Archive for the "Entertainment" Category

06.Feb.2011 A dancing mix

My new music intake rate is still quite low. This year did involve some time digging through the crates for the most danceworthy music for the wedding, though. That process fed about 70% of the content in this mix, although very few of these tracks actually got played at the wedding. We have gone to [...]

27.Jul.2009 Hillside 2009

The Hillside music festival appears to have a very low profile in the blogosphere… curious, because it’s one of the best I’ve attended. I suspect it’s just a way of keeping a good festival for the locals, and fending off the Toronto hordes. A very low-key festival, a great lineup and a nice location on [...]

20.Feb.2009 Mix 2008.12

My musical listening time has diminished dramatically in the last year, since I finished my graduate degree and moved to full-time work in the transportation field. Unlike my past jobs, my work does not involve extended periods of concentration at a computer with the headphones on, and I don’t take in nearly as much music. [...]

26.May.2008 Music 2007+08

My winter and spring have been so busy that I never made the time for any year-in-review posts here. Six months late, here’s a midyear update on music. Last year, I finished a major music project: listening to every album in an mp3 library I had access to, whether I liked it or not. Overall, [...]