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R.I.P. LFO
I got flack for it in 1999 from my ‘serious’ music-loving friends and I’ll probably get flack for it again – but I’m owning it! Back in 1999, during the genesis of the new(est) wave of boy band...
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MTV VMyAwn…
***** I watch music videos for a living. While that’s generalizing and simplifying the exact context of my work, it’s the bottom line. So while I can dispute the winners of last night’s MTV Video Music...
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What Have You Done Today…?
I look into the window of my mind Reflections of the fears I know I’ve left behind I step out of the ordinary I can feel my soul ascending I am on my way Can’t stop me now And you can do the same What...
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I Think DUI Love You
***** Perhaps a teesny, weensy bit envious his younger brother was heralded on Oprah earlier in the day? (Click the photo for the story from TABLOID PRODIGY)
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Music Box: In The Name Of Love…
MLK Sleep Sleep tonight And may your dreams Be realized If the thundercloud Passes rain So let it rain Rain down on him Mmm… So let it be Mmm… So let it be Sleep Sleep tonight And may your dreams Be...
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The Star Spangled Blunder
So much hullabaloo online today regarding Christina Aguilera’s Super Bowl rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner”. You’da thunk she gave the middle finger to the President or took a shit on the...
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Slash & Burn
I know, I know – Rock N Roll squabbles are frivolous in the great spectrum of life. But sometimes supercilious remarks by a musician way past his prime just irks the hell out of me. Case in point:...
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Reel Life: I Love Rock ‘N Roll (But…)
Believe it or not, I never saw the Broadway show the film is based on, which was wildly entertaining, according to my friends who actually did see it and whose opinions matter to me. It sounds like...
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Music Box Report Card: My Favorite CDs of 2011
(Hey, I’m my own worst editor, so beware my pontificating. If you wanna edit me pro bono, I’m all ears. Call me.) Though my lack of writing of late has more to do with my ADD than it does with any...
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The Greatest Farce Of All
Sorry, I ain’t buying Wendy Williams’ spurious bullshit. Making Whitney’s death all about her is tacky enough, but this is the woman who was relentless on outing Houston and her best friend Robyn as...
View ArticleMusic Box: All You Single Ladies…Don’t Bother
Despite lyrics that sing, "There's a she-wolf in your closet, open up and let her free...let it out so it can breathe..." there's nothing closeted here. What makes Andrew Foster's proudly gay,...
View ArticleMusic Box: Regulate…G(ay) Funk Error
(via Towleroad) I'm not sure what's worse - Warren G's ignorant homphobia (in the vein of, "hey, some of my best friends are..."), his assault on the English language (not uncommon in this "thug...
View ArticleOn The 11th Day Of (Jeffrey)Christ-mas…
…Jeffrey gave to you…Stevie Nicks’ version of “Silent Night”… "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Stevie’s house, not a Gypsy was stirring…” Stevie’s haunting reading of “Silent...
View ArticleImma Let You Finish, But Kanye West Has Some Of The Most Random Tweets Of All...
I can't imagine any one of his 400,000+ Twitter followers (including yours truly) not having a chuckle or two (or twenty) at his oddball stream-of-consciousness (and, natch, pompous) tweets, - which...
View ArticleMight As Well JUMP (the Shark?)!
As an unabashedly proud, die hard GLEEK, the news that Ryan Murphy, creator and head honcho of GLEE, would be mounting a Broadway musical based on the show, should be a cause for jubilation. But why do...
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