Netflix has gained a nice little reputation for its thought-provoking documentaries. The streaming service continues offering up new films that provide new perspectives on historical events. ReMastered: the Two Killings of Sam Cooke offers up a fresh look at the popular singer’s death in 1964 at the age of thirty-three. The film offers new insights from scholars and musical…
Words (A Poem of A Conflict of (Interest))
1.Words spill endlessly across the page. 2. Meaningless drivel splashing across the floor of time. 3. Is you I fear crossing my mind with a cold dense stare? 4. How do you justify loving everyone but not caring a lick 5. About tbe turtle necked Swan in the hospital gong 6. Stranded in his own…
LBJBR’s Guide to Serge Gainsbourg and His Women
French musician Serge Gainsbourg was equal parts genius and mad man; musician and actor; husband and playboy; lover and philanderer; musical maestro and heavy breathing cunt chaser; father and potential pedophile? As you can see, the man who the public knew as Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg, was a complicated man who came to be…
This Month in Music History – January 2, 1969: The Beatles Begin Recording “Let it Be” Album
Released in 1970, Let it Be remains the black sheep of the original, non-compilation albums of the Beatles. Nestled in amongst some of the greatest music ever put to record, ie The White Album and Abbey Road, Let it Beremains one of the Beatles top albums, in spite of its lack of notoriety. As with most Beatle albums, the album is a classic from beginning to…
President Trump Makes Good on Campaign Promises, F@cks Up Washington Permanently
Tonight President Donald Trump’s head rests easy on the two empty Big Mac wrappers he scarfed down before turning in for the night. It hasn’t been often in the two troubled years of his presidency that Trump has actually won anything. However, everyone knew he would eventually sneak one in somewhere. And Trump didn’t let…
New Fox News Study Reveals This Reality All Just a Stephen Miller Cosmic Dream (Sean Hannity Actually Hookah Smoking Caterpillar In Spare Time)
If the evening news wasn’t bad enough. Wars and death all around; the four Herbert Hoover’s of the Apocalypse riding their Pontiac Azteks up and down the block in front of CNN, all of them promising that, when the stock market crashes, and there is chaos and hunger spreading throughout the US, President Trump will…
This Month in Music History – December 16, 1966: Jimi Hendrix Releases First Single ‘Hey Joe’
The creative flame that Jimi Hendrix ignited, burned brightly, far brighter and greater than anyone else’s. It would, on the other hand, burn out quickly, ending in the early death of a promising young musical voice. It was on this month of December, the 16th, 1966 when a little-known guitar player from Seattle would add…
