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About Me

I am an online music retailer located at http://www.ear-rational.com. I've been around since 1992. I prefer green grapes to red, green apples to red, and black olives to green. A bunch of my teeth have crowns.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who want to buy ambient, electronic, experimental, IDM, grime, dubstep, and the like.

Music:

The Dandy Warhols, Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, WCKR SPGT, Lowlife, Buffalo Springfield, No-Man, The Vaselines, The Snapdragons, Ulrich Schnauss, Ovuca, Gate Zero, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Kingmaker, Lida Husik, The Haywains, Smoke &Mirrors, Michael & Spider, Red Wedding, Hey Taxi!

Movies:

House of Games, The Limey, Homicide, Letters from Iwo Jima, Office Space, Sunshine, Mr. Brooks, The Hunting Party, Babel

Television:

Weeds, Boston Legal, CSI, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Shield

Books:

What are "books"?

My Blog

And still more 1994

OK, here is the final installment of reviews from 1994. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I just did...A Small, Good Thing - Slim Westerns (Soleilmoon)Let's say you like ambient music. Let's sa...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:03:00 PST

More from 1994

Another set of reviews I sent to the EAR/Rational email list in 1994...Hope you have/had a happy 4th! I was all set to sit back and watch USA beat Brasil (I can dream, can't I?) when I heard that Andr...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:14:00 PST

Here is something I wrote in 1994

April 20th, 1994. No www to speak of. I had been running EAR/Rational for a year and a half at that point. Here are some reviews I sent out to my mailing list on that day. Everything below this is a v...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:20:00 PST

The compact disc is 25 years old!

I haven't written anything for quite a while, and when I saw this article, I thought it would be a good one to link in.EAR/Rational Music started on August 17, 1992, when the CD was exactly 10 years o...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:45:00 PST

Where have you gone, Arthur Russell? (A nation turns its lonely eyes to you)

Sometimes the best part of running this business involves no money or products changing hands. In early December (2004) I received an order for six copies of Arthur Russell's "World of Echo" DVD+CD. (...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:42:00 PST

Above all, gather no moss

On August 20th, 2005, I received an email from one of my sales reps asking me "Is it crazy there, or what?" I had no idea what she was talking about, so I emailed her back and she told me that Fluxblo...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:38:00 PST

Nostalgia Comes Full Circle

Music has always been an important part of my life. I owe a great deal to my 6th grade music teacher (sadly, whose name I have forgotten) who encouraged each of us to bring our LPs (no CDs back then!)...
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:36:00 PST

welcome

We'll start mirroring postings from our blog on the EAR/Rational Music site.
Posted by EAR/Rational Music on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:34:00 PST