Stephen Stills Manassas Start at 29:00 in. Stephen Stills makes it seem so effortless, you can’t believe he’s wringing that sound out of his guitar, no one should be able to play that well, no wonder he was friends with Jimi Hendrix, who played on Stephen’s solo debut. I was reading about Manassas on Music […]

“The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds” I’m pretty sure most buyers never finished this book. So why did I? Maybe it’s fandom, I’m a Michael Lewis believer. He writes well about subjects I find interesting and he’s not self-aggrandizing and thin-skinned like Malcolm Gladwell, whom I’ve lost faith in. But both oftentimes […]

I used to live at the movie theatre. One of the greatest thrills of my life was moving to Los Angeles. Back in the days of platforming, when it could take months for a flick to make it to the hinterlands, if it ever got there at all, every single movie opened in Los Angeles. […]

He’s the drummer you always see on TV, with the bald head and the sunglasses, hitting ’em hard and having the time of his life, smiling all the while. Why did I read his book? Because he reached out and was so personable. That’s the essence of making it. Making the effort and continuing to […]