October 13, 2019 – Collaborations are all the rage these days. Performers in concerts bring out their friends and do the friends’ songs with them. I don’t know, perhaps it’s just me, but if I[…]

October 6, 2019 – First, I want to congratulate Lana Del Rey for her having the number 1 song on the alternative rock chart, now two weeks in a row. I have much I could[…]

September 29, 2019 – Yesterday I was sick. I felt a sniffle coming on on Friday, but yesterday was full-on awful. I didn’t have any appropriate sick person food, and I’m really not sure what[…]

September 22, 2019 – Two days ago while on my way to downtown, I saw an advertisement on the fancy billboard at Hollywood and Highland (that’s a shopping center at the intersection of, you guessed[…]

September 15, 2019 – Bats and cars are the opposite of princesses, so I thought I’d go with them. Keeping y’all guessing. I heard about Ozzy Osbourne’s vocal collaboration with the pop/hip-hop/sometimes modern rock artist[…]

September 8, 2019 – They say an artist’s best record is the first one … because they spend their career writing it. I think it’s true, but honestly I think it might apply to the[…]

August 25, 2019 – How many times in the past few months have I said I am one week out from things calming down? I can’t remember, but a lot. And every time I say[…]

August 18, 2019 – It’s a good day when Robert Plant writes my story. It appears Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin even, is now, in 2017, the proper subject for a Dan Rather interview. If you[…]

August 4, 2019 – Oh Canada … my former home and adopted land. There you go. The first sentence of the Canadian national anthem, adapted for my life, and as much “musical” as this story[…]

July 28, 2019 – Last year brought us Bohemian Rhapsody, a success at the box office thanks to its music and convincing actor portrayals, and on its heels, the movie about Elton John, although off[…]