Archive for 2007/01


Sales

The dream is over. According to hitsdailydouble, "Dreamgirls" didn’t even break 60,000 this week.  In a few hours the SoundScan numbers will be in, with the statistic that sales are off in double digits once again. This is not a Levy and Munns problem.  This is not an isolated circumstance.  This is a fucking DISASTER! […]

Beatles ’65

Felice asked me why "Every Little Thing" was my favorite Beatle song. I told her it had to do with "Beatles VI".  How I didn’t buy it. It started with "Something New", that’s when I broke my streak.  I felt it was a rip-off.  I already had all the songs on the second side on […]

Patti Smith

I’m upset that Patti Smith got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Let me make this perfectly clear, the only people who care are those who lived in Manhattan in the seventies, or maybe commuted from one of the other four boroughs to see a show on the rock hard island, the rest […]

The Bode Show

America stopped believing in Bode.  But not skiers. So I’m toweling off in Portillo with the Canadian National Team.  After a soak in the outdoor pool, we’re talking equipment, we’re talking conditions, but really, all they want to talk about is Bode.  How he’s better than everybody else on the circuit, how on any given […]