Monthly Archives: April 2011
Bob Dylan Goes Back To College
Here is a recent music review I was asked to write. That’s the kind of thing I do every now and then. Gun for hire. King’s magician. Doodler of small words… The first track on Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 is an incomplete recording of “Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance” (Henry [...]
Pretty Girls
All the Pretty Girls The pretty girls gather around cameras and small dogs; fat-faced babies and graceful grandpas. I’ve seen them crowd around crudites. I’ve seen them dance with only themselves – the whirling wonder of it all. All the pretty girls dream in color and plot their days by those breeze blown banners that [...]
Alchemy, the Occult and Black Swan
Welcome, welcome. Received a strange knock on my afternoon door earlier this week, followed by the sound of something hitting the wood floor in the hallway and hurried footsteps fading down the stairs. Opening the door, a large white envelope stared up at me, the unblinking red postmark stamp as omniscient as the eye of [...]
