Wilco

I haven't had much time for blogging recently, so I'm going to put up some video of one of my fave bands playing a tune from their new record Sky Blue Sky which . . . I don't like very much as a whole. If nothing else, I'm not a big fan of the latest incarnation of Tweedy's style. I've already blogged about his 'grotesque beard' phase, so I'm not even going to touch this one.

Speaking of new records, the latest hipster trend that I've been following has been to begin playing vinyl. I've collected records for awhile, but more for nostalgia than for the audio benefit that it can offer. Inspired by a good friend who sent me two early U2 45s from the UK, I got a new belt put on my Dad's old record player and away I went. Sky Blue Sky is the first new record that I bought on vinyl. So, there you have it.

Chrismation '07

At the end of March I was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church along with my fiance Olivia and our friends Jeremy and Kara. It was a moving and profound experience -- one that cannot be adequately described in words. Below are a few pictures of the ceremony, although in the absence of words these pictures are not of the hightest quality either.