Hey everybody! I have some art news to share with all of you before the month of July comes to an end. I was grateful to participate in the My View From Home mail art exhibition which featured works from

Hey everybody! I have some art news to share with all of you before the month of July comes to an end. I was grateful to participate in the My View From Home mail art exhibition which featured works from

Public Domain, I just got back from a preview for the new Tolkien film which tells the story of the life of J.R.R. Tolkien, the creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Photo by Jim Summaria - Contact us/Photo submission, CC BY-SA 3.0, This year we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Who's pioneering rock opera, Tommy. The Who were a re-working of an earlier band,

By Source, Fair use, The story of the life and career of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has a special connection with cinema: the painter and poet starred in the documentary/narrative hybrid Downtown

The name Francis Ford Coppola conjures a cinematic career crossed by contradictions: he set out to be a "European," personal, small filmmaker, before creating some of the most popular, successful

I unexpectedly found myself in New York City last week. One of the best things about a creative life is that I can grab my gear and run at an opportunity like this. I had pending writing deadlines and

If George Harrison was alive he'd be 75 years old. It'd be interesting to hear what he thought of 2018, but for now all we have are our memories of the man and his music. Harrison might have been the most

This week we lost the cinematic master, Nicolas Roeg. The British auteur practically defined cinematic counterculture in the 1970s and his groundbreaking filmography includes David Bowie's turned as a

Rev. Jim Jones at an anti-eviction rally Sunday, January 16, 1977 in front of the International Hotel, Kearny and Jackson Streets, San Francisco Photo by Nancy Wong This weekend we observed the 40th

"Joe Nolan is a master lyricist, his ability to paint with words through the listeners eye of emotions is beautiful. With a sound that is a cross between Dylan and Van Morrison..." - Seamus

In the 1950s and 1960s Dennis Hopper was a young actor appearing in classic films like Rebel Without a Cause, Giant and The Sons of Katie Elder. But by the late 1960s Hopper was tired of directors telling

Hey everybody, It's been awhile since I played along here and it feels good to be sharing with y'all again. This is the title song off of my upcoming album, "The Wicked" Here are the lyrics:

Over the October season of horror I was watching lots of classic monsters and murder flicks and my wife and I also binged on old YouTube videos from the various Joe Bob Briggs' movie series which featured

Devil's Night seems like the right time to be posting one more spook-centric entry before Halloween is officially upon us. I caught up with the Open Source Occult TV YouTube channel over the weekend and

If you read these blog posts for the druggy rockin' weirdness I'm usually posting you might not know that I'm a film and art critic in real life. I love getting spooky on Insomnia in October, but the other

John Carpenter's original Halloween film splattered screens forty years ago, and I just got out of a preview screening for the new film with the same name. Carpenter's original found him co-writing the

I like to post about spooky stuff in October, and while this won't count as a horror story I was more than a little anxious about my Poetry On Demand shift at the Southern Festival of Books on Saturday

My debut album, PLAIN JANE, was released in 1998, and has been available in all the digital stores and streaming services for years now. However, if you go looking for it today, you won't find it. Independent

I'm still bummed-out over the passing of Anthony Bourdain. There are some Tony-was-murdered-conspiracy-theories floating around, and even though I love conspiracy theories, I haven't been able to even