It seems like anybody whos anybody in the blog-o-sphere knows about the Hold Steady. And yet, when I am talking music with my real live friends they have no idea who I’m talking about. It almost feels like The Hold Steady is the world’s worst kept secret. Admittedly they’re name Continue Reading
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Death of the Music Model
the record industry is crumbling. (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15137581/the_record_industrys_decline/1). Leakers are being attacked and revolting. (http://thoushallnotleak.blogspot.com/) And I’m not sure I have anything to add to the debate. Except this. Maybe it’s a good thing. As a musician with a band I have often been looked at with a skewed brow by my Continue Reading
Meme Tagged….a change of direction
I have been tagged. John from Last Visible Dog did it. And has now changed the face of this blog. Possible forever.I had eschewed blogging until Liz was hospitalized and then started the first of many. Unfortunately for the blogosphere, all of them were finite, had an end point, etc.So, Continue Reading
The Shat!
In 1966, veteran film and television actor William Shatner deigned to take a role on a network Science Fiction program called “Star Trek”. In only seven years The Shat would find himself unemployed, divorced, paying unyielding alimony and living on Tuna Salad (or was it fruit, I can’t find his Continue Reading
Was Everyone Sleeping Through It?
In only seven years, Titanic went from the Oscar-winning highest-grossing film of all time to a critical and popular consensus of being one of the worst films ever to win the top Oscar. Justice, change of opinion, or what?
Ch-ch-changes
Within seven years, David Bowie would transform from a mod rocker……to Ziggy Stardust……to a rock ‘n’ roll pirate……to soul singer……to a paranoid, barely human, 80 pound shut-in, living on milk, peanut butter, and cocaine and giving the Nazi salute at Victoria Station for shock.Seven years from that point, he had Continue Reading
From Africa to Harvard?
In 1979, the success of Alex Hailey’s Roots brought us awareness of the black experience and spawned a sequel, finishing the story of Kunte Kinte and his progeny. In only seven years, Hollywood would begin production on this classic microcosm of minority struggle.
We should be on Mars by now
Okay it’s eight years but, who cares, right? The act itself is immense. In 1961 Kennedy gave us a challenge In only one more year than seven the first human earthman walked on the moon.
Let’s Do World Hunger Next
In only seven years, America’s Uranium Committee passed through enough bureaucratic hands and funding increases to produce the world’s first atomic weapon.Who says results are hard to come by?
Of Course, the Oscar Helps
In only seven years, Universal Pictures went from rejecting Peter Jackson’s script for King Kong because he had directed one of their biggest box office bombsTo greenlighting his script for King Kong and calling him a “genius artist.”