Friday, June 28, 2013

Vaud and the Villains - How Do You Spell E-C-L-E-C-T-I-C?

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The last thing I had in mind when I left my apartment last Saturday was to receive some musical epiphany at LA’s   MacArthur   Park… yes...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

It's That Time Again in LA: Let the Music Flow...

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It’s that time again in LA—summer—and there’s so much good music for free that it almost makes the smog and traffic jams and lack...
Friday, June 07, 2013

GREAT TRAVELS, GREAT WRITERS: Stephens & Leonowens

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Have you ever noticed that the best travel writers never really considered themselves as such?  Look at anybody’s list of favorites ...
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Thursday, June 06, 2013

New Guide Shows Hostel Trend Coming to North America—Finally | PRLog

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New Guide Shows Hostel Trend Coming to North America—Finally | PRLog
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Голос кочевников : Dengue Fever Live in Ulan Ade, Buryatia, Siberia, Russia? Oh yeah, baby, right there, that’s good…

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  My glorious career as a music promoter lasted a total of one band (I count time in personalities, not days-months-years).  ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: A Tale of Three Continents… and the #MassMarketing of #BigBox #America

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Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto, Quinto, and… and… Sixto, ahhhh…  And the sixth time was a charm (not that the first five weren’t)...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

MALI’S JIHAD #4, and Counting: The Day the Music Stopped

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It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Great Travelers, Great Stories

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Traveling through space is geography.   Traveling through time is history.   I just finished reading the Travels of Marco Polo and ...
Monday, October 08, 2012

GOLDTHWAIT’S FILM “GOD BLESS AMERICA” HOLDS THE MIRROR UP TO ALL OF US

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It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.   We make love to our iPhones and our egos, while begrudging food...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

KEROUAC vs. ROLLINS, CRITIQUES or CRITICISMS, POLITICS & POLITENESS, AND THE GLORY THAT WAS PEORIA

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I’ve often speculated that our golden age—like many others before it—must sooner or later be followed by a corresponding dark age o...