I Like Billy Joel |
Billy Joel's music has been dismissed by some "serious" critics as derivative and light-weight fluff. He was an amateur boxer. He once tried to kill himself by drinking furniture polish...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:26:00 GMT |
Marilyn Bloody Manson at the Wiltern |
The pageantry of the rock and roll performance is still alive. It's sooo tiring to see "artists" who act like they just happen to be onstage while being "themselves." This calculated nonchalance bores...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:31:00 GMT |
Give it to the Soft Boys! |
If you think your rock is tough, you can't touch the Soft Boys. I mean, how cool to have a dude named Kimberly puking out intricately spastic leads whilst the band careens from Beach Boys to...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:30:00 GMT |
Neil Frickin' Sedaka! |
Recently was reunited with all my old LPs and 45s. Yes, I finally got a phonograph! Which of course means I was able to step back to the origins of my musical influences.And good music and writing wil...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:10:00 GMT |
Crocodile Tears |
I was greatly saddened by the news I awoke to on Monday when I heard Steve Irwin died. Then this morning I read the comments of that Australian author/elitist bitch Germaine Greer. For her to label th...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:36:00 GMT |
Goodnight Syd |
Syd Barrett was one of the artists I discovered in college who helped me affirm to myself that I can never be too weird to be relevant. I fell in love with the repackaged double album of Barrett and ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:15:00 GMT |
