Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

It's rockstar Saturday night. I'm hanging out with my cat Monkey Blue. He's asleep on the bed. I might join him soon.  I thought I would play a song that will be on my next album, after I create an arrangement for it and record it properly. It's called "Baby Knows." Happy to see that my weekly newsletter from my website is working again. Please go to knoxbronson.com and subscribe! 

So when we last encountered ort narrator, he had, having fled the loving bosom of his newly-redecorated Oakland flat under threat of death from the thugs up the street, landed, at last, in Los Angeles and had begun to explore this alien culture while trying to sell HoneyBun Spanking Kits. HoneyBun was the logical outcome of the hugely successful article, "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" on Salon.com. Los Angeles (and Las Vegas) was a culture and place he had been taught, as a fourth generation Northern Californian, to belittle, fear, and distrust from a very early age.  The story is now a full-length memoir and in the hands of my agent it New York City.

Another example of why Apple, and variably, Mrs. Mark without Steve Jobs there. In this case, the ad campaign for the iPhone 15 camera and it’s portraiture capabilities. Putting pictures of children on billboards that no parent would ever share with any other human being.

 The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet who she has been working for over the last 20 years, a wonderful celebration of food, friends, romance. Starring Juliette Binoche.

I knew Bernie back in the 70s and 80s. We drank in the same newspaper bar south of market in San Francisco. He was a legend. They don’t make them like Bernie anymore. Here’s a little little video about him and the TV show that was based on his real life story. https://youtu.be/wp8kBKAzUYQ?si=woNZ-rnCQjPEyo2V

Extraneous thoughts about the big day. One cultural phenomenon interacts with another. Do all boats rise?

It was six Ty years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, wait, no …. it was the day “I want to hold your hand” hit number one on the billboard chart in the United States. And Beatlemania took over the world.

I was so happy to see Jason Statham back in a big budget action movie. The beekeeper is right out of the John Wick mold, but with a better story, at least a better story than the third and fourth installments of the John Wick series. Jeremy Irons plays the inimitable, aristocratic monster as only he can. Great cinematography great editing, and clearly room for a second installment.

A quick visit to Knickerbocker, and happy to discover that the frogs are back full force. I didn’t expect them because the pond is a little low still. There’s clearly enough for the frogs and their eggs and the pollywogs though.

"1971—The Year That Music Changed Everything on Apple TV" is an amazing eight-part documentary series on Apple TV, chronicling the end, or the collapse, if you will, of the Sixties and the birth of the Seventies. Culture, politics, and the music of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Sly Stone, The Rolliing Stones, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Alice Cooper, Tina Turner, the list goes on. Beautifully written and edited. Lots of footage I've never see before. Highly recommended

After two episodes of the new season of True Detective, I am underwhelmed at best. I'm going to give in one more episode. I wanted it to be great again (to coin a phrase)!

Compendium and apothecary. http://mycobiotas.com

A touching end, so to speak, for Paddy's quest to relive an episode from his teenage years in Ireland.

As David Bowie sang in "We Are The Dead," something kind of hit me today.

An Irishman wrote to HoneyBun for advice. Part one contains his first letter and HoneyBun's response. Part two will feature his follow-up letter.

There is a movement afoot to remove Trump's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It occurred to me that it could be used to fund much needed social services. Also: Trump sells $2.4M in cryptocurrency, the act of a "billionaire" who is dead broke and has no liquidity. #trump #urinal #hollywood #dumpingcrypto

Her old website seems to have been replaced by a memorial page. http://jillianann.com. You can see her fashion designs at https://www.ritual.fashion/. Listen to her music at https://jillianann.bandcamp.com/.

Trying to get to a church service on Christmas Eve, I was thwarted like Bukowski in his SRO hotel room, broke and doomed.