I wasn’t going to watch the Grammys. Until I started checking my e-mail and Twitter feed on my BlackBerry… I set the DVR.  Figured I’d fast-forward through ’em at some later date.  But I feel drawn in by the magnetism of a cultural event, I now want to participate, I want to be a member […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJngOHn96cs This gave me goosebumps. The number one criterion of live performance is to make those who did not attend believe they missed it. That’s why Coachella sold out instantly this year.  Hell, they didn’t even need to announce the lineup.  It’s far from overwhelming.  But 50,000+ people want to be there.  They want to […]

She got distracted by the big screen. Yup, she’s up there singing, live, that’s why the NFL picked her, because she’s got the pipes, and overhead, on the gigantic big screens, credit Jerry Jones, he knows the best place for football is television, which is why he installed the humongous sets inside his new stadium, […]

I’d like to say they were terrible, unwatchable, the end of the world as we know it. But they were not. They were a representation of America…yesterday. Have you noticed the new BEP album has stiffed?  That none of the singles has broken through?  Live by the hit, die by the hit. But I want […]