The Latest Hijinx

I wrote to Tom Truitt. Tom is a cool guy. He gets smart people together for these monthly webinar hangouts where they chit-chat about all the smart ideas they've have and all the smart stuff they know and all the smart stuff they're doing. For obvious reasons, the...

Not my baby. My baby's carburetor seems to be just fine from what I can tell. It's some blues dude on the radio singing about how his baby's got a bad carburetor. We're in Scott's garage and the only channel he can get up here in the hills is K-Jazz. Apparently,...

DistroKid sent me an email. For those of you not in the entertainment, music-type biz, DistroKid is how folks like me who make music, get their music up on Spotify and Apple Music and the dozens of other music streaming sites that all seem to have weird names and that...

I have to admit when I saw the white smoke floating out of the chimney I was ready to yank off my football shaped hat and spike it into the communion plate. I had a really good name picked out too. POPEPOP - it's dope and it's a palindrome. I would have been both the...

And it was pretty damn fun. And I never knew a mosh pit could come together so quickly in a movie theater, but hey, it's Vox Lumiere Metropolis and as this lovely gentleman said...   "I felt like I was baptized." Yeah, coming to the show is a lot like getting...

We broke Scott's boombox. Sure he's had it since the night after he saw "Say Anything" in 1989, but that's not the point. We broke Scott's boombox and we feel bad about that. Sure, it weighed 40+ pounds and OSHA Regulations required at least two people spotting you if...

No, I'm not talking about winning the lottery, or being struck by lightning, or getting some high quality footage of Bigfoot in the Easter clearance aisle at Walgreens, although I'm pretty sure that's who I saw yesterday and they have a real sweet tooth. They didn't...

We've been doing a lot of  "weeding" lately. Not garden weeding. I don't have that problem. I live in New York City (for now). But I didn't have this problem when I didn't live in New York City, because nothing in any garden that has been so unfortunate as to have me...

I was looking for that special headline. The one that would grab your attention and make your index finger twitch with anticipation of clicking your computer mouse or tapping your phone to dive into the magic that is our weekly quality email time together. Instead I...

Ist das Ihr Maschinenmensch? It's a question you're gonna hear more and more. As you've probably noticed, there are a LOT of Evil Robots running around these days and it's only fair to ask who the hell they belong to. It's hard to tell sometimes. Metropolis director...

"You were supposed to buy a charm to keep the evil spirits away from the kids." ~ Someone in New York The things you hear on the streets of New York. There's so much to unpack here. It's a bit out there even by New York standards, but with all that's going on...

Really. Everything's... fine. We went to a big ass New Year's party in a double wide brownstone on the upper west side. Yep, you read that correctly. Our hostess purchased the brownstone next to hers and opened it up. I get it. I mean, one brownstone always feels a...

Every week we share music and video (and other stuff) from our shows. Tune in today to our YouTube Channel for this LIVE PERFORMANCE of HUMBUG - A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN 5 MINUTES from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.  Bet you didn't know there was a 5 Minute...

It’s that magical time of year again. That time when we all grab a hedgehog and head over to the tea party for the traditional reading of 'Twas the night before WHO ARE Y8U? So string the lights up on the mushroom, hold that hedgehog tight and pour yourself a generous...

Every week we share music and video (and other stuff) from our shows. Tune in today to our YouTube Channel for Do You Like What You See from Vox Lumiere:Metropolis. What's this song about? Ever wish you had a song about sexy dancing robots. Well now you do. Enter...

I do say it's my birthday. And it is. Today is my actual birthday. Well the actual birthday was [68] 69 years ago, but who the hell can even count that high, let alone remember the fireworks display and three days of drunken partying that took place in Lexington,...

Still stuffed? Still sitting on the couch with your belt undone trying to write another witty, enlightening, informative and entertaining email to everyone who’s sitting on their couch, wondering if there's "just one more helping" left in the Tupperware container? I...

Every week we share music and video (and other stuff) from our shows. Tune in today to our YouTube Channel for Building from Vox Lumiere:Metropolis. What's this song about? Building from Vox Lumiere:Metropolis contrasts two cities - the one above ground and the one...

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I've lived in New York quite a while now, and I didn't bat an eye when I read this. If asked, I might have guessed twenty to one. I'm not saying New York is dangerous. I can think of a lot of places that are way scarier. I just wanted to share cuz it seemed like good...

It's Tuesday and it's Vote Day, so this is your "get your butt outta that barcalounger and go vote" email. Why? Cuz if you don't, you're gonna end up with a Caucus Race. “What is a Caucus-race?” said Alice; not that she wanted much to know. “Why,” said the Dodo, “the...