https://vimeo.com/394734657 Pound for pound the Israelis make the best TV. Canada and the U.K. punch far above their weight in music, but when it comes to TV series, there doesn’t seem to be a bad Israeli show, at least not one I’ve seen. The best is “Prisoners of War.” But really, for me it all […]

https://amzn.to/3v2tdxR If this were a record, it would be the album of the year. I’m not talking about a worthless Grammy, I’m talking about the one everybody would be talking about, would be wowed by, something that would push the envelope and herald the dawning of a new age. Kind of like “Nevermind.” But even […]

People HATE this movie! It’s got a confounding score on RottenTomatoes. It has 80% on the Tomatometer, the average of critics’ reviews, in this case 192, and a 37% audience score, with in excess of 1000 ratings. That’s enough data to be definitive. Sometimes foreign shows have a lack of data. So you don’t know […]

Responding to what Sasha Brown said, Bob, he’s right on about life on the road and the toll it takes, and the dedication it requires. Sometime in the mid-70s I came to realize that the artist was simply a money pump for the labels, the managers, the agents. I was travelling with, as I recall, […]