....I'm not sure if it was a national or regional promotion but Appleby's offered free dinners today to Veterans & active duty personnel. I spent the afternoon with two old vets of WWII, to fellow Vets from Nam, & two from Desert Storm. We didn't swap war stories, but each of us retreated, during the quiet interludes, into our own place. When I'm lucky its just snapshots. When I'm not.............
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Anyone else watching the new Sunday night drama on HBO, 'John From Cincinnati'?I am beyond hooked! I am not a television watcher, so for me to make a point to watch something every week means I really must like it. I am loving this show. I am digging the whole surfing as religion metaphor it has evolving...and I LOVE the fact that I have no idea what is going to happen next. Anything that makes...
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JOE STRUMMER-THE FUTURE'S UNWRITTENDir: Julien Temple June 2007/124minsBono, Johnny Depp, Matt DillonHaving made a string of films on the Sex Pistols, Temple turns the camera on The Clash frontman, Joe Strummer. Mixing archive footage with interviews from fellow musicians and those who were influenced by The Clash, this fantastic film is a celebration of a seminal musical figure and offers a gl...
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...on my way home from a press gig yesterday, this homeless guy got on the subway with this big ass baby stroller filled-to-overflowing with all of his worldly possessions, he secured it somewhere and went to the front of the car, I didn't pay him any more attention as I was punching something up on the laptop, listening to my iPod but in between songs I noticed that he had this ratty acoustic ...
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1. Ol' Dirty Bastard, "Got Your Money." Rudy Ray Moore, R.I.P.2. Apollo 440, "Stop the Rock." Choose your spelling.3. Sisqó, "Thong Song." I spent more time trying to decide whether to use the "ó" in the artist's name than I did trying to figure out something interesting to say about his career.4. Dr. Dre, "Forgot About Dre." Snoop and Eminem are better known than Dre for the raps that appear o.
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Under normal circumstances, I like to tie in some personal anecdote to my ruminations about the songs I praise here, but I don't really have one in this particular case. All I can say is that I was walking up 6th Avenue earlier this week on my way to my new job, and this track came blasting through my headphones at the corner of 34th Street, and it completely made my morning. So, I thought I'd ...
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So I just watched Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. I don't know why I did. I'm not familiar with Joe Strummer or the Clash (but after watching this film, I've realized that I should be). I had shit to do. I just thought, "you know what, I have this opportunity, why not?" And I'm so glad I did. Because besides being a great story, great film, great music, great, beautiful images, gre...
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Not to be morbid, but once last post on the death theme -- Joe Strummer's death a few years back hit me harder than any other celebrity death I can think of. Too young, and too good. (It was close to Christmas when I heard about it, and I happened to be visiting Vietnam about to visit Ho Chi Minh City, which only served to remind me of that song he wrote.)I had been loving his recent albums, ...
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pjaction says: "Coma Girl" is one of those poetic pieces of music that moves me every time I hear it. Joe Strummer died in 2002 right as his latest band The Mescaleros started cooking. But what he and his band left behind continues to inspire me. pop, rock
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Review of The Future Is Unwritten DVD, a documentary about legendary punk rocker Joe Strummer (The Clash)
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So did Farrah Fawcett get trumped or what? When one large icon dies it's always a good time to remember some of the others who were nothing but good souls. Joe Strummer (1952–2002) was always true to his roots and the origin of rockn'roll. Thus his 50's look I would say. Part of legacy brings the Strummerville Foundation which strives to enable folks the opportunity to create music who may not .
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I'm comfortable admitting to you that I'm mildly funny, and even if I'm wrong about that, I'm confident that I'm funnier than Pauly Shore. That's not admitting much, but in terms of my comedic skills I'm willing to go out on a ledge and suggest that I may be funnier than Adam Sandler. I've since been thinking about how my humble musical skills match up with the pros. Excluding Sid Vicious, how...
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