Month: March 2012

Watching 2011’s dreadfully slow TINKER TAILER SOLDIER SPY with the always engaging Gary Oldman. One cannot help but reflect on the United States’ victorious claim to have beaten the former USSR in the so called Cold War. The United States and Great Britain “battled” the Solveits for over forty-five years in what was indeed a…

Texting with Beav late last night. As has always been the case, since we first left the comfort of home as teenagers, I still “work” for myself, as an artist, a thinker, a pioneer, a vagabond, a bohemian; and he still works for the man, specifically for “Big Oil”. The irony of our strange circumstances…

In a venture that could have had enormous potential to educate and heal, and a fortuitous forum of value (HBO and the Real Time with Bill Maher Show) to reach millions of viewers, Alexandra Pelosi (yes she’s the daughter of former Speaker of the US House of Representatives) instead created a documentary that interviews the…

Originally from Facebook:Yes, this is true, re Fernando Perdomo’s comments above. And it speaks volumes about the often misunderstood and under-rated SoFlo/Miami music scene. Although slightly and temporarily misplaced and displaced geographically and/or demographically, the Miami music scene harbors some of the greatest undiscovered talent in the US. (I am now, sometimes sadly I admit,…

Shocking news today. In what the UN called “one of the worst military blunders in history”, Israel dropped two bombs at 4:30am local time, one each on the homes of Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, killing 48 people in total, most of them Romney’s numerous wives (He’s a Mormon) and Santorum’s 17…

LIVE FROM DARYL’s HOUSE. Who would’ve imagined it 20 years ago? Or even 10? Daryl Hall of HALL AND OATES fame hires a camera crew and starts his own reality TV series on the internet — inviting musicians of all ilk, primarily singers, to come to his righteous pad and jam with him and a…