I was listening to a great old Howard Stern interview with Johnny Depp the other day. He had just done the movie From Hell, which I realized that I probably needed to see. I watched about 20 minutes and while Jack the Ripper was cutting out some “whore’s cunny” I realized that I’d much rather be watching the 21 Jump Street episode where Booker clears Hanson’s name and gets him out of prison. Johnny Depp hated making 21 Jump Street, but I’m sorry I love that show. I even met Steven Williams one morning at Cantor’s in Los Angeles.

This episode entitled “Draw the Line” was the conclusion of the “Loc’d Out” series where Johnny Depp’s Hanson somehow infiltrates the city’s gangs by taking on the persona of a Hispanic hood. Gripping stuff. Actually, Depp somehow does it convincingly. Am I the only one that wants to chain Johnny down and make him actually watch all the great episodes he made, but refused to check out? “We’re going to sit here Mr. Depp until you realize what an epic show this was!”

Hanson winds up getting framed for murder. Booker proves his innocence, but breaks so many rules that they had to give him his own show. I was a big buyer of Richard Grieco – and I still say that I’m not wrong. It also features a cameo by the guy who played Mike Damone in Fast Times (another guy I once thought would have had a bigger career).

I’m not sure if I’m going to finish watching From Hell.

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This Matt Damon impression of Matthew McConaughey is maybe the funniest thing ever, especially the what I hope was improvised (I’m a dreamer I know) “we’d probably get more chicks if we took our shirts off.”

I immediately started to think what a great reality show MM’s life would make (they can never really afford the truly interesting people – why am I watching the Kardashian’s instead of Leonardo Dicaprio prancing on a beach with Bar Rafaeli?). Then I remembered that Ron Howard made a really long boring movie called EDTV where the premise was that MM’s whole life was indeed a reality show. Another example of where they should have thrown away the script, handed McConaughey a big bowl of weed, given him some bongos and just gotten out of the way.

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Seeking a spokesman whose private life is more in tune with his public reputation.  Accenture and Gillette have signed Charlie Sheen as their new spokesman, despite his recent arrest for domestic abuse. A representative for Gillette said, “At least with Charlie, we know that there will be no untoward surprises.”

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Just found this out today – now my mind is completely blown – one of the best Jazz drummers of all time mixing it up with the former Mr Rotten – wow.

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Was at a party today and found myself aghast that I couldn’t pull John Coltrane’s piano MVP out of my head for at least 2 hours. Sorry, McCoy Tyner – you’d think after seeing you three times it’d be emblazened into my brain forever. I may need to start poring back over my old Jazz tracks again and brush up. I couldn’t remember drummer Tony Williams’ first name either – saw him at Yoshi’s in San Francisco – amazing how his playing commented on everything that was going on melodically – died way too young right after I saw him.

Here’s Tony with Mcoy – pretty sick

I remember back in ’91 or so when I popped in Coltrane’s Giant Steps for the first time (which was pre-McCoy and the quartet) and couldn’t make heads or tails of it, but I eventually stuck with it until I could sing every note and it became second nature to me. It was work, but well worth it – my first stab at understanding Jazz and as good place as any for anyone to start.

Of course, this will always be my fave track from that album – Naima – sheer beauty

The classic Coltrane quartet – John Coltrane – Tenor Sax, McCoy Tyner – Piano, Jimmy Garrison – Bass, Elvin Jones – Drums

If I’m trying to be impressive, I’ll tell you that this is a great example of a pedal point

: a single tone usually the tonic or dominant that is normally sustained in the bass and sounds against changing harmonies in the other parts

That’s about as educated as I can sound musically – but it’s the listening that really counts

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