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Back In The High Life

Well I feel so good everything is getting hotYou’d better take those ties off ’cause the place is on fire Dinosaurs are roaming the earth.  Everybody from the Eagles to McCartney is on the road for another dip into the cash jar.  And, make no mistake, these shows are nostalgia. McCartney and the Stones under […]

It’s Alright, Ma

Did you notice that Bob Dylan didn’t appear on any of the telethons? I used to think the goal was to be the Beatles.  An act that was inviolate, that wouldn’t license its material to anybody, wouldn’t let it be in compilations or movies, who specialized in saying no because they CONTROLLED the tunes.  Yup, […]

The Joel Gallen Special

Where’s John Lennon when we need him? I was impressed with Kanye.  Primarily because they bleeped him.  I’m sure he knew he was over the line, in the eyes of the pricks who control the media beholden to the religious right that has got a stranglehold on mainstream discourse, but he went for it anyway.  […]

Right Now

I’m trying to figure out why all these hurricane relief concerts don’t ring true. Katrina is not 9/11.  Oh, a lot of people died, but they’re fundamentally different.  Unless you worked in the government, no one foresaw 9/11.  We were just walking happily through life, and we got smacked upside the head.  Not only when […]