A few weeks ago both Mike Kelly and Channing Lewis of Grand Champeen alerted me to this podcast with separate posts to my Facebook wall. Thanks fellas, you know me so well. It’s a one-on-one conversation between Bob Forrest of Thelonious Monster and Bicycle Thief and Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets. The interesting […]
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Happy 4th birthday to my daughter, Edie Sweetie, the Dancing Machine of Granada Ave. I love you, little girl. You’re a whirling dervish of playtime and pure joy in ballet slippers. Sure, you probably don’t need to exclaim everything as if YOUR VOICE WERE STUCK ON CAPS LOCK, but that’s also what makes you […]
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This post marks the confluence of 2 significant milestones. It was on this day 7 years ago that The Adios Lounge first went public. Happy birthday, Adios Lounge! You don’t look a day over 5. I was actually happy to labor in obscurity in those early days — as opposed to my current brand […]
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On March 26, I, Lance Davis, joined Sarah Espinoza in matrimony. It was a lovely, understated ceremony at the Urban Light installation in front of LACMA (LA County Museum of Art). Urban Light was one of the first places Sarah and I went to on a date because it features 200 street lamps from […]
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Let us pay tribute to the incomparable Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born on this day 100 years ago in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Sister Rosetta is 1 of the 10 most important musicians of 20th century American music and of those 10 she’s probably the least well-known. Tharpe was a towering force in gospel and blues, […]
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