Last night the Rock & Roll Booklub gathered together to discuss Pete Townshend’s autobiography Who I Am?. It is long and even though I did not finish it in time, we still had a great…
Browsing Category Music
Letting Go of a Childhood Dream: The Raspberry Beret Edition
Once upon a time I wrote a post on the old blogging platform Vox about things I always wanted to do because of certain songs I love. For instance, when I was in high school…
Voice of My Generation: Was 1993 the best year of GenX’s musical life?
I can’t quite make the argument yet, because my Twitter Pal @Winnerbowzer suggested I also make sure it investigate 1982, 1989, and 1991, but 1993 was, quite possibly, the best year of music in GenX’s…
The Words They Say (which include all y’all, poems & parking lot)
There’s this thing I have that is sort of compulsion when it comes to listening to music. There are certain words and sounds that scratch a perfect spot in ear I didn’t realize was metaphorically…
Reclaiming ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’ after 26 years
Late last week I tripped into a musical hole called 1986 (which actually included music from about 1984-1986, and would probably be more accurately called a Junior High Musical Hole) and I’ve had a really…
The Pop-Culture Filtering System in my Brain
When it comes to pop cultural nonsense, I have a very elaborate and arbitrary filtering system. We all have these filters, right? I mean there’s just so much out there that we can’t absorb it…