“The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America”: https://tinyurl.com/mryc7n8c This is the real “Hillbilly Elegy.” If you want to understand the rural MAGA mentality, this is the place. What we’ve got here is Clinton, Arkansas. Not Fayetteville, the hip Arkansas, not Little Rock, the urban Arkansas, but nowhere Arkansas, where […]

Re: The Syd Barrett Movie The most-played recording in my entire collection (which ain’t tiny) is Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Sheer genius. A few months after Barrett departed, we did a TV show with Pink Floyd, who were in the US for the Philadelphia Music Festival at JFK Stadium in July 1968. We were opening for […]

“‘Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd’ (Trailer)”: https://tinyurl.com/2k99mp63 Now this will change your mood. It and the music of Pink Floyd are the antithesis of Wham! Anything but obvious and simple. This film and Pink Floyd have an ethereal quality, there’s no context, they exist on their own […]

People don’t like the streamers. The only company with any good will left is Netflix, which even I am less than enthusiastic about since it canned the woman who made the highbrow halo productions for someone green-lighting middle of the road, dumbed-down fare, the kind that caused the networks to lose market share to the […]