Archive for 2024/12


Chris Stapleton At The Nashville Big Bash

He played live when everybody else was canned. Only Netflix seems to have it right tonight, with their roast of 2024, albeit launched days before. This is the irreverence MTV traded on, but we haven’t had that spirit here since… 1989. You could see the endless parade of hitmakers on various channels. Dancing in the […]

Chinese Cars

The biggest business story of the past year is not artificial intelligence, but the success and proliferation of the Chinese car industry. If you’re following the latest AI news… The industry is running out of data to train its systems on. Promised breakthroughs are being pushed into the future. AI is a sexy subject, whose […]

The Eve Babitz Book

“Hollywood’s Eve – Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.”: https://shorturl.at/edrI7 1 I wish this was a movie, for if it was I’d tell you to run out and see it immediately. And although there might ultimately be a flick, it could never capture Eve completely. I know, I know, you’re burned out on […]

Hit Records

A hit record is something that someone hears once, maybe twice, and can’t get out of their head. Or as Ahmet Ertegun said… A hit record is something you hear on late night radio that causes you to get out of bed, get dressed and go to the all night record shop to buy. A […]