Ever since I moved back to Minnesota, my parents have slowly been giving me things that have been hiding in storage at their house for the past 15 years that they want to get off their hands. The most recent box my mom gave to me contained something I completely forgot I ever had. The [...]
Do you ever find yourself listening to the radio or to your iPod and that one song comes on that makes you think, “Oh my God, where is this singer now?” Happens to me all the time. Since I started listening to popular music in the late 80s and all throughout the 90s, there are [...]
The Grammy Awards are a funny business, don’t you think? Ever since I can remember, I’ve never been a fan. I’m not saying I wasn’t a fan of music, but back in the day it seemed that the Grammy Awards never represented the music I was listening to. Of course I was always the odd [...]
Yesterday I did a post about Groundhog Day books, aka, books you love to read over and over again. And that got me thinking…what about music? What about the songs that you love to listen to over and over again? Whether driving in your car or sitting at home listening to your iPod, there are [...]
This question was posed to me by my husband – who rarely reads my blog, by the way – when I was pondering to myself about what to write about. And even though he doesn’t regularly read this awesome blog, he actually posed a valid question. Why don’t I ever write about music? Well, the [...]
Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I thought it would be appropriate to take a moment to acknowledge all that I’m thankful for in this world. Of course I’m thankful for my family and friends and the health of my loved ones, but I’d like to give thanks to the little things in my life, the little [...]
That’s right, you heard it here first. When it comes to film scores – aka “the music you hear in the background of movies” – I’m a total geek. I have been ever since childhood, ever since I heard the opening theme for Star Wars…Star Wars, of course, being the one to which I compare [...]
Everyone’s got a guilty pleasure. Even if you think you don’t, I guarantee that you do, hidden somewhere in there amongst all the things you consider to be okay to like. The official Wikipedia definition of a guilty pleasure is “something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The “guilt” involved is sometimes [...]
