Go see it. If this movie is somewhere nearby you, don’t read this, just go see it yourself. That’s my first advice. If you can’t, it’ll be on Amazon or Netflix or something eventually but I doubt it’ll be the … Continue reading →
Smitty and I went on vacation. On ‘vacation’, that is, in quotes. We don’t know how to go lie on a beach. It’s possible we just don’t know how to relax, period, but nothing in this trip promised relaxation. We flew … Continue reading →
‘Mindbenders’ got a mention on the Front Row Monthly site (link here) and My recollections of Woodstock (family-friendly ones) appear here at Hooplaha.com – however, they chose not to use my photos. The editors there probably doubt the thrill of … Continue reading →
I usually don’t do back-to-back blogs anymore but I have to do this one: Go see ‘Searching for Sugar Man.’ If it’s not playing where you are yet, find out when it will – here’s the site with trailer. … Continue reading →
I wrote about Levon Helm the other day and then realized I’d left out part of the story – my personal connection: the thing I stole from him. I saw the Band at Woodstock (supposedly they were disappointed with their performance … Continue reading →
Levon Helm. If you don’t know the name, go to YouTube and listen to ‘The Weight’, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’, ‘Up on Cripple Creek’ and ‘The River Hymn’. That’s just prime-era Band songs. He won Grammy’s for … Continue reading →
It’s hard to walk the streets these days without feeling like the whole damn place is collapsing around your ears. I suppose proper writing style calls for me to document that statement, give a few examples but I’m not even going to … Continue reading →
Just to get business out of the way first: The 99 cent sale on my thriller ‘Mindbenders’ is going on for ONE MORE WEEK! F. Paul Wilson, author of the Keep (NY Times bestseller!) and the Repairman Jack novels, says … Continue reading →
Clarence Clemons never walked out in a contract dispute. He never complained to anyone (that I ever heard) about that Bruce guy’s attitude. He never told an interviewer that he didn’t need those other guys in the band. He always … Continue reading →
When I was in college, Gato Barbieri was all the rage. ‘Last Tango in Paris’ came out in the middle of my college years and, if you see the film today, the music is the only thing that holds up. … Continue reading →
