15 months into the pandemic, and life feels like the ending of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale: a heavy veil is slowly lifting and awakening us from a sleep which for many was filled with endless nightmares of multiple kinds. But while the sleeping beauty’s gentle awakening was entwined with roses and initiated by a Prince’s …
It was on Canadian radio where I heard songs from Low for the very first time, that was in 1977. The older brother of a friend owned a copy of the record, it had just been released. I remember how especially the instrumental tracks struck me. They felt almost plastic, like a landscape that as …
I was born on May 15, 1948 in the small town of Melton in Suffolk, England. I studied painting at the nearby Ipswich Civic College and at the Winchester School of Art from 1966-1969. I explored abstract expressionist painting and wrote poetry. 1975. I was walking across a crowded intersection and was struck by a …
(Human Rights Watch (HRW) finally assessed the obvious: “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution.“) Dear All of You: I sense I’m breaking an unspoken rule with this letter, but I can’t keep quiet any more. Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. It was …
All music or art just wasn’t created for everyone to understand or share equally. That may sound harsh in our altruistic age. Nevertheless, pretending that art doesn’t exclude strikes me as rather ridiculous and frankly a lie. Some music, like other activities, requires certain surrender. A need for self-submission before the greater discovery. Those blissful …
The TX9000 understood that it wasn’t possible for its feelings to be real. Any sense of happiness, revenge, or even jealously was a creation of the Tyrell Corporation using the most advanced AI technology known. Whatever was “felt” within its hardware was merely a programmer’s description of a human emotion. Nevertheless, this programmed emotional responses …
People had suspected it for years. But in 1972, the release of two albums made it official: there were aliens living on Earth. The first of these grand announcements may have been the least shocking of the two. David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. People had long suspected Bowie of being …
When the Talking Heads finished touring for their equally masterful 1979 album Fear Of Music, the band decided to take a small break to explore other creative ideas. In this creative intermission, two of the band’s members, married couple Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, were having doubts about staying in Talking Heads, especially as frontman …
