America votes “They accuse us of discrimination. Of being against the poor, of being racist. But I say the real problem is ‘soft’ discrimination. Giving welfare, hand-outs to the poor. That’s soft discrimination!” Virginian Christian radio announcer and GOP supporter, Nov 2. My car radio broadcast that comment, as well[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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I may not be a Connecticut Yankee in Camelot, but shortly I will be something even stranger: an Australian raver in Nashville. A trip I have been dreaming about ever since I got to the Eastern seaboard is about to happen: an Americana music road trip through the Appalachians. An[…]
Read More »This Sunday 10 October is World Zombie Day. A whole lotta shambling is going to go on in downtown Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh’s video journalism portal has kindly put up I Walked With A Zombie as a feature video. The fun clip features footage from Pittsburgh’s 2009 zombie walk at Monroeville Mall,[…]
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Science fiction My Brisbane school mates and I spent our tweenage years crimping our hair, slathering on make-up and trying to pass for drinking age to get into outer suburban discos. At around the same time, Eric Zala and his friends were spending their Mississippi tweenage years making a blockbuster[…]
Read More »You’ve never seen anything like it The agent at the booth to the right of me was doing brisk business. Behind him was a plastic banner displaying a photo montage of musicians heavily jowled, paunched, but still throwing their silver hair around under purple stage lights: Eric Burdon and The[…]
Read More »The second episode of my mini-program ‘The Rebel Spirit’ is being broadcast on Australia’s ABC Radio National at 9.00pm Friday 2nd July (Aussie) time, 7.00am EST USA. It features an interview with the amazing American computer music pioneer Laurie Speigel, whose achievements include a record sent into space by NASA[…]
Read More »I just posted a new clip – a version of “I Walked With A Zombie” by psychedelic rock legend Roky Erickson, arranged and performed by myself and local dark rock superstar Carol Blaze. It features wild footage from Pittsburgh’s annual zombie march through Monroeville Mall, where George Romero shot his[…]
Read More »The first of a three part segment I have developed called The Rebel Spirit is going to air on Australia’s national broadcaster, Radio National, at 9.00 pm Friday June 4 Aussie time – thats 7.00 am Eastern Yankee time. After that, it will be airing the first Friday in July[…]
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Bob and Bing It had been my intention to devote my next posting to an exciting rendition of a planned trip to groovy Asheville, North Carolina, to help celebrate Bob Moog’s birthday. The Bob Moog Foundation, based in Bob’s home town where the original synthesizer factory and archives remain, is[…]
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LA Confidential My feel-good at being in the empty row with extra leg-room evaporated like an inhaled mary-jane cigarillo. The doe-eyed dame with the bub was swaying excited-like towards the seat one over from mine. “You got kids”? she asked. This without any invitation to talk from my eyes or[…]
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