Threw out my back and can’t trace it to a unique incident, at least any other time I could recall lifting amplifiers or tyres or digging in a garden, something […]

I love Warren Zevon’s collected works and I knew he was friends with Stephen King but watching an interview with Stephen King made it clearer what they had in common. […]

Ten years later – touring the West coast and while playing the Hotel Utah in San Francisco, Elliot shows up. He had become a new age breath therapy guru. I […]

I noticed the online ratings of books by William S. Burroughs and chose to check out Queer which was not rated as high as Junkie and Naked Lunch. I have […]

Standing in line last week for a Covid test, in front of me one of the teachers from my daughter’s school, a woman who fluently speaks four languages. While waiting […]

Sometimes when you are improvising with people, if someone plays loudly and not necessarily creatively, it poses a problem. Should you fight their contribution and insist on your sound instead? […]

I told Elliot, the tape didn’t do it for me. He was hurt but he also liked the fact I was telling him what I thought, he was already used […]

There’s a BBC show called Desert Island Discs, they’re archived from as far back as the 50s, now it’s a podcast and a very amazing collection of people from all […]

While listening to French versions of English songs, helping to better my French, I came upon one person that especially destroyed me, Marie Lafôret, who died in her eighties, in […]

dave davies doing the song strangers in five is so amazing, so casual, no big deal, nobody calling attention to it, it’s just ordinary. i forget who pointed it out […]