Monthly Archives: February 2007

Wine Words Of Wisdom
“They’re lying to you. They want you to be ignorant, clueless and easily manipulated. They’ve spent millions of dollars to inoculate you with a dreadful consumer virus called “brand anxiety.”...
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February 28, 2007

Saturday Gig: The Mooney Suzuki in Woodstock
“Woodstock, the force fields are down.” So insisted Sammy James Junior to the audience in the Bearsville Theater bar last Saturday night shortly after his band The Mooney Suzuki took...
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February 27, 2007

More Melody Memories
My little review of the Feb 17 Melody Reunion generated a hefty amount of traffic and correspondence – which I would consider surprising except that it only confirms how much...
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February 26, 2007

The iJamming! Weekly Download: Busdriver
You know how occasionally you hear a sample stops you dead in your tracks, leaves you asking, “Why did nobody ever think of using that song before?” That’s how I...
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February 23, 2007

Featured Wine Region: Mallorca
I didn’t head to Mallorca with grape expectations. After all, I’ve been to its Balearic neighbor Ibiza, where commercial wine is not made. But I did depart for my weekend...
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February 22, 2007

Winter Wonderland
I was pissed off I couldn’t ski this weekend. (At least until I saw the car park at Hunter, by far the most crowded it’s been all year. A holiday...
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February 21, 2007

Magical Melody Memories
I’ve never been big on reunions. I’m perfectly glad we don’t have a tradition of high school reunions in the UK, where I always assumed I would stay in touch...
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February 20, 2007