by Alice Teeple | Feb 24, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
Somewhere in the dark hours between 2-3 July 1969, just three weeks after being sacked from the Rolling Stones, 27 year old guitarist Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his Cotchford Farm swimming pool. The official verdict: “death by misadventure.” Jones...
by Dan Metz | Oct 8, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Image from Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019), picture from IMDB.com If I were writing this review in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early ‘80s, I’d be a dead man. It’s nothing...
by Dan Metz | Sep 10, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Poster courtesy of HBO I was ten years old on September 11th, 2001. It was a big day of firsts for me. It was, for example, the first time that I experienced a feeling of unreality surrounding an unbelievable moment. I was, however, very young and 130 miles away,...
by Dan Metz | Aug 31, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
I’m Leaving Now Four hundred years ago we were introduced to Don Quixote, an adventurer who fled the mundane world for imagined battles with wizards and giants. From the opening of “I’m Leaving Now,” it is clear that directors Lindsey Cordero and Armando Croda...
by Dan Metz | Aug 19, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
Blixa Bargeld and FM Einheit of German band Einstürzende Neubauten, performing at an event in the Mojave Desert. Photo credit: Fredrik NIlsen (1984) The story of punk rock in the US reads a bit like the story of jazz: a time of musical experimentation where even...
