Andrew J. Lederer

the friend I've been staying with was gonna be in a good mood this morning and I still haven't found out 'cause he left the flat so early, but I'm definitely in a good mood -- sort of as a result of his departure -- because, rather than listening to Radio 2, which my absent friend usually puts on in the morning, I listened, via laptop, to "Rodney on the Roq", Rodney Bingenheimer's long-running enterprise from KROQ in Los Angeles.

During the '90s, it's possible the happiest hours of my week were on Sunday nights, switching between Rodney's new music hours and a guy on another station who played stuff from 1915. Now, here I am, long out of L.A. and back in New York, but currently in London, listening to an L.A. DJ playing music largely from Britain.

Geo-musically -- in terms of my own adventures -- it's more perfect than ever.