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Ramones – California Sun 1976

March 5, 2014 – 1:46 pm

I was walking down the Bowery in 1976. I heard a band playing a breakneck version of CALIFORNIA SUN from inside a white-stuccoed bar. I walked inside, paid my admission, and walked to the stage, mesmerized by the leather-jacketed quartet. In less than a minute I was hooked by the Ramones and still am to […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW on Kindle

March 2, 2014 – 5:36 pm

Several years ago I went to a Nan Goldin show at the Whitney Museum with a Park Avenue divorcee. Claudia came from a good Philadelphia famiily and the black and white photos were a shock to her upper-class sensibilities. “These people look so tragic.” Her assessment of Nan Goldin’s subjects was true, but I knew […]

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THE DARK SWARM by Andrix

November 22, 2013 – 7:45 am

Music from Andrix Words from MAYBE TOMORROW Please go to the following URL http://andrix.bandcamp.com/track/the-dark-swarm

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Vanishing Everywhere

August 8, 2013 – 8:00 pm

“What did you miss about New York?” my friends asked me after my return from Thailand. Looking around the city I had to admit that during my eight year absence from the Big Apple I missed nothing of the now, but everything of the then. Gone were CBGBs, the St. Mark’s Theater, The Orchida, Times […]

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CBGBs The Movie

August 8, 2013 – 7:53 pm

I walked by CBGBs in the Autumn of 1976. I heard a band playing a cover of CALIFORNIA SUN by the Rivieras. It was the Ramones and I went to CBGBs every night for the next two years. Yes, I was a lucky man, because this movie can’t ever come close to the truth of […]

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