Joni Mitchell is Back!
Joni Mitchell strode back onto the stage to accept the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and proceeded to announce to the world that not only she was capable of performing at the show she has coming up with Brandi Carlile at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy Washington on June 10th 2023, but…
Would you Buy The Ticket and Take The Ride? Should You? Depends on Whether You Have True Grit. . .
Sometimes things you desire, or you think you need cost everything you have got. Hunter S Thompson cautionary words in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, regarding seeking out experiences, living life fully and in the company of Fear, and yes, Loathing too, ring truer than ever: “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in…
Quod Vide, My Child
Q.V. My Child…Q.V. On this matter go see For yourself. Experience was never gained From staring at books That sit unopened upon Some other person’s shelf. Why should I insist that the Substance of my heart is pure? Why should I write you a letter When you label my concern Nothing but an artful lure?…
Sea Birds and Weltschmerz
On Possession, Injurious attacks and Influences, the Dangers of Being Open and Receptive to Others and Their Ideas. Being a raw walking open emotional and psychic wound is an occupational hazard for a writer, I suppose. We are possessed by ideas, by past artists and dreams which shake us around by the scruff of the…
A Little Light Tenderloin Nacht Musik: Our Reality Influences Our Dreams
There is music on the streets of the Tenderloin at night. It sounds like Armageddon mixed with some lower ring of somebody else’s hell. It does not make for sweet dreams. A little tender night music does not make for peaceful dreams: the screams and the grunts of male flesh pounding male flesh, chasing female…
Warren Zevon’s Los Angeles And Why He Needs To Be Honored By The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
All the best cities have their troubadours: New York has Lou Reed, Dylan, Patti Smith, Simon and Garfunkel and the Ramones as bards of the City and its inhabitants, charms and woes. Boston has…well Boston…and Seattle has Nirvana. Los Angeles is a different beast. Not for L.A. the artfully literary of San Francisco nor the…
Inside Out (Poem)
I coughed and blood splattered The palm of my hand that I Held to my mouth that formed A perfect ‘o’ of surprise when I Saw the bright red that should Be inside start to leak outside. Flashlights and requests to look Inside my mouth yielded nothing But disappointment Just blood with no obvious cause…
Creem February 1973: Part 1: Proto Patti’s, NewsStand Outings, Chuck Berry and ‘Transformer’ Dissed by a Robot.
Come take a trip with me into the past….you are going back to February 1973, New York City….you have been on a walk to meet your man …on the way back… … you find yourself walking past a newsstand in the East Village, and decide to pick up a carton of Marlboro Lights, a pack…
…and they all fall down…
It is sheer insanity outside my window. Another atmospheric storm has blown in rattling the panes of this old Victorian house. I fear for the pretty stained glass windows, they are held together with ancient lead frames and a promise that they haven’t failed yet. There is always time. Last night some white claw drinking…
Fever Ray: When I Grow Up I Wanna Be A Radical Romantic (New Fever Ray Album Review)
Fever Ray exists in a fever dream, a shamanic underworld where beats and bleeps, earthy grounded lyrics and ethereal magick chants reach up into the stars, invoking an otherworldly state of being. This is doors of perception territory, this is Hunter S Thompson’s Bat Country, this is what was playing in the bar when Burroughs…
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