The Walkman turns 30 this week. I was watching that movie The Wackness this weekend (had tons of walkmen/mixtape references). It is not a movie I recommend watching. It’s as if I was given the director’s cut of the movie. Except it wasn’t the director’s cut and there was definitely an hours worth of film that could have been cut.

Anyway, it’s a sad day when you watch a retro movie, and the main character in the movie is still younger than you. But, I must tell myself that I am young at heart.

I DIGRESS. Here’s an article about a 13 year old boy given a walkman by his father for a few days. The highlight of the article is that it took the boy 3 days to realize there was 2 sides to a tape.

http://tinyurl.com/mebjkx

Yesterday the inevitable happened. My iPod died. It would have been 4 years old this April. It had a good life. From lonely subway rides to dance parties, we've been through a lot.  It felt like yesterday, that I opened that box and held it in my hands for the first time. The touch of its metal back against my naked palms. My sensitive thumb-touch scrolling through it's wavy album tracks…

Anyway off to the Apple store.

Gotta love Google's new Patent Search tool. Find some funny ass shit. Like this one from Eddie Van Hallen:

Musical Instrument Support

Here are some other wacky musician/celebrity patents:

Michael Jackson's "Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion"
Um, a snow boot, Mr. Jackson? 

Lawrence Welk's "Welk Ash Tray"

it's clinched… i love the new shins.  yup is good.

in the news… your loveable hugable guini from park slope just got two technics and a mixer.  yup now john isn't the only one with nice stuff.  no more singing everybody's got nice stuff but me.  all i gots to do is now is figure out how to work it.  i want to mix in j. mascis whining "your the only one" into a break beat.  something gnarly like that. 

 i will invite you all over for a burning sesssion once i've figured out all the knobs.

happy new year. 

Last night, I was with John, Sabrina and Ellen at Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me. Which was hilarious. Even if you're not a Martin Short fan, you will love it. If you're a Martin Short fan, you will love it times a thousand. Anyway, the theater was smaller than I thought it was gonna be and we were hanging out by the bar sipping our beverages. Ellen turns to me and says, "Just LOOK". And walking towards me is Mr. Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen! If that wasn't enough, he stops right in front of us. I kid you not, we were in arms reach from Bruce himself for at least 3 or 5 minutes. He's just hanging out at the bar with his wife, 2 sons and maybe a daughter. Though, she didn't look like a Springsteen. Maybe she was friend. Who knows. All I know for those few minutes, none of us could have a conversation with each other. We were just hypnotized by this man. I mean, he was just hanging out right in front of us.

Anyway, they eventually left to get their seats and I hear his wife say to her kids sarcastically, "Follow your fearless leader". Demoting the boss to just a dad. It was amazing. He was probably thinking, "Rosalita never treated me like this."

Alright Anthony and Dan. What are the albums that you can't use for the mix? is there any other restriction? Are we going to post it as a mix on the mix-tape site?

Only news to report is that i actually start to join.  Will be back!