Just finished reading American Sphinx which is one of the best books I've ever read, and Thomas Jefferson is one of the most fascinating Americans of all time. What a story! I cannot wait to get to Monticello to check out his home. This should be required reading for every American. What an idealist and a real rebel.
Sometimes in acquiring more music than I can digest I end up revisiting a disc that I overlooked and end up pleasantly surprised. This happened this past weekend with The Slaughterhouse by Prince from 2004. What a nasty burning slab of funk - crazy that he can lay down grooves like this and they never see commercial release. This one isn't easy to find - it was originally available as a download from his website... worth tracking down if you can get your hands on it. Prince churns out so much material it can be hard to keep up. This one along with The Chocolate Invasion are actually better than a couple of his latest commercial releases such as Planet Earth (maybe my least favorite Prince album ever) and Musicology.
Threw on Are You Experienced? by The Jimi Hendrix Experience as well. Man... I can't imagine what it must have been like for people to throw this on for the first time in 1967. Still amazes... as does everything he did. I need to remember sometimes when people ask me what I'm listening to these days to simply answer Hendrix, Zeppelin and Sabbath. That will never be the wrong answer.
That's all I have for now...
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