Meathead: Le bulldog de Dirty Harry dans Sudden Impact
Sean MurphyDo you remember Sudden Impact? Me either. Actually, that's not quite accurate: it was on HBO circa 1984 which is around the time my family got it's first VCR. Actually…
File Under: Teflon Joe (formerly filed under: Are You Fucking Kidding Me?)
The rumors of Joe Lieberman's death have been greatly exaggerated. Damn. Personally, I wanted them to call this guy. Joe Lieberman didn't need to be ignored, or voted out, or…
Song of the Day: Supreme Love Dance, Billy Higgins and Charles Lloyd
"Smiling" Billy Higgins. On any self-respecting jazz fan's extra short-list of all-time greatest drummers. He didn't just act as the de facto session drummer for Blue Note in the '60s,…
Mitch Mitchell: The Perfect Engine for the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Sound Affects The PopMatters Music Blog Pop Past 17 November 2008 Mitch Mitchell: The Perfect Engine Not for nothing was the band called The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Certainly, Hendrix did—and…
Song of the Day: Beethoven’s Pathetique, First Movement
Not winter yet, but it's close. Dark even before the sun sets, cold even when you turn the heat on. You know better than to try to sleep, so it’s…
Born in the U.S.A. (or, Every Day is Veterans Day)
I. Personal Remember when Born in the U.S.A. was ubiquitous? The album and the song. Bruce was already big, but he wasn’t over the top. Born in the U.S.A. put…
Strictly Business: The Dreaded Day-Trip (A Day in the Life)
A.M.: Departure Early, at the airport. Look around: some of the pretty people, many of the mediocre, and the rest of us, all sizes and shapes: men trying to look…
Seeing Red
Speaking of clichés, every time I watch a foreign film—recent, older, ancient, it doesn’t matter—I fall helplessly, irretrievably in love with the leading lady (whether she is German, Russian,…
Songs of the Day: Ornette Coleman
When Obama takes office in January of 2009, it will be a half-century since Free Jazz forefather Ornette Coleman dropped the provocatively titled "The Shape of Jazz to Come". 1959…