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  • Hello! Welcome to a new jazz podcast put together just for you. Well, it might also be a round up of recent releases that I have been listening to, and a tribute to Jaco Pastorius (whose newest I have not yet gotten). 

    I think that everyone will enjoy the music I've put together, so let's listen to Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Terell Stafford, Heads of State, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Buddy Rich, Ed Palermo, Peter Erskine, Jaco Pastorius, and Weather Report. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Last night the neighbors had a backyard party. Their backyard is next to ours, and my bedroom window opens out toward their backyard. When I went to bed at 10:00 PM, it was going strong. At 2:00 AM there were still some people talking and laughing. Although I occasionally will be up late having fun, those days are pretty much over for me. I'm more an "Early to bed and, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Well, I'm healthy, so 1 out of 3 ain't bad. 

    Of course, when I was younger I stayed up late all the time. I remember days in the dorm in college when we'd watch whatever movie was shown on TV late at night on the weekend- a bunch of us saw Zulu and saw the sunrise - I think that Brian was the original viewer, then me, then I think Casey came home, and then a couple of more - just zoning out going "Zu-lu, Zu-lu, Zu-lu." And there were times that I waited for Eddie to come back from working as a waiter, when he'd make a 2:00 AM meal for whoever happened to be around. He loved hot sauce, which is where I developed my love for them. 

    But then I grew up and left the late nights behind. Not sure that I miss them too much, and again, occasionally I can become late-night Pat again. It's a matter of pacing (and a nap in the afternoon, if possible). 

    Today's podcast is meant for any time of day, so listen whenever you have the time. Today's pod features Yasmine Hamdan, Barbara Lewis, the Mavericks, Dan Auerbach, Sugar, Meat Puppets, Canned Heat, Johnny Winter, Little Feat, Stephen Stills, Gene Clark, Little Richard, Courtney Barnett, World Party,Lloyd Cole, and Aztec Camera.

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  • 50 years ago - 50. I remember 1967 - I was 7 for most of the year. Not sure that I would have tagged 1967 as the Summer of Love, but I was 7, doing what most boys did in 1967 - not think about love. The music was great - I was listening to the radio in 1967 and heard many great songs. Until the release of Sgt. Pepper, we mostly thought about music in terms of singles. Many of the songs on this podcast, featuring the songs of 1967, began life as singles that you'd hear on the radio every day. So let's jump into the old time machine, crank it back 50 years to 1967, and listen to great tunes from Cream, the Box Tops, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Four Tops, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, Stevie Wonder, the Byrds, the Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Hollies, Donovan, and the Kinks.

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  • In my mid-20's I found it hard to read. I went to the eye doctor, and sure enough, I needed glasses to read. My distance vision was better than 20-20, so I was fine there. Until last year. If I squinted, my vision was fine, but I really started to need to wear glasses all the time, and I have started wearing glasses full-time. 

    Now, it's my hearing. I went to get my hearing checked a couple of years ago, but I didn't do anything other than be armed with the amount of hearing loss I had. What has happened in the interim is that my hearing has gotten a little worse, to the point where if I'm in a crowd I can't hear anyone speaking, so I'll go quiet. Not a good move. So earlier this week I finally got hearing aids. They're the behind-the-ear type, and are basically invisible. Now I hear more sounds - did I really need to hear more sounds? I did not miss some of the little sounds that I now hear - I wish that I could be more selective in what I hear, but that's not really an option. 

    The other advantage to these hearing aids is that there is a music option that widens the spectrum of what I hear, so music sounds even better than before. That helps with this week's podcast, which has Robert Palmer, Graham Parker, the Zombies, Holly Golightly, the Blasters, Dire Straits, the Golden Palominos, Cactus World News, the Woodentops, the Ohio Express, Tommy James & the Shondells, the Rascals, the Association, Johnny Rivers, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and the Staple Singers.

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  • Happy Canada Day (yesterday) It's the sesquicentennial celebration (that's 150, y'all) of the day. It''s similar (in a way) to our Independence Day ( a welcome to summer), but far less bloody (and less significant - read about it). We'll be celebrating the next few days fairly traditionally. Today is dogs and burgers day (although I'll be making my spicy Asian turkey burgers as a variation of the classic burger), tomorrow is lobsters day, and then we'll have rotisserie turkey day on Tuesday. No starving with us this (elongated) weekend. Hope your 4th activities will be as fun (and filling). 
     
