Oct 16 LITTLE GIRL BLUE Della had spent a few days back at her apartment in a near-perpetual fog of cigarette smoke and Nina Simone Oct 16, 2024 4 min read
Oct 16 HAIR PIECE "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau There's an existential void that Oct 16, 2024 4 min read
Oct 15 COME A CROPOLIS "Don't let the now destroy the forever." I think Francis Ford Coppola has broken my brain. Oct 15, 2024 2 min read
Oct 14 THE FORGETTING OF BIRTHDAYS I may be one of the worst people when it comes to remembering a friend's birthday, so today Oct 14, 2024 2 min read
Oct 13 RAY Just a quick one: Ray Brown was born on this day, October 13, 1926, and was one of the greatest Oct 13, 2024 2 min read
Oct 13 DON G 'Don Giovanni' is an opera that, 200 years later, we're still struggling to try to understand. Oct 13, 2024 2 min read
Oct 12 MCDOWELL AT THE GOLDEN GATES Screen actor John Amos died last week, and although I can't vouch for much of his work throughout Oct 12, 2024 1 min read
Oct 11 DARK ART "Gentlemen! Let's broaden our minds." - Joker (Jack Nicholson) Recently, on the popular film podcast Unspooled, Oct 11, 2024 2 min read
Oct 10 TAKESHI It's Takeshi Kaneshiro's 51st birthday today, and I felt compelled to pay a small tribute to Oct 10, 2024 2 min read
Oct 10 THE BEAST IN ME Having recently watched the Francis Bacon biopic Love is the Devil (1998), I was greatly impressed by Derek Jacobi' Oct 10, 2024 2 min read