What is most fascinating about The Sorrows of Young Werther is how much its love triangle structure permeates our culture in one form or another. Ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große […]
A few words about The Sorrows of Young Werther
Golden Guys
“Where streams of whiskey are flowing…” –The Pogues Part six of my S&R Tokyo Series One November day in Tokyo my wife and I were walking through the normally quiet and deserted […]
Eleanor Rigby: the real and the imagined…
It would be enlightening to hear McCartney explain how he came to create such an effecting portrait of loneliness and existential pain. “I thought, I swear, that I made up the name […]
Some wasted words about Gregg Allman
By blending rock and roll, soul, country, blues, and jazz, the Allmans created a brand of music that nearly 50 years later sounds as fresh and original as it did when it […]
Old birds
Water flows around the rocks it cannot move… Part five of my S&R Tokyo Series They moved and talked the way old Japanese ladies often do, a bit hunched over but with […]
Richard Farina’s Been Down So Long…a myth maker’s myth…
Richard Fariña was the Baby Boom generation’s chief myth maker. “The conscience of my elusive race gives not a fig for me, baby. But I endure, if you know what I mean.” […]
Twin Peaks: The Return and the Red Room: a collaborative reverse spoken word
David Lynch inspired a generation of genius TV. And a moment of unfettered silliness. Yesterday blindsided me with a moment of sublime creative synchronicity. Twin Peaks fans … walk with me. First my […]
Strawberry Fields Forever… and ever… amen
“No one I think is in my tree…” John Lennon “Strawberry Fields” shouldn’t work – but it does. Brilliantly. The intriguing question is – why? Adulthood is all mixed up, as almost […]
The End…is all about the love….
St. Paul and Sir Paul were trying to tell me pretty much the same thing as I said goodbye to someone I loved very much and will miss for the rest of […]
Rode hard and put up wet: #ArtSunday
Form vs function at the Denver Art Museum I encountered this slightly worse-for-wear old scooter down at the Denver Art Museum yesterday. The DAM’s wonderful North Building, designed by Gio Ponti and […]
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