This is where The Lizard King parted ways with us. I always hated Jim Morrison. He was what I wanted to be and I assumed he couldn’t possibly deserve it. When I […]
Jim Morrison’s Wilderness Volume 1: The Lost Writings
Nota Bene #89: Horrors
With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe… Once upon a midnight dreary, as you quaffed drinks brown and beery, Came a tapping amid the gloom, upon the closed door of your room. You […]
Music lyrics, even great ones, are not poetry: Hegemony, part 1
How often have you heard someone call a rock musician or a rapper a poet? As a poet and a lyricist, let me assure you that they’re not the same thing. Reach […]
I am better off not knowing
By Patrick Vecchio (CAUTION: Contains naughty words) The cleavage of men into actors and spectators is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed with heroes who live for us 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 […]
2nd most overrated rock star still dead…should we care why…?
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess […]
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