(Part I Here) It takes a while to drive up to a decent trout stream from where I live. About the time the first side of the cassette ended (sides one and […]
The White Album -The Fabs in autumn… (I)
Autumn fills me with yearning. Maybe it’s those first twinges of approaching winter – a warm evening begets a frosty morning – that come unexpectedly, as crises or messages from long feared […]
Elvis is king…of his destiny, anyway…and that’s worth a lot….
I saw Elvis Costello two nights ago at (interestingly enough) the Booth Amphitheater in Cary, NC (a suburb of Raleigh). It was an excellent show, and if he’d had a better audience, […]
9/11- the helicoptering dad experience…
I was just coming back to my office at the university from teaching an 8 AM class. As I passed the department offices, I noticed a TV had been brought in and […]
When giants walked the earth…the end of “the age of rock stars…” a personal view…
I think maybe this starts at a Who concert in 1976: I went to the concert with two musician friends of mine and some women who, for reasons obvious to me at […]
VerseDay: Less Human Than Human
Detachment. Disassociation. Ennui. Call it what you want, but Generation X has been steeped in a post-Boomer loss of identity that has lingered for so long now that it’s being unceremoniously shoved […]
Woodstock nation: all that mud made…swine…?
Today is the 38th anniversary of the ending of The Woodstock Music and Art Fair at Bethel, NY. For all us Boomers who became what Hunter called “The Generation of Swine” and […]
Looking for trouble with Elvis…
Elvis is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. There is no doubt that Elvis is dead these thirty years this very day. This must be distinctly understood, […]
Wanna get back to the garden…? Max Yasgur’s farm for sale….
Woodstock is for sale. Sort of. Max Yasgur’s farm, made famous by the Joni Mitchell song (which most folks know in the CSNY version) is on the market. Its current owner is […]
Ingmar Bergman and the cinema of self-evaluation…
Ingmar Bergman, a giant of 20th century cinema, died yesterday. He was 89. That’s the news. But that’s not what we should be talking about today as we enter the “re-evaluation” phase […]
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