The Brown Boy Basement Tapes: Recent Episodes
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Remembering the amazing Astrid Kirchherr, who joined the love of her life, the artist and ex-Beatle Stu Sutcliffe on May 12th of this insane year. You are both an inspiration to many!
Part Three: Wooden Rain, dear. Part Three: Wooden Rainbows Pawl was adamant on not having his watermelon touched. The thing is , that he chastised us in the most cheerful manner anyone could have done to another fellow inebriated chum. He kept smiling throughout the night , he was untouchable and simply above it all.…
Part Two: Wooden Rain Mako and Bolly’s parents were away on a cruise to the Tamyan islands for over a week. They had the beautiful connected home in 1980’s Woodside Queens to themselves and the heart and soul of Thelonious Monk’s Bye-Ya resonating through the very alleyways of the comatose MetLife buildings right through their…
Part One: Boulevard Bounty “Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.” ― Victor Hugo Lying on our backs on the boulevard of death, no less, our alcohol fueled selves faced the Queens night sky with a foolhardy contempt of rules that were planted in our minds since our nascence. Pell and Bolly met us inside the…
A new year is here again…what…2019??…yikes where does the time go? Anyway life is just one continuously long year…just saying… New Year’s Eve -Robert Service It’s cruel cold on the waterfront, silent and dark and drear; Only the black tide weltering, only the hissing snow; And I, alone, like a storm-tossed wreck, on this night…
Ahhh remember how back in the day,whenever the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon would come on,you’d know that summer is really over and school(ugh) would be right around the corner. Lots of thanking, kissing, and guys in suits with big checks on the telly there…that is , until the MDA folks unceremoniously dumped Jerry a few…
The Sidewalks of New York. Yes, accidents will happen especially in good ole NYC. Recounting my personal odyssey through the maze of insurance companies,lawyers,doctors,cops and relating that experience to….surfing(?!!!) By the way, that is a picture a friend took of me that I posed for a few years ago for photo reference for a project….and…