Spitball Army

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This is a tape that reflected the pushmi-pullyu part of my brain that, at the time, couldn’t decide if it was into songwriters, oldies, classical or blues. That’s pretty representative of my brain all of the time.

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The Oscars: it’s like a three-hour live version of Entertainment Weekly magazine.

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The last really cool homage to the iconic album cover photograph from Bob Dylan’s 1963 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was in the film Vanilla Sky. Now we have another in the cover art of American Idol finalist Melinda Doolittle’s new CD.

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– My favorite writing instrument is an L.C. Smith manual typewriter with glass keys that is in perfect working order, sits atop a desk in my office, and rarely gets used.

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I hadn’t seen this video until today. Looks like I’m way behind the curve, as it already has over ten million views on YouTube. No matter, I still had to watch it three times in a row, and laughed heartily and at full volume. Particularly hilarious are the girl’s take on the “shiny guy,” and the Darth Vader take-home lesson. Enjoy!

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The first 45 minutes to an hour were nearly unendurable. Mamma Mia! follows the standard Hollywood musical formula, with characters singing a song where a mere sentence would suffice, in conveniently improbable settings.

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What an odd year for me and music. By that I don’t mean that it was an odd year for music (which it may have been), or an odd year for me, necessarily (though I might say that was true, as well). It was an odd year for me and music, together. For the first time in about twenty years, I wasn’t around the music “scene” every day, 24/7. All of the new music that I encountered, I had sought out, after reading about it online or in the news, or it was recommended to me by friends and former colleagues…you know, the way that music discovery is supposed to happen.

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