    Although not specifically done with the 4th in mind, today's podcast is meant to nbe played loudly at family get-togethers, so let's listen to Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, James Brown, Kevin Morby, Bert Jansch, Oumou Sangare, Adam and the Ants, the Stranglers, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Beach Fossils, All We Are, and Wild Beasts. 

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  • Hey, what a great week! On Tuesday my son and I went to Portland to see Gary Clark, Jr. and My Morning Jacket play at Thompson's Point. Thompson's Point is an outdoor venue, and the weather turned out fabulous! The temperature stayed about 70 for the show, and the weather had cleared out so we had a beautiful evening. My Morning Jacket was great - 2 1/2 hours of incredible music. I suggest that you see  them if you can. 

    Today (Sunday) I'm heading down to see the Red Sox play the Yankees at Fenway Park. I'm in the bleachers, so I'll burn to a crisp (It's supposed to be sunny and in the 80's - I'll have to find shade every once in a while). They've split the first two games in dramatic fashion, so I hope today's game (Game 1 of a double header after they went 16 innings yesterday) is as dramatic (and that the home team wins). 

    Hope y'all are having a great summer, too. To celebrate my great week I've got a great podcast lined up, with My Morning Jacket, Gary Clark, Jr., the Pretenders, Peter Perrett, Charlie Musselwhite, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Joe Goddard, the Clang Group, Galaxie 500, Dream Stars, Os Apolos, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. 

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  • It's been a pretty good summer - and today the awful humidity goes away for...wow, awhile. It'll come back in August, no doubt, but I'll enjoy the weather (even the rainy days) for now. Time, as always, seems to hurtle by now - it's a week away from August and I can't believe the year is flying by again - is that a sign of age or the fact that time has actually sped up? No time to contemplate that now - maybe in the winter. Time seems a bit slower when it's snowing.

    Today's podcast dips into the past to bring you some classic tunes by Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Yardbirds, Golden Earring, Sniff 'n' the Tears, Raphael Saadiq, Cody ChestnuTT, Darondo, Lyres, the Fleshtones, the Detroit Cobras, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Grinderman. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Confession: I am a reader. According to Goodreads, I have read 39 books so far this year. That's pretty good for me. I like to read all types of books, with mystery type books probably leading the way. I've begun to read more non-fiction as I've grown older, but I'll need to step  that up as I progress through this year. 

    I was an early reader - with 4 older siblings, I wanted to be as grown up as they were, and pushed myself to learn some of their skills so I could be like them. They were very helpful in teaching me words and figuring out how to sound out words - to get meaning in what was on the page. 

    That learning led to a love of reading, and I have immersed myself in books ever since. It's a great learning tool. Many times I'll toss out a fact when speaking to people, and they seem amazed at how i know certain things. When they ask me how I know something, I usually reply, "Oh, I read it some place." I can pick these facts up even in the fiction I read: I'll get an excellent description of a place or task or object, which may lead me to learning more about that subject, and it becomes knowledge. It's pretty scattershot, so I know a little about a lot, and not a lot about any one subject. I am a dilettante - I've always known that. 

    Music may be my deppest subject (used to be baseball) - and I've got a podcast that looks at a lot of different music for today. So let's listen to
    Jacqueline Taieb, the Raspberries, Badfinger, Todd Rundgren, Luscious Jackson, the Bees, Buzzcocks, the Stranglers, the Pretenders, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, the Cash Box Kings, Charles Brown, and Lurrie Bell while reading a good book for the summer.    

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  • No time to write - big, fun summer Sunday today - leaving in a few minutes. Just time to post the podcast this morning. 

    Enjoy Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin, Dr. John, Dan Auerbach, the Black Keys, Richard Berry, John Lee Hooker, Marshall Crenshaw, Endless Boogie, Morrissey, the Smiths, the Jam, and Paul Weller.

