At 2 pm Monday through Friday, I post a song to my Facebook and Twitter feeds. I started doing this when I was working in Hell and couldn’t post during the day. I didn’t want you to forget about me 😉 Anyway – believe it or...
I’m trying to think where this came from. I think it was the cover of a Beatles fake book – I liked the style and wanted to copy it… from Wikipedia: A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a...
So, I was on Twitter today, when I saw this: Which led me to ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE (I know, there really wasn’t a challenge) and come up with SOME SORT OF STORY using song lyrics for dialogue. Here it is: (this includes lyrics from popular...
It kinda gets put on the back burner, but I play guitar. Sometimes, I even sing. Mostly blues (King, Clapton, Shepherd, Vaughan, Waters, Hooker, Reed (Jimmy)), sometimes classic rock (Eagles, Kansas, Foreigner), sometimes poppier stuff (Mayer...
Being for the benefit of Mister Kite, there will be a show tonight on trampoline Music is important to me. I wrote my first novel to the music of Harry Connick Jr. It feels odd saying that for oh so many reasons. First up – saying...
You know, I was listening to a beloved classic rock tune today, humming along with the lyrics which I know oh so well, and it suddenly dawned on me: Bob Seger is a creepy stalker! The song I’m talking about is ‘Mainstreet’. ...
I have three uncles, two of whom have been large parts of my life at different times. When we moved to California, it was my mom, older brother, aunt, uncle, cousin and grandmother all in the same house. I always thought he looked like Elwood...
Random thoughts for Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 /begin random thoughts Who came up with the phrase, “A stitch in (my/your) side”? * * * I went for a hike in Red Rocks Park. Holy crap. Talk about being out of shape! It’ll get...
I cleaned out my iPhone last night, purging all music from it and starting over. I felt like I’d been in a rut musically lately and needed to change things up. It was almost a traumatic experience to hit that delete button. Part of me...
#11 In this weeks ATFMB podcast, I talk about scifi television, including the renewal of Fox hit Fringe for a 3rd season, Chuck’s ratings win that might mean a 4th season and how i09 has a list of 25 books Hollywood should be making movies...
Episode 10: All Things From My Brain In the Milestone Tenth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about NASA losing it’s funding for the Constellation program, about the iPad, the Kindle, Amazon and Apple, of the impending...
Just a quick post – John Anealio asked me to take part in a fantastic idea called ‘Interstellar Jukebox’ wherein he asks a bunch of great writers, bloggers, musicians, and podcasters to search through their music and weigh in on...
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