So It Goes: Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut (Revisited)
Sean MurphyApril, 2007. Kurt Vonnegut would say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is...
Billy Bang: Goodbye and Rest in Peace
This hurts. Of course jazz enthusiasts are (always have been?) a small if discerning bunch,...
Pitom’s Unique, and Uniquely Awesome, Sound
I was unprepared for Pitom. As a result, my initial experience with the band’s debut...
A History of Violence*
I. Fighting doesn’t solve anything. Everyone knows that. But then, the point of fighting is...
In Memory of Sidney Lumet: Celebrating ‘Serpico’
It’s difficult, and pointless, to try and isolate which film was Lumet’s best or most...
Tucker For President
As the Beltway blowhards get their onanism on while the pitiful children in charge of...
The Song Remains The Same or, The Agony of Influence
Two thoughts from T.S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month… Whatever. Good poets borrow; great...
All Hail Me: The Golden Goddesses of Veruca Salt (Revisited)
Not sure if any band quite captures the waiting-to-exhale extended moment of semi-innocence that was...
Five From Albert Ayler, For M.L.K.
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to...
Joy Division and the Genius of Humanity
Transmission 4x. Original: From the excellent movie Control: Playmobil Stop Motion: Caribbean steel-band: What else...