My New Hero
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Once I stopped weeping, I wanted to track down this beautiful young man and hold him to let him know that everything will get better. But, by the end of the video, I realized he already knows that. Heroes come in many a various guise. Here’s a face of the New World Hero. The bilious [...]
One Million, Five Hundred Seventy Six Thousand Minutes
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When I first experienced RENT the week it opened, it was during a tumultuous period of my life, a life-altering turbulence. While the issues of HIV/AIDS and drugs that predominated this modern rock fable loosely based on Puccini’s “La Boheme” weren’t even in the realm of the personal terrain I was sojourning, Jonathan Larson’s score [...]
Music Box: R.I.P. Amy Winehouse…Another Dead Rock And Roll Cliché
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Amy Winehouse died this past week and the real grief is in the knowledge that no one was surprised at all. As of this writing the cause of death was still undetermined, but lest we fool ourselves, is there really any wonder? Winehouse – whose breakthrough (2006′s fine, if overrated BACK TO BLACK) cemented the [...]
Music Box: Stevie Nicks…Come In Out Of The Darkness ~ BELLA DONNA Turns 30
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In paying tribute to one of my Desert Island Discs on the 30th anniversary of its initial release date (July 27, 1981), here is my original review of BELLA DONNA that was written for my school newspaper: STEVIE NICKS – BELLA DONNA Where the wispy fairy/poet/waif we adored – and still do – on FLEETWOOD [...]
♂+♀=♥ ♂+♂=♥ ♀+♀=♥! NY=♥ I♥NY
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Buju BYE BYE!!!
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It’s hard to believe that over 2 decades have passed since abominable Jamaican dancehall “artist” Buju Banton (whose real un-Jamaican name is Mark Anthony Myrie), then only fifteen years old, solidified his name in the Homophobe Hall Of Fame with his virulent and heinous ode to murdering gays, “Boom Bye Bye”. Today, this hatemonger was [...]
Music Box: R.I.P. Big Man ~ Clarence Clemons January 11 1942 – June 18 2011
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“I looked over at C and it looked like his head reached into the clouds. And I felt like a mere mortal scurrying upon the earth, you know. But he always lifted me up. Way, way, way up. Together we told a story of the possibilities of friendship, a story older than the ones that [...]
Music Box: The Incredible Shrinking Women
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***** I’ve always hated Christina Aguilera’s histrionic melismatics and pretentious, over-the-top trilling, so when she flubbed the lyrics to the “The Star Spangled Banner” a few months back during the Super Bowl, as funny as it was, her memory lapse didn’t offend me as much as the overall performance did (there’s rarely a half-note she [...]
(Portland) People Have The Power
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From TOWLEROAD: On Sunday night, more than 4,000 people showed up to a Facebook-organized demonstration against last week’s anti-gay hate crime in Portland, Oregon and held hands across the Hawthorne bridge where the attack occurred. Earlier I reported that volunteer patrols had started in the area. Just Out reports: Demonstrators packed into the space beneath the [...]
