TheMassMouth
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | journalist & commentator |
| Location | Salem, MA, United States |
| Introduction | music journalist since 1975; commentator (as "The Mass Mouth") since 1999; webcast DJ since 2007 courtesy of Boston Phoenix New Media("The Sphere" @ www.thephoenix.com); married; two kids; six grandkids. political operative in Boston, MA 1979 to 1994 |
| Interests | music journalism -- it's not just my job, travel to Europe -- Barcelona, Marseille, Milan and Bologna especially, travel to Montreal, weekends on the Maine Coast, gourmet dining, hanging out with my wife, clubbing in the DJ "underground" with my music friends, And that's only the above-ground interests....I have others that will remain hidden |
| Favorite Movies | I'm not a movie person. |
| Favorite Music | HOUSE MUSIC !!!, VARIETE FRANCAISE, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, R. Kelly, New Order, Ibiza dance music, Mary J. Blige, classic disco, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, owlin' Wolf, The Who, OMG too many more to list here... |
| Favorite Books | Confessions of St. Augustine, WAR AND PEACE, The 9/11 Commission Report, Charles Baudelaire's FLEURS DU MAL, Henry Miller's TROPIC of CANCER, Henry Miller's BLACK SPRING, Walt Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS, Lawrence Durrell's ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, Goethe's ITALIENISCHE REISE, James Joyce's PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, all Sherlock Holmes stories, Bob Woodward's four-volume narrative of BUSH AT WAR, John McCain's FAITH OF MY FATHERS, Edmund Morris's TEDDY ROOSEVELT biography, Bruce Catton's THIS HALLOWED GROUND, Robert Caro's THE POWER BROKER, Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE, IN THE TWENTIES: THE DIARIES OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER, The GEORGE ORWELL READER, Brtrand Russell's HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, Gibbon's DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Dante's DIVINA COMMEDIA, Collected Sermons of Martin Luther, Robert McBrien's LIVES OF THE POPES, Ronald Reagan, THE REAGAN DIARIES, Robert Hughes's BARCELONA, Guide Nocturne de Barcelone 2007 |
"God does not play dice with the Universe." But somebody seems to. Why is life such a mystery ?