Epinions Recent Reviews for ejjiii

When Lounge Music Was Groovy

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:14:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I have to admit it. I originally bought this CD as a goof. Part of the Capitol Records “Ultra-Lounge” series, On The Rocks part one (distilled for easy listening) just looked too "retro" to pass up at my local Tower Records. The clean cut guy...

Priceline Flight Reservations: $200 Coast to Coast

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:14:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Priceline.com is the easiest way I have found for getting cheap airline tickets, in a short period of time. I say this with a few caveats:

1.You need to be flexible. I wanted to fly from San Jose to Newark. I had to fly out ASAP, but...

Musical Perfection

Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:02:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Van Morrison has been a darling of the critics, and an influential force at the outskirts of popular music for well over thirty years. Morrison is interesting in the respect that you can not pigeon-hole his music. It’s not quite rock, but it’s not pop...

Nice Try, ELO

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:44:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - The Electric Light Orchestra was formed out of the remains of the Birmingham, England base group The Move. Guitarist/vocalist Roy Wood, leader of The Move, had envisioned The Electric Light Orchestra as a parallel outfit to...

Clapton is God, circa 1978

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:28:02 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Now a middle-aged man who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, I once had a lot acquaintances that claimed to have seen God (via drug induced hallucinations, no doubt). But I really did see God. On February 10th, 1978. In Oakland, California. And he...

Jefferson Starship At Their Peak

Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:53:09 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - The Jefferson Airplane was once one of the most influential rock groups of all time. Their 1967 classic Surrealistic Pillow stands up to this day as one of the most influential and important albums of all time, helping to define both the summer...

Better than most

Sat, 19 May 2001 22:44:26 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - To be honest, I need to put a disclaimer at the top of this review. I am not a fan of mass produced American beers. I tend to like either “hand-crafted” (i.e.: micro-brewed) lagers such as Gordon Biersch or Samuel Adams, or Irish draughts such as...

A Good Stout Value

Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:40:14 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Up until recently, I have been a huge proponent of lager beers as my personal favorite style of beer. After 20 years of (legal) beer drinking, I was certain that I had nailed down what was most pleasing to my palate. But I was wrong. Now I have a new...

A gem of a movie!

Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:50:00 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Every once in a while, I grab a movie at my local video rental store just because it sounds interesting, or something caught my eye. In this case, I had just seen The Secret of Roan Innish, also by director John Sayles, which I like very much. But...

The New Testament for the Red Sox Nation

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:28:04 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I thought I knew it all. As a life-long sufferer of chronic Closebutnocigar disease, I have read every book, article, and baseball card back pertaining to my beloved crimson hose. I could not believe that there is more to the storied history of...

Enough is enough!

Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:12:26 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I have to start out by saying that I have a very short fuse when it comes to incompetence or deceit when dealing with service providers. Whether it be insurance companies, banks, lawyers, utilities or retailers, you run into poor service all the time...

The best appliance I have ever bought!

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:30:38 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - When my wife and I bought our current home eight years ago, one of the first items we wanted to upgrade was the dishwasher. It was loud. It was loud like Dick Vitale is loud. It was loud like Fran Drescher is loud. It was loud like Black Sabbath is...

This Blonde has more fun!

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:15:16 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - In my never-ending search for the perfect lager, I have run across another candidate: Gordon Bierch’s Blond Bock. This microbrew beer adheres to Germany’s beer purity law (Reinheitsgebot), which states that beer can only have 4 ingredients: yeast,...

Should be NB - Not Beer

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:54:00 GMT
rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I would really be happy if I could find an NA (non-alcohol) beer that actually tasted like beer. I have tried several (Sharps, O'Douls, Caliber to name a few) and none of these brews tasted like beer. They may be refreshing, even beer-like, but they...

Dessert Beer

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:27:28 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - This evening I decided to try something a little different in the beer category. As I perused my local grocer’s shelves, a lonely 22-ounce bottle caught my eye. Beer brewed with coffee. Amazing! So, more out of curiosity than anything else, I decided...

Southwest is my price to performance ratio leader!

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:46:27 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Southwest Airlines is definitely a value (read: inexpensive and no-frills) airline. It is really the airline equivalent of a Greyhound bus. If you want to get from point A to point B (with a stopover at point C), this is your airline.

Last...

Harrah's Las Vegas: Harrah's: a mixed bag

Sat, 9 Sep 2000 21:26:58 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I made my first ever trip to Las Vegas last week, and by luck of the draw, I decided to stay at Harrah’s. I picked Harrah’s because it was at the middle of all the casinos on Las Vegas Blvd., and I had been pleased with a past stay at Harrah’s at Lake...

Remington to the rescue!

Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:53:26 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Over the years, I have grown a beard and mustache several times, only to shave it off because of the difficulty I was having keeping them properly groomed. Either I couldn’t keep both sides shaped evenly, or the length was inconsistent, or one of a...

A Pleasant Surprise

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:29:52 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I am a big fan of good tasting lagers, and it continues to amaze me that there seems to be two or three times as many micro-brewed ales than there are micro-brewed lagers. So I get excited when I come across a new lager, or its subordinate category,...

Baseball Mirroring Society

Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:03:00 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - This fascinating book is much more than just another baseball book. It is even more than just a chronicle of the demise of baseball’s longest dynasty, the 1949-1964 Yankees. (The Yanks won an incredible 14 pennants and nine World Championships in that...

More Social Commentary than "Whodunit"

Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:03:06 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - The 1995 PEN/Faulkner award-winning “Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson is set on San Piedro Island, an isolated island north of Puget Sound, circa 1954. The island is home to strawberry farmers and gill net fishermen. The story revolves around...

Pac Bell Revisited

Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:58:20 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Since my original review of PacBell Park, I have visited the park four more times. I wanted to make add some additional comments since I now have a better feel for the park, and the surrounding area. (For my original review, please see

Sierra Nevada has a lager!

Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:13:58 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - One of my brothers is a big fan of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It is probably his favorite beer. Therefore, over the years, when it was his turn to buy I have ended up having quite a few with him. (He went to school in Chico, California, home of the Sierra...

When Movie Stars roamed the Earth...

Tue, 30 May 2000 02:31:23 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - I have made a pledge to myself to make a list of ten movies that I have always wanted to see, but have never done so. “The Quiet Man” was at the top of my list. So I bought the DVD, and watched it this evening, and what a treat it was!

“The...

King James version (of the Hall of Fame)

Wed, 24 May 2000 17:28:14 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ejjiii - Bill James is the preeminent master of baseball statistical study. For years, he published an annual Baseball Abstract, which would analyze player performance based on real and meaningful statistics. James has used many esoteric formulas to form the...