Neil Peart was in touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage.
Category: music
Jul 03
This Time Tomorrow: July 3, 1776
Today we hoist a Button Gwinnett for bittersweet but necessary departures.
Sep 11
You’re Not My Father, Queensryche
“Silent Lucidity” would be such a great song if “Comfortably Numb” didn’t already exist and I didn’t understand English.
May 18
#Problematic! Drilling Down “The Street Where You Live”
Perhaps Eliza reasoned that a man who speaks redundancies would lack precision elsewhere.
Feb 01
Oz Never Did Give Nothing to Moulty: A Bucketa Massachusetts Accents
The Massachusetts accent isn’t achieved simply by dropping an R.
Jan 01
The True Protest Is Beauty
I would like to make the righteous protests of my future beautiful ones.
Jan 13
Tucumcari Tonight: Lowell George’s “Willin'”
Why Weed, Whites, And Wine are integral to long-distance relationships
Aug 28
50 Years Ago Tonight: A Killer Lineup, Plus the Beatles, at Dodger Stadium
A half century ago today, the other bands on the Beatles’ Dodger Stadium bill were just as interesting.
Jul 30
What’s A Few Sharks Between Bombs?
Great shipwrecks of the 20th century:
1. The U.S.S. Indianapolis
2. The Edmund Fitzgerald
3. Watership Down/The Ark of the Covenant
Jul 02
Remembering A Time When the Whole Human Race Was Not Jazzing for Blue Jean
Also, “Life On Mars?” was originally titled “Life in France?”