Month: January 2008

Written by nearvana

The Aerosmith Album Project: “Aerosmith”

Introduction My die-hard Aerosmithness didn’t come to me over night. Like almost everyone else in Europe, their 70s success passed us by and it wasn’t until their 1986 cross-over hit with Run DMC, “Walk This Way”, did the band receive substantial coverage at all. I was immediately in to the whole thing: the big lips, […]

Written by nearvana

A Weighty Issue

Wearing the radio I was, for some reason, lying in bed with the radio on at 4am recently (“Had you got no pyjamas?” laughed a wag at the back of the hall). I overheard an interview with an English lady going on about some book she’d written about losing weight and the more I heard […]