Suddenly Juliette Lewis is an expert? Isn’t that like Brad Pitt believing he can really manage a major league baseball team, or Lester Bangs thinking he can be a rock star? If you want to watch one skit from last night’s SNL, watch this one, "You Can Do Anything", which may not be hysterically funny, […]

What do they call them, guilty pleasures? Recordings have finally been disconnected from careers. Did you catch Troy Carter tear SoundScan a new asshole in Friday’s L.A. "Times"? Billboard’s sales-chart tweaks not a hit with everyone You’ve got to read Bill Werde’s response, it’s priceless. ‘It’s probably smart business to make sure as many people […]

I never saw the movie. But I bought the soundtrack. Elton John was a phenomenon, that occurred while I was away experiencing the first semester of my freshman year of college. In 1970, Middlebury, Vermont was a dead zone. Not only were there no cell phones, but there was no cable TV and no DVDs, […]

I had a drink with a friend of mine at Soho House today. It’s the office for those without one. People who travel the world and need a place to hang. And right now there are too many thirtysomething wannabes populating the establishment in L.A., but we first got together at the Soho House in […]