Author: Rosie
David Cohen’s Dream
There I was at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, surrounded by wild caterpillars. A dry wind, keening through motionless, grasping fingers; a sulfur-laden miasma [...]
David Bowie
In March of 1999 the band Placebo was going to play at Irving Plaza. David Bowie, who had had them as the opening act on his previous tour, wanted to help [...]
Marcia Resnick
It was great to see Marcia Resnick celebrated tonight for the release of her new book: Punks, Poets and Provocateurs. Wow, looking through that book! It's [...]
Getting To The Other Side of the Lens
(This piece was one of a series that I wrote for a photo/video equipment vendor).
More often than not, we find ourselves trying to get “real people” to [...]
Low Tech Solutions To High Tech Problems
(Here is another piece of my professional photography advice, written for a major photo/video retailer's educational portal).
Low Tech Solutions to High [...]
A Buddhist monk in Thailand
Back in the 1900's, Madame and I went trekking in the Golden Triangle (I'm not making this up). She became a bit obsessed with the many Buddhist monks who we [...]
Joe Franklin
"Mitch, did you really know Joe Franklin?" You bet I did, little Timmy! Although, to be honest, that wasn't really such a distinguishing characteristic. If [...]
Carlo Scibelli
Carlo Scibelli was one of the star-gazing guttersnipes with whom I cavorted in Central Park, all of us smoking big cigars and telling bigger lies. [...]
Jack Bruce
I first met Jack Bruce in Stuttgart, Germany in 1995. It was a televised festival of the music of Jimi Hendrix and I was there as Vernon Reid’s tour [...]
