If we’re thinking about stuff that happened while we were in London, longtime listeners know what that means:Ken’s Bookshelflovingly lists the purchases our hero made at Treadwell’s and Foyles. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with yoursupport...
Last year, this piece a week ahead of time about a song, and a band, and a concert that happened afterwards, and the pathos and drunkenness and community. But 2020 was filled with so much other grief, as is 2021. My rage is always the first thing that I can express, and I’m gla...
But I kept remembering how my parents were together. They weren’t lovey dovey in front of us, but they were usually together like salt and pepper shakers. There was a chemistry about them that made them seem like one person. I didn’t understand that and honestly didn’t believe it was...
it seems to me that Frank’s obsessive nature seems indicative of a trauma response to something that happened to him early in life, and Gail’s wholesale rejection of conventional morality and her tendency toward self-delusion and obsession...
Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, Cast Away) has created an unusual semi-old-fashioned war and romance film in Allied. Unfortunately, most of its early press had to do with its stars—Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard—and their non-existent romance that then …Continue reading→...
Making tracks : how building 10 miles of track in one day, the stuff of legend, happened on April 28, 1869 In the discarded opening section of Albert Angelo (1964), recovered by Jonathan Coe in his biography of B. S. Johnson, the narrator laments how "God had ma... Wendell W. Huff...
but it does mean you marked the transition of your parents from “childless couple” to “parents”. My brother was born when I was about 2 and half years old. When that happened, I was suddenly no longer the only child in the house. I was no longer the center of attention. The new...
So Johnny Cash was looking in that direction when I waved at him, being silly, and he looked at me, like ‘Who is that?’ like he thought he should know me. Later in the concert each man did his big hit. When Willie sang You Were Always on My Mind, Waylon and Kris were ...
Q: Any predictions what will happen with future reform based on what happened in the 1960s? A: Both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark measures seeking to realize in the United States what had first been glimpsed during Reconstruction: liberty and...
The celebration never happened. For those involved, the only closure was the locked doors. I found about the museum in late 2014. This looked to be a good place for me to deposit the items I’d accumulated in my travels – PR kits, programs and various handouts I had taking up space ...