Ever stumble across a song that would be perfect in a video game? Joy Electric needs to make video game soundtracks. Please? Click on the second track on their MySpace page (Like Fools) and listen for the spooky synth hook. Tell me you can’t hear that playing in the background of an early ’90s Nintendo [...]

This weekend, in the midst of Red Sox hoopla and Halloween bashes, I had the good fortune to catch "The Darjeeling Limited" at Red River Theatres in Concord.
Wes Anderson has been a favorite director of mine since "Bottle Rocket," a movie that I can possibly credit with launching my longest adult relationship. Not everyone appreciates [...]

OK, all you Red Sox fans. You got me. AL champs and you even rolled out Kevin Millar again.
Uncle, say I.
I watched first my Yankees go down in defeat. And then, my second-favorite AL team, the Indians, who are stepping up to fill your shoes of the lovable losers.
I’ll be half-heartedly rooting for Boston in [...]

I confess: I was once a musical nerd. I had a collection of Playbills from "Starlight Express," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Annie" — all of them.
I listened to the soundtracks of "Man of La Mancha," "Miss Saigon" and "Les Miserables" until the tape broke. (Yes, cassette tapes. Remember those?)
I knew all the words to [...]

A recent survey shows more Americans know the ingredients for a Big Mac than the 10 Commandments.
I wish I could say this shocked or surprised me, but it doesn’t. I have a vague recollection of watching a comic on late-night TV poll people prior to the November 2000 elections. More people could identify Rudy from [...]

The music business definitely took a sharp turn today with the Internet release of Radiohead’s latest album.
Downloading and file sharing music has been employed by listeners for years now - just review the steady decline in traditional record sales for proof. But never has a commercially- and critically-acclaimed artist used the Internet as the only [...]

I had the great fortune of being a friend’s plus one at another friend’s wedding this weekend.
And I’ve concluded that I need to go to more weddings.
In the first place, it’s just a beautiful thing to see people so in love stand up and pledge to be there for each other through whatever life [...]

In high school, I had a friend who visited a psychic and asked for specifics about the date and circumstances of his death. He was shocked when she picked a day in the next year, but refused to divulge the cause.
Like a bad Farrelly brothers comedy, he refused to leave his house that day, [...]

Everything I know about Indian pop music, I learned from a 2 disc VCD pack I picked up in Lhasa. Within my very limited mental database of Indian pop singers, Daler Mehndi is one of my favorites. How can you not love someone who looks so happy just to be singing? If India had Santa [...]

The British rock group Radiohead has always dared to sound different. Just when a listener dares to categorize the band, it changes musical style, and always with critical success.
Now Radiohead has opened a new door in this brave new digital-download world. The band is without a record deal, and with a new album finally [...]