So I’m gassing up at the Chevron station.  There’s a twentysomething in an 80s Volvo station wagon, did he inherit it from his parents, or did he buy it on the cheap, running this grayed out, sun-faded mom-mobile to its final destination. We’re nose to nose.  Does this mean I’ve got to back up to […]

1. Norah Jones "Not Too Late" Sales this week: 210,861Cume: 852,843 Well, you can’t say it’s a Grammy bounce… But the more interesting fact is that after the Grammy hysteria, and the increased sales as a result thereof, this record moves up the chart to number one with FEWER sales than it had last week!  […]

I don’t fire up the big stereo much anymore. Maybe the music got small, maybe I love the easy access on my computer, but the acquisition of a killer stereo used to be the primary goal of an adolescent male. It came before the girlfriend, never mind the automobile and the house. You used to […]

1 At the end of the event Larry Solters introduced me to three chubby women in the neighborhood of forty.  They were not dressed in finery, they were not beneficiaries of Georgette Klinger pampering.  Rather these females were the proprietors of eaglesfans.com. Based on Austin, they’d come to L.A. just for this show. I didn’t […]