Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Radioactive Toy

Radioactive toy Turn it up! Yesterday I got an e-mail from Lou.  Was I the same Bob Lefsetz who worked at Camp Tohkomeupog in the summer of ’71? I went to Jewish camp growing up.  Where the focus is more on the social than the physical.  And I’m not gonna complain much about that, everything […]

Too Much Of Nothing

I love driving in the winter. In the summer you’re battling the heat.  You’ve got to drive long enough to have the a/c kick in.  You’re always trying to get cool.  But in the winter, it’s cold outside, but inside, with the sun entering the windshield you’re warmed like a piece of bread in a […]

Rae Spoon

Re: Todd Alsup I see your gay soul/jazz singer (actually a poorer version of the terrific but not yet Lefsetz-stamped Mayer Hawthorne), and I raise you a transgendered/queer songwriter from Calgary, now a man known as Rae Spoon, who blew my mind tonight in Ottawa, seeing him live for the first time. Rae Spoon There […]

Todd Alsup

Something’s wrong here.  Because this guy is good! I got this e-mail: From: Ben SheehanSubject: RE: Billy Joel On Howard Stern I saw Todd Alsup last week, and I’ve never felt this way about a triple threat since Billy Joel. Read between the lines on this one — it could be this generation’s political anthem. […]