In the movie Music & Lyrics, a woefully undervalued cinematic gem, Hugh Grant brilliantly plays the other half of a pop British duo -- think Wham's Andrew Ridgely -- who comes into his own personally and professionally rather late in the pop game. Every time I watch the film on...

I grew up in the 70s in a place called Tenafly, New Jersey -- an extremely white town that paradoxically became the title to a short-lived black detective TV series. Apparently some producer was driving down 9W towards New York City, and thought Tenafly sounded like Superfly. Ironically, I don't...

Over the years, countless music lovers have debated the issue: what is the single greatest song of all time? In retrospect, I think we all wish that all those lovers had stopped all that fighting, and simply done the right thing: ask me.

The greatest song of all time...

Yes Virginia, Step Brothers is better than Citizen Kane because Step Brothers is much funnier than Citizen Kane -- and shorter too.

For the record, cineastes, yes, I have seen both of films in question. I saw Step Brothers just last night at the ArcLight in Hollywood, and Citizen Kane...

"Long Live Rock"

The above song has never even made my personal Top Forty pantheon of truly great Who numbers -- its title sentiment blending in with too many lesser, self-conscious anthems to the power of rock that I've heard on FM radio in my day. But now it's sunrise...

Last night my wife and I were debating whether to order tickets to see Hancock with the kids this weekend -- as we sat down together to watch a rented copy of Adam Carolla's movie The Hammer. We decided to invite our two sons who are eight and ten and...

I'm talking about making rock & roll music, any old way you use it. What the fuck else could I be talking about anyway, you salacious, race-based bastards?

Generally speaking -- or should that be generally blogging - I'm not a big fan of the white man. In politics, for...

A funny thing happened on the way to the worst administration in American history.

In the first success of his second term -- also known as the New Dark Ages -- President Bush has at long last actually achieved something: he's helped save the situation comedy and he's done...

My fellow Americans, I admire both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as much as the next mildly well informed Democratic white guy. Yet at a certain point, isn't enough finally enough? Whether we choose to accept it or not, the time has come for men and women of good faith...

The first time I ever heard Jakob Dylan, I went to cover an extremely intimate and tasty kosher jam session at Los Angeles's famed Canter's Deli -- arguably the safest place to order pastrami after midnight this side of the Rio Grande.

Jakob and members of his then young band...

Here's a true, shocking confession: I've always liked Kids. Not actual children -- other than my own two perfect sons, I can take or leave the little bastards.

No, what I'm talking is New Kids On The Block -- those crazy kids from Boston who put the "boy" in...

For some reason, my wife and I never got around to baking brownies for Britney Spears and bringing them over in a welcome wagon. That's probably for the best since I'm pretty sure that armed guard outside her gated community wouldn't have let us in anyway. Besides for what now...