Archive for the 'Movies' Category


Oscars/Grammys/Film/Music

Why isn’t there a concomitant examination of music? I’m positively stunned at the amount of coverage the Oscars are getting. Especially for a show everyone has agreed no one will see. Bill Maher said it best… “Every year I write down my Oscars predictions. This year I predict I’m not going to watch.” The coverage […]

The Frank Zappa Movie

https://bit.ly/3tIGpqU 1 It’s inspirational. And it’s now on Hulu. Zappa was someone you discovered along the way, and then you went back and purchased all the albums that came before and the ones that came thereafter until…you grew up and went separate ways. I’m not saying I stopped buying Zappa’s records, I’m not saying I […]

The Oscars

This is what happens when money supersedes art. The problem with the film business is it doesn’t realize time has already passed it by, that the paradigm it claims to operate under has expired. This is a business story. Smart business people get ahead of the audience. That’s the wisdom of Spotify…give people what they […]

Corporations Push Back Against Voting Laws

I guess corporations really are people. Or at least more powerful than people. And government too while we’re at it. This is a sea change. Used to be government told corporations what to do, and people agitated and protested for change. But people have lost their individual power since the advent of the internet and […]