Towards the end of high school and continuing into college, I started to read various books about different religions around the world. Buddhism was one that really piqued my interest quite a bit, and my uncle and I would attend a meditation session at a local Buddhist temple every once and a while. One year …
Puff Daddy, Puffy, Sean “Puffy” Combs, P. Diddy, or Diddy, regardless of the name he chose to use at various points of his career, he was all over the place in the ’90s and early 2000s. Whether collaborating with usual suspects like The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase, other artists like Nas and Jimmy Page, or …
One of my favorite television shows over the last 10 years or so was the U.S. version of The Office. I thought the writing and acting was really good, and the casting seemed so spot on. All the characters were memorable ones, not the least of which was a character named Creed Bratton. He was …
I graduated high school in 1999. While there were certainly a lot of fun things I remember from that year, one that stands out is the MTV Movie Awards, particularly Jim Carrey’s acceptance speech for Best Male Performance. For those who haven’t seen it, Carrey basically dressed up like an old hippie, complete with a …
A coworker of mine recently mentioned how he and a buddy were discussing the great decades in music history. If I recall correctly, I believe he said that his buddy suggested that the ’70s were the greatest decade in music history, while my coworker was of the opinion that the ’60s were the greatest decade. …
The first instrumental rock and roll song I ever remember hearing was by The Edgar Winter Group. Prior to this, the only instrumental music I had really heard was either jazz or some form of orchestral music like classical or pieces from a movie score. For whatever reason, based on the song that I had …
I had a second job for about five years, working in the evening at a studio that did audio transfers for various record labels and artists. The owner of the company and I got along pretty well and would talk music all the time. One night we were hanging out on the patio of the …
One of the first computers I remember using was an original Apple Macintosh that my uncle had. Sometimes we’d go over to his house for holidays or a birthday and I’d always ask if I could play on it. The two games I played all the time were Hangman and Banzai! A number of years …
Last night I went to see the band IDLES at the Fonda Theatre down in Hollywood. The opener was a band called Gustaf, whom I had never heard of prior to this show. They were a fun opening act that really got the crowd going, and I started to check out their album Audio Drag …
One of the things my family and I did while they were in town this week was to check out The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains down in Hollywood. This entailed an entire career retrospective of the band, complete with all kinds of artifacts such as musical instruments, handwritten lyrics, original album artwork, and …