by Sasha Stone | Mar 3, 2019 | MEN, Obsessions, PJ Harvey
For my money, PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love is the album featuring a series of songs that expresses how I feel when I have fallen hard in my life for various people. No one else gets quite to it like she does. Full of passion, desire, occasional anger and...
by Sasha Stone | Feb 3, 2019 | Bob Dylan, In Dreams, Obsessions, POETS, ROCKGODS, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE, TO MUSE
One of the best Bob Dylan songs without a doubt is I’ll Keep it With Mine. It’s so good, of course, that PJ Harvey quotes it in her song Oh My Lover. “Give me your troubles, I’ll keep them with mine.” There is, of course, the famous Nico...
by Sasha Stone | Dec 24, 2018 | Springsteen, THINGS LEARNED
I have never been the kind of Bruce fan who has seen every concert. I haven’t played every one of his albums non-stop, nor do I know every small detail about his life and work. There are those kinds of fans. I know those kinds of fans. The truth is, I was just...
by Sasha Stone | May 15, 2018 | FAMILY
My dad is dying. He’s really finally going. He’s been going for a year now about. I watched the slow decline of someone who did not think anything was wrong with him, refused any sort of treatment for what ailed him, and then his body just decided it was...
by Sasha Stone | Jan 1, 2017 | Misc
I wrote this on Medium back when people though there was no chance he ever would. I dreamed Donald Trump was president I dreamed Donald Trump was president. It felt like any other day in America, if all you knew of America was what you saw on Reality TV. Trump was the...