Archive for 2020/03


Dave Stewart-This Week’s Podcast

Musician, writer, producer…listen to hear stories of Dave’s upbringing in Sunderland, his band Longdancer’s tenure with Elton John and Rocket Records, how he met Annie Lennox and how they borrowed money to make the first Eurythmics album, how he wrote the chorus of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” and how Dylan called […]

News Update-Day 8

A picture is worth a thousand words. A subscriber sent me this video from Italy. Remember that old TV show wherein they took kids to prisons, entitled “Scared Straight”? You’ll be scared straight into self-quarantine after watching this. It’s just under four minutes. I know, I know, people are sending you articles all day long, […]

News Update-Day 7

Yes, I’m calculating the days from last Thursday. Trump spoke on TV Wednesday night, and then the freak-out began on Thursday, escalating every day until… Yesterday. Up until yesterday, every day was a new story, you stayed glued to the news, noting the conflicting opinions, trying to find answers to feel safe and then we […]

Giri/Haji

This show is FABULOUS! I wish I could recommend comedies, but despite the lack of recognition, comedy is much harder to do than drama and I just can’t find streaming comedies in the league of these exquisite dramas. I don’t want network fare on Netflix, I don’t need no “Kominsky Method” or “Grace and Frankie,” […]