Last night I watched this Peter Himmelman documentary.  It was awful. Well, it wasn’t THAT bad, but for all the professionalism, for all the perfect sound, the filmmakers forgot one key movie element…STORY!  Without it you’ve got a film, a series of connected segments, but you don’t have a movie.  A movie brings you into […]

Can’t somebody sue somebody?  Maybe audience members?  Like those "American Idol" fans wanting their money back from Clay Aiken for being gay? "Good Times Roll" is one of the best album-openers of all time.  Better than the tracks opening most Stones albums, and they perfected the paradigm.  First it sounded a bit off, but then […]

Maybe a band like this can only come from Canada.  Where they don’t have the American Dream.  Where it’s not about becoming rich and famous as much as personal fulfillment. I was driving in the neighborhood pushing the buttons on XM and I found myself on XMU listening to a song that sounded like nothing […]

I was addicted to records.  Even though I had no stereo, I went to the record store.  It was a religious pilgrimage.  And then, finally, I had to convince my sister to come with me.  To charge up a bunch of the new releases on my father’s credit card, so we could listen to them […]