Category: Music & Culture

• How To Beat Tribalism? Be Even MORE “Tribal”

  Humans are tribal by nature; it’s a survival instinct. Since reproduction is one of our key “primal directives”, our genome has built into it behaviors that give our personal DNA every chance to create a next version of “us”. After our own precious ass, our family’s ass comes next in the pecking order. Then our…

  A L Katz

  April 18, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Coronavirus, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Music & Culture, Racism, Slavery

  America's Great Seal, E Pluribus Unum, Fascists, French Enlightenment, Jews Will Not Replace Us, Originalism, Out Of Many One, Tribalism, White Grievance, White Privilege, White Supremacy

• Alpha Dogs Don’t Have To Be A-holes

  Larger-than-life show biz alpha dog SCOTT RUDIN announced publicly today that he’s “stepping back”, having suddenly realized apparently that decades of acting like the biggest asshole in every room he was in has a downside. In my 35+ years in the show biz trenches, I’ve worked with and for many creative people equal in stature…

  A L Katz

  April 17, 2021

  American News Media, Atheism, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Cyber War, Election 2020, Mitch McConnell, Movie Reviews, Music & Culture, Showbiz Stories

  Alpha Males, Back To The Future, Bob Zemeckis, EC Comics, Forrest Gump, Joel Silver, Kirk Douglass, Kubrick, Red Camera, Scott Rudin, Tales From The Crypt, Walter Hill

• Songs People Get Wrong

  We all know those song lyrics that people have famously gotten wrong — “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” instead of “Scuse me while I kiss the sky” (Hendrix) or “Like a virgin, touched for the thirty-first time” instead of “for the ‘very first time’,” (Madonna) or “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” instead of…

  A L Katz

  February 20, 2021

  Earworms Worth Having, Music & Culture

  Every Breath You Take, Hallelujah, I Love LA, Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze, Leonard Cohen, Like A Virgin, Love Songs, Madonna, Randy Newman, Songs People Get Wrong, The Police