Unilaterally.  Supposedly 200 at CAA alone. This has been the buzz of L.A. for days, but has gotten no mainstream media attention. We know it’s been a bad summer…  But this bad? The concert giant is trying to save itself.  Which is the exact opposite of its behavior since its inception, which was about overpaying […]

Follow your passion? Maybe you just can’t deny your passion.  Scratch someone’s surface and you find an immutable focus, a longing for a pursuit that might seem trivial to others, but is everything to them. That’s a key element of "The Secret In Their Eyes".  That if you want to know who someone truly is, […]

Huh? I was just doing a favor.  That was supposed to include a meal at legendary watering hole Dan Tana’s, which is the source of as much rock and roll lore as the Troubadour bar.  But we couldn’t get into Tana’s, so the boys went up the Boulevard to the Indian place.  And it was […]

My favorite Linda Ronstadt album is "Mad Love".  If for no reason other than her killer take on Mark Goldenberg’s "Justine".This is the one about the girlThe girl who came to stay Before she went to Broadway, before she sang standards, Linda Ronstadt went New Wave.  You remember New Wave, don’t you?  The analog of […]