(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) A white-haired judge sits down behind a podium and bangs his gavel, calling the video to order. The footage flies by very quickly: this is the most hyperactive editing we’ve seen so far on the entire countdown. I’m not going to log the hundreds of different shots in […]
posted 14 October 2010 in 1988. 5 comments
Ray Charles America, a documentary I worked on earlier this year, debuts tonight on the Biography Channel at 8 pm Eastern / 5 pm Pacific (and then promptly repeats three times in a row). I’m credited as “consulting producer,” which means that I helped in various ways, including interviewing a half-dozen or so of the […]
1. XTC, “Dear God” 2. John Lennon, “God” 3. The Sugarcubes, “Deus” 4. Randy Newman, “Old Man” 5. Tom Jones/John Lee Hooker, “Burning Hell” Point out the songs I missed in the comments before a vengeful Lord smites me down.
posted 5 October 2010 in Tasty Bits. 4 comments
Taken yesterday at LACMA, just outside the new Resnick Pavilion.
posted 1 October 2010 in Photos. no comments yet
From Bruce Springsteen’s “Incident on 57th Street”: Puerto Rican Jane, oh, won’t you tell me, what’s your name? Dude, you know her name. It’s “Puerto Rican Jane.”
posted 27 September 2010 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
Photographed on the sidewalk around the corner from my house.
posted 24 September 2010 in Photos. no comments yet
In the Beatles’ “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” Paul McCartney sings: And so I quit the police department / And got myself a steady job Leaving aside the overuse of “and” to fill out the lines–how does McCartney think police employment works? Seasonally? Piecework? What kind of crazy freelance police work is the […]
posted 20 September 2010 in Tasty Bits. 2 comments
(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) Top of the hour, which means it’s time for the station ID. For years, that meant an astronaut jumping around on the moon, but eventually MTV mixed it up (while keeping the same music). On the last day of 1988, they were showing a three-dimensional M spinning inside […]
posted 16 September 2010 in 1988. 8 comments
In my continuing series of Rolling Stone articles that aren’t available online to be linked to, I call your attention to my short “In the Studio” visit with Tom Morello, the mad-scientist guitarist in Rage Against the Machine. Contrary to his bristling agit-pop image, he’s a warm, funny guy. Morello’s been working on a new […]
posted 14 September 2010 in Articles. no comments yet
