alexrosas2022-10-31T17:02:21+00:00October 31st, 2022|Essays, Music|
It’s very rare that 34 years after you date someone, you get a chance to witness a documentary about what was going on in that person’s life at the time you were dating them. Remarkable, really, but I got the chance recently when Showtime premiered the documentary, “Nothing Compares,” about Sinead O’Connor by filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson.
alexrosas2022-10-07T02:28:07+00:00October 5th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
I was sitting home alone on a quiet Wednesday night when my phone rang. It was a bond call! A shot of adrenaline went straight to my brain whenever my phone rang. I answered eagerly with a million thoughts going through my head. Many people assume I had celebrity clients through nepotism. Not necessarily so… Here’s the true story of my first celebrity client.
alexrosas2022-08-22T23:58:41+00:00August 22nd, 2022|Essays|
Liz Hand is one of my favorite contemporary writers, as well as being a friend. As her website (elizabethhand.com) tells it; “Her work has received multiple Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy and Nebula Award, among other honors, and several of her books have been New York Times and Washington Post Notable books.” My favorite books of Liz’s are her critically acclaimed novels featuring her fictional character, Cass Neary, a bisexual, alcoholic, speed freak, who published an acclaimed photo book in the 1970’s, but has faded into obscurity, supporting herself by authenticating photos for weirdo collectors around the world. This is where the fun begins-- as inevitably someone gets murdered-- and instead of wanting to solve the crime, Cass wants to get the fuck out of town!
alexrosas2022-08-14T18:19:17+00:00August 13th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
I’m not going to lie, it was exciting for me to go to Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. I’m not sure if it’s the “high power” inmates or just nervous energy. You see, in LA ex-cons are everywhere and they’re not embarrassed to tell you about it. Having been in Men’s Central Jail can earn you a pack of sycophants for the rest of your life. So yes, I’ll admit, on my first visit to MCJ I was genuinely giddy. I was there to interview a defendant in custody. I needed to feel him out and determine whether he was worth the risk of posting his bond. All my rookie enthusiasm changed very quickly.
alexrosas2022-08-13T01:56:37+00:00August 11th, 2022|Essays|
We mourn the death of Olivia Newton-John. She was a pleasant singer and actress, an icon to a certain generation of fans who grew up with her, most after she made the transition from British-born Aussie country singer to pop star, the little girls wanting to be her, young boys wanting to be with her – and even more boys wanting to be her. Now that she’s gone, after a long and valiant battle with cancer, Olivia Newton-John is receiving well-deserved honors, but she has left this plane with a mystery that dangles and clouds her legacy. It’s a mystery partially of her own making, a question left unanswered: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PATRICK MCDERMOTT?
alexrosas2022-07-08T16:32:42+00:00July 7th, 2022|Essays|
©2022 By Burt Kearns Joe Friday was a fictional Los Angeles police detective, created and portrayed by [...]
alexrosas2022-07-06T17:22:39+00:00July 6th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
THE REAL WORLD OF THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR ©2022 By Nils Grevillius Operating in the shadows, Counterintelligence [...]
alexrosas2022-06-17T14:14:11+00:00June 17th, 2022|Essays|
Dunc had it all; the charm, the clothes, the looks, the brains, the talent, and more importantly, he was not an asshole. He didn’t need an entourage, he enjoyed going to see his friend’s work, and he enjoyed explaining why he liked something or did not like it. He was extremely accessible and his take on “the work” was inspiring. And his manner was classy, in an unpretentious way; more Mid-West down home. And his smile was infectious.
alexrosas2022-06-01T14:55:21+00:00June 1st, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
This was the 144th day of 2022. There have been more mass shootings than days in the year. Let me clarify that: there have been more mass shootings in America than days in the year. This is the only country in the world that can claim that dishonorable distinction. Think about that
alexrosas2022-05-19T01:43:47+00:00May 18th, 2022|Comedy, Essays|
Bobcat Goldthwait comes out and introduces the clips that Jerry brought, and the clips are running. There's the famous dance down the stairs from Cinderfella. There’s him doing the incredibly famous boardroom bit from The Errand Boy. And I'm watching Jerry look at himself. He was seventy-six, overweight and nobody knows who he is anymore, and he's looking at the twenty-six-year-old version of himself when he was super-famous. And I see Jerry look out at the half-full crowd, and then Jerry fell to the ground. And I think he’s dead.
alexrosas2022-05-18T13:19:40+00:00May 18th, 2022|Essays, Music|
This article was originally published by Chris Zappa on Medium in 2021 under the title, “I Just Can’t Even With Eric Clapton Anymore.” Chris has graciously given Legsville permission to republish it, and I encourage other music lovers to read Chris’ work on Medium as well as sign up for Zappagram, the mother of all music newsletters, which he runs on Substack.
alexrosas2022-05-15T15:45:01+00:00May 15th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
©2022 By Lillian Glass – Director/ Producer, Body Language Expert, Communication Expert | "First of all, she is once again copying Johnny's style as she too is wearing a vest under a blazer just like Johnny is wearing and has been wearing throughout the trial."
alexrosas2022-05-13T15:26:56+00:00May 12th, 2022|Essays|
Leon felt the muscles in his arms spasm after tearing down the Snake Girl tent in less than an hour. A job that usually took three other men two hours and a half-pack of cigarettes, he could do alone in fifty-three minutes.
alexrosas2022-04-30T18:03:22+00:00April 30th, 2022|Essays, Music|
Cynthia was truly an original thinker and a meticulous goofy artist who took the job of casting rock stars’ erect “rigs” extremely seriously while never losing her sense of humor about the job at hand. Join me now as we listen to Cynthia Plaster Caster’s story….
