I want to start integrating my explorations of photography into this newsletter, so to that end I will start a semi-regular (or quasi-regular?) feature here, to go along with Albums of My Life. This feature, which I am calling And now, a Photo, will feature a single photograph
There's an album that came out in 1994. It's a live album, made at one of the more famous concerts of that decade. And this live concert album is one of my favorite albums of all time. Because of this album, this very concert is on
The content of this post is mirrored on my website, here. For quite a few months now, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum has been maintaining an exhibition of the work of Yayoi Kusama, called One With Eternity. That exhibition has now ended, and I am sad to see it go,
It's interesting how one of the albums of my life is one that I haven't actually listened to in at least 30 years. The first music genre that I fell for, when I was just a kid, was movie music. And that tracks, doesn't
Greetings, programs! Long time, no newsletter...which I am planning to start to rectify. It's been a while since I sent one of these out, mainly because life got pretty busy there for a while and because I still haven't managed to completely come up with
When I was a kid and I first started buying my own music with my own allowance money, I bought nothing but soundtracks and filmscores. My parents thought it very weird, but I loved that music and I love it to this day. But as I moved into adolescence and
Actor, director, and playwright Ton Noonan has died. He was 74. He had a long and productive career, appearing in many films and teevee shows and producing his own work along the way. But I would never have watched the remarkable 1994 film he wrote, directed, and starred in had
Here's a new series I'm going to be pursuing here on the Dispatches! The idea is pretty simple: these are just essays about albums that have been particularly meaningful throughout my life, for one reason or another. We'll be covering music of all genres.
It's time for a new bio! If your response to that is "I didn't know you had an old bio," well, that's one good reason for a new bio. My old bio, which has been on my main website for eleven years
Dearest Readers, It is my hope that this missive finds you all, and finds you well. I'm hoping those things because in the case of the latter, well, I genuinely wish you all well! In the case of the former, though, it is because I have, after much
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