I mentioned last time that I wasn't really enjoying my job. I felt too old to mix it up with the youngsters at a New York technology start-up. But after a few years of job hunting, I finally landed a “proper job” with a manufacturing company in Pennsylvania. It was a 1-hour drive each way, but that meant 2 hours listening to new music in the car every day. I was listening to some pretty crazy stuff, a lot of home-recordings from experimental artists. To save your ears and sanity, most of the music in this episode is more accessible tunes discovered later.
Elsewhere, more important events are afoot. While the Black Lives Matter hashtag was already in use with the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson bring it to main-stream attention.
The world grapples with events in Ukraine and Crimea and, as the new year begins, a new presence in the middle east that nobody's heard of. Is it ISIS or ISIL?
This and other questions will completely fail to be answered. Welcome to 2014.
