The Breaking Bad finale: Do you think there was a spirited debate about whether to use Badfinger's Baby Blue or Bob Dylan's It's All Over Now, Baby Blue? Surely they could have licensed the Them version, my favorite. Perhaps the publishing was prohibitively expensive. In any case, streaming of Badfinger is up 20,000 percent on Spotify and other streaming services. People should dig the whole album. Straight Up an underappreciated stunner.

Got my coffee to stay instead of to go this morning because they were playing Genesis in the cafe. Land of Confusion. Not ironic. Not ashamed.

More Summer 2013 - If you ever wanted to nerd out about vinyl restoration, here's a video about my work on the Balkan Arts Series, made by Mark Roberts of Evergreene Music.