Michelle, Jill, and I sighed happily over our exquisite French/Vietnamese food, which we chased down with the finest pinot noir the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Sadly, dessert was more inhaled than enjoyed because we had a private plane to catch. So the group of us hurried through our goodbyes, hopped into the van that had served, for a day, as the Ari-entourage shuttle, and sped to the airport. I’m still not sure what all the hurry was for. I mean, the plane couldn’t really leave without Mr. Lear, and Mr. Lear was with us, goddamn it.
It had been only 12 hours and already we were taxiing down the runway, heading back to LA. As the wheels left the ground, I knew I’d never enjoy flying coach again. When I went into the bathroom, it was stocked with everything a person could want in even the finest hotel suite. And, yes, I was able to lift a pair of brand new, fluffy, pink socks from the flight. When we landed home at the private airport, I laughed in disbelief at the sight of our cars lined up 25 feet away from the jet’s resting place. Now that is the kind of service a girl from Dorchester could get used to. In fact, I am already plotting to offer my songwriting services to Rush Limbaugh’s organization. While he could not shine Ms. Huffington’s Christian Laboutin pumps (yes, I am obsessed with her shoe collection — so what?), I hear that his private jet is even better.
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Like anyone who works a specific beat — sportswriters and political writers come to mind — media critics acquire lots of impressions, opinions, and stray observations that never actually make it into print, and yet they are worth musing over.
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Parsons’s influence is pervasive, from the Stones to Elvis Costello, Uncle Tupelo, and Wilco.
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
We were very lucky, here in Boston, to have had so many chances to hear Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died in Santa Fe last Monday at the age of 52.
- R. Kelly
Performing to a sold-out Wang Center last Friday night, soul singer R. Kelly, wearing a jeweled wristwatch and a black T-shirt, mesmerized his audience, even dominated them.
- Thrash masters
The near-capacity crowd tried to comprehend what it was hearing and seeing: four guys playing their instruments with such ferocity and technical proficiency that it was almost too much to take.
- Force of nature
Tunstall aspires to be “a tomboy who can sing pretty if she wants to but has a really kick-ass, gnarly band.”
- Bucky done gone
Let’s talk about Buck 65’s identity crisis.
- Green day
More than 85 percent of a concert’s damage to the environment comes from fans.
- A Peapod press
Really, you’d have to be crazy to launch a record label in these troubled musical times.
- White out
When the band walked onstage, the audience cheered; when Jack sang his first line, it roared.
- Without a script
Zeroplan is a performance series that combines improvised experimental music with avant-garde movement and dance.
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