Charlie Parker’s ornithology
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie writes a phrase of «Be-Bop» music on the blackboard in New York, May 1, 1947. (AP Photo)
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“It's just music. It's playing...
The man who missed the moonlight
The moonlight is lovely tonight.
But I didn’t mean to write about this; my intention was to talk about a man who missed the moonlight.
(What...
Daniel Day-Lewis’ insane approach
I saw him for the first time in “My Left Foot”. A man condemned by fate and society to remain a trash, an effluvium...
Pink Floyd and a lace bra
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years,...
Worshipping Freddie
“I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Fr. Nietzsche
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be...
Charles Bukowski: “It’s the only good fight there is”
Don’t try.
Written on Charles Bukowski’s gravestone.
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I write this on the occasion of the birthday of Charles Bukowski, but it is not his biography. Only...
