Monthly Archives: November, 2013
You Lied to Me!
Up until the age of seven, I believed pretty much anything that I read in a magazine, or was told by an older person. I don’t know how I stayed so gullible for so long, but I did. I was just a trusting, sweet, innocent kid. Nothing like the cynical, shuddering wreck of a human …
Mad Men Meanders
Like a lot of people, I fell in love early with Mad Men. I fell hard and fast. And I hung in there even as the show seemed to forget its original premise and wander into areas (Betty in a fat suit! Creepy suicidal British perv!) I had little interest in visiting. But after binge-viewing …
The Death of the Austin Federation of Musicians
Not this year, perhaps. But whether there is still a Local in Austin TX in 2020–seven short years from now–is completely dependent on new members joining. And particularly new members in their 20’s and 30’s, if the local is to have a future and not merely a reprieve. It’s ironic that the self-proclaimed ‘Live Music …
Duke Ellington didn’t write great melodies. So what?
A recent post from the great Ken Peplowski’s Facebook page: “I just finished the Duke Ellington biography by T.T. – all those pages written and read, only to reach the conclusions that (a) Duke Ellington remains an enigma, and (b) he really had no flair for writing melodies…sigh…if he would have ditched the cod musicology …
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