Late to the Party: In Which We Lately Become Inspired by the Bourgeois Ecstasy of Beyonce’ and Jay-Z.

This Article was originally published in Perfectsoundforever.com in August 2019 http://www.furious.com/perfect/beyoncejayz.html My boyfriend and I are folk and Americana-inspired musicians, but we can also be described as middled-aged and yes, white. And yet, as yet undiscovered artist, ( by which we mean financially well-remunerated and universally listened to), and therefore immediate class outliers, we don’t consider … More Late to the Party: In Which We Lately Become Inspired by the Bourgeois Ecstasy of Beyonce’ and Jay-Z.

Myth-Making: “Holmes qua Holmes” as Paige Finney

Katie Holmes’s appearance in the Showtime drama “Ray Donovan” resonates thrillingly on several different levels. We first met our complicated heroine, Katie Holmes in 1998 as a guileless ingenue in the teen drama “Dawson’s Creek.”  But the young actor catapulted to virtual megastardom when she was cast as Tom Cruise’s leading lady in 2006.  This … More Myth-Making: “Holmes qua Holmes” as Paige Finney

Paisley Park

Anyone who worked in production in Minneapolis eventually ended up at Paisley Park.  I washed up on the shores of Paisley Park like a surprised, half-drowned rat in the summer of 1996 when Prince was famously mounting his campaign against Warner Brothers Records, recording under his alternate identity as the androgyne symbol for EMI.  We … More Paisley Park