If you read books on a Kindle, or via Kindle software on your phone or your tablet of choice, and if you never got around to my most recent book, Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (which the LA Weekly called “enormously compelling”–more reviews here), then you […]
posted 25 February 2014 in Buy My Stuff. 2 comments
I am not generally a superstitious man. I don’t think twice about the number 13, black cats, or the danger to my mother’s spine should I step on the wrong section of sidewalk. But the last couple of years, I have had a private Beatles-related superstition. It started when I bought a set of four […]
I am still wrestling with my Big Deadline, but may I bring you up to date on some of my writing in recent weeks for Rolling Stone? I wrote about Against Me!, both in an article for the magazine and in an online interview with Laura Jane Grace (né Tom Gabel) and James Bowman. I […]
posted 12 February 2014 in Outside. no comments yet
Shaun White is on the halfpipe today in Sochi (no spoilers here!). If you want to flash back to his first Olympic triumph, eight years ago, you can read my Rolling Stone cover story on the Flying Tomato here. “I need a Crunk Juice glass with diamonds on it,” he told me. Something that didn’t […]
posted 11 February 2014 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Photographed on December 8, during the second night of the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. The Shrine hosted the Oscars a few times about 25 years ago–it’s looking a little dilapidated now, but it’s still a beautiful building.
posted 24 January 2014 in Photos. no comments yet
Hello and happy new year, citizens of the world. I am currently finishing up a big project (more details to come very soon), so there won’t be a lot of activity around here for another two weeks or so. (But after that, Rule Forty Two bonanza!) You may, however, be interested in some of my […]
posted 14 January 2014 in Outside. no comments yet
For your reading pleasure, some of my writing for the Rolling Stone website in the past month. I attended the annual KROQ Christmas show, with eighteen bands playing over two evenings. Night one had more guitar oriented-bands, such as Queens of the Stone Age and Vampire Weekend, while night two had more dance music, such […]
posted 27 December 2013 in Articles, Outside. no comments yet
You may have missed this one: I recently compiled forty of the greatest Christmas albums of all time for the Rolling Stone website. I wanted to include albums that rewarded repeated plays, not wacky Yuletide novelties–which means that I didn’t include Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart, even though I really wanted to use my […]
posted 23 December 2013 in Articles, Outside. no comments yet
It’s the time of year when some people celebrate the holidays with loved ones, some contemplate their plans for the year to come, and some compile top-ten lists. I’m pleased to see that VJ has made a couple of year-end lists of people’s favorite music books in 2013. (There aren’t exactly ten on either list–they […]
posted 9 December 2013 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet
The Gates was a 2005 installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in New York City’s Central Park. I just stumbled on this photo in my archives and it made me happy, so here it is. Have a great weekend.
posted 6 December 2013 in Photos. no comments yet
