music

Poll: What’s Your Song?

I like movies where characters have theme songs associated with them. I’ve decided that when I walk around a corner into your line of sight, this is the song you should here. This is pretty much what it’s like when I’m around anyways. Ask anyone: This gets my vote for the first heavy metal song, [...]

July 23, 2010 READ MORE →

Song For Lori

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings Nobody embodies the spirit of this quote better than my friend Lori Franklin, the author of [...]

April 8, 2010 READ MORE →

Kinkachoo I Love You

Maybe you can help me figure out what a kinkachoo (or kinkajou) is. I’ve seen it spelled both ways and I’ve seen bear, bird, and other definitions. Either way, this is a beautiful, haunting tune. It’s got some real mystery in it. Also, for you aspiring guitarists, this song is way easier to play than [...]

November 9, 2009 READ MORE →

13 Days Of Darkness Part 4 – A Halloween Song My Mom Wrote

Update: It turns out that my mom didn’t write this song, I just thought she did.  She made up a lot of other verses, based on our costumes, but apparently the original–as displayed below–has been around for longer than I thought.  She’s still a great mom and it’s still a fun song.  What can I [...]

October 22, 2009 READ MORE →

The Sunday Backtrack: 5 Songs You Shouldn’t Take To The Gym

I had a hard time only picking five songs to leave behind when you go to the gym when I wrote the post back in April. Some of you had some amazingly bad suggestions in the comment section, the worst of all being “Heal The World” by Michael Jackson. I stand by my original choices [...]

July 19, 2009 READ MORE →

5 Songs You Shouldn’t Take To The Gym.

Home It’s easy to come up with a list of songs you just hate, but that’s not what this is about. That’s too easy because we all hate things and just being snarky isn’t noble or helpful. I’d take it a step farther in my own case and say that I’m not very good at [...]

April 15, 2009 READ MORE →