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  • So, I'm forced up early today, to take of something "before there's traffic". After we're done our morning delivery, we eat breakfast and Kate starts complaining that it's too early, an that no stores are open. I don't think she understands the concept of no traffic = no stores being open. I think we could have waited a bit, and not have me get out of bed mid-dream at 6:30 this morning. 

    Well, I finally learned how to get my podcasts on iTunes - I had 17 followers the first day, all fake bot accounts. I feel so good. Not sure it'll do much for me - next step is figuring out how to get more people informed. Social media here I come! That doesn't change the great podcast I have for y'all today, with the Bats, Juana Molina, Hot Chip, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Jim James, Damien Jurado, Cream, Ten Years After, Savoy Brown, Chic, Rufus, and the Ohio Players. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Went to see Chris Isaak last night. He was in great form, singing many great songs that spanned his career. It's nice to see someone perform with a tight band (a couple of the band members had been with him over 30 years), and their set was pretty flawless. I have to say that the level of performance that I see lately in concerts has been very high - true, I mainly see older performers who have years of touring behind them, but even a group like My Morning Jacket played real well. 

    It's good to see live music, and I'm glad that I get the opportunity sometimes to see live acts in my area. For now, we have to rely on podcasts, like today's with the Bats, Juana Molina, Hot Chip, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jim James, Damien Jurado, Cream, Ten Years After, Savoy Brown, Chic, Rufus, and the Ohio Players. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • It's mid-week - just finished with the recycling this morning (recycling is important). Time for some jazz, so I've put together a jazzcast for today. My voice is very froggy today - I've got to improve my speaking skills - man I sound bad today - sorry. Well, I'll skip over the formalities and just say listen to the pod - now available on iTunes or other podcast apps (I use iCatcher - it's there as well). 

    It's old favorites day, so listen to Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington, Clifford Brown, Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Kenny Burrell, Tal Farlow, Grant Green, Stanley Turrentine, Allen Carter Big Band, and Stephane Grapelli. Thank you.

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • This has happened to me a lot - I'll think of something to write, only to forget what I was going to talk about and sit here blankly on Sunday morning. Is it age? I'd like to blame it on getting old, but I think that I was always this way. Thing is, I had thought out the whole piece - now it's gone. What was it about? That vexes me, as I can't think what it was. Maybe my knee (for another time)? Maybe the change in the weather (Cool nights are great).  The world may never know. 

    I mean, I'm bad with names, and always have been. I blank so often on names that it can be disconcerting - I can tell you a full history of the person, down to when and where we met, but the name? Blank. And running through a list doesn't work - the name evades me (stupid brain). How can I get better at that? 

    Well, in all that I've forgotten, I did do a podcast for Labor Day (amybe it was Labor Day - nah, let it go). Let's listen to names I've forgotten like Norah Jones, Neil Finn, Trailer Trash Tracys, Chris Isaak, Thin Lizzy, Talking Heads, New Order, ABC, Gotye, That Petrol Emotion, the Specials, Steely Dan, and Neil Young.

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • 1987 - the year I started checking out of music for awhile (current music, that is). Real life was taking over so I focused on a job and my family - both are still going well (a couple of careers later). The music I'm playing from 30 years ago is pretty much straight ahead of what I was listening to back then, the "alternative" music of the day that mostly seems like mainstream today. 

    So let's set the time machine back 30 years and listen to Prince, R.E.M., the Cure, ABC, Terence Trent D'Arby, Suzanne Vega with DNA, MARRS, the Replacements, Robbie Robertson, the Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, Swing Out Sister, and Depeche Mode. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.

  • In a way, I think it's stupid to say this, but be careful if you're anywhere near Hurricane Irma (or Jose, or Katia, or whatever else is being cooked up out in the ocean). I think that by now everyone knows that it's coming, and that hopefully everyone who needs to be gone is gone. We're at the point where we don't need to talk about what is caused by climate change (I try to stay apolitical, and can't believe that acknowledging climate change is political, but there you go) - this </strong>is a major, major storm, with winds and tons of rain - stay away and hope for the best. Look, even Rush "liberal hoax" Limbaugh left - that's how bad it is. 

