Creep’s Last Tape
The Tales Of The… anthology website is a multi-media, genre fiction doohickey, brain-birthed by Mr. Stephen Downey, Mr. Andrew Croskery, and myself, along with some notable (but here, unnoted, due to space requirements) others. The idea is no more complex than this: various creative individuals from about the place would work in one-or-two-off collaborations in [...]
The Line Between Love And Hate
To add to nothing that I said when discussing Mr. Van Dyke Parks on Mr. Bailie’s show the other evening…
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To give Mr. Mike Love credit where he has earned it (and, if others followed this example, I doubt he would have made anything from royalties in his whole career), he had the decency to ask [...]
Words & Music – Two
“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”
Private Lives, Noel Coward
Sometimes mangled as “Strange how potent…” or “Never underestimate the potency…”, it is the ordinariness that is the heart of the statement. When Amanda Prynne leans over that balcony with her former husband, the insistently-familiar tune from a far-off orchestra conspires to stir extraordinary memories and feelings [...]
