From today’s Boston Globe review of Jon Krakauer’s new book about the Pat Tillman cover up: “On Aug. 6, 2001, our vacationing president was warned by the CIA for the 36th time in eight months that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States and that recent intelligence had suggested an attack …
Hey, someone asked me what a “clam” is, as referenced in my last post. Well, I assume more people don’t know the term either. So, a clam is a mistake/bad note. Old music-dude terminology. See: Buddy Rich balling out his band on a bus. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-uoTD4fMQ] “…while you clam all over this fucking joint…. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
I think I forgot to post this here, though I had posted it over at Facebook. It is a piece I wrote and narrated about my childhood friend Chris Campion for the “Here and Now” program produced by my poker buddy, Chris Ballman, for Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR. Campy wrote a highly engaging memoir …
August 2009 I’m heading out for a week of vacation. Does that mean I shortchange you, the 15 people who check this blog regularly, by taking a week off of the COtW project as well? No! I’m the kind of guy who doubles down instead, projecting ahead a week where I won’t be able to …
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Van the Man just did one of his Astral Weeks shows here in Boston last week. Somehow, after seeing him probably five times, I just didn’t make a huge effort to get tickets. There was a lot going on. I went to go see Paul McCartney at Fenway, e.g. That was a first. And while …
When Buffalo Tom played this past June, in addition to showcasing some new songs, we wanted to open up a bit and work on some less-often-played numbers from the past. One such song was “Your Stripes,” from Sleepy Eyed. I loved playing and singing it and it was one that many friends remarked on afterward. …
I recently had the honor in my day job as a real estate agent to list a 1950s modernist house that was designed by an architect for his then-young family. It is not every day I get to work with such interesting and lovely people on such a unique and intriguing property. When we close …
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Like most people my age, Motown was a given, as omnipresent as the Beatles from my first waking moment. It was still a vital label and musical force, adapting to the changing times, as I became more conscious of pop music and the artists creating it during the early 1970s, with records from Marvin Gaye, …
I needed yet another way to waste time and connect to “the people.” Find me on Twitter @billjanovitz or click the icon on the right below the links section. Well, it was nearly all summer we sat on your roofYeah, we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moonAnd Id show you stars you never …