It comes from the internal, not the external. It comes from the identity of the performer, not the penumbra. Which is why it’s much harder to create loyalty with a song written by committee using the producer and mixer du jour. It may sound like a previous hit, it may fit on the Spotify Top […]

We’re here for a hundredth birthday concert for Henry Mancini. L’Aquila is somewhere between one and two hours from Rome, depending on the traffic. It’s in the Apennine mountains. (You remember them from elementary school, right? Well, I remembered they were in Italy, but I couldn’t have picked them out on a map, nor did […]

The only people who care are those who don’t listen to his music. Oh, don’t get your knickers in a twist, I’m not defending this heinous act. He was probably drunk, but he’s got a history of bad choices when he’s drunk, at some point you have to grow up. But in the old days, […]

Are you excited about the eclipse? I’m not. Furthermore, wasn’t there a once in a lifetime eclipse just a few years back? But the media industrial complex hype has been building and building and… Who knows, the weather might not even be good. And if you look at the sun unaided/unfiltered you’ll go blind, or […]