I'm not sure how to make a hyperlocal link to this blog, so I'll just post and let the community decide how to handle it.

I was watching an entertainment program this morning featuring Meat Loaf (Adair) of "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" fame.  He spoke of the transition of the music industry from the 70s-80s when you sold 30 million records to the 90s when you sold 20 million if you were really hot to today where the quantites are much less.

Obviously the Day of the Download is here to stay.

It made me think about those days when you called a friend and said, "Hey, I've got the new Tower of Power and new Stevie Wonder albums.  Grab a bottle of wine, come on over and let's listen to them."

When was the last time you truly shared music with friends in a social situation?  Not a house party, but an intimate gathering of just a few to listen to the newest, latest, greatest, or maybe something old and fine that hasn't been played in a long time. (I remember my friend Gary and I reviving "Woodstock" every now and then to try to figure out what Alvin Lee was really saying when he ran out of words.

Share a great music adventure on this post.  Bring up an old memory or a new experience.

Put down that damned mp3 player and take off those earbuds, man!

Synergy: The 7th Annual Sustainable Living Conference kick's off tomorrow, May 19th, at The Evergreen State College. Some of Monday highlights include:

• Native Story Telling Kickoff with Pauline Hillaire of the Lummi Nation.
  10:00 AM - Lecture Hall Rotunda
• Thurston County Environmental Health Workshops
  11:00 AM - Hazards on the Homefront
  1:00 PM - Toxins in Personal Care
  Lecture Hall Rotunda
• Dan Daniels, Director of Olympia Waste ReSources
  3:00 PM - D1105
  Cullen Stephenson, Deputy Director of Puget Sound Partnership
  4:00 PM - D1105

All Synergy events are FREE of charge and open to the public, all are encouraged to attend. A full schedule for the weeklong event as well as bio's and event descriptions can be found at:

http://www.evergreen.edu/synergy

How well do you know Olympia? Here's the game: Each Saturday (or Sunday) I post a picture from somewhere around Olympia and people try to figure out its location. The first person who gets it correct is the first person who correctly got the location *yay!*.