    As you go on the run, or are away from the immediate danger, listen to today's podcast, with Love & Rockets, Kate Bush, Bryan Ferry, the Ettes, Holly Golightly, Joe Jackson, XTC, Frankie Rose, Bitter:Sweet, the Supreme Beings of Leisure, the Jags, Spirit, and Vanilla Fudge. And donate if you can to help the newly-displaced - we've given to HOuston once (and will do so again), and will find somewhere to donate to help Florida. Stay safe.

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Time to talk about my left knee, which is now constantly talking to me. It's taken a beating over the years - odd sprain in college (snow football - the inner part of the knee was sprained - I guess the outside is usually where the sprain occurs), and a meniscus tear in 2000 (from basketball? - who knows). I had surgery for that, 2 months after getting it checked, so I had an additional time with the pain (of course, I didn't do anything about it for at least 2 months).

    Now I have pain that started out occasionally but is now pretty constant. There's a dull pain that goes from minor to really painful at certain times of the day. It was usually when I got up after sitting for a period of time. It didn't hurt when I was walking, which I took as a good sign. Well, I took it as a sign that I probably had some arthritis in the knee. I have some arthritis in my fingers, so I know the pain. I also know that for my fingers there is nothing to do about the pain - maybe some anti-inflammatories. 

    I'm not sure that there is much swelling in my knee, though, which might be bothersome. I was in real pain most of last week, but have been pretty good this weekend. So what do I do? I suppose that I should get it checked, although I'm sure the Doctor will say it's arthritis and shrug, like "What can you do? Take some anti-inflammatories if the pain is too much." Ugh, some chronic pain - the truest sense of getting old. Other than that, I'm fine. I feel pretty good, health-wise. I'm trying to convince my knee that it really doesn't have any reason to be in pain - no real stress is being applied to it anymore, and since it feels better when I walk, it's not from strain. 

    Let's forget about the pain and move onto some music, that will soothe the savage knee pain. Today we've put together a podcast with Roxy Music, Lloyd Cole, the War on Drugs, Rotary Connection, Isaac Hayes, Buddy Miles, the Temptations, Adrian Belew, the Guess Who, Fleetwood Mac, the Electric Light Orchestra,  Jerry Garcia, Lee "Scratch" Perry with Bill Laswell, and Black Uhuru.

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • I wish it were as musical at The Knee Plays. More like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • I've got a busy day today. Along with all my regular chores (laundry, making supper, cleaning), I'll be going to my wife's school to build a train table. My wife is teaching kindergarten, and in order to spend as much of her salary as possible on school supplies for the kids, she decided that she needed a wooden train set for her kids, and so she bought a train set with a train table. Of course, the table has not been put together, so I'll be going in to get it set up, much like I put almost everything together for her class, whether she has paid for shelving, etc. or not. 

    The life of a public school teacher is filled with decisions on how to make sure that there are adequate materials for his/her children, and that they generally are buying things for the room because we do not adequately fund public education. Hmm, maybe there's a better way to fund education than relying on local property taxes to...nah, let's not go there. It happens everywhere - remember that next time you hear how overpaid teachers are - they make less for their amount of education than most people with a college degree (or more - many now have Master's degrees). And in how many jobs do people spend a decent amount of their salaries on supplying their businesses? 

    So that's what handyman Pat is doing this morning. And I'll have music with me, and that will include LCD Soundsystem, Toro y Moi, Hot Chip, Cracker, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ten Years After, the Who, Prefab Sprout, Kevin Coyne, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas & Tracy Nelson, Nina Simone, the Ronettes, and the Shirelles today. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Ed Asner stole my knee joke - time to call the Doctor about the pain in my knee (went away for a few days, but is excruciating right now). Really, how can I get it to be just dull pain? 

    Dropping a quick 1982 podcast on y'all today. Not much to say about 1982 - out of college, poor, working 2 or 3 part-time jobs for most of the year. Listen to Laurie Anderson, the Waitresses, XTC, Orange Juice, the English Beat, Marshall Crenshaw, Gang of Four, Marvin Gaye, Prince, Michael Jackson, Roxy Music, Kate Bush, and Joe Jackson. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.

