. . This is trending today. The tenth anniversary is coming up and there’ll be more of these as the summer goes on. One thing this vid does is remind us of how beautiful the weather was on 9/11. This was the day that ruined the ten years that followed it, and it was a …
. Yes, it happened. Charlie’s response: “This is very good news,” he said. “They continue to be in breach, like so many whales. It is a big day of gladness at the Sober Valley Lodge because now I can take all of the bazillions, never have to look at whatshiscock again and I never have …
. Gosh, it’s as long ago as Oct 2009 that I last saw Bat For Lashes, when they were touring in the UK with the Two Suns album. They are in Mexico at this very minute supporting Coldplay, I suppose someone has to. Anyway, this song has surfaced from nowhere – BFL covering Depeche Mode’s …
In the early 1970s, a surge of racial pride swept the United States and soon it found its way to the popular medium of broadcast television, where people of color had been entertaining the public since jazz pianist and vocalist Nat King Cole’s show debuted in 1956. The Civil Rights movement had elevated the status …
An oldie but a goodie. Gotta love Clem Burke’s drumming, so simple yet so hypnotic: .
The Rolling Stones—“Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)” (Decca 1964, 3:47—UK LP version) Sometime in the fall of 1981, well before my freshman year at Brown took its big nosedive, I finally had the opportunity to see Mean Streets, the movie that made Marty Scorsese’s rep in 1973. When, near the outset, Harvey Keitel enters a …
I saw this movie only once, 25 years ago, and have never forgotten this scene: . And here, thanks to Steve Stav for the tip, is the SNL Christmas version: . .
I was thinking about genius tonight. It starts with some talent; then these wunderkinds go off and work hard to hone it, like the Beatles did in Hamburg. Genius doesn’t just happen, it takes work. It took a lot of time to get these voices to blend so well (above). More on the subject of …
“At some point in young manhood, I fell in love with Sade’s stomach.” – from my upcoming autobiography, The Luckiest Unlucky Man. – Steve Stav