Underworld

Another benefit of being wired (in the on-line, not the high-anxiety, sense) was that in addition to the unlimited quantity of music available for download, he could stream radio stations from across the country. One of his favorite stations in 2002 was probably Santa Monica's KCRW, whom he had discovered from their Morning Becomes Eclectic podcasts.  He listened to the station regularly at work, and due to them he came to regard Underworld's A Hundred Days Off, which they played in heavy rotation that year, as the best record of 2002, or at least the one he most remembers.

Once again he didn't go to Music Midtown that year.  He hadn't been back to the festival since 1995, was two years away from turning 50, and couldn't dance with the energy of the guy in the Underworld video (although he was getting closer to levitating what with the Zen training and all).  For what it's worth, the line up that year included Robert Randolph and the Family Band, War, Jethro Tull, Darius Rucker, Cee-Lo, Francine Reed, Bo Diddley, David Lee Roth, Michelle Malone, Butch Walker, Hoobastank, Incubus, Mark Farmer of Grand Funk Railroad, The Producers, The Georgia Satellites, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Savoy Brown, Joan Jett & The Blackhawks, Bone Thugs n' Harmony, The Ohio Players, Earth Wind & Fire, The Zydeco Boneshakers, O.A.R., Tinsley Ellis, Skid Row, Kid Rock, Dropsonic, 30 Seconds to Mars, Jack Johnson, Pete Yorn, Counting Crows, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, June Carter Cash, Don McLean, Edwin McCain, Mike Mills, Cindy Wilson, Angie Aparo, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Bonnie Raitt, Perpetual Groove, Rick James, Ja Rule, Israel Vibration, Joe Bonamassa, Mother's Finest, Better Than Ezra, Journey, Remy Zero, Garbage, Puddle of Mudd, and No Doubt.