In case there was any doubt: Filing on this today for NPR, stay tuned for air date. PS: please oh please notify us all about Prince boots from Coachella. Trade you for last year's Super Bowl sound-check ("Johnny B. Goode"). … [Read more...]
Tabloid Negative
April 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Here's reflexive enigma worthy of Joe Pesci: does Ellroy's masterful novel (or Dillelo's Libra) read like the nightmare forecast of David Kaiser's voluminously detailed history or the other way around? Is history more like fiction or does fiction tend to anticipate and generate history? Was there ever an ambitious, womanizing young senator who saved the country from Nixon, or was he just an excuse for a cosmic horror that reverberates in the national psyche like a sliver of glass in our collective cornea? Would you rather read Kaiser's review … [Read more...]
Old White Men, Unite!
April 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" played as warmonger Bush greeted His Papal Self at the White House. Wonder if either of them could name the song's lyricist, Julia Ward Howe, who went on to write the Mother's Day Proclamation, a call for peace. … [Read more...]
OH! Canada!
April 3, 2008 By 2 Comments
So, Jim and Brian and I wander around Vancouver this afternoon ... then we wander over to the old hockey arena and pick up our our all-access passes to the Foo Fighters show. And we're hanging out back in the bowels of this arena until Brian's friend Nate, who plays bass in the Foos, wanders in off the bus. He takes us into the dressing room. We walk in, and Dave Grohl is jumping up and down. The rest of the band is hanging out. Introductions are made. We all move next door to the Rock Box, where their sound system is. Outkast. AC/DC. Loud. … [Read more...]
