and a half hours of sleep, I can’t imagine I’ll write too many super deep thoughts right now. But then, it’s not really a deep movie, so perhaps it all works out.
Sith, in my mind, was […]


Mac OS X v10.4: Tiger - A Common User’s Review

Published on May 11, 2005

This review would have been posted on April 30… however I ran into some issues with the Mac OS X Tiger DVD. Since that post, Apple has added that you need a DVD drive on their Tiger requirements page. Too late for me, but so it goes.
Luckily, after waiting patiently, my OS X Tiger CDs […]


Unwritten Rules For New iPod Users

Published on April 12, 2005

I’ve had an iPod since November 2002, and it’s been amazing to me how they’ve multiplied in the time since. Back when I got it, I rarely saw other people with them… at the time, I suppose it was still too advanced for general consumption. There wasn’t even an iTunes Music Store yet.
But times change, […]


Jazzy Brunch Crunch

Published on March 14, 2005

This past Sunday, I had a 1:00pm brunch with family at City Crab on 19th & Park Ave. While I doubt seafood would qualify as good breakfast food, it did work well for lunch since I already ate breakfast at 8:30am.
The thing that made the meal bloggable was that live jazz was playing while we […]