I dig Tom Hanks, but I can’t imagine anything I would hate more than a movie about Mr. Rogers. I was 11 when that show began and he was like some sort of castrated Protestant freak. I mean when you’d come up on Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry and Paul Winchell and Soupy Sales, […]
It came out in 1969 and even though I’d heard of it for years, I didn’t actually hear Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica until much, much later: 1978. Nine years late. Talk about uncool, uneducated, and unhip. Still, it immediately had a huge impact on me. Not just the mind blowing music (“Pena” remains the […]
