December 28th, 2011
One Box of Memories only $25
Sentimentality is curse…especially when you’re trying to clean and organize your home. We just sold a box of more than 100 CDs for a mere $25 and watching some of them go was tough, and it really shouldn’t be, should it?
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June 27th, 2011
Nashville and the unconventional convention
This year’s vacation was back south, to Nashville this time, but the motivation wasn’t because we couldn’t find a better city to visit, it was toys. Nashville was home to a diecast car convention and I was excited to attend. I went ready buy more Hot Wheels and get the word out about Redline Derby…neither [...]
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April 29th, 2011
Discovering music by career
How do you search new for music? Probably by genre, or maybe by artist. But have you ever thought about discovering music based on what type of job you have? I didn’t but it turns out that’s a great way to find and enjoy new music.
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August 1st, 2010
Weezer, they’re still makin’ noise
I wasn’t a concert going kid. I didn’t start really going to concerts until I was really done with college. Sure, I went to a few in high school but it was usually because someone had a free ticket. I guess I figured I could spend my money on something better. Thankfully my wife came [...]
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July 11th, 2010
The Weird Al show
Last week I saw Cinderella in concert, up close, I might add. While trying to enjoying the hair metal I also had to worry about the drunk next to me, behind me, and in front of me. Plus, that one guy that crowd surfed…oh, and the fight that broke out a few people away. Then [...]
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October 3rd, 2009
Manic Street Preachers in Detroit
As is somewhat normal, one night Jen was talking about one of her favorite Brit bands, the Manic Street Preachers, telling me tales of when she saw them long ago and how awesome they are…well, awesome in Britain but not really known here. The Manics were releasing a new album and I mentioned she should [...]
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August 2nd, 2009
The Alice Cooper show
It should come as no surprise that Alice Cooper knows how to put on a show. He’s been doing it for 30+ years and seemingly hasn’t changed much. By this point in history most people know Alice’s gimmicks - the guillotines, the hanging, blood, horror - but even though I knew what was coming, it [...]
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June 3rd, 2009
Space invaders, now more extreme than before
When I got my Nintendo DS one of the first games I got hooked on was Space Invaders Extreme. It took the classic Invaders model and turned it up to 11. More colors, more sounds, more invaders, complete and glorious chaos. And it was tough too, enough to challenge any arcade fan like myself. But [...]
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February 28th, 2009
The Speedway shopping spree
What will $100 get you at Speeday? I’m going to find out. Through luck, fortune, and just knowing the right person, a $100 Speedway gift card found its way to my wallet. Now first thoughts might simply say, “that’s $100 worth of gas,” and that’s true, but Speedway is an entire universe full of consumables.
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February 12th, 2009
Now taking YOUR calls
As if you didn’t already have enough reason to listen to CAVEradio on Thursday nights, now YOU can be on the show! After some trial and error, and a little rearranging, we managed to figure out how to take your calls and put you live on the air.
If you have Skype, you can call in [...]
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November 18th, 2008
When band logos go bad
I like logos. I’m a logo nerd. Logos are some of my favorite things to look at and design, albeit not always successful. Good logos are hard to design. I think logos are special to design because while they are meant to communicate, they don’t have to be straight forward.
Some logos are simply the name [...]
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October 13th, 2008
Give the album a chance
What was the last new release album you bought at the store? If you’re like me, you haven’t purchased a new album in a long, long time. Sure, an album from the used store every now and then is fine, but the music you’re buying is probably at least five years old. New music seems [...]
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September 2nd, 2008
Jerry Reed, that guy from Scooby-Doo
Next to music, cartoons could be the biggest influence in my life. I’ve learned a lot from cartoons over the years and continue to enjoy them to this day (although the newer cartoons just aren’t as good). My knowledge of classical music comes from cartoons, my first taste of Rube Goldberg came from cartoons, and [...]
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August 18th, 2008
The Presidents and Amazon MP3
Despite my regular use of iTunes for playing and sometimes purchasing music, I’m not necessarily an iTunes-lover. I think iTunes is a nice music organizer/player. It certainly has its issues and I can’t say I’ve been 100% happy with it, but it does the trick. But then there’s the music, by far the biggest wrinkle [...]
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August 16th, 2008
A reason to keep your CDs
Our walls are pretty bare. Shy of a few of my old college paintings and a couple prints, we don’t have much hanging around. We don’t like cluttered, busy walls anyway, but you have to have something on the walls otherwise it looks too…well, too migrant. Bare walls work if you have some sort of [...]
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August 16th, 2008
Don’t bust a Nutsie
I’ve been using FineTune.com for on-line music for a long time now. I’ve found it to be be all I need to get through my day. At FineTune you pick songs to add to your pool (playlist) and then it plays back those songs in random order. You never know what song is going to [...]
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August 5th, 2008
Tesla, still comin’ atcha live…again
You go to a concert early for one reason: to get good seats. And even though we saw Tesla in concert just six months ago, we still showed up early to make sure we got the spot we wanted. Last time we saw Tesla it was bare nuts cold outside and the line to get [...]
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May 5th, 2008
My Chemical Romance and those damn teenagers
My Chemical Romance came to town just about a year ago, on tour for their The Black Parade album. They were scheduled to perform two days before we were to leave for Seattle for summer vacation. But that night the band got food poisoning so they rescheduled…for the next night. Had they played the next [...]