The essential thing to read about this is not this, but probably the liner notes written for its re-release by Marvin Gaye’s biographer David Ritz in 1994, and the biography Ritz later wrote because
There are a lot of crazy, radicals at every college. It is a time for experimentation, learning, and fun. At Northwestern in 1984, there was supposedly a holocaust denying professor and much protest. There
Every real Clash release is essential, but “essentially” only mostly the “real” ones. I think people ought to know that we’re anti-fascist, anti-violence and anti-racist. We’re against ignorance. – Joe Strummer My Essential 100
Now that is a movie, and every movie like it says this at the beginning in some form, “based on actual events.” Similarly, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is not billed solely as that.
I just saw a video someone shared on Facebook that was in no way supposed to be funny, but it was funny to me. It wasn’t supposed to be funny, it was actually just
I’m old. I’ve never grown up, but I am old. I always have my cell phone on me. From what I can tell 99% of people also do. I may not be likable, even
I saw this Elvis Costello show with my closest college friend at the Riviera Theater in Chicago. It was the second best concert I ever attended, but probably the most fun. Elvis Costello also
DING! I think the world is only still here because these two guys did not have a grudge against each other. Someone should probably make a really bad movie about it like they
In the early ’80s I was probably about 16, and watched a press conference given by Ronald Reagan. Minutes before the press conference Sam Donaldson and a female reporter whose name I do not
There were many reasons why Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” exploded through Hollywood, but they were all overshadowed by one scene in the movie and that was actually Tarantino’s first and best point. That’s Michael
This cartoon originally used over and over again by Charles M Schultz keeps being reused and it should be, but properly. Charlie Brown wanted to kick that football so badly that even though all