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The time of year comes to devote some brain cells to the best albums of 2011, usually done in before year is over, a bit late this year, but better late than never. Trying to strike that whole balance between objectivity and old favorites, what comes out is what’s occupying my ears the most in [...]

An interesting venture this summer was Cinque Terre, a place I’d imagine would slide right into the ocean sooner than later without maintenance.  One of those books that changed my life, The World Without Us, I see it in real life here, both somewhere to marvel at the creations of humanity and marvel at the [...]

A wise sage delivers this message via google talk.  This reminds me to beat stress and re-balance life, and understand when you’ve become busy just being busy and work to do something about it.  Life’s too short   I haven’t written all summer despite amazing things always happening….I hope to break the gridlock word by word. [...]

If I had to sum up life for the summer in a post, it’d resemble something like the Transfăgărășan road, and the stark differences in seeing it in real life vs. the lens of a navigation system. It’s had its twists and turns and excitement, not to mention a brilliant vibrancy.  It’s the difference between seeing something [...]

Making a blanket generalization it seems as if everytime I try to capture the spirit of Europe in a song it meanders back to A Lady of a Certain Age.  Seems as if Europe is way ahead when it comes to a balanced and integrated approach to life, a feeling and a history that’s too [...]

Public Spaces in Stuttgart – Fantastic for people watching

I can’t recall the time (if ever) I went to a party that started at midnight, so a new experience was in the works Saturday night. Perkins Park VIP, we make the trek for a birthday party.  I forgot that people actually stay up late these days, looking around going ‘wow,’ this place (the whole city) is packed! Two [...]

Thinking today about the quote ‘the truth of the future will be told not with the pen, but the eraser’ — I guess it applies to credit leveraged personal and sovergn debt, but more in context of true ‘social’ initiatives. A paraphrased story goes… Some Harvard hot shot is sitting in a room for of [...]

Back in the days of being a desk jockey in Austin Texas, I always dreamed about living in the Euro zone.  Now here, the roaring tempo is something that which I never could have imagined.  Life decisions catapult you into the realms of possibility, often I ponder that quotation that goes something like “I’m struck [...]

what a heck of a ride its been from Lord Anthony here at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA orchestra  to the same song in Vienna many years later in some gas tanks