Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone: A Primer
i. Encomium August 30, 2002. I thought: Everything that is good about me is because of my mother. I was in a church for the first time in forever.…
i. Encomium August 30, 2002. I thought: Everything that is good about me is because of my mother. I was in a church for the first time in forever.…
Eric Taub has been writing about the tech industry for more than two decades. His new book, Does This Plug into That?, is a tremendous and overdue public service. In…
“You’re drinking with number three,” Jim Morrison allegedly declared, equal parts sardonic and prescient, following the successive deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix in 1970. As it happened, he…
It was 34 years ago today... They almost put Macca away! (Today is the anniversary of Paul being released; hence the epic photo, above.) Do you remember what a huge…
No comment necessary. Hendrix. Isolated tracks. God bless the Internet. "The Wind Cries Mary": "Have You Ever Been To Electric Ladyland": "All Along the Watchtower": "Drifting":
At a concert in New York City a few months ago I saw two things I’d never witnessed before. The first was a group of Jewish jazz musicians playing Afrobeat.…
Another one gone way too soon. I first figured out I should be paying attention to Roy Campbell when I listened to Matthew Shipp's (highly recommended) Pastoral Composure (2000). I…
Two thoughts from T.S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month... Whatever. Good poets borrow; great poets steal. Now we're talking. And here is where it gets interesting: debate rages (well,…
Or, If Loving Wagner is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Reich. (More on one of the most complex and controversial composers ever, who was born 200 years ago today,…
R.I.P., Brother Baraka. Thank you for 'Blues People'; Thank you for Dutchman'. Eternal gratitude for writing one of my favorite poems. Peace. In Memory of Radio Who has ever stopped…