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Mother Movie Makes You Cry For HGTV, And Your Mommy

September 27, 2017 by

    From total ruin to a beautiful restoration, Mother! shows a dream house. HGTV does this all the time and no one complains. The Property Brothers find a client willing and able to knock a wall down to ‘open up the kitchen’ and everyone cheers.   Jennifer Lawrence is the remodeler in Mother!. She […]

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NO NOBEL LIKE A NEW JERSEY NOBEL

March 17, 2017 by

    Bruce Springsteen a future Nobel Laureate? If Bob Dylan wins a Nobel Prize for Literature, why wouldn’t the man once called ‘The Next Bob Dylan?’ Along with lyrics that dare challenge the scope of epic rock and rollers of the past, Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, The Boss and his body of work stand […]

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LADY GAGA RECONNECTS ROOTS

November 23, 2016 by

Did Tony Bennett win a Nobel Prize? It’s fair to call Lady Gaga the Prince of her generation. She covers so many eras, does everything so well. Both look good in purple. But Prince never embraced Tony Bennett, and Tony looks a ripe purple. Point for Gaga.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE SACRED SIX PACK

October 18, 2016 by

Did Bruce Springsteen grow artistically from bad parenting? Here’s the real question: Did growing up with a dad who smoked ’em when he had ’em, and worked a six pack in the dark, make Bruce Springsteen who is today? His old man was hooked on Camels, or Marlboro’s, or Winstons,  and liked to cool them […]

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THE POSITIVE OPTIMIST POINT OF VIEW

July 27, 2016 by

On the darkest day look for light from The Positive Optimist. Bob Dylan told us we don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Turns out he wasn’t talking about the weather. You don’t need a weatherman, but you might want a translator to translate just what he means in Subterranean Homesick […]

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LUMINEERS PLAY PORTLAND

June 1, 2016 by

Once you’ve seen a Lumineers concert your baby boomer brain starts working. It might happen with others, too. If so, leave a comment. Are the players in Lumineers channeling their inner Grateful Dead? Phish? Who do they sound like? At some point all bands share a common note, a thread of recognition. Then they played […]

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BABY BOOMER RESENTMENT, Con’t

January 12, 2015 by

The Beatles. For all the bands that go on forever, The Who, The Stones, Bob Dylan, why did we lose The Beatles so early? Baby boomer abandoned? Could be they burned so bright they went blind to our needs? Five years of top albums in the decade might do it. The Beatles had their five. […]

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WHEN FOREVER YOUNG GOT OLD

September 25, 2014 by

Bob Dylan Knows The Drill   Few poems and song lyrics speak to the baby boomer generation better than Dylan. People listened to his early work and it changed their lives. Why should it stop? Because his later work doesn’t compare to the early days? If that’s the best you’ve got, spin the old vinyl […]

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BRUCE: THE BOOMER BOSS @ 65

September 23, 2014 by

I was twenty years old 1n 1975 and living in South Philadelphia just over the border from New Jersey. A neighborhood woman named Mary Ann said she’s going to a Bruce Show, that I ought to go along. It wasn’t a date idea as much as it was a right of passage. A Jersey comet […]

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REJECTING THE MODERN MARKET, A BOOMER TRIUMPH

August 4, 2014 by

Feeling The Weight Of Years Everywhere. A fifty year old has earned the right to a few groans and moans in the morning. When a sixty eight year old takes a knee during a softball game, don’t be surprised. These are the boomer years my friends, with birthdays between 1946 and 1964. While we celebrate […]

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