January 2009
9 posts
Live
Music is a good friend of mine. I’m no expert, not by any stretch of the imagination but I do listen to a fair bit of it and one thing I have noticed recently is the increasing amount music that is well crafted in the studio but then fails to translate live.
I’ve always been a fan of television shows that give bands the oppurtunity to come on and flex their live muscle. That is the...
Rumours
The Simpsons do Fleetwood Mac
Evelyn McHale.
On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death.
The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off...
Into the Tumble.
I had a dream last night. In the dream I was taking a car ride to the other side of town. A place I do not go very often. I was driving slowly, leisurely, to something like Journey on the stereo. I was happy. It was night and pitch dark except for the street lights poking through the black. I had a smile on my face and the window down to let the frigid January air whip my face.
I pulled into an...