Ramblings From a Glass Half Full
I’m headed to Las Vegas today for BlogWorld, and I cannot think about Las Vegas without thinking about Elvis Presley. He was an icon of Rock and Roll who flamed out way too early, but what he left us was an amazing body of work. One song in particular has always resonated with me, and to this …
Yesterday I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York City. As a lifelong musicologist it was quite a thrill to see all the exhibits and artifacts from many artists I grew up with and admired. There was also a special exhibit called “John Lennon: The New York City Years” that was …
A little over 2 weeks ago I presented a list of 46 “guilty pleasure” songs, nominated by my friends on Twitter, and asked you to pick your favorites. The votes are now in, and you have selected your Top Ten Guilty Tunes – those songs we most hate to love. They are all in our iPods, …
A few weeks back I asked my friends on Twitter to pass along their favorite musical “guilty pleasures” – you know, the songs you really don’t admit to anyone you like…..but you really, really, secretly do. Thanks to many online “confessors”, we now have a list of 46 songs that fit that bill. Now …
About six weeks ago I wrote a poem dedicated to “all who I’ve come to know on this medium in my three years of blogging”, entitled “Dog Years Are Like Blog Years”. Not long after that post went up, Amy Derby and I were bantering on Twitter about how I should find someone to write music …
While 2008 wasn’t one of my most prolific music buying years, I did manage to find some real gems to get into my trusty iPod. Here are my favorite 10 songs released this year: “Viva La Vida” – Coldplay Melodic, urgent, and majestic -all wrapped into one song. These guys are good. “Supernatural Superserious” …
Some days I can get pretty carried away with my music obsession on Twitter – OK, almost every day. Thankfully, there are a bunch of other people on Twitter that support this obsession, by engaging in virtual conversation about which Bob Dylan song is his best work (mine is “Lay Lady Lay”), or if the best …
2007 was another great year of music for me, as evidenced by the 228 songs I downloaded from i-Tunes over the course of 12 months. This was a milestone year for me in that I didn’t buy one CD for the first time in 22 years (hard to believe CDs are that old!), …
A couple of weekends ago I was on the second floor of our house brushing my teeth and I heard the sound of our piano being played – it was my wife, playing some “Czerny Studies” (basically very pretty finger exercises). This was unusual because even though my wife had taken piano lessons for six …
Me and my Dodge Magnum made it to Jackson Hole today, up from Riverton through the Targhee Pass (whilst dodging a hail storm), and then south through Teton National Park. The crown jewels of this area are the Grand Tetons, three mountains distinguished by their dramatic rise to 14,000 feet from the valley floor, and their …
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