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Reboot

When I started this blog life was very different. July 2019. My father was alive, my father and mother-in-law were alive. My brother-in-law was alive. My job, while not the greatest corporate culture, was tolerable and I felt respected, the job itself, getting easier and allowing me more time. July 2019. I was 53, aboutContinue reading “Reboot”

Music Matters

It’s been some time since I posted my latest mix (YouTube) Albums. I do these mostly for myself, for long drives and when I’m in the workshop, but I do have friends that tell me they enjoy them. When I was a younger man, music was my affiliation: I was a British New Waver fromContinue reading “Music Matters”

Merry Christmas

Music has always been a place of refuge for me. A passion of mine when I was younger was to make “mix tapes”, cassette tapes filled with songs that I would give to my friends. I always considered them windows into my world and nothing excited me more than years later learning that some bandContinue reading “Merry Christmas”

Microblog: The Albums That Shaped Me Part 2. Albums 7-10

New Order: Low Life. Purchased September 1985 Album 7 of the Albums that Shaped Me review. I bought New Order’s Low Life in September 1985, just a few months after its release. I was drawn to the backstory of the band, the disaffected vocals, the pulsating bass and the analog synths. While many would pointContinue reading “Microblog: The Albums That Shaped Me Part 2. Albums 7-10”