Jan
16
BORIS, MERRIE ENGLAND & THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow." - Falstaff,
Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2
5 min read
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Jan
13
DON QUIXOTE & THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight
5 min read
Jan
12
THE STREATHAM BODHISATTVA
Saving the world is the easy part. Living in the world with others who he considers perpetually straitjacketed by the
6 min read
Jan
10
ONE LAST SPARKLE
Man, it's too early
What the hell you doin' wakin' me up at 5:30?
Why
4 min read
Jan
09
ARIADNE AUF VIENNA
I remember it was a Monday and only our second day in Vienna back in the early
spring of 2001.
5 min read
Jan
07
ASTROVISION AND THE COLOR OF MONEY
For some reason, I keep returning retrospectively to Scorsese's low-key sweet
spot period from After Hours (1985) through
4 min read
Jan
06
NO ONE IS ALONE
Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide
4 min read
Jan
01
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
1 min read
Jan
01
MONTSALVAT
It was an age where the history of Western civilisation and its culture was
being derided as either immoral and
9 min read
Dec
28
DEATH & THE CRITIC
Often shunned at the end of year parties by his journalistic peers, Bob
Koppelman, Classical Music critic of the New
9 min read