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"Creatures of twilight and delusion, we drift toward our unknown ends. And that is why I feel the best thing is not to be born. "But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one out of millions and millions of people!" -- Brother Theodore

Theodore Gottlieb was no ordinary monologist. He was a survivor of the terror of Hitler. His parents and Grandmother were slaughtered. His mother had an affair with Einstein. He gave the Nazi's the family fortune to escape death. He became a Chess hustler. And then…...He transformed into Brother T

This side of the Lenny Bruce mountain takes us to the decline of a brilliant social Commentator and comic whose craft is eternal even though the players upon our social stages change in name and in time. It's still all meat from the same bone.

Jesus. Has it really been 47 years since Lenny was devoured by a deluded society and a syringe? Yup. This LP, never available on CD, delivers a potent punch to the gut as we revisit this agent of reckless abandon and how he shaped the new stand up ideology that has run a persistent course in comedy

This piece was written soon after the death of Dylan Thomas from alcoholism and is also known as 'A Memorial for Dylan Thomas’. The poem was composed in what Rexroth’s friend Henry Miller later described as ‘white heat’.

A psychoanalyst suggests that the audience use hypnovista and watch these movie previews, shown more or less in chronological order. If that ain't the glorious beginning of a journey to Weirds-Ville, I don't know what is. Sit back, relax and attempt to cease laughing.

This is what what was Rockin' the schoolyards in the late 30's through WW2. Too Cool For School! The musicianship was profound as was the sound. Dig? The narration in this clip is incorrect. The tribute was designed to salute the breakthrough Carnegie Hall concert of '37, not the Paramount Theater

Genuine Art from a soulful, heavenly connection. The remarkable Chet Baker.

Just how good was Townes Van Zandt? The man was so very great that there is hardly a human alive who has heard him and has not been emotionally affected by his melody and visions. Steve Earle and many others have proclaimed, 'forget Bob Dylan. Townes was the best singer /songwriter of my generation'

There are images and voices that are beyond a million words or pictures. Here are two of those vital vocal titans whose appeal and appearance will be with us always.

Her image is forever embedded in the theater of the mind. Vampira's sleek frame passed like a distant ghost in 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' to haunt us eternally. As a kid, TV horror film was a staple of the diet and imagination. Today we have been spoiled by special effects that can't duplicate TV art

The Stones ordained Soloman to the youth culture in '64 when 'Cry To Me', 'That's How Strong My Love Is' and 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love' were covered by the band. His compositons are legendary but he never had that one hit that would have defined his legacy. Still, he is considered royalty.

There can be little if no argument. The Yardbirds explored territory that no 60's band had dared to penetrate until these young men emerged like a blinding storm of Blues, Rock 'N Soul and deep Pop experimental structures. Beck, Clapton, Page, Dreja, Samwell-Smith. This magic potion lives on.

To the uninitiated, he seems like little more than a footnote in the biography of Bob Dylan and the recordings of Johnny Cash, but during the early and middle 1960s, Peter La Farge occupied a special niche in contemporary folk music as the first politically aware Native American to attract attention

Dec. 20, 2012: The children of the late Godfather of Soul gave a brighter Christmas to Augusta’s neediest children Thursday. More than 800 youngsters received toys and bicycles at the annual James Brown Toy Giveaway at James Brown Arena.