music

So… what are you listening to?

One of the things that I touched on last week was listening past the surface to hear the song underneath it. I mean, the person I was in 1988 would never, ever, have been able to handle, say, My Bloody… Continue Reading →

Punk Rock didn’t make sense to me in the 80’s. The bands that the skaters listened to sounded like just a bunch of angry people. Black Flag, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies… it just sounded to me like a… Continue Reading →

In 1995, I was one of three or four people who saw the movie Strange Days in the theater. (Watch out: if you’re someone who has ever avoided a post or a song or a movie after seeing “Trigger Warning”, know that… Continue Reading →

I’ve mentioned the notepad file that I keep my “for Wednesday” songs on before. There usually is a handful of songs on it that will eventually get culled without ever seeing the blog and, usually, the reason is something to… Continue Reading →

So, yeah, I still listen to the Fat Boys. They were sold as a novelty act but, honestly, they were pretty good and stand up as rap pioneers. The Human Beatbox is not Doug E. Fresh, of course… but Doug… Continue Reading →

We called up the doctor and the doctor said “no more monkeys jumping on the bed!” Wait, no, that was last time. *THIS* time the doctor said “your cough is a perfectly healthy response to the sinus infection you have”.… Continue Reading →

Being sick, I have had 1994 on the brain. Why 1994? I have no idea. I’m sick. The two songs that have been stuck are pretty much on opposite ends of the same radio station’s playlist (I mean, seriously, they’re… Continue Reading →

To mix the whole “female vocalist” thing together with the “guilty pleasure” thing and I’m reminded of Independent Love Song. You may remember this one from the mid-90’s. Yeah, I sang along to it in the car. Top volume. It’s… Continue Reading →

My vacation officially started today! I mean, sure, I had Saturday, Sunday, and Monday off but I had to go into work today for about an hour to clean up the last little bit of last week’s trauma and get… Continue Reading →