I'm a tyme study man...and I have been parsing the milliseconds/burning the midnight scamp over the last couple weeks since my last entry, lots to report and...
Writing now from lovely Estoril outside Lisbon..what a crazy week, playing two more or less consecutive festivals on 2 different continents..feelin' good,...
All the way from Paris France via Eretz Yisrael, Yael Naim at the Bowery Ballroom last Wednesday night delivered one of the most soaring, uplifting concerts...
...like the new Martin Scorsese/Rolling Stones Concert Film "Shine A Light", which I caught on the immense IMax Screen on 67th Street and Broadway yesterday--a...
Just back from supping with Caroline at the fabulous Al Fama restaurant, corner of Hudson and Perry Street here in the w-w-wild West Village-- nostalgic for...
...doin' time on planet earth. A wandering minstrel, aye, who likes to commingle with other like-minded folk, strange kin peoples of the outer and inner circle...
The sun is shining strongly this morning, the Village looks better and more inviting than ever out my window, and before I go out to get our coffee this...
Dear Readers, I am sorry to have been so remiss in posting in awhile, but simply have been, I dunno, busy is not the word for it...let us say, consumed by...
In Paris now to play the French Jeff Buckley Tribute tonight at the Hard Rock in Montmartre, word of the great rock innovator Bo Diddley's passing just...
Just back from New Haven Conn. where I was honored to play last night a full set of my 30's Chinese pop arrangements from my 2001 album "The Edge of Heaven"...
Sorry sorry SORRY (sorry!) I havent been corresponding in a while via ye olde aether interossiter (Q: which colorful 50's sci fi flick has this this dubious...
Ahhhhh, a midsummer night's scream high in the beautiful Austrian Alps, Gods and Monsters had the most amazing gig as part of the Salzkammergut Festival last...
"Pennsylvania snow is pretty thickMichigan ain't where I get my kicksTexas is fine but it gets too hotand New York City's not a place to stopNew Orleans is the...
...was an exhortation, an admonishment, and a command given by Thelonious Monk to his then disciple, the young soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, who later rose...
Shock Horror!!! BOB DYLAN, for years my number one Desert Island Artiste du Disque (there is more info contained in the grain of his voice, more pixels packed...
Shock horror! Prescient science friction abounding:"Somebodies leavin' peanuts on the curbins For uh white elephant escaped from the zoo With love"--"Moonlight...
Mercury turning retrograde the other day always affects me, a double Gemini, intensely...so much so that I skipped over rather a large chunk of time passing in...
OY VEY--Bill Kristol "Blue Persuasion" is at it again, boys and girls...Not content to have activated Sarah P (a lifesize Chatty Cathy doll if ever there was...
WOAHHHHHH OBAMA--BAM A LAM!!!Gang was over last night (Pakistani pistol Shaista Husain and Gus Palakas, Cineaste editor Richard Porton) getting down in serious...
Sad sad news today on the death of Forrest J. Ackerman http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1864854,00.html?imw=Y, requiescat in pace...Variously...
Chilly scenes of winter...why is it so cold down here?So c-c-cold!Sunny today defecting grey dank j. arthur rank New Yawk sounds its barbaric yawp over the...
Here I be slaving over a hot keyboard at the Cafe Unterhausen in lovely Passau Germany,outside the gorgeous snowladen vista of the beautiful blau Danube...
WFMU is a not-for-profit, fully listener-sponsored radio station, anchored in New Jersey, but broadcasting to the world from their website www.wfmu.org. The...
Gary, Where were you? I got to the gig a little late, so I missed any opening announcements, but I asked a guy at the next table and he said that he thought...
I concur! It was a great show, however Gary was really missed, the band is hot anyhow but night and day with and without Gary. Pat is a fine player and kudos...
Check them out at wfmu.org. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU I love that station! I'm pretty poor but I sent them $50 this year. Last year it was...