And sooner or laterEverybody’s kingdom must endAnd I’m so afraid your courtiersCannot be called best friends "The King Must Die"Elton John Financiers believe they’re indomitable.  They’re a strange mix of world class athlete and professional poker player. They’re all in.  They live large lives.  They believe they’re entitled to all the money they make. Guy […]

yup, it’s me from danbury/darien/stratford/storrs/stamford connecticut (my mom and i got around a bit).the new record is melodic and fairly mournful.lots of strings and very open and spacious.see, i had a quasi-epiphany last year when i heard david lynch talking about creativity (and forgive me if this sounds new age or hokey).he talked about how […]

Last night I was prevented from falling asleep by the book "Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & The British Blues Boom 1965-1970".  It had a day by day recounting of the travails of not only E.C., but John Mayall and Peter Green, with an interweaving of every other British blues musician of the era.  And I’m […]

With a stripped down staff, the new "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" will now publish online, and rather than being an amalgam of local and national news, it will focus on the City of Coffee with laser-like focus. The newspapers may have followed the music business in being blind-sided by the Web, but it appears Hearst has a […]