No one has ever finished this book, not unless they were paid to do so, because the last two thirds is UNREADABLE! Think I’m on a vendetta? Then peruse the review in yesterday’s “New York Times”: Arista Cat How come the message didn’t get out? How come no one has said reading this book is […]

Talk about overexposed. Are we still living in 2000, when it was all about the first week and most people still had not discovered Napster? Yup, that’s when JT was at his peak. You want to know the big arts story this week? The “Veronica Mars” Kickstarter project. They’ve raised in excess of three million […]

I keep my cars forever. I certainly don’t lease, I don’t need to look fashionable. I drove my first BMW for 180,000 miles, until it got totaled by a drunk driver on St. Patrick’s Day. The second one exceeded 190,000. But I should have gotten rid of it sooner. I spent thousands trying to fix […]

Clive saved the Kinks. Or should I say “Klive”? Credit John Mendelsohn, who wrote the liner notes for “The Kink Kronikles,” for getting the ball rolling. Although Mendelsohn may not have hurt Zeppelin’s career with his negative review in “Rolling Stone,” (yes, I know who it was, a true rock fan is all about the […]