Archive for the 'The Music' Category


All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)

Do what you do, don’t bring me down
I was driving down the San Diego Freeway, sun in my face, the interior of my car still cold from sitting outside overnight, listening to Deep Tracks.
They played that Manassas track "Right Now"…  This is the quintessential Stills, not the debut which got all the hoopla.  Buy this [...]

Tamp ‘Em Up Solid

There was an incident in the checkout line.  A woman wearing one of those convention badges was in a snit.  She accused the tattooed clerk of being "cavalier".  I wondered if she employed this description to show her superiority.  After all, it wasn’t his fault. At least that’s what he ultimately told me, five minutes [...]

Long May You Run

The closing ceremonies, hell, the entire coverage of the Olympics seemed to be made for a customer that doesn’t exist, who lived back in the pre-Internet days, when the fact that NBC broadcast in color was enough to satiate those stuck in front of screens without clickers, sentenced to watching endless commercials or forced to [...]

Hurt Gorillaz

In the sixties, cars only lasted a few years.  Assuming your automobile did not need repairs when it rolled off the truck, like the Chevy Lance’s father purchased that had no reverse pin, or the Chrysler my father bought that caught fire on the way home from the dealership, it was only a matter of [...]