Life’s a struggle.  It’s the people who get us through. Speaking of the people, get your ass out to a gig this summer.  The people watching is FANTASTIC! I went to the Country Throwdown at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine.  What a shithole.  Entertainment has gone upscale.  They’ve got Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack at […]

Follow your passion? Maybe you just can’t deny your passion.  Scratch someone’s surface and you find an immutable focus, a longing for a pursuit that might seem trivial to others, but is everything to them. That’s a key element of "The Secret In Their Eyes".  That if you want to know who someone truly is, […]

That’s the name of the book I’m reading.  I can never remember the title, only the author, Tom Rachman.  His last name, not his first.  As in I can only remember his family name, although in my mind it’s spelled "Rackman". That’s a facet of growing older.  Everything runs together to the point where you […]

This could be the best thing to happen to Kanye West since glow in the dark glasses. Ever since Natalie Maines went on record regarding George Bush, musical acts have been afraid to take a stand.  And this is funny, since the willingness to stand up for what they believed in was the key to […]