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The Face of War

Posted by on Mar 12, 2022 in Blog, Essays | 0 comments

 

 

 

I admit to knowing little about art. I’ve been to museums. I know what I like. And, I enjoy expanding my horizons. However, for most of us art (more precisely, works of art) is something rich people collect.

Then, I came across the story about Daria Marchenko, a Ukrainian artist from Kyiv.

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100 Essential Albums: #89 — A Happening in Central Park by Barbra Streisand (1967)

Posted by on Mar 11, 2022 in 100 Essential Albums, Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 0 comments

 

 

“I forgot the words in front of 125,000 people — and I wasn’t cute about it or anything — I was shocked; I was terrified; That prevented me from performing for all these years. I didn’t sing and charge people for 27 years because of that night….I was like, ‘God, I don’t know. What if I forget the words again?'”

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100 Essential Albums: #90 — “Nothing Like the Sun” by Sting (1987)

Posted by on Mar 9, 2022 in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 0 comments

 

“I don’t give a fuck about rock and roll,” Sting emphatically declared in 1987.  There was, he complained, “no new fuel in rock music.”  Instead, Sting insisted, writers and musicians should be looking outside of rock and into African, jazz, raggae, funk, and even classical music: “Anything! Anything will do.”

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