As for the Friday Media Check...
Hmm... I haven't been listening to all that much music this past week - except for the classical music I happen to catch on WQXR.
I finished listening to the audiobook version of "The Soloist", and I have started listening to "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz - which won the Pulitzer Prize this past year. It's a very interesting listen, however, I'm thinking it would be better as an actual "read". *And there are a few passages in the "The Soloist" that I would like to go back to and read again too.