” ‘cause imitation’s boring . .” – Iggy Pop “Cry For Love” There’s a scene in season two, episode ten of The Sopranos that seals it as the greatest TV show ever. Tony, facing the possibility of going away for a long, long time, sits in the dark of his kitchen with a bottle of […]
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Nine Eleven Eighteen
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
All systems eventually fail. Whether mechanical, biological or theoretical, they all work until terminated or replaced by a new system. I always liked Neil Young’s music because he burns with a passion that realizes he’s burning up the very thing that sustains him. And he’s pie-in-the-sky enough to think we’ll all soon be driving ’82 […]
Indifferent Swiss
Friday, August 9, 2019
A while back Jay Leno had a joke relating to a feel-good story about a little girl who got trapped in a well and was rescued after a number of days. The community “rallied around” the event, as communities tend to do in such circumstances. “I was watching the news coverage,” Leno said, “and the […]
God Bless the Oddballs
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
“Sleep late down South, look up my former mentors Live off Yankee winters, be a landlord and a renter” – Tom Petty Rip Torn is gone. The news blips in on my text message exchange with Miller. Rip defined a particular VHS playback chunk of my 4304A days back on 23rd Street in Noe Valley. […]
Like Airplane Lights
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
When you get to be my age, or somewhere thereabout, you tend to question where you are. This holds particularly true if you’ve left the house to get there. And in rare instances, you actually get an answer. Such was my circumstance last Friday night, 2,129 miles from home, when Keith Richards took center stage […]
Old Chunk Of Coal
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Been getting by on song lyrics of late, perhaps in deference to my mother, but also because it’s just what I seem to do in stretches like this. “Old Chunk Of Coal” is Billy Joe Shaver — perhaps the best uncredited songwriter of the last forty years. Not sure what defines good writing, but it’s […]
Dirty Harry, The Mule, and Pauline Kael
Friday, April 19, 2019
I just got done watching Clint Eastwood’s latest, “The Mule,” and enjoyed it thoroughly. Enjoyed it thoroughly for many of the same reasons I enjoy Eastwood (and by extension, the character he plays.) He’s flawed, but he keeps going. There is no way to watch an 88 year-old American film icon on screen minus the […]
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
I’ve seen love go by my doorIt’s never been this close beforeNever been so easy or so slowI’ve been shooting in the dark too longWhen somethin’s not right it’s wrongYou’re gonna make me lonesome when you go Dragon clouds so high aboveI’ve only known careless loveIt always has hit me from belowBut this time around […]
Ilka Joy and Treasure
Sunday, March 10, 2019
I wouldn’t touch this under normal circumstances — trying to write something about my mother now and do her justice. But we had the services Friday and I did write and read a eulogy. It was a nice day; a pause in what’s been weeks of rain. She told me once that she’d like a […]
Looks to Kill
Friday, February 8, 2019
Netflix has issued a discretionary tweet directed at viewers of their recent Ted Bundy doc who have commented on the serial killer’s ‘hotness.’ “There are literally thousands of hot men on the service,” they write, “none of whom are serial murderers.” Netflix wants it both ways. They’re aware that part of the fascination with Bundy […]