Music

Ok. So I got an interesting email yesterday, and it begs for a response. I owe it to those of you playing along at home. And somehow I feel like I owe it to myself. To explain, that is. Or to try and understand for myself. So here goes. I’ve gotten this sort of email…

Monday was the world’s longest day. Plane landed early. As expected, I dropped my bags and immediately went running. It was a clear and beautiful morning, some 25 degrees colder than Sunday morning in L.A. I wrote a chorus in my head while I was running, and finished the song as soon as I got…

I’m on JetBlue Flight 126 en route from Long Beach, CA, to New York City. The monitor on the seat back says that we’re cruising at 603 miles per hour some 32,000 feet over Ohio. The plane is dark. The young family next to me is fast asleep. The Xanax has worn off, so I’m…

On the way out of last night’s Cockfight rehearsal, we saw a garbage man kick a rat. Killed it right there on the the spot. Anyway, we basically played the same song for two hours, a two and a half minute big rock song called “Tony.” It actually sounds ok. We remind me of The…

I have a new favorite film: “The Bad & The Beautiful” starring Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner. Cool story structure (three flashbacks). Well-acted (in a 50s noire sorta’ way). Great camera movement. Kinda’ funny. And very inside Hollywood. Speaking of, I’m flying to to L.A. Friday morning for a very Hollywood black tie wedding. I’m…

Last night was one for the record books — or in this case, The Daily Journal. A bunch of us from MTV News took a field trip to Kaiju Big Battle, a post-modern, post-ironic wrestling match between guys in slime-spewing foam monster suits. It was funny in its own way, but that’s not the point.…