Second of five year-end mixes (no, I'm not posting them all at once...). The first one, consisting of tracks from the top CDs, is here. The remaining entries consist of songs that were newish to me in  …

First set of my best-of-2006 mix: this one's tracks from my 20 favorite CDs (you know, "albums" - old school!). The tracks aren't in rank order - they're sequenced for sound.

Gift for a friend, where the song selection really wouldn't make sense to anyone else...

i am in the midst of an odd hermit/hibernation stage and i made this mix to soundtrack my melancholy-with-a-silver-lining mood lately. a few notes: the rilo kiley song is about elliot smith's death. th …

The X Factor has finally finished its current run - thank all the gods -- and family life has every hope of a return to some semblance of dignified progression. Christmas is hurrying up the drive and p …

Cursory Glimmers Crisco is presumably a food stuff that shares a similar consistency with vaseline. As the song says `everybody grease up now.' Lounge favourite & groovy sound meister, Gert Wilden was …

OK here it is folks my 06 year end retrospective. Tunes that have impressed me from this years releases. The opener I know was an 05 release for most of you but out here in France I had to wait until a …

I used to think life's a bitter pill, but it's a grand old time.