Live: M.I..A ruled the week with an iron hand with one of the year’s best performance, a non stop all go modern disco dance chalice dashed world music rhythmic doo dah doo dah da. Meanwhile, Alan Jackson , Drake and Fiona Apple failed to signify.
Dead: The rock and roll world reeled from the death of one of the all time greats Lou Reed and I wrote “this outpouring of affection for Lou Reed: it is like mourning Scrooge if Scrooge had died before he was visited by the ghosts.” though I was pretty upset myself.
Recorded: The week belonged to Maria Taylor and Linda Thompson, both of whom immediately made it to my top ten albums of 2013 list. I quite liked Arcade Fire as well.
National News: Obamacare continues to stumble out of the gate as IT guys all over DC put in for overtime and chaos reigns.
Local News: Stop And Frisk is back after Judge Shira A. Scheindlin is removed from the case due to impartiality. I took a look at S&F rulings: out of 15 cases 8 went against the Police. That’s impartial???
Sports: How I hate the Red Sox. In the past 13 years the Yanks have won 1 World Series, the Red Sox have won three.
