You remember the art chick in high school. She looked different, didn’t really care if you noticed her, didn’t seem to play by the rules, wasn’t on a direct path to riches, but you never forgot her, never stopped watching her. The art chicks were yesterday’s rock stars. They will be tomorrow’s too. And we […]

199. Owl City "All Things Bright And Beautiful" Sales this week: 2,133Percentage change: +15Weeks on: 12Cume: 96,770 Remember that hit a couple of years back. It was… The name eludes me… Of course it was "Fireflies". Just because you have a hit once, that does not mean you’ve got a career. I’ll argue the slower […]

They did it for ten years before they cut it. This week, starting last Friday to be exact, HBO’s airing a special with Dick Cavett and Mel Brooks. Watch it. But even better was the hype on Sirius XM. Where Tom Papa interviewed Mel Brooks. It rivaled Bob Costas’s brilliant extended exchange of two decades […]

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM It’s been a lackluster season. It didn’t really warm up until Larry got to New York. And the arrival of Leon in Larry’s Prius, not wanting to endure airport security for a cross-country flight, was a masterstroke. But the piece de resistance was not last night’s stunting with Mayor Bloomberg, or even […]