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Classic Movie Fan. Deadhead, Dylanhead. Van Morrison Lover (the music not the man). Run The Midnight Cafe blog where you will find lots of all of the above.
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Cover art for a recording of a Van Morrison performance in New York City on April 29, 2007

Cover art for the Seamons Matrix of a Grateful Dead show in Park City, Utah on 09/04/83

Cover art for a Van Morrison show performed in Manchester, England on April 06, 2007.

Cover art for a Joni Mitchell show recorded in New York in August 1979.

Poster for a Bob Dylan show in Casper, Wyoming on July 17, 2003.

Backstage pass for the Grateful Dead circa 1985.

Neil Young at the Hammersmith Odeon on March 28, 1976

Poster for a Grateful Dead show in Syracuse, 1984.

Poster for the Grateful Deads run at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in 1993

Cover art for a recording of Tower of Power in 1974.

Dig this poster for the Grateful Dead's run in Las Vegas (w/Sting!) in 1993

Cover art for a Jackson Browne concert in Nashville on 02/22/78

Cover art for a concert recording of The Band in Bridgeport, CT on March 11, 1987.

Cover art for a Crystal Cat bootleg of a Bob Dylan show performed in Dover, Delaware on June 17, 2017

Cover art for a Grateful Dead show in Los Angeles on February 21, 1982.

Artwork for a Bruce Springsteen bootleg entitled Spanish Harlem Incident on Philly, recorded on 11/01/74

Cover art for a George Harrison bootleg entitled "Los Angeles Express."

Bob Dylan and his backup singers, Albany, NY 1980

A few photos my friend took at the Bill Graham Memorial concert in San Francisco in 1992. Featuring The Grateful Dead, Los Lobos, Santana, CSNY, and more.

Randomly thinking about Myspace Tom who sold Myspace years ago for hundreds of millions of dollars and apparently now spends his time traveling and taking photos. Why can't more tech millionaires be like Tom?

Bing-watched The Long Shadow this weekend, which follows the police efforts to catch the Yorkshire Ripper. That maybe wasn't great for my mental health but it is a very good show.

Cover art for a recording of a Van Morrison concert in San Francisco on May 13, 1981

Cover art for an ROIO of The Band playing at the Flynn Theatre in Burlington on 09/07/84

Cover art for a concert by The Band (featuring Van Morrison on a couple of songs) in (08/25/84) Nostell, England

In better news, my daughter played me some of her favorite songs yesterday, including Nirvana, Massive Attack, Radiohead, The Cranberries, and Soundgarden. I was like I was 17 all over again. She was keen on the idea of me making her a playlist.

I rarely post about politics in public space. But what the fuck is happening to my country? What can we do about it? Everything is so disheartening right now and I feel so hopeless.

Truly inspired list from @thr.com spanning films from many countries & generations. Also reminds us how *fundamental* anti-fascism has been to American pop culture — Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Casablanca, Chaplin, on and on. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-a...

The most comprehensive Bob Dylan interview list - and full text of those interviews - so far. Updated 2024. Interview list www.two-riders.co.uk/interviews.h... More Mind Polluting Words (380 pages) www.two-riders.co.uk/mmpw.html

For several years I wrote an article I called Five Cool Things And... in which I talked about the pop cultural things I was enjoyng each week. I took what I thought was going to be a short break during the pandemic. Four years later I finally got back to it.

Cover art for a 10,000 Maniacs recording of their performance at the Beacon Theater in New York City on October 23, 1990

German poster for BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925), directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein - BOTD in 1898

Good morning.

Cover art for a recording of a concert by The Band performed in Chicago, IL on December 01, 1971