Author: James

I guess a million people are sitting down right now and thinking and/or writing something about how uniquely and specially Robin Williams touched them…this is my tiny slice of time with him. It was the late eighties.   I guess he had decided to do a tour of the country but, because he hadn’t done live […]

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Just when I thought I wasn’t going to create another full length CD, all these songs just came to me in a burst of energy. I had to record them and now there’s another James Lee Stanley CD.   It is called the Apocaloptimist.   ​ By combining the word apocalypse with the word optimist, […]

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Sitting here in Southern California on this glorious summer morning, I feel like celebrating this beautiful planet we live on. I love all the green grass, flowers, trees and shrubs we have planted and nurtured on our little piece of it. The powers that be are suggesting that we refrain from watering our property and […]

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Years ago my pal, Greg Perloff, was attending UCLA and was involved in an event there that included music, theatre, dance and celebrities. He hired me to be one of the musical performers on campus and I, along with all the other artists, was assigned a trailer to use as a dressing room. As the […]

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