“Life sucks … and then you die.” There was actually a graduating class at the school I work at that had my “motto” printed on the back of their graduation T-shirts once, well-knowing that I love to play the eternal cynic with a bunch of virtual winking smileys added for good measure. So, before I [...]

This is going to be an unusually short post without too much of the verbal assault that you are used to.
The other day I mentioned that I was planning on putting together a one-stop page from which anyone can download the discographies of out-of-print Mosaic discographies. Well, I’ve gotten permission by Mosaic to do so [...]

Epitomizing.
You know it when you see it (to quote the infamous Justice Potter) and you get a lot of it around here. If I like something, I tell you so, and I don’t hold back on the verbiage to get my point across. So, should we give it another go?
Oscar Peterson, who in his lifetime [...]

Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Ian Gillan and …

My musical life has been picking up quite a bit lately after having been in a bit of a limbo for all too long. As you might recall, I wrote about not having bought anything for quite a while - and I’m planning on keeping that up - but [...]

I was sitting here this late afternoon, contemplating this site and decided - pretty much on the spur of the moment - to forsake Flickr and other money-ingesting sites and put up my own photos of what I have and like to show off. ;)
Why? I could go on and on about security and legal [...]

I’ve said it often enough around here and I’ll state it again: We collectors are nutcases.
There was a time when I collected books, “contemporary horror fiction” to be precise. It all started when I got my first limited edition of some book and it continued with lots of other limited, numbered, lettered and whatnot editions, [...]

How’s that for a change of pace around here? A post about the “Motor City Madman” by the only German that doesn’t have a driver’s license?
As is always the case around here, the memory tag is securely attached to this double-LP, which I invested a whole summer’s earnings into.
But.
If you have at all been reading [...]

(01) Rising Curtain: “The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back”
Yesterday I added my “recent” purchases to my CD shelf system. A load of classical albums including Paul Lewis’ Beethoven piano sonata cycle (brilliant), a couple of Ahmad Jamal double and single CDs (early stuff and equally brilliant), the Oscar Peterson Clef/Mercury Box (I had most [...]

For the first time in 2009, I had a look at the statistics for this (rather lifeless) site and, alas, I have more readers than ever before. My Google page rank even increased (go figure). I guess it’s the “curse” of any site that was once updated more or less regularly to get all comfy [...]