What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where an Internet shoe company is hipper than any band? Have you caught this story yet? How Zappos pays people to QUIT? It’s been burning up the Net for almost a week now. There was no press release, no in-store, no campaign, just some […]

Over the weekend I read that David Cook dominated the iTunes Top Ten. The "Idol" finale didn’t help Donna Summer, Seal or George Michael, they’ve got no tracks in the iTunes Top 100. As of now, Bryan Adams’ "Summer of ’69" is sitting at 97, ZZ Top’s "Sharp Dressed Man" is 100 and David Cook’s […]

ABANDONED LUNCHEONETTE The eighties hits were the comeback. I’m sick of the rewriting of history. The fiction that Hall & Oates have to be plucked from the trash bin of history, that this is a reclamation project, that we finally have to admit Hall & Oates were cool. They were cool from the very BEGINNING! […]

I was gridlocked on the freeway listening to Sirius. That’s when I learned they had a Neil Diamond station, and it was going to expire in a matter of days. I immediately switched to Channel 3 and heard an oldie. Then the middle-aged dream came on and explained the backstory to the song "Forgotten" from […]