I've had a string of excellent subway music encounters that warrant sharing: A melancholy, yearning, embellished cover of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive played on the marimba at the 7th Ave F stop in Brooklyn.

Not the theme to Laura, but something very close, very Hollywood, played on an erhu at the downtown Prince Street R stop in Manhattan.

A middle aged guy in a Hawaiian shirt, sunglasses and loafers, enthusiastically and unabashedly playing air guitar AND air drums, including kick, to whatever was on his iPod, somewhere on the uptown N train.

Summer 2012 -- It's hot outside, but I've been holed up in my air conditioned studio mastering singles for Joshua and the Giant, Allison Weiss and Thee Shambels, albums for the ultra-funky Hokumfactory and Louisville, KY's folk rockers Beady, a beautifully produced EP for Cosmicity. Plus, two incredible projects from Awesome Tapes From Africa: Bola Volume 7 and an EP of Bola Remixes.

I bought blueberries yesterday. They're sitting on my counter in a plastic container labeled Bluette. The problem is, every time I see them, I get terrible vocal versions of the Toots Thielemans song Bluesette stuck in my head. I should throw out the plastic container and put them in a bowl.