What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where the most adventurous, most innovative album of the year is made by a Spanish artist singing in a multitude of foreign languages? One in which everybody in music seems to be going in one direction, doing their best to distill their work to […]

“Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu”: https://bit.ly/488Y0yH   Literally. This book made me feel inadequate, like I hadn’t lived life to the fullest. Thank god I still have some time left, but I could never catch up. Now I know Tom Freston. I even know the outline of most of these stories, a bit of […]

They said it wouldn’t make any difference. So I’m grooving up the 405 and the check engine light comes on. Now in the old days, there was not such a thing. But as cars started to feature them, it turned out that many times it was just a matter of a loose gas cap. But […]

1 “I’m gonna add some bottom So that the dancers just won’t hide” Awards shows never run on schedule. Even when they’re taped for TV. There are stops and starts. After all, it’s all about what the home viewer sees on their flat screen. But that was not the case last night. The show started […]