  • Well, on Thursday night the weather changed from super hot (and humid, man was Wednesday humid) to autumn-like temperatures, falling into the 40's at night. You know, sleeping weather. I dug out my fall blanket and tossed it on the bed, and sure enough, sleeping was so much easier. I like keeping the window open at night, so with my blanket lower temperatures do not bother me - I'm snug and warm inside, and breathe nice cool air outside. Everyone around me has been talking about it - specifically, saying it's good sleeping weather - it's a thing, a meme. Maybe it's time to get rid of our air conditioners (checks 10-day forecast - nope, my wife will want it next week, with temperatures creeping back up to 80). Fall during the fall - what a concept.  

    Let's enjoy the cooler weather with sonme cool tunes, with artists like Spandau Ballet, Fine Young Cannibals, Buzzcocks, Magazine, the Easybeats, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nina Simone, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, the Magnetic Fields, Flash & the Pan, Fischer-Z, and Mink DeVille. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • It was another week of losing a rock star - this time Tom Petty. It's becoming more and more regular that we are losing the beloved rock stars of not too long ago. Chuck Berry died in March, but he was 90 years old. Tom Petty was just 60 years old, so we lost him earlier than we should have (similar to Prince). We don't know the cause of death yet for Tom - was it possibly related to his earlier heroin usage?

    We'll lose more rock stars in the coming months and years, some older, some younger. It's the new normal. We'll honor Tom in today's podcast, along with Peter Gabriel, Protomartyr, Tindersticks, David Bowie, the Left Banke, Fairport Convention, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys, Lone Justice, Maria McKee, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Treat Her Right, the Ruts, and the Beatles.

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • We had dogs for twenty-five years - first a black lab mix that we had for twelve years, then after a very brief period, a full-bred Siberian Husky that we had for thirteen years. It's been a couple of years now since Fiona passed, and we still don't have a dog. People ask if we're going to get a new dog, and the short answer is no (the longer answer is a stretched out no with more o's in the no, like this: "Noooooo"). 

    I miss having a dog. I never minded getting up in the morning and walking the dog, or getting home to walk the dog in the evening. I wish that dogs understood the concept of sleeping in on the weekends, but in truth I'm generally up early anyway. I miss the companionship of dogs, and occasionally go nuts when I see a particularly cute dog. If I really need a dog fix, I can go to my sister-in-laws to be with Benny. 

    Why we haven't gotten a dog is freedom. We can now travel without figuring out what we need to do with the dog. We don't have to cut our nights short (although we've also lost our leave early excuse - "we have to get back to our dog" was very convenient). We can go somewhere overnight on a whim (although we never do that) and not have to worry about parking the dog somewhere. 

    We do talk about getting another dog - after retirement. We're already arguing about what dog we'll get (Kate wants a small dog, while I want a real dog). BUt until our life becomes more sedentary, we'll remain dogless.

    If you have dog, good for you. When you're out walking your dog, take some music with you. On today's podcast, you can hear Barrett Strong, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the Animals, Sam Samudio, Jarvis Cocker, Squeeze, the Undertones, Radio Birdman, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Antibalas, and Fela Kuti.

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Today's my birthday. Many of you will wish me a happy birthday, some won't. That's fine - I don't bat 1.000 when it's friends' birthdays, either. I just don't keep that much of a social media presence. Thank you to everyone who does wish me the best today.

    I won't be doing anything special to celebrate my birthday - haven't done that since I was small. Birthdays and many holidays just aren't that special to me - the daily fight to be the best person I can be doesn't need days to celebrate any specific achievement. Holidays can be spent with family and friends - and those days are always special, regardless of the reason.  

    So, I've been on this earth for 58 years - a lot has happened during that period, and I hope that a lot more will happen in the time that is remaining in my life to improve people's lives. There's a lot of work to be done, and I'll try to do my part.

