Lalo Schifrin: Sound & Vision
Sean MurphyWhen one of the best albums of the '90s dropped, pretty much out of nowhere, after instant fans (like this writer) realized their sonic world had been at once obliterated…
THE BLACKENED BLUES, One Poem at a Time: Charlie Parker’s Premonition
I’m happy to announce that my first poetry collection, The Blackened Blues, is available wherever you buy books (yes, *wherever*, so you don’t have to put more money in Rocket Man’s…
Welcome to Machine: Why ‘Dead Man’ is Jim Jarmusch’s Masterpiece
Johnny Depp is going to be gone someday, and for those enjoying his work posthumously, an assessment of his enigmatic career—bookended by the cotton candy of 21 Jump Street, and…
Right Turn, Clyde: Unwinding Clint Eastwood’s Epic Fail
So...where were you during Clint's convention meltdown? Am I wrong in presuming this will become one of the great unfortunate, unintentional defining moments of an American icon's life? First and…
Sexism Sells…But Who’s Buying? (Revisited)
Our attitudes toward sex tell us just about everything we need to know about ourselves. Go ahead and open a book, put on the TV, pop in a DVD or…
Meathead: Le bulldog de Dirty Harry dans Sudden Impact
Do you remember Sudden Impact? Me either. Actually, that's not quite accurate: it was on HBO circa 1984 which is around the time my family got it's first VCR. Actually…