ROCK READS: Summer 2020
Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music – Ted Templeman as told to Greg Renoff (2020)
When one of the most successful producers and executives in the seminal years of the rock... Read More...
JAMES CAMPION’S REALITY CHECK
William Barr's criminal syndicate is illustrative of systemic anarchy in what are likely the final days of Trump.
The Justice Department is a sinkhole of criminal activity and another miserable stain on... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: THE UNTOUCHABLE TRIUMVIRATE OF MILITARY, RELIGION, AND POLICE
I applaud the people protesting every day around the world since that atrocity a few weeks back that took the life of yet another black man at the hands of a lunatic white cop. This is odd for me, the man who ... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: “I CAN’T BREATHE” PART II
A riot is the language of the unheard.- Martin Luther King Jr.
Minneapolis is burning. A police precinct is breached. There is the usual looting and insanity, calls for calm, mayoral and gubernatorial s... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: GET OUT THERE AND SAVE THE DAY, AMERICA.
It's time for Americans to risk their lives for the good ol' U.S.A.
Hey, America! Here’s how it works now. You need to get back out there and save the economy. If you get sick and die, well… it happens.... Read More...
LITTLE RICHARD WAS ROCK AND ROLL’S MISSING INGREDIENT
“I could do Little Richard’s voice, which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing, it’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it.”
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REALITY CHECK: STATES’ RIGHTS REVERSAL IN THE AGE OF MADNESS
A Dangerous National Leadership Vacuum Pushes Us Through the Political Looking Glass
In the mid-eighties, during the last true wave of modern conservatism, it was difficult to imagine a time, some thirty-pl... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: TRUMP IS FAILING LATEST CRISIS TEST, JUST AS HE’S FAILED TIME & TIME AGAIN
“I alone can fix it.”
Donald J. Trump on the 2016 campaign trail
The most pressing
national crisis since the 2008 economic collapse and maybe even the 9/11
tragedy and we have a game show host in charge.... Read More...
Reality Check—In Memoriam: Adam Schlesinger [1967-2020]
When you go out of
the blackness
Into the great big
sky
Supercollider
Shooting inside
your mind
Adam Schlesinger/Chris Collingwood, “Supercollider
Adam Schlesinger has died from complications st... Read More...
REALITY CHECK: ISOLATION & HOW MUCH LONGER?
We're afraid of everyone
Afraid of the sun
Isolation
The sun will never disappear
But the world may not have many years
Isolation
- John Lennon, “Isola... Read More...
