While everyone in the Los Angeles area vacated the city in favor of Cochella, I wandered the silent streets of Echo Park alone. Okay, it wasn’t that silent, and I wasn’t that alone, it was record store day yesterday and the shop in my neighborhood was well crowded having its own little Cochella… anyway, [...]

I can remember it well to this day. It was early evening on a Friday in the dealers room of a star trek convention in Denver Colorado. A day and time of year more holy to me than Christmas. It was the first day of my favorite weekend of the year. [...]