Dave Cullen: Best PostsDave's FavoritesFear- June 30, 2005 Watching Brian Wilson on Charlie Rose. Took me years to get how this guy was a genius--just sounded like bubblegum pop to my eight-year-old ears--but I'm totally getting it now. The appearance 40 years later of the phantom album Smile finally bumped me over the top. I didn't even buy the disk--as usual, I was just kind of afraid to. Afraid of being let down, of course. How could it ever live up to the 40 years of awe But I just heard enough of it played on the radio, with enough articulate.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/bestPosts/2005/06/29.html#a1640 The journalist, my hero and the murderer- June 15, 2005 I had to stop reading the cover story Salon just posted after the first page. Nothing lacking in the material, or Andrew O'Hehir's treatment of it, quite the reverse. It's past 11, so the bookstores here are closed, but first thing in the morning, I'm hopping on my bike to snag a copy of Michael Finkel's book True Story. The subhead of the Salon story capsulizes it expertly: A disgraced New York Times reporter learns his identity has been stolen by an all-American hunk who killed his wife.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/bestPosts/2005/06/15.html#a1625 |