Greetings this morning from a well-to-do suburb just outside of New York city where we’re spending this Thanksgiving holiday with family. And my first as a vegetarian. Unlike our sad little California valley with fifteen percent unemployment and lots of […]
One night not quite three years ago I was sprawled on the couch watching CNN and listening to a couple of pundits talking about how Obama could take the election. The game was to appeal to the younger generation and […]
Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget. Or so said Apple’s website yesterday. At the same time around the world this morning (that’s seven AM here in California) we all learned the BIG NEWS. The Beatles are now […]
As I was twirling the dial last night (alright I just dated myself didn’t I…) Let me start over. As I was clicking the clicker for my home entertainment system last night looking for something to watch on the tube […]
I’ve often mocked the year end lists that come flooding the blogosphere around Thanksgiving, so I thought this year I’d jump on the bandwagon and get one of the first ones published. The problem is that there was hardly any […]
So I’m sitting here listening to The Promise which comes out on November 16. It’s the twenty-one “lost” Springsteen tracks he recorded during the Darkness On The Edge of Town sessions that never saw the light of day on a […]
We don’t really know when Mississippi John was born….somewhere in the early 1890’s is the best we can come up with. But thanks to my friend Vince and his website The Music’s Over but the songs live on I was […]
This photo of John Sebastian is probably from about forty years ago and it’s how I remember him to look. Or at least it was until I saw him last year in that great jug band documentary film Chasing Gus’ […]
It’s been a few weeks since me and the older kid worked a couple of shifts at the local film festival and we, along with my wife and younger boy, got to spend three days and nights watching close to […]
Well it’s not April Fools Day and I don’t want the man to come after me with a plate of waffles so maybe I should just fess up and tell you out front this isn’t Kid Rock. And the early […]
