Sometimes a meeting is just a good excuse to chat with an old pal. I spent quite a few years as a stringer for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I wrote for their old “Spotlight” Friday entertainment supplement, first as a TV critic, and then with a video round-up column called “Rewind After Viewing”. “Rewind”. Think about that for a moment. Doesn’t it seem like decades since you had to physically press Rewind before running a tape back to your favorite local rental store to avoid a late fee? Where does the time go?

Video and TV gave way to occasional jaunts to review the movies the staff writers didn’t want to go see. Why anyone would pass the golden opportunities to see classic fair like Adam Sandler’s “The Waterboy” or “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” boggled me (please read the sarcasm between the lines.)

My work with the Sentinel trailed off right around the time I started writing my own songs. Last week, Sentinel Arts and Entertainment Editor Wallace Baine and I chatted about that, along what led to my new CD, “Dogspeed”.

Here’s the complete interview, titled, “Watsonville songwriter moves along at Dogspeed”. It was flattering having one of my favorite writers (seriously) do a piece on my music. But I think it was even more fun having an excuse to reminisce about the old Spotlight, the movies no one else wanted to see and how TV critics can become REALLY tired of watching TV.