tunequest

Well, not that bitter actually. Because... Success! At 4:55 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31, the tunequest was completed! In early February, I set out on a mission to listen to every song that I had collected over the years, cutting those songs and artists that I'd outgrown, celebrating those I continue to adore, and rediscovering those I had neglected, all by the end of 2006. And I did ...

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Something odd happened to me the other day while listening to my iPod. I was enjoying a bootlegged version of Jerry Goldsmith's magnum opus, the score to the first Star Trek motion picture. One of the tracks is raw recording session featuring two takes of the now-famous main title. The theme was just getting going when, at the 1:26 mark, it just stopped playing. The music went ...

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So Webomatica tagged me and I guess I'm now "it" for the five things chain blog that's been making the rounds. The idea is for a blogger to post five items of potentially new information about themselves. I guess it's to help readers gain more insight into the writer. So, I'm game. Number One I back-date my songs in iTunes' Date Added field. If I'm encoding a CD ...

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From the archives: I wrote the original version of this article for a newspaper column about 5 years ago. So it reads more like a newspaper column and not so much like a the informal blogginess that's usually found around here. It's from the Records that time forgot series that I hope to revive in 2007. This version corrects a couple awkward sentences and updates the ...

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Hopefully your day-that-happened-to-be-Christmas was full of family togetherness, holiday cheer, and of course, lucrative acquisitions. And once again Apple's iPod dominated the retail scene. While sales figures aren't out yet, I think there's a strong possiblity that a new iPod was among those acquisitions ilounge claims more ipods sold in 2006 than 2001-2005 combined. So, in the interest to providing security for all those iPods newly given ...

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I had forgotten that I had this song, but I was scouring my archives and was delighted to find it on today of all days. So in light of today's news as well as the date, let's celebrate some James Brown with his Santa's Got a Brand New Bag. Enjoy. [audio:061225SantasGotaBrandNewBag.mp3] For more Brownian Christmas classics, check out James Brown's Funky Christmas at Amazon. Strangely, Santa's Got a Brand ...

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James Brown died of pneumonia on Christmas Day 2006 at the age of 73 in Atlanta Georgia. The obits are all over the net, but here's one from the AJC. Besides his musical legacy, he leaves behind one of the funniest, catchiest Simpsons' lines, for its out-of-character absurdity and earnest delivery. From the fifth season episode Bart's Inner Child, it's a heck of a catch-phrase:

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Paramount Pictures closed its legendary Stage M this past August. The stage opened in 1932 and since then, many famous and notable film scores have been recorded on it, including The Ten Commandments, Out of Africa, as well as a great portion of Star Trek's music. More recently, Danny Elfman's score for Nacho Libre was laid down there. try this Google search to see some more examples ...

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Well, for some reason, almost all of my Star Trek music got pushed toward the end of the tunequest, and believe me, I have nearly all of the Star Trek music except for the unreleased promo soundtrack to the Starfleet Academy video game. If anyone can point towards that, I'll send you a digital high five or something, so the waters around here will be thick ...

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