The Worley Gig

It must be a slow news day. In other breaking news: names I am often called that are not my own:
Carol
Jill
Dale
Grace

“I dreamed headlong collisions
in jetlag panavision
I shouted ’soyanara’
It didn’t mean goodbye
But lovers turn to posers
show up in film exposures
Just like in travel brochures
discovering Japan.”

1968 - 2008
Guitarist Michelle Meldrum of metal band Meldrum passes away
Hollywood (May 21, 2008) - On May 18, Michelle Meldrum, leader of the band Meldrum and former Phantom Blue guitarist, was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank in critical condition. She passed away late afternoon Wednesday, May 21, 2008 as a result of [...]

I have a shameful, embarrassing confession to make: in another life, I watched two entire seasons of American Idol: the one where Fantasia (deservedly) won (I think that was Season 3) and the one where the ridiculously fantastic Bo Bice inexplicably lost to the robotic automaton known as Carrie Underwood. That’s when I decided this [...]

The above photo is the closest approximation I could find (via Google Images, always so helpful) of the delicious “chicken and lamb over rice, with salad” lunch I purchased today from the street cart on the corner of Wall and Pearl. A five dollar bill gets you all that and a can of soda (today [...]

I admit to feeling a special sort of insider kinship with the Bauhaus, not only because I love band that took its name from this forward thinking movement of Architecture and Design, but because I once worked for an architectural firm whose founding partners has previously worked with another great Bauhaus architect, Marcel Breuer. Breuer [...]

“Now that we’ve stepped away from the smaller subgenre that we were in, it shows me how narrow of a field of music it is that you consider yourself a fan of. There were really only a couple of bands or musicians that were actually thought of as [being] great musicians within this entire subgenre [...]

Law With Marisa Mell in Danger: Diabolik
Wow, I am in total shock at just discovering that actor John Phillip Law passed away on Tuesday of this week. I swear to god, this is the craziest coincidence, because just this morning I put the 1968 Mario Bava-directed film Danger: Diabolik, starring Law in an utterly fabulous [...]

1. Sue and I were walking to the fancy Marie Calendars restaurant to have a delicious lunch before going to the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) when I mentioned to her that, “Gee, it really smells like tar out here.” She then pointed out that we were, in fact, walking directly across the street [...]