I like JIm Jarmusch. I think his Stranger Than Paradise is brilliant; it's in my top 15 desert island films. Alongside STP, I have to...

Most progressive economists can see through the smoke and mirrors bilking that is the ponzi/pyramid-scheme American economy. Many moons ago...

Unlike most, I love Scorsese's, "New York, New York." In it, Liza Sings a very good version of this tune, one of my favorite ...

Here's yet another regret; I never saw The Divine One. Without waxing on, she's my favorite.

A while back I wrote about how while Les Paul performed accessible pop music, his genius was apparent to musicians and engineers. But belie...

With all of the adulation I've been showing Amy lately and lest any of you doubt that I have foresaken my roots.

Shepard Fairey was on The Henry Rollins show this past week, and while I think he's an ok dude, I think his art is just kinda eh. Thoug...

Ha HA!!! PassiveAggressiveNotes.com And peeps have to STILL ask why old media doesn't get it, let alone why it's struggling and/or ...

I've been doing this gig at a major broadcaster (one of the big four) and happened to bump into an old audiophile friend, "Andy....

Appropriation . After "exploitation" it's the word that so aptly conveys the depth and breadth of white culture over and into...

I always tell my daughter that the baby boomers were goofy, but they did some cool shit. They consistently got up off their asses and said ...

Like any other form of art, what passes for the most part as poetry is garbage. But I recall as if yesterday my discovery of Robert Desnos...

It is important that you risk trying things that you might not be very good at. It is important that you discover that failure is never fina...

What IS it about our twisted American culture that produces outliers that make foreign psychopaths drool? Of course there are sickos every...

When people, particularly the tragically hip, discuss surrealism, it's always in the vein of the fantastical, "way out" imager...

The LA Archdiocese settled a record case of molestation; $660 mil. Thoughts & tidbits: -I love legal parlance that, in one word - "...

I snapped this earlier this year while driving westbound on the 10 heading out of the city back to the westside. It was impressive. To get ...

How did he do it? -Phil Ramone upon hearing Les Paul for the first time Here's what I look for in artists of any stripe and people in ...