
I think Phoebe hit the nail on the head last night when she told me, "Never pick things up at night." This was while I was on my way home from Newport Beach, where I purchased a new turntable from somebody I found on Craigslist. I'm not lying when I say this, because I've never quite had this sensation before...but I'm pretty sure the guy I bought the record player from wanted to kill and eat me. If that had happened, I would have held all of you responsible. The night started out innocently with a phone call [...]

Aleksandra Radonic - Nana (2006) Agitated Radio Pilot - World Winding Down (mp3): This is for those of you on porches in the dark tonight watching the empty trash cans on the curb. It's black and wide and chilly like eleven o'clock. And ornamented sparse with a single crow on a silent telephone line above. Imagine how it feels to die from stab wounds on a [...]

Photo credit: ichie For years scientists have thought that whales only sleep with one side of the brain at a time. This was thought to be necessary in order for the whale – being unlike us a conscious breathing mammal – to be able to come up for air and stay on the lookout for any possible dangers. The idea behind this was that they never reach unconsciousness like we do while sleeping, but instead only shut down one half of the brain while the other half is still active. The two [...]

Photo credit: Catherine Buca Someone once asked me - of all the genres I tend to listen to - what kind of music really gets to me the most. I'd been thinking about that before but I never can come up with one particular genre. It just doesn't seem right picking one. Afterwards I realized that the question is just plainly wrong to begin with. It isn't a musical genre that might or might not get to me. It's the mood that is portrayed by the music that can really get to me and [...]