Music must be administered to heal a broken heart. The exact dosage and length of each course varies per patient; however, there are a couple of uniform guidelines: Any non-gospel Al Green […]
44. Won’t You Help Me Girl Just As Soon As You Can?
“Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.” – Chuck Klosterman Breakups are always difficult. It doesn’t matter if one is fifteen of fifty, whether you are the dumper or the dumpee, have been […]
Deep Cuts: The Greatest Bowie Song You’ve Never Heard
I’ve moaned a few times about how the great artists of the Sixties and Seventies struggled during the Keyboard Eighties. The great David Bowie is no exception, his worst crimes against humanity being […]
43. A One-Way Ticket, Only One Way To Go
Foreigner is one of those tragic victims of the Keyboard Eighties. Why so many Sixties and Seventies survivors felt the need to change what worked for them escapes me. I blame some […]
Welcome to the Blogroll (We’ve Got Fun and Games)
Getting a little bored listening to some old fart blather on about music that happened back when turntables were steam powered? Check out Rock Britain, a blog written out of Moscow about […]
Notes From A Public Reading
Savannah College of Art and Design, 1987: My final project for drawing class is four feet by ten feet on board, a beast of a thing. I get to class very early […]
Since I’m On the Topic of Rush…
I’m not a current events kind of guy, but when the pop culture gods align a press release with a “Why It Matters” piece who am I to refuse? Rush has a […]
42. Changes Aren’t Permanent (But Change Is)
Ninth grade was a very strange time. I was a member of The Guys In Black Tee Shirts Who Jam, but I wasn’t hardcore enough for Prevo, or prevocational school. I played […]
More Answers To Google Searches
Googlers are to Why It Matters as Sunday drivers are to garage sales. Both are cruising along hoping to find an Eames chair or a lightly used Hitachi magic wand or whatever. They think they […]
41. We Rock At Dawn On the Front Line
I didn’t ride my bicycle to school everyday. If Melody had something to do after school or I was running late I took the bus. The characters had changed since I was […]
Why It Matters 