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:01:41+00:00April 29th, 2022|Books We Love, Essays, Music|
Excerpted from CORPORATE ROCK SUCKS: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland. Copyright © 2022. Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
alexrosas2022-04-30T15:55:21+00:00April 29th, 2022|Essays|
On April 29, 1992, jurors in Simi Valley, California acquitted five Los Angeles police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Los Angeles citizens responded to the news with a display of widespread civil disobedience and destruction that became known as the Los Angeles Riots. The evening the violence began, Burt Kearns, a producer of the syndicated nightly tabloid magazine series, Hard Copy, was sharing a pizza with correspondent Rafael Abramovitz at Santopietro’s restaurant. Thirty years later, the following is adapted from his memoir, Tabloid Baby.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:02:17+00:00April 27th, 2022|Books We Love, Essays|
After consuming magic mushrooms in Basel, Switzerland, I ran into Albert Hofmann, the chemist who catalyzed the psychedelic era. | By John Horgan on April 19, 2014 (Reprinted with John Horgan’s Permission) | © 2022 Scientific American, A Division Of Nature America, Inc.
alexrosas2022-04-26T21:58:32+00:00April 26th, 2022|Essays|
Johnny’s body language is open and his tone is appealing. He is articulate and his drawing out his articulation and pacing time is engaging. He comes across as in control and level-headed in his delivery and appears to be credible. While many of the revelations are shocking, he openly describes his experiences with Amber and holds nothing back. He is also credible in the fact that he openly admits his flaws and embarrassing issues as well.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:04:27+00:00April 6th, 2022|Essays, Fashion, Music|
The punk rock stylist and fashion icon has passed away in her home in Seaford on Sunday. Jordan styled the Sex Pistols, managed Adam and the Ants, worked at Vivienne Westwood’s famous store, Sex and starred in the film Jubilee by Derek Jarman. The actress, model, artist and vet has been mourned by the masses on social media.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:41+00:00March 9th, 2022|Essays, TV & Film|
One of the great unknown stories about Andy Warhol is that he hired someone to impersonate him on a tour of colleges throughout the United States in 1967. And Andy almost got away with it. Almost...
alexrosas2022-03-04T20:45:01+00:00March 4th, 2022|Essays|
Years back I lived in New Haven. There I resided in Westville, a mile or two out from Yale Law School where I was a student. An Orthodox priest and his wife rented part of their basement to me, a comfortable enough pied a terre with arresting Greek icons and cruciforms lining the walls just outside it. Joe Lieberman lived a few blocks away. He was famous.
alexrosas2022-03-01T15:43:20+00:00March 1st, 2022|Essays|
Adam Parfrey founded Feral House in 1989 and died in 2018-- though it continues to publish innovative, unexpected and thought-provoking nonfiction — inspiring films and cultural trends; exposing crime, malfeasance and stupidity; and celebrating artists and thinkers overlooked by popular media.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:46+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays|
Robert C. Hockett is a Professor of Law at Cornell University who used to live in Lawrence, Kansas and play in a garage band a few houses away from William S. Burroughs. On his 108th birthday, Robert remembers Bill hanging out at his house, watching the band.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:30+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays, Music|
©2022 By Amanda Sheppard | A glimpse into the Texas psychedelic rock & roll scene in the 1960s.
alexrosas2022-02-01T17:51:53+00:00February 1st, 2022|Essays|
By Amy Haben | "Gwen may have had good intentions in the beginning of her career but became power hungry and evil once she became more famous and richer. Her alt-right values which became more extreme after she met Joe, didn’t help things."
alexrosas2022-01-29T20:55:09+00:00January 29th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
By Burt Kearns | Tone was a movie star. Neal was a B-movie dolt who looked good in trunks. The woman was Barbara Payton, a badtime, badass blonde who’d gone more rounds (in the sack, of course) than both men put together.
alexrosas2022-01-26T01:04:31+00:00January 26th, 2022|Essays, Music, TV & Film|
"At age 20, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the downtown scene with a budding sophistication equally rooted in abstract expressionism and the post-punk, no-wave, hip-hop, graffiti grit of the Mudd Club avant-garde." | ©2022 by Amanda Sheppard
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:57:14+00:00January 16th, 2022|Essays, Music|
"She was always doing new things, but she still stayed connected to her roots and wasn’t too cool to show up and play at a small downtown club with punk bands and her friends."
alexrosas2022-01-10T02:08:08+00:00January 5th, 2022|Essays|
Norman Mailer, Tom Baker, Jim Morrison, and Me - Copyright March 1st, 2022 By Legs McNeil
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:06:02+00:00December 25th, 2021|Essays|
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