MTV eviscerated the experience.  Acts started swinging for the fences.  It became about image, it was no longer about experience.  It was as if Broadway plays were suddenly broadcast live on television every night.  And they toured arenas.  What was once intimate, what was once only seen in the dark, what was once a religious […]

1. Madonna Confessions On A Dance Floor"Warner Brothers Sales this week: 344,061Debut Madonna is sleeping well tonight.  If she’s sleeping at all, if she’s not busy planning her next attack on society. On one hand I feel sorry for Madonna.  Who can SHE talk to?  Who can understand and relate to HER story?  I mean […]

Sooner or later Everybody’s kingdom must end "The King Must Die"Elton John All hail Samsung. There’s a reason all the network TV shows skew young.  They’re advertiser supported.  And advertisers want to reach young ‘uns.  Get them addicted to their brands in their formative years, where’ll they stay, hopefully, forever more. I go back to […]

I drove cross-country with a tape of "Fulfillingness’ First Finale". I don’t buy albums anymore.  I’m disappointed with the whole concept.  Oh, I get any disc I want for free, but I want almost none of them.  Every day somebody I don’t know tracks me down to ask me whether they can send me their […]