I watched last night, for the very first time. Oh, I’d seen segments of the show, but I’d never parked my ass on the couch and endured the whole damn thing, live. God, there are A LOT of commercials.  What a sixties business model, in the twenty first century.  A performer, a block of commercials…it […]

Jeffrey Campagna: Have you checked out Nine Inch Nails lately? Talk about a project that is more than a CD and more a piece of art. I spent about 4 hours the other night going from web site to webs site learning about something called Parepin and totally being hooked. I had to keep reading […]

"My Aeroplane"John Mellencamp How does the poster boy for Chevrolet get the public to take him seriously? I was driving down Bundy just as the sun was emerging from the sky and I heard a guitar.  We boomers, we love guitars.  This had a twang, a richness, that took me right back to the barnboarded […]

I don’t believe the Dave Clark Five belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Oh, they had a few good tracks, but they mostly just filled the vacuum, followed in the footsteps of the Beatles.  Goddamn it, the U.S. was Brit-band happy, and we needed another act! Not that that kept the mania […]