The Antidote for Despair…
Sean Murphy...is Love. Story Here. Key takeaway: At the end of Friday’s nationally televised game, what generated the most attention was a long, soulful postgame embrace that McHale shared with Kevin…
Snow Miser vs. Heat Miser
So it's that time of year. I don't remember the last time I watched the entire 60 minutes of The Year Without a Santa Claus, but I did the other…
Some Day A Real Rain Will Come: What Travis Bickle Can –And Cannot– Tell Us About Tucson (Revisited)
Voices In Our Heads You talking to me? It is the pivotal scene in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and it remains one of the seminal moments in movie history. Not so…
The Who: Live in Texas ’75
It was a transitional year, for The Who and for rock music. On the precipice of the punk-led detonation, it was increasingly fashionable to kick sand on arena acts that…
Goodbye and Good Riddance, Joe Lieberman
Waaay back in November 2008 I put my feelings about Joe Lieberman on the permanent record. In a post entitled File Under: Teflon Joe (formerly filed under: Are You Fucking…
12/12/12: 12 Songs for the Apocalypse
It's not the end of the world, and I feel fine. But if it was, I would want all these songs to accompany me as we spiraled down the metaphysical…
Sam Cooke: Remembering The Master
Can we talk about Sam Cooke? Murdered on this day, two years shy of a half-century ago. Ouch. It still hurts. He, along with Otis Redding (AKA The King), are…
Why Not Pink Floyd? (Revisited)
The Pink Floyd Discovery Studio Album Box Set I. See Saw I have recently listened to every single song from every single Pink Floyd album, so you don’t have to.…
File Under: Man’s Inhumanity to Man
This hurts my heart and devastates my soul. It makes me furious and leaves me deeply distressed. And with a helplessness that at once causes me to question my belief in…
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: None More Prog
If the images above do not immediately register and make you laugh (or at least cringe), you must not be properly acquainted with ELP in general and Tarkus in particular.…