Archive for the 'Television' Category


The Perfect Neighbor

This is the one you’ve got to see. Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is the one getting all the hype, but “The Perfect Neighbor” will get to you. This is America. My favorite story about a bad neighbor was told to me by Al Kooper. I was complaining to him about my problem neighbor […]

Bad Bunny At The Super Bowl

First we had the Swifties, convinced via Taylor’s endless Easter eggs that she was going to play the Super Bowl. You don’t need to be too sophisticated to know that she’s off-cycle, and that would never happen. To start from nothing, create a whole new show, rehearse it…exactly why? She’s got nothing to promote! And […]

The Lowdown

FX/Hulu trailer: I was mesmerized for about half an hour, and then… We’d been unable to find a satisfying series. Well, we watched “The Empress,” which is an interesting Netflix show about the Habsburg dynasty and the magical Empress Elisabeth married to the young Emperor Franz… I was trying to remember some of the facts […]

The King Records Documentary

“King of Them All – The Story of King Records”: https://www.pbs.org/show/king-of-them-all-the-story-of-king-records/ I could watch this sh*t all day long. I love to learn, and I learned a lot watching this documentary. From the very first time I met him, in a crowd at the Troubadour, Seymour Stein talked about Syd Nathan. And seemingly every time […]