I woke up with the song “Head and Heart” in my brain. In case you don’t know, the “hit” was by America, it appeared on their second album, “Homecoming,” which contained “Ventura Highway.” But the song was written by John Martyn. What stunned me was that neither recording sounded like the version in my head. […]

It’s all about the personal. This is a must for skateboarding fans, for everyone else? I don’t know. Felice watched it separately and loved it. But one thing’s for sure, this is a movie about skateboarding, too often docs focus on the penumbra, not the core, like music documentaries that don’t feature the music, but […]

Is everything disposable? Does everything have a lifespan? Seemingly every day a song gets stuck in my head, I wake up singing it to myself. And usually I can’t figure out what started it. Two days ago it was the Hollies’ “Carrie Anne.” Today it’s Leo Sayer’s “Living in a Fantasy.” You probably know the […]

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 […]