Tom Brokaw, the former NBC Nightly News anchor and author of the best-selling book The Greatest Generation , has just written a new book about what another author has called "The Greater Generation." Boom!, a collection of I-was-there reminiscences, explores the pop culture of the sixties. It is subject matter that would seem to require [...]
I missed Wu-Tang pillar Ghostface Killah (a.k.a. Tony Starks, Ghostface, Pretty Toney, Ironman, and Captain America) last night at the 9:30 Club. But a reader, Jeffrey, caught the show—and took care to document a Killah rumination on women and sandwich cookies. Jeffrey paraphrases Ghostface's rant:
You know, when I'm on the bus, I like to have [...]
The New Republic has a story by David Browne about the decline of protest music–more specifically, he addresses the question of why protest songs don't seem to matter as much now as they did back in the Vietnam era. In general, he argues, the problem with protest songs these days is that they're not very [...]
I'll let others decide whether Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time" is Advanced. ("It's a hit song by a comedian who actually sings better when he's imitating other people, blar-dee-blar-blar, blabba blabba.")
I will note, however, that the song's video is fantastic, but not because of the clothing, the hair, the lighting, the portly white guy [...]
Let's forget the gooey title of the piece, "Little Fountain Cafe: Sweet Love." And let's forget that the title doesn't even make sense. The little restaurant specializes as the Place for a Dull First Date or the Place You Take Your Parents. As far as we know, it does not specialize in sweets or sweet [...]
Dear Sting,
I am in receipt today of a copy of your book, Lyrics by Sting, which was sent to me via your public-relations proxies at the Bantam Dell Publishing Group. I'm was quite struck by your efforts to not only create an index of first lines to all of your songs ("Free, free, set them [...]
I was going to write a little rant about how I've been ignoring everybody's favorite Coke-and-Gap pitchman, Common, for roughly a decade or so, but now might be the time to scrounge up a copy of Finding Forever, because he seems to be more of a darling than ever. (And those are just the Philly [...]
As a fan of edited writing, I’m less enamored with blogging than most. Folks get upset when you talk in undemocratic terms, but I’m just not sure that good bloggers wouldn’t have become good print writers.
Which makes the self-mythologizing that much harder to stomach. For example, imagine an MSM type (or, since this is a [...]
Apparently few very people were scared away by the cost to see the Boss at the Verizon Center on Nov. 11. From Craigslist:
Date: 2007-09-21, 10:15AM EDT
A note to all brokers, scalpers, and other A-holes who sold out the Nov 11 show at the Verizon Center in less then 4 minutes on TicketMaster today:
F You!
For those [...]
This morning, while pulling out a disc called Forest by Finnish quartet Circle, a post-everything rock band that is playing the Rock and Roll Hotel DC9 tomorrow night, I got to thinking: Why is it that bands keep printing “PLAY LOUD” (or some derivation) on their album sleeves? Perhaps it’s just the music I listen [...]
