Kent Fackenthall

  • The Travel Playlist

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    I recently took a family vacation to California and in addition to packing and making sure everyone’s assorted stuffed animals were in tow, I did the most important thing; stock the iPod with music. This will be boring to some (most?) but to music geeks like me it’s a big deal, especially when you consider…

  • Ring ring.

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    The ringing. It’s always there, the ringing. Drown out the ringing. Ignore the ringing. Mute the ringing. I can hear the ringing around the corners. Under the cracks, the ringing. I can see it in the dark. Droning. Drowning. Ringing. Sometimes it’s way down the hallway. Distant. Tiny. Somedays it rattles the teeth in my…

  • I just saw Led Zeppelin.

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    Well, the next best thing actually. Kiers Marketing where I work sponsored the Classic Albums Live show at The Fredericton Playhouse tonight so I got to go for free. For the uninitiated, this is a group of guys who travel around performing classic rock records in their entirety, note for note. Tonight’s platter du jour…

  • Taking The 100 Thing Challenge.

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    I recently finished the book The 100 Thing Challenge in which it’s author, Dave Bruno, attempts to live for a year with only 100 personal items. He did this in response his  fatigue with what he called ‘American Style Consumerisim‘ and in an effort to simplify his life and make more room for the important things.…

  • Juke Box Hero, with apologies to Foreigner.

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    I couldn’t get a ticket. It was a sold out show. Well, really, I probably couldn’t have gotten a sitter either anyway, and it was a weeknight and I had to be up for work the next day and the headliners weren’t going on until 10:30 and that’s pretty late for me, and…. I have…

  • My Albums of 2011.

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    Here’s the albums I dug the most, mostly for 2011. No particular order. Enjoy. Sam Roberts Band – ColliderI had hailed Love At the End of the World as Sam’s finest record yet to most of the people I argue about music with (ok, well, ONE person). But I think this record stepped it up…