I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watched these two, laughing over this story a...
I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with.
I thought, there is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment... There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besides here in this car, with this girl, on this road, listeni...
I realize it’s frowned on to choose a mate based on something superficial like the music they love. But superficiality has been good to me. In the animal kingdom, Renée and I would have recognized eac...
I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actuall...
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I'd stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter under people's chins. The pretty girls would line up for communion (I confess to Alm...
At work she became instant best friends with the Clinique girl, Susan, a Waynesboro muscle-car aficionado. She was fond of dispensinf wisdom along the lines or: The bullshit stops when the green light...
20. Bob Dylan, 4th Time Around (1966) Right after Rubber Soul dropped, Bob Dylan recorded Blonde on Blonde, where he sang this scorchingly funny parody of Norwegian Wood. Dylan unkindly played 4th Tim...
Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationsh...
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be jus...
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked a...
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
Wearing straight clothes but still in costume—as Rodgers summed it up, His seemingly casual appearance was actually the flowering of his next drag: He was delving into the eighties metrosexual world o...
By refusing to repeat it, much to the despair of their record companies. Both wrote gorgeous sci-fi ballads blatantly inspired by 2001—Space Oddity and After the Gold Rush. Both did classic songs abou...
There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part of the fun of being a fan.
The important thing isn't that we're freakazoidal about the same things--it's that she's as freakazoidal about her stuff as I am about mine, and that enthusiasm can't help but unite us, even if the ob...
THE WHITE ALBUM IS THE BROKEN ALBUM, THE DOUBLE-VINYL mess, a build-your-own-Beatles kit forcing you to edit the album yourself. They even made the audience come up with the title. (Nobody has ever ca...
THE TOP TEN: David Bowie and Mick Rock, Moonage Daydream. Universe, 2002. David Buckley, Strange Fascination. Virgin, 1999. Kevin Cann, David Bowie: A Chronology. Simon & Schuster, 1984. Kevin Cann, A...
I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.