Category Archives: music

Delusional Deja Vu – Le Abbee of Saint Michel de Cuxa

February 22, 2025 – 3:15 pm

In 1988 I spent the summer in Perpignan, France. My good friend, Olivier Brial, arranged my stay with his cousin, Jacques Vial. The family house on the Quai Nicolas Sidi Carnot was in the center of the old Catalan city. The River Basse coursed past the fourth-story mansion east to the sea in Olivier’s parents […]

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HEAVY METAL ACCORDION by Peter Nolan Smith

January 30, 2025 – 1:35 am

Every boy has a best friend in his youth. In 1959 I was lucky enough to have two; my older brother Frunk and a neighbor. Chaney and I attended the same kindergarten class at Pinewood Elementary in Falmouth Maine and we did almost everything together boys were supposed to do that far north. In the […]

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Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud – 2010

January 19, 2025 – 2:13 am

Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud. James Brown sang those words to the entire nation. Even the KKK heard, but back in the 1960s not everyone was listening to the singer of PLEASE PLEASE ME, since black music was broadcasted on the far ends of the AM radio spectrum. In Boston at night […]

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No Music Day 11/21 Pattaya

December 31, 2024 – 11:19 pm

From 2007 Last week on during my holiday stay in Thailand Jamie Parker said that he had never seen a group of people more allergic to silence than the Thais. The TV never gets a rest. Rice farmers wake to loudspeakers blaring crop prices. Dogs howl without an owner’s restraining smack and karaoke bars punish neighbors with painful renditions of […]

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Bowery Boxing Day – Dec 5, 2010

December 26, 2024 – 9:50 am

From 2010 Boxing Day is celebrated on the day after Christmas mostly in the UK and host of occupied nations dominated by the British Empire such as Australia, Canada, Ghana, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Kenya, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, and Jamaica. For years I thought ‘Boxing Day’ was traditionally the holiday on which the […]

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