“….talk to me some more, you don’t have to go, you’re the poetry man, you make things all rhyme….” Phoebe Snow is a true original and, for me, one of the very best female…
Year: 2010
Blog posts
The Beat Goes On: The Story of a Boy and His Cher, Part One
“After a nuclear holocaust, all that will be left are cockroaches and Cher.” Unattributed quote, late 1990s What is so fucking hard about writing a few paragraphs about Cher? I am embarrassed to…
An Urgent Sartorial Warning to Heterosexual Men: Ixnay on the Square-toed Oaferslay!
MAY 19, 2010 This morning on the train, I counted at least five gentlemen in my car who were wearing shoes that were variations on these square-toed monsters—the Godzilla of loafers. This got me…
Laurel Canyon Vintage To Close June,15th
“…there’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty, before the last revolving year is through…” Joni Mitchell’s The Circle Game from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970 It is with great disappointment that…
“Tonight’s The Night We’ll Make History”: The Night They Laughed and I Kept Dancing”
Senior Variety Show, Spring, 1981: Dawn and I anxiously waited in the wings, stretching our legs and whispering encouraging things to each other. We’d practiced our number so many times with the boom box…
Two For The Road: Jack Jones and Al Lewis; or, My Two Most Memorable Tower Records Moments,1987
When I moved back to New York City from Los Angeles in 1988 to focus on songwriting, I got a day job at Tower Records, which was de-rigueur at the time for any young person…
In Honor of Stargayzing’s 200th Blog Post, a Look Back at its First: January 29, 2010
“My New Window at Laurel Canyon Vintage! A Cast of Thousands!” was all it said.…
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