Execupundit – The blog we all wish we were writing.

Eclecticity – Music and more. No idea where he finds all this stuff, but am sure glad he does.

Cultural Offering – Kurt’s mix of business, entertainment, family and more rounds out the trifecta.

Individually – awesome. Collectively – all you really need.

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When I started Sensory Dispensary, my intention was for it to be a place where I could share things that affected me in some fashion. Be it music, art, photography, humor, whatever it was. The senses tie-in seemed logical for that.

I think I have done a fair job of keeping to that mission, albeit much more sporadically than I would have liked. I hope to do better.

But where this place is to share those items that thrill, my days aren’t really all that exciting for the most part. For every great video I see there are hundreds of mundane events and interactions. I thought it might be interesting to create a place for those things as well.

So – A Mundane Life is born. A sister-blog if you will. A place to celebrate the uneventful things that fill the rest of my days.

Please check it out and subscribe if you like. I’ve also created a fancy page on the facebooks if you’re in to that sort of thing. If you like the facebook page, my posts will pop up right in to your news feed automatically.

As a reminder – Sensory Dispensary also has it’s own facebook page for your viewing, reading and dancing pleasure. It would be great if you would like that as well.

The time context is just one of the many examples of their legacy but one of the most powerful, and really one of my favorite things to talk about.

With many artists now taking years between recordings, I try to think of The Beatles working in that mode. Imagine them on a 3 year release cycle which would move them from Please Please Me in 63 to Revolver in 66 to Abbey Road in 69.

When you pull out the recordings in between you see the real magic that happened there. The transformation of a band that evolved so incredibly quickly, riding a wave of creativity that is truly unmatched.

Listen to just those three in order and it’s startling.

Is that really the same band?

Add the others back in and the pieces fit more logically, but think about how necessary those other recordings were in that evolution. If they hadn’t done things exactly as they did, well, it wouldn’t have happened the same way.

And they did a lot. In addition to the full album releases, there were countless other singles, a couple tours in those early years, television appearances, promotional videos and oh yeah – they made a couple of movies as well. All at a staggering level of quality and innovation.

If they had really taken 3 years in between, would we have ended up at the same place? What they did in their brief recording years is nothing short of miraculous.

Tears for Fears from The Hurting

I peer through the window
knock at the door
and the monster I was
so afraid of
lies curled up on the floor

Things have to get pretty bad for me to let Comcast back in my house. Multiple folks trying to up-sell me on unrelated services while I am trying to resolve a support issue takes the cake. No I really don’t want to tell you why I like my satellite service, I’d really just like to know why I can’t get a decent download speed on my DSL.

Ultimately I got in touch with someone in upper tier support who could partially help but the damage long done by that point.