There's a real entry about my life on its way. But first, I just had to post this:

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This girl, Senri Kawaguchi, is fourteen years old. She's already a better drummer than I'll ever be. And I'd say the odds are good that she'll turn out to be one of the best drummers ever.

"Humor is not escape.
Sleep is escape.
Humor is relief." -- Walt Kelly

As usual, I have no energy. So I'm absorbing some that other people have put out there.

When I first heard the track "Blue Wind" on Jeff Beck's album Wired, I loved it, mainly because I was 16 years old and I dug how Jan Hammer shows off a ton of complicated drum fills. Then it gradually became less fun, probably because the music is too busy to ( Read more... )

I finished watching the first season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955-1956), and my reaction is mostly positive. True, the half-hour format keeps most of the episodes from being as good as his movies; it's hard to develop characters I'll care about, and it's harder to build up as much suspense. But considering those limitations, a lot of the ( Read more... )

"Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom... What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent."

-- John Cage, 1939

For no particular reason, here's a clip of the transgendered band the Nasty Habits performing my favorite Top-40 ode to self-love, Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop".

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The camera angle tends to favor the bass player over the rest of the group, though I admit she has a real flair with her instrument. I'm speaking as a drummer who's always wanted to learn

Well, it's been quite a while since I added another update to the collection of titles I call my Favorite Comics List. And as I was compiling, shuffling and pruning the new group of entries, I thought a bit about this whole phenomenon ( Read more... )

Well, although it took me a while to summon up the energy to write about it, this is good news ( Read more... )

I dug out a stack of old maze books. A big hit of nostalgia there ( Read more... )

"Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Why do people go see these popcorn pictures when they're not good? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault."

-- George Lucas, quoted in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind ( Read more... )