I saw it. My inbox is inundated with punters laughing at and criticizing me, if only I’d watched the Oscars, I would have seen the slap. But right after it happened I got a text. And then an e-mail with the uncensored Japanese clip. So in fact I was more up to speed than those […]

“Up with the sun, gone with the wind She always said I was lazy” Actually that’s what my mother told me again and again, even after I was out of the house. I had to go to therapy to be set straight, the shrink said I was working ALL THE TIME! It just wasn’t the […]

You’ll have a hard time finding another person who listens to the same new music as you. Of course you can go online, or go to a gig and find acolytes of the same act, but the odds of going to work, hanging with friends, and finding commonality in new musical tastes is extremely rare. […]

I don’t plan to watch. Which is astounding if I look back to the past. The Oscars were a ritual. My mother would stay up late watching them. She was a movie buff, she used to go to these Judith Crist weekends. This was back when being a fan was enough, you didn’t need a […]