As an individual who has been playing music my entire life, I’m always on the lookout for something that either touches me or makes me want to move. I’m a bit of a music snob, kind of a dick about it too. Although I happen to be married to somebody who doesn’t dance at all, I absolutely LOVE to dance. I’m always dancing, in fact. I’m the weirdo who dances
Any real Soul fan knows about the JB’s and that the JB’s were truly the heart and soul of the Godfather of Soul. But it was Bobby Byrd who was the one who discovered James Brown. This is one of my favorite songs of all time, one of which more than a few rappers ripped off. I never get tired of jamming it! These guys were before anyone had ever
A fundamental requirement to taking your life back from the system that wants to enslave you is to start cooking for yourself. Back in the day I used to eat a lot of takeout foods. I never really got into the frozen TV dinners that you see throughout every grocery store freezer aisle. My disposable income was being wasted on takeout food or fast food. I lived in Playa Del
I grew up loving stand-up comedy ever since I was a kid. Unlike most other kids I knew, my parents were more open minded and permissive than other parents with what my brother and I were allowed to watch on TV or at the movies. My Dad took us to see Ridley Scott’s ALIEN when I was in the second grade and took us to An American Werewolf in London
Having had to come to Japan specifically to care for a feisty mother-in-law diagnosed with A.L.S. last August, it has been quite an experience. My wife had to come first, back in October, leaving me to place everything we owned into storage to prepare for coming here in February. I was originally thinking that I’d be coming in and out for lack of a visa, but we pulled off a
Having lived with multiple sclerosis for the better part of 10 years, I had to completely change the way I ate. Somehow, I always thought that cooking was more of a complicated issue than what it actually was. But in reality, most of us are just lazy when it comes to cooking But it doesn’t have to be a lot of work if you stick that that famous Navy slogan
Our original plan was for Mrs S to simply return to Japan to handle all of her mother’s legal and financial dealings, because there was a house at issue, then return to Los Angeles. She left on the 16th of October and the intention was to return on January 7th, so that her mother could have one final New Year’s with her before she passes on into the next realm.
Frank Zappa allegedly once said, “Hollywood is just the entertainment arm of the Pentagon.” This is absolutely true, and what started as a joke often wasted on Facebook on numerous comment threads has ended up becoming an entire dissertation for me. Zappa also said once that “government is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex,” which is also true. Personally, I don’t like the term, Military Industrial Complex (M.I.C.),
When I first moved out to Los Angeles in 1992, less than a week after the Rodney King Beating Verdict ignited riots that set several, noticeable upon arrival, portions of L.A. ablaze. Growing up in small town Midwest America, we didn’t have a lot of easy access to alternative media as you would find in a city like Los Angeles. I’m not saying that we’re particularly unique in that regard because
** SPOILERS GALORE, but it’s old enough of a show that you probably already saw it before. But I know some who haven’t. Season Two (Day 2) of 24 starts with torture from jump, when in Seoul, South Korea, South Korean intelligence operatives torture a man (#1) and give the supervising American CIA officer the word, “today”, and President Palmer’s vacation with his son is interrupted by news of actionable
