Hermosa Beach—Strand Walls Only
Strand walls? They make great places for sittin’ and watchin’ and thinkin’ if folks have a mind to do that. ‘Tain’t a bad way to spend a day because much of what exists in this world has no guarantee of staying where it is into the...
read moreRandy Nauert — RIP, My Friend
Because of certain posts from Joe Carducci via a social media I rarely have any truck with, I recently had a chance to revisit some things that were important in my musical past. It’s easy to overlook things and people that never made it into the bright spots of...
read moreJazz Az 5-7/4 Knowz It
Folks should realize by now that I’m essentially a jazz head. No matter what other musical style invaded my life—and no matter when—I always had an ear for jazz or anything that depended on its free-formity of melody and rhythm. The kind of thing Mr. Duke...
read moreRandy Nauert — Temescal fire
Over the year 2018 I’ve been chasing the idea of archiving information and stories from veteran audio mastering engineers on how the analog—and especially vinyl format—process worked back in the “golden age” of popular independent music; something...
read moreAll I Wanted Was A Violation…
…as long as it was a violation of American myths. Any myth will do if well chosen, and a Pepsi just won’t cut it. Thru all the hard work of editing, mixing, etc the great audiobook voiceover project (and dealing with building a whole new system after a...
read more—30—? Wait… On-Base-Percentages?
“What was it like?” he asked. “Nothin’ you’d wanna know about,” I said, lighting last year’s final, delicious cigarette, “It was a whole lot better. But your mama would hate to find that out. I’m sure she’s...
read moreAudiobooks Zines Raining Pouring
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” —John Archibald Wheeler And when those things DO happen at once… wow. This has been a long term project and I won’t go into details on how it started, but about 2 years ago I committed ...
read more“Anti,” he said, “ANTI…
“…all the world… no, wait. Most all the world,” he corrected. Next thing I knew, the cheap smell of patchouli washed itself free of one pretension and gathered into a rage of middle-class stink. As far as pretensions were concerned, life was...
read moreLast Book’s Exit To Brooklyn…
…and Joe Carducci was slingin’ copies of his books at Quimby’s August 31. Kinda poetic to do it the last day of the month. I’m still sluggin’ my way thru his latest, Stone Male—A Requiem For The Living Picture, and I’ll soon finish...
read moreCarducci & Mugger NYC August 31…
…and they’re doing a speaking event at Quimby’s Bookstore (536 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn; 8:00 pm). An edited version of the description is: “…Joe Carducci [will talk] about his time in the west coast music underground, 1976-1986, and...
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