John V's Eclectic Avenue
A blog of reviews, thoughts & commentary on movies, music & books.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Bruce Cockburn: Songs & Stories at FTC
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Bruce Cockburn, a highly-regarded Canadian folk rocker & singer-songwriter, has been making great music since his first album was rele...
Sunday, September 11, 2011
The Fab Faux: Live At The Klein
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The music of The Beatles continues to inspire us more than forty years after their break up in 1970. There are many tribute bands that perfo...
Saturday, September 10, 2011
The Triumph of a Rock & Roll Survivor
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The first thing you notice (or hear) is the voice. Floating out into the audience, on songs like “Baby, I Love You.” It may have deepened a...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Another Random Playlist...
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As we hit the mid-point in the first full week of September, here's another "Baker's Dozen" playlist from the Eclectic Ave...
Sunday, August 28, 2011
A View From Heaven....
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Today's review concerns The Lovely Bones , a novel by Alice Sebold, first published in 2002. It is set in the early 1970s in Norri...
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Set iTunes to Random...
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A Playlist for this beautiful Friday; some songs that in the past week were either playing on iTunes shuffle, stuck in my head, or popping u...
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Apes "Rise" to the occasion
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It’s always a bit dangerous to remake or rework a classic movie. You run the risk of alienating the very audience for whom the film is pr...
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