Now and then, this website attracts correspondence or comments from the people that I write about: the cowriter of Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69,” the bassist from Information Society, the actor who starred in Poison’s video for “Nothin’ But a Good Time.” I was delighted the other day to get email from Meiert Avis, who […]
Photographed in September in Runyon Canyon.
posted 10 October 2014 in Photos. no comments yet
Some bands have one primary songwriter. Others hash out most of their songs collaboratively (or pretend to), so you can’t really tell who’s contributing what. But a relatively unusual situation is when a group has three distinct songwriters: often two of them will be working in partnership, either artistic (e.g. the Beatles) or romantic (e.g. […]
posted 8 October 2014 in Tasty Bits. 5 comments
This picture requires some explanation. That’s my left hand holding a diskette that I was sent by Prince’s PR reps circa 1993 (when I was a music editor at Details). That generation of disk is an artifact by itself, but what makes this one particularly interesting is that it had the software patches necessary to […]
posted 3 October 2014 in Photos. no comments yet
(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) We return from our commercial break to see Adam Curry, who is somehow keeping his balance despite the enormous top-heavy weight of his hair and the twenty-pound decoration dangling from his breast pocket. Adam reads the copy while placing his splayed fingertips together, as if he were a […]
posted 25 September 2014 in 1988. 8 comments
If you’ve been waiting for me to post here to see what I’ve been up to lately for Rolling Stone, then happy days are here again! I attended the Made in America festival, the VMAs, an Ed Sheeran concert, and the Simpsons gala at the Hollywood Bowl. I wrote half of a list about the […]
posted 23 September 2014 in Outside. no comments yet
I realized the other day that Antonin Scalia is a real-life Lucy Van Pelt: the funniest and meanest member of the gang, happy to make up facts as necessary, a fussbudget before all else. So what are the other parallels between the sitting members of the Supreme Court and the Peanuts kids? Anthony Kennedy is […]
posted 16 September 2014 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
I still think about my experiences on 9/11, and am grateful that they recede into history, even if the consequences of that day don’t.
posted 11 September 2014 in Archives, Self-reflexive. no comments yet
Taken in (or underneath) downtown Los Angeles. Color not adjusted.
posted 22 August 2014 in Photos. no comments yet
posted 15 August 2014 in Photos. no comments yet
