I’ve spent the last couple of days going through my music in iTunes sorting out some of my more popular artists into best of playlists. With a lot of my favorite artists I have not only all of their studio albums, but various out takes and b-sides and (of course) live concert recordings. While I […]
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Music on March 31st, 2008
Josh Hathaway editor/writer at Blogcritics and owner/writer of Confessions of a Fanboy has invited me to be a part of his Blog Talk Radio show. I’ll be on Thursday night (9 PM Central time) to talk about the new albums from Counting Crows and R.E.M. You already know my opinions of the albums, […]
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Music on March 27th, 2008
I don’t consider myself much of a Counting Crows fan, but through the years many of their songs have sunk in and often they remind me of certain times, places and feelings. “Mr. Jones” takes me back to high school and my own dreams of getting out, becoming somebody, being important. “A Long December” places […]
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For some reason I got “Dig a Pony” stuck in my head last night. I have no idea why. I wasn’t listening to the Beatles or this track at all yesterday and that’s not exactly a song that I think about much, but there it was. It started as we left for […]
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R.E.M. was one of the first bands I ever truly loved. I had heard a few songs off of Green and loved them but was too young then to be completely obsessed with anything and certainly didn’t go around buying albums. It was Out of Time that did it and Automatic for the […]
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Music on March 20th, 2008
I was living with my parents, brother and sister in a very nice large house with a giant pool out back. Inside the pool were a couple of blue whales, dolphins, and a killer whale.
The first part of the dream consisted of me being inside the house talking to my mom and helping her […]
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Dreams on March 19th, 2008
I woke up at about 6 this morning with Ryan Adams’ “Everybody Knows” stuck in my head. It must have been playing in my head over and over again because when I woke back up at 8 it was still there.
It comes from Ryan’s last full length album Easy Tiger and falls into that […]
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Woody Allen started his career as a joke writer for the likes of the Tonight Show, Ed Sullivan and Sid Ceasar. In the early 60s he became a very popular stand-up comedian and playwright. In 1965 he started he career in Hollywood having written the screen play for What’s New, Pussycat? […]
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I have come to believe that passion is made best for the youth. When I was teenager, I was often overwhelmed by my feelings. Life was held in the balance everyday by friends, lovers, and Art. Especially music. Oh, God did I love music back then. I can remember turning […]
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Books Borrowed from the Library:
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agathe Christie
Summer Lightning - P.G. Wodehouse
Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary
Books Read:
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
George’s Marvelous Medicine – Roald Dahl
Books Being Read:
Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary
Summer Lightning – P.G. Wodehouse
Murder in Mesopotamia – Agathe Christie
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Stand – Stephen […]
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