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It has been more than a half century since James Dean died in a fiery car crash, blowing through the fast lane at age 24.
But in a sense, Dean has never left us– because we won’t let him. The dare devil rebel born in Marion, Indiana  with a compass [...]

I’m laying on a chaise, broiling in the July sun, listening to the thunderstorm called Bad Romance.

Gaga is blasting through, out of her surreal world, wailing into my headphones, reminding me with every verse, line, lyric, riff what naked talent sounds like when it takes off its top, bares its breasts and goes on
a music rampage that makes average rockers look and sound like the timid copycats and also-rans that they are.

I am up here in Rock Heaven watching all of the ceremonies about Michael Jackson. God bless Michael but I keep hearing that we were virtually one and the same.
Michael and Elvis. Michael and Elvis. Sorry folks, but I’m damn sick of this.
Let’s start by remembering that I was an original. When the Lord makes [...]

There is a strange, perplexing and mysterious math to life.
Think of it as lifematics.
We can begin with the fact that virtually all human life has a span of one to one hundred years. Some live for seconds, others a century. But we are all enclosed within a mathematical box that begins and ends within a [...]