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Month: May 2008

IRON DJ: No, let’s just be enemies!

2008/05/29 by Jim Leave a Comment

…in which I take you on a sonic adventure through the beginning, end, and aftermath of a trainwreck relationship. No one relationship in particular, I’ve been married so long I don’t remember any others, really. 🙂 But this is a mix that not only progresses through a series of moods but which also purports to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Podcasts Tagged: …and you will know us by the trail of dead, aretha franklin, beach boys, ben folds five, bill withers, david bowie, ELO, iggy pop, iron dj, matthew sweet, pulp, queen, stevie wonder, the police, the slackers, unbunny

Last of the V8 Interceptors

2008/05/19 by Jim Leave a Comment

Now that the world has ended, what happens next? Thanks to the miracle of MTV, we now have some answers. I have been wanting to do an 80s mix for a while, and as I thought about those songs and that time in my life, I found that the music and the videos for the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Podcasts Tagged: art of noise, billy ocean, duran duran, fishbone, king, max headroom, patty smyth, peter schilling, queen, rick springfield, scandal, styx, taco, the hooters, the police, tina turner, world party

Mission Accomplished

2008/05/05 by Jim Leave a Comment

A couple of them actually.  Brewing, bottling, and watching men in shiny flying armor pummel the crap out of each other.  No photos though.  Hopefully I will document the next brew session photographically as well.   Well the weekend was successful, though not without its hiccups.  For example, when digging out my all-grain brewing equipment … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings Tagged: beer, brewing, good weekend, hetero lifemate, iron man, oatmeal stout

On Tap for this weekend…

2008/05/01 by Jim Leave a Comment

I plan on brewing my second batch of the year, and my first all-grain batch in a few years.  I’ve put together what I think will be a decent little recipe for an Oatmeal Stout.  I tried making on once before but I tried it as an extract-based recipe, and you just can’t do extract … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings Tagged: beer, brewing, oatmeal stout

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