    Today's podcast celebrates the day of my birth with Charles Brown, Charlie Rich, Richard Thompson, John Martyn, Brian Eno, Bauhaus, Modest Mouse, the Go! Team, the Heavy, the Black Keys, Neon Indian, Everything But the Girl, the Royal We, and Memoryhouse. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • I will wish you a good birthday! My 59th was 20 days ago.
    Next birthday you can look forward to the time when your
    age will match the last two numbers of your birth year.
    I just finished with a year of that - not much difference,
    but still, a fun little "axis" point in your life. Have some cake!
  • And happy birthday from me too, I cruised past a youthful 55 earlier this month.
  • Halloween has become a major holiday. When did that happen? This day year is is expected that we will spend $10 billion (yes, BILLION) on costumes, candy, and other ephemera (decorations. People now go nuts putting up Halloween decorations). What caused this big shift from a night when kids went around getting candy (and apples and popcorn and pennies) to a huge industry? I couldn’t find the origins of when it became a thing (a big thing), and I’m not interested in the origins of Halloween. It’s a recent phenomenon, though. Can’t we go back to simpler times, or am I just being an old-timer crank (I’m willing to concede that I’m an old-timer crank)? Happy Halloween, fellow ghosts and goblins.

    Today’s spooky podcast (not really) has tunes from Marshall Crenshaw, Lydia Loveless, Beck, Robert Forster, Dhan Harrison, Hot Chip, Souljazz Orchestra, Tricky, the Bamboos, Marina P, James Brown, Ike & Tina Turner, Mose Allison, and
    Percy Mayfield. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Do you know what trip-hop is? I didn't, although I love many of the artists in the genre. Take it away, Wikipedia: "Trip hop (sometimes called "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990's in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as "a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognizable," and may incorporate a variety of styles, including funk, dub, soul, psychedelia, R&B, and house, as well as other forms of electronic music." Sounds mostly like soul music to me, with some electronica mixed in. I love the female voice with simple backing, which is what most of the music I have here is like. 

    Please listen to this: it's not overly experimental - it incorporates some soundtrack-like sounds along with just great singing (mostly by women). So listen to Soul II Soul, Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Little Dragon, Morcheeba, Beth Orton, Dot Allison, Portishead, Everything But the Girl, Hooverphonic, Tricky, and DJ Shadow. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • Well, we fell back this morning. Daylight Savings time ended. Still unsure of why we do this There's a movement afoot in some New England states to change to the Atlantic time zone, and not switching to Daylight Savings time - so we'd always essentially be on daylight savings time. 

    I'm a little late getting this out today - ending daylight savings didn't help me, as I was up late putting together a podcast (I got a bit behind in getting this ready this week). So I definitely used the extra hour of sleep this morning 

    Celebtare the changing of the time with St. Vincent, Guided by Voices, Supreme Beings of Leisure, the Yardbirds, Jackie Shane, Love, Ohio Players, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Dwight Yoakam, kd lang, Bob Dylan, Kevin Morby, New Order, John Maus, and Wild Beasts. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
  • It seems like the end of the year has become holiday heavy. Halloween has turned from a small “give some kids some candy” to a major event, with billions spent for 2-3 hours of trick-or-treating. Next up is Veteran’s Day, which has a Federal Holiday attached to it. This is a good holiday, and one in which I encourage everyone to take the time to thank veterans for their service. I’d like to thank all the people I know who have served - my father (passed away), my brother Joe, and all of my friends. It means a lot to me that you sacrificed for our country, and make no mistake, it is a sacrifice, and a way to say how much they love this country. 

    Next up in the holiday timeline is Thanksgiving, a time best spent with family, but also the Friday after, which is the biggest shopping day of the year. Because Thanksgiving leads to Christmas. Actually, at this point Halloween leads to Christmas. Advertising all has turned to Christmas shopping, stores are decorated for Christmas, music has begun to have that holiday feel, and we’re all turned into holiday zombies. Fight it, and remember what Christmas is supposed to be about (the Sears Wishbook? No). 

    Let’s celebrate the holiday season with the Five Stairsteps, Beck, Gregg Allman, Led Zeppelin, Happy Mondays, the Cult, Blue Oyster Cult, Dave Edmunds, Blondie, That Petrol Emotion, the Style Council, Los Lobos, the Blasters, and Webb Wilder. 

    This podcast is available to stream or download at http://brennick.net. It's now also available on iTunes - it's called brennick.net (couldn't figure out how to change the name - there you go). Thank you for taking the time to stream or download this podcast, or any of the other podcasts which are all still available at the site. Please leave comments and suggestions (I do read the comments), and share this with other like-minded friends. Thank you.
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