Tag Archives: The Beach Boys

It Sure Beats Trepanning

This week has been full of ruminations on the bio-mechanical impetus behind man’s desire to create music. I discussed the transformation of our perceptions of natural, spiritual & psychological reality via the electric impulses our brain & body utilize to process and act on those perceptions into sound that in turn has the power […]

Two Swedes Who Wish They Were Californians and a Los Angeleno Who Looks Like a Swede

Waking up in a sweat, be it cold or hot, is never a good feeling. Frustratingly enough, that’s exactly what happened to me Tuesday morning. And with Summer-like warmth, stagnantly humidity, thunderstorm warnings and heavy rainfall the order of the day I remained pretty uncomfortable until the almost tropical moistness gave way to […]

Forget Your Politics For a While

If you’ve gleaned anything from reading this space over the last year-plus it should be that I love a lot of music. Loving music in a general sense and being a genuine fan of a specific band are two totally different things though. And while loving as many bands as I do makes […]