Category: Personal

The new Ben Harper CD, Diamonds on the Inside, is very cool. After the first track, I was disappointed there weren’t more reggae tunes but he’s such a versatile artist you kind of need the variety to appreciate how talented he is.

Great sailing this weekend

Great sailing this weekend. We moved Dad’s boat (“Ahoy!”) from Eagle Point, where they put it in the water, over to Pier 121. This was the first time I saw her in-person. She’s a 1968(?) Columbia 26 mkII. For the last 34 years, she’s been sitting in Marina Del Rey, owned by the same guy all those years. It’s very different from sailing the J22 for a lot of reasons, but still fun. We didn’t have time to put her through her paces–a storm was moving in. We had a little excitement putting her in the slip. The strong headwind and the boat’s extreme amount of freeboard (and an early turn) caused me to miss the slip. My pride suffered the most damage. I’m looking forward to more spring sailing and some summer evening sails with the fam.

Amazon just delivered some goodness. I got the Meat Purveyors and another one off the Bloodshot label, Making Singles and Drinking Doubles which is Bloodshot’s 100th release. Making Singles is a compilation of singles from some of their great alt.country artists like Ryan Adams, Meat Purveyors, Waco Brothers, The Sadies, and Kelly Hogan.

I really like the Meat Purveyors CD. It’s solid all the way through. Most of the songs are up-tempo, ultra-twang, drinking songs, for lack of a better description. The album reminds me a little bit of a couple of early Old 97’s titles.

My blogging is conflicting with my reading and vice versa. I’m in the middle of The Long Way and I’ve got Blue Latitudes on deck. The Long Way is really good but I think you’ve got to really be in to sailing to get into the book. It also helps if you’ve got kind of a Zen outlook on life.

You can check out my list of high seas reading here.

I am seeing more and more in the way of MP3 components for home stereo systems. They range from crude to cool. Some cache MP3s on an internal HD while others pull it from a workstation via ethernet or wireless. Another nice feature is the ability to play internet radio stations.
 
Here’s one my friend Dave found: http://www.terraplayer.com/