Toddenda

I wanted to add a little something to my blather about the Todd concert.

I wrote that Todd is "just a guy...." etc.  Well he may be playing small clubs, the world may not care about him anymore, but the guy has written and sung:

Hello It's Me

Couldn't I Just Tell You

A Dream Goes On Forever

Real Man

Can We Still Be Friends

Love is the Answer

and a few no one but Todd fans know

Just One Victory

Cliche

Parallel Lines

and others.

These are some of my favorite songs.

I feel like in my last column, I belittled the achievement of someone like Todd Rundgren.  OK, so maybe you don't write another great song, ever.  Or maybe you do.  Time will tell.  That doesn't diminish the great ones.

It's like, whenever I hear people complain about Woody Allen's recent movies.   Why do so many of them stink. I always think to myself -- or say aloud with a lot of attitude -- how many great movies do you want a guy to make?  Jeez -- Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors.  Come on -- that is a staggering lifetime's achievement.