Once upon a time you had to know how to sing. This was before auto-tune, before all the special effects that allow poseurs to fake it. When one’s personal goals included buying a stereo so big and powerful it could be heard by your neighbors…the next block over. I’m convinced a whole genre of music, […]

The homeless guy wouldn’t take a quarter. I stopped for gas at the 76 station. I won’t go to the Shell across the street anymore, my credit card kept getting stolen. Yup, if you inserted it in the pump, they had a stealth program that ripped off the number such that you could not only […]

A wasted life? Today people want to see cash. In the sixties and seventies, we wanted to see God. And one way to do this was through drugs. Now I’m not going to lionize illegal substances. Hell, I was never much of a partaker. But although drugs can be utilized to soothe one’s pain, back […]

"If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don’t address themselves to audiences, they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others […]