I have never been a fan of the chit-chat chatter that happens when you get your hair cut. This isn’t something new, a quirk developed from spending forty hours a week for twenty years making small talk with customers; even as a child I remember thinking “What do I have to talk to this adult… Continue reading May 28, 2019
Month: May 2019
May 24, 2019
I started reading the Beastie Boys Book the other day (highly recommended if you’re a fan, or even if you want some insight into the music scene in NYC from the late 1970’s into the 1980’s and beyond,) and I got to the part where they talk about their first single, from 1983, called Cookie… Continue reading May 24, 2019
May 11, 2019
It’s embarrassing now to admit that the first time I heard the song “Hazy Shade of Winter,” it wasn’t the original but the cover by the Bangles for the movie “Less Than Zero.” It made sense back then; it was 1987 and Simon and Garfunkel were the farthest thing from my mind musically. I was… Continue reading May 11, 2019