When I have too much time on my hands, I start thinking about my favorite bands. When I have too much time on my hands and I’m in Minnesota (as I am now), I start thinking about my…

1. While strolling through the Village while listening to “Bleecker Street” and gazing up at $1.2 million brownstones, I decide to knock on a door and offer the owner $30 to rent the place. It’s at this point that I have my first NYC epiphany: Stop taking Simon & Garfunkel lyrics so…

Lest readers dismiss this column as some kind of drive-by smear campaign, let me state right off that Phosphorescent’s 2008 album “Pride” falls squarely in my Top 10 – its songs, “Wolves” and “My Dove, My Lamb” display a level of poetic artistry that comes from another plane. I’d put it in…