I quoted "Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream" at the shrink today. The doctor asked me if I was in the cool group in high school.  I said no.  Seems that nobody in the music business was cool in high school.  If you were cool in high school, you’ve long ago descended into obscurity.  That was the […]

Turns out Jack’s closes at 8, contrary to what my driver said. So I asked for a recommendation. And despite telling me the ‘que wouldn’t be as good, the cook pointed out Rippy’s, across the street. They tell me Hollywood’s been revitalized. On Friday and Saturday night twentysomethings in their finery go to clubs where […]

I think that was Tommy Shaw on the plane. You know, the blond guy from Damn Yankees and Styx. Would have been hard to believe just a few years ago, but rockers in music city? De rigueur! And it is music city. My limo driver, who was not an Angeleno, as in this was his […]

1 I first heard about Vietnam during a camping trip. Not long after the sun set, in that eerie window before complete darkness, Marshall Drazen told me there was a war going on, in a country I’d never heard of, far across the Pacific Ocean. I didn’t believe him. There weren’t supposed to be any […]