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...Buffalo Bill when he lived in St. Louis. He moved to Portland and retired, but decided that he couldn't stand to be retired so he opened up this shop that I currently own part of. There's so much ancient stuff there. We have an incredibly old piano in our storeroom and nobody knows how it got there. We actually found a Tommy gun in there one time. We had a couple of police officers come in for tattoos and when they found out about it, one of them said, "Oh, you should bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Johnson: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Feeling old and washed up, I needed a cure for my little quarter-life crisis. The only thing I could think of: watching a couple of guys in their 60’s rock out on the piano as if it was still 1975 and they had just blown a few lines in the dressing room. Luckily, my best friend Danny and I had tickets to see Billy Joel and Elton John play at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. the following night...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: Throwback | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...remembered who they were, or at least who they once were. Soon Joel left the stage and John launched his audience through a frenzied stretch of songs in which he became Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and his younger self all at the same time, fingers blazing across the piano in electrifying performances of “Saturday” and “Crocodile Rock...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: Throwback | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Eventually, John returned to the stage and the duo wrapped up the concert in style, finishing with two of Elton’s songs before playing (what else?) Joel’s “Piano Man” for the encore...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: Throwback | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...since become a recluse in the most photogenic part of Philadelphia. He crawls out of his shell to meet a single-mom chiropractor (Lauren Graham), befriend a recovering alcoholic (Lou Taylor Pucci) and make a public display of vulnerability - all staples of the genre, as is the plangent piano score that indie films employ to tell viewers what to feel. (Sometimes watching a sweet movie can rouse the dormant grouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Out of Love with Romantic Comedies | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

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