My friend Simon Evans is having his first solo NY show, and it’s really spectacular. When I first met Simon, he was writing short stories–really brilliant ones, short, whimsical and funny. Years later, he began drawing and making collages, but he never really stopped writing, making his work fun to read as well as look [...]
From Pitchfork’s Bob Stanley: “‘Lamplight’ doesn’t sound like a hit, truthfully. No matter. From its heavily thrummed acoustic intro and unintelligible echo-ridden opening verse to the massed harps and a storyline that alludes to lost love and candlelit Victoriana, it seems Robin is unsure of what he wants to say, yet knows exactly how to [...]
By A. J. Williams “song and dance man” “Perception is always coloured by memory – some memories are vast imagined towns and cities through which you drive to reach your destination – some are open fields, cloudless skylines and straight roads. You see, you can’t listen in isolation to songs written through shared experience and [...]
To celebrate Heart Health Month, here’s a new article for WEtv.com called Healthy Mind, Healthy Heart. I know, not very exciting. But, good news: Next month is Kidney Month.
Acting swiftly on reports that millions of recession-ravaged Americans paid actual money to make “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” the nation’s top-grossing movie, Twentieth Century Fox gave the green light to (s)hit-makers Tony and Ridley Scott to make a movie version of the hit 1980s TV series “The A-Team.” Joining the Scotts will be director Joe [...]
*** MEMORANDUM *** To: Little Steven From: The Minister of Culture Re: It’s Been a Good Run Last night, while watching the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLIII Halftime Show on NBC, is suddenly occurred to me, (a) who is that man singing with Bruce Springsteen and (b) where is his shoulder parrot? The Minister of Culture [...]
