Category: music

• Memories of Uncle Bob

  Dec 26

  Last week we buried Uncle Bob. Despite the fact that the bar was ridiculously low, he was nevertheless my favorite uncle. Two of my earliest memories are of him. I… more ›

• Un-Presidented

  Feb 20

  To all you Presidents of the United States of Love this Presidents Day. And, lest we forget, the original: more ›

• Top 10 Composers

  Jan 24

  According to the number of plays in my iTunes for all my music categorized under Classical, here are my Top 10 Composers: John Cage Karol Szymanowski Kevin Volans Samuel Barber… more ›

• Monday Mix 01092017: Bowie

  Jan 9

  A year ago David Bowie died. It broke my heart. Though I never met him or saw him perform live, he helped define the context of my life and thinking,… more ›

• Monday Mix 01022017

  Jan 2

  I stopped writing. I stopped posting things on my lovely blog. But now I’ve decided to get back at it. To this end, I’ll be posting a mix of various… more ›

• Moja droga (Part 1)

  Oct 6

  Maybe she had asked the question before; maybe she’d forgotten my rambling answer. I vaguely remember, perhaps, that we’d had this conversation sitting, no less, at a coffee shop in… more ›

• Frankie Says See This Film

  Jun 24

  Third film viewed at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Brendan Toller’s Danny Says–a documentary about journalist-cum-punk prophet Danny Fields, who is credited with introducing Jim Morrison… more ›

• Station to Station (or How Not to Make a Film)

  Jun 22

  Another film I saw at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Doug Aitken’s Station to Station. Billed as 61 one-minute films, this quasi-documentary of a 24-day, 4000-mile,… more ›

• Chatter

  Jan 9

  There’s a voice continually narrating in my mind. At no point is it louder than when I’m still, attempting to meditate. Sometimes I have to turn that voice against itself… more ›

• Eulogy for Lou Reed

  Nov 7

  I didn’t know Lou Reed. No, I never met the man. Yet I am certain, because of the authenticity I perceived in his songs, that I nevertheless knew him, albeit… more ›