Archive of Tony Shea ( Editor-in-Chief, New York)

Tony Shea is based in New York, having recently moved from Los Angeles after more than a decade on the sunny coast. His short films have won numerous awards and screened at major festivals around the world including Comic-Con. As a musician, he is the lead singer for Los Angeles rock n’ roll band Candygram For Mongo (C4M) candygramformongo.com who has been a featured artist on Clear Channel Radio’s Discover New Music Program and whose songs have been heard on Battlestar Gallactica (Syfy Channel) and Unhitched (Fox) among other shows and films.

Tony has contributed 236 brilliant piece(s).


Argo – Why it’s NOT the Best Picture

by Tony Shea January 10, 2013

1/13/13 Well, I’m certainly wrong so far. Argo took best Drama at the Golden Globes tonight. Let’s see what happens at the Oscars. TS Argo has been receiving a slew of award nominations lately, including this morning’s Oscar nomination for Best Picture, along with Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, […]

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Django Unchained

by Tony Shea December 31, 2012

I always look forward to a new Tarantino film. I want to see what unusual mash up he’ll put together, in his highly personal and idiosyncratic style, filled with its black humor and carnage. And so it was that I felt a twinge of excitement as I went to see Django Unchained, on Friday night. […]

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Has Hockey Lost its Mind?

by Tony Shea December 27, 2012

The NHL cancelled all games through Jan 21, 2012 as the labor dispute continues. If games resume at that time, each team would still be able to play 48 games, slightly less than 50% of the season. I could live with that because the normal 82 game season is too long, really. The season goes […]

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The Salvation Army (Montrose, Colorado – 1994)

by Tony Shea December 21, 2012

He is sick. Flu bug perhaps or food poisoning. Something has got down inside him and must run its course. He is giddy from it, like he’s been rocked in a boat. He plucks a used neck brace from an umbrella stand filled mostly with old crutches. He supposes the manufacturer would call the neck […]

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All God’s Creatures

by Tony Shea December 13, 2012

I worked as a leg-boner in a slaughterhouse the summer before I went to college. I was seventeen. The work was hard and brutal. You could smell the place for miles. The smell of shit and blood and rust. The smell of death. It made me puke the first week or so. And then I […]

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The Top 10 Frank Sinatra COVERS

by Tony Shea December 11, 2012

During his career, Frank Sinatra became one of the most popular recording artista of all time, selling more than 150M albums worldwide. But though he recorded more than 60 albums of material, he only earned a small handful of actual songwriting credits. In fact according to his Wikipedia Page Sinatra actually only co-wrote 7 songs: […]

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Kevin, Delmar and Murphy

by Tony Shea November 26, 2012

Kevin would sit by himself in a restaurant or coffee shop or library reading a dirty magazine, or a book with color photographs of the city medical examiner pulling someone’s big pink brain out like a magician with the rabbit. He would sit there calmly, quietly, without shame apparently, perusing each page like it was […]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Vonnegut

by Tony Shea November 19, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut would have been 90 this year. His birthday was November 11th. I missed it, not that there is any grand celebration per se. I usually just read some of my favorite work of his – Mother Night, if I had to pick an absolute favorite, although I love them all, and Bluebeard, which […]

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ART vs. ART – Rodney Dangerfield vs. Jean-Michel Basquiat

by Tony Shea November 2, 2012

There are those that say art can not be judged against other art. And there are those that say art can only be judged by category (painters vs. painters, writers vs. writers and so on) and genre (westerns vs. westerns, comics vs comics and so on) And then there are those that say throw them […]

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ART vs. ART – Highway to Hell vs.Catcher in the Rye

by Tony Shea October 26, 2012

There are those that say art can not be judged against other art. And there are those that say that art can only be judged by category, painters vs. painters, writers vs. writers and so on. And then there are those, like us, that say throw them in the ring. We wrote down a list […]

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Let’s Go for a Hike in Griffith Park, Shall We? (includes 34 photos)

by Tony Shea October 23, 2012

One of my favorite things to do in Los Angeles is go for a hike. Out-of-towners almost always think of the beach and the ocean when they think of Los Angeles, but it should also be remembered that Los Angeles is surrounded by hills and mountain ranges that move out through a succession of peaks […]

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Art vs. Art – The Old Guitarist vs. Broadway Danny Rose

by Tony Shea October 19, 2012

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/64040469″ iframe=”true” /] There are those that say that art can not be judged against other art. And there are those that say that art can only be judged by category, painters vs. painters, writers vs. writers and so on. And then there are those, like us, that say throw them in the ring. […]

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The Ramones

Me and the Ramones

by Tony Shea October 11, 2012

Anybody who knows me has probably heard me talk about the Ramones fifty times. In honor of Johnny Ramone’s recent birthday on October 8, I decided to finally catalog it and put it to rest. Me and The Ramones. On the list of my heroes, which otherwise includes Evel Knievel, Charles Bukowski, Malcom X, Rodney […]

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