Last Week: Diane Warren You’ve really got to tune in to this because she’s no holds barred. Seemingly everyone in L.A. has a filter, but Diane does not. Even I was surprised when she said her parents had her committed to juvenile hall. You can jump through the hoops, go to college, buy insurance, but […]

“Rock and roll then was real, everything else was unreal.” John Lennon This is the most depressing book I’ve read all year. There’s always been music. It’s not like the Top Forty was blank before the Beatles. Even a few good groups dominated the airwaves prior to ’64, like the Four Seasons and the Beach […]

This is the best comedy special of the year. Forget Seinfeld, forget Chappelle, this is it. Not that it’s a competition. It’s just that we’re searching for excellence, something that touches and titillates us, in an era of ever more product we’re overwhelmed with choices and looking to be led to the promised land. Which […]

Rumble-The Indians Who Rocked The World There’s a moment in this movie… They’ve gone on about Jesse Ed Davis. Showed him playing with Taj Mahal, being flown over to England to participate in the “Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.” Hooking up with John Lennon. And I know who Jesse Ed is, or was, but […]