Leisure is not the cessation of work, but work of another kind, work restored to its human meaning, as a celebration and a festival. -Roger Scruton
We watched Easter Parade last night, as has been our tradition on Easter. In…
Read moreApr 5 2021
Leisure is not the cessation of work, but work of another kind, work restored to its human meaning, as a celebration and a festival. -Roger Scruton
We watched Easter Parade last night, as has been our tradition on Easter. In…
Read moreMar 28 2021
Think small. Ubiquity is overrated. - David Lowery
For as long as we’ve lived in Forest Hills, during the summer and fall there has been a farmers market in the Presbyterian Church parking lot on Ardmore Blvd. on Friday afternoons…
Read moreMar 13 2021
Review by Walt Bibinger
"1985: Some Good Stuff " Harry Leahey & Ron Naspo
This newly released CD from Bottom Line Music captures a 1985 "Musical Mansions" concert in Montclair, NJ. Bassist Ron Naspo recorded the performance and after coming…
Read moreMar 3 2021
The Purcells - Watercolor by Bill Goodwyn (It makes it look like a story in The New Yorker)
On Friday, February 19, 2021, The Purcells, released their latest EP, Landscape Listens. A few days later, I stumbled across it…
Read moreFeb 27 2021
A few weeks ago, a high school friend posted a Bandcamp link to a release by a young artist from Clinton, New Jersey named Avery Stoker called Endersine/Sundance. I grew up only a few miles from Clinton, and some…
Read moreFeb 16 2021
I thought this lent I’d work on the symptoms of my music-related obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (MR-OCPD). I planned to give up asking myself:
Feb 15 2021
Feb 13 2021
This is the way writing songs goes for me. I wake up in the morning and there is a song in my head. I can hear it like it is on the radio. Chords, lyrics, melody, structure, and even the…
Read moreFeb 9 2021
What if I've been chasing the wrong goal?
Recently I had this great idea, I’d join the Neil Young and Crazy Horse fan page on Facebook and post one of our Neil Young-influenced songs. The group has 25,000 subscribers! I…
Read moreJan 30 2021
Note: This post was written by the guitar pictured above. I, Mark Sullivan, had nothing to do with the content or characters described below and take no legal responsibility.
Mark is not a nostalgia kind of guy, so I’ve been…
Read moreJan 25 2021
Above: The Midnight Quartet: Frank Zanks on guitar on the far right.
I’m reposting the following reflection written by my old friend John Oleniacz about Frank Zanks. All of us are from the small town of Hampton, NJ. It…
Read moreJan 10 2021
Once in a while something happens that may not have happened if things were normal, like Ryan renting a theater for a band and close friends only viewing of The Last Waltz.
My favorite movie. The most influential piece…
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