What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where it takes Sting to render the classic version of this Bruce Springsteen song, nearly a decade after it was first released? Mellencamp reworked "Born In The U.S.A." to the point of butchering it.  Loved seeing Kenny Aronoff on the kit, but this was […]

Speaking of Jamie Cullum… I rarely talk on the phone in the car.  Actually, I rarely talk on the phone at all.  It takes too long to get too little information.  But that’s not why I don’t talk in the car.  And it’s not that I’m worried about accidents.  It’s just that my time in […]

Honey why are you calling me so late?It’s kinda hard to talk right now "Rolling Stone" got one thing right.  They declared Gnarls Barkley’s "Crazy" song of the decade. I remember exactly where I heard it.  I remember coming home and going straight to the computer and stealing it.  (At that point you couldn’t buy […]

If only Doug Morris knew how to use a computer. I’m still reading the responses to my "Leukemia" missive.  I appreciate the good will.  But I’m reading slowly not only because the missives are all personal, directed specifically to me, but because I’m learning so much. I heard from Steven Page, formerly of the Barenaked […]