River Man _____________________ John Fraim I’m from LA and don’t know if I hold the record for the number of screenwriting books I’ve read and categorized but I have yet to find anything like what I’ve created in my manuscript Hollywood Safari: A Dangerous Trip Through Screenplay Theories. This is why I created it. The project […]
“The song is really about not understanding – when you’re 18, you’ve got a very particular emotional relationship with the world, you feel very isolated, and everybody else is so distant and cold. And I think I was singing about not feeling anything or not being moved by things around.” Tanita Tikaram “Twist in My Sobriety” is […]
One of the most beautiful of the Beach Boys songs. Written the night before JFK was assasinated. ____________________________________________ Brian Wilson is my Brick / Ted Gioia
SOUTHERN NIGHTS “Southern Nights” from the Southern Lights Album / Sullivan Fortner (2024) Sullivan Fortner Southern Nights (Artwork Records) By Frank Alkyer | Published January 2025 There’s a smile to the music Sullivan Fortner makes. It can be über serious, but inside, it smiles because that’s Sullivan Fortner — a pianist of unabashed charm and […]
Freedom of Speech / Musk in a Famous Rockwell Painting In A Silent Way / Miles Davis ____________________________________ Yeah, I thought it looked like a Norman Rockwell painting when I first saw it on the Internet. Not sure who sent it. Elon Musk is inserted where the original figure in Rockwell’s painting Freedom of Speech […]
