Once upon a time in the middle '90s, housewives and shopping malls across the nation were pumping out the sounds of Enigma and Enya and fucking Vangelis, the Greek ambient and electronic composer whose real name was, holy shit… Evangelos Odysseas Papathan... See more
Last weekend, one of my oldest and dearest friends came to town with his fantastic wife, and I'd like the record to show that neither of them offered a single quip about violence in Detroit, which, in my experience, puts them somewhere in the top two perc... See more
For Professor Anthony Mora at the University of Michigan and my father, who started this long, strange trip. A special nod of appreciation towho altered my personal landscape withThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Dear Mr. Fantasy on Apple Exa... See more
OnKISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, the most honest bad movie a rock band ever made, and why it belongs in your Halloween rotation next to a bucket of popcorn large enough to choke a goat. I have long suspected that every rock band spends its entire car... See more
Touch of Grey on Apple Music I recently went to a wedding, and before anything else gets written, I want to state for the record that it was a lovely affair. The ceremony was brief and heartfelt, and the bride and groom each read vows they had written the... See more
