New Article - On Skip-Diving and Hot Dogs

I am pleased to have an article included in Volume 7, Issue 2 of Riffs! This issue brings together work developed in 2019 by members of the Riffs editorial board as part of their Write Club, designed and run by Prof. Nick Gebhardt (Birmingham City University, UK). The pieces engage with George Lucas’ (dir.) American Graffiti (1973), a film soundtracked through 1960s and 50s music, overheard from radios, diner juke boxes, and the cars of 1962 Modesto city.

My particular article was inspired not only by the film (and the repeated viewings we engaged in as a group), but also by finding a bunch of records in a skip. One of the records I fished out was the AG soundtrack album. That sent me off in a particular direction, and I ended up sticking the boot in on Mike Love.

If you’d like to download a PDF of the entire issue you can find that here.

More information on the issues and the other pieces can be found on the Riffs website.

An individual PDF of my article is here.