She died. Who’s that? Alice from “Alice’s Restaurant”! Oh, they had an Alice’s Restaurant in my hometown. Didn’t they even have one on the Malibu Pier? Always homey inside, with barnboard and healthy food… NO! That was all in the wake of the song, the movie and… The sixties are over, but once upon a […]

I’m sick and f*cking tired of the Democrats trying to put a positive spin on the election of Donald Trump. Saying he didn’t win by a majority, didn’t win by that much, pointing to minor victories in Congress and the states… The Democrats got their ass SPANKED! And this spin is just further evidence how […]

It’s always someone else’s fault. The world is stacked against you. I was going to win, but… I was going to get a ticket for ten bucks for the first row, but Ticketmaster… I was going to pay my bills from music, but Spotify… And the personal responsibility party, the Republicans, are led by someone […]

Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]