on the eve of submitting my first concert review to a real street press, i call upon the aid of my spirtual guide, Lester Bangs, who wrote drug-fueled reviews in Cream and Rolling Stone... and died April 30th, 1983... three years before i did

i'm sure i started a topic about him before, but i don't care

he wrote columns and reviews... i've read the collection 'Psychotic Reactions and Carbouretor Dung', which includes classic reviews of stuff like Velvet Underground albums, The Stooges first slab, and Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks'. his short story based on Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May' is incredible

wow... Van Morrison just started singing on the TV soundtrack movie. life is cool