Checking In and Checking Out
In which the lyrics to Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger prompt a bit of writing and thinking and reflection on the here and now. It’s rough out here, y’all.
Category: music
Why is it So Hard to Come Back Here?
Why do I feel like it’s so hard to sit down and write a blog entry? I used to write these all the time, sometimes multiple times daily. What changed?
“…it’s your daylist, if you only believe*…” in Spotify
Spotify’s daylist sure does seem to know my musical tastes pretty well, right? But am I benefitting from the algorithm, feeding the beast or just being trained?
“There’s a Shortage of Good Men”
Later I might have a horror story to tell about a date that never was, but for today I’m just going to share a classic tune that rings all too true.
Three is the Magic Dancing Number
Three nights! Three wonderful nights! Three exhausting nights! Three nights of my body wondering just what the hell I was putting it through! THREE NIGHTS!!!
So Groovy Now
About the only good thing to emerge from the 1992 film Mo’ Money was its Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced soundtrack.
Horse Meat Disco: I could have danced all night…
Picture it, Northeast Washington DC, 2017. Your faithful narrator at an all-night warehouse dance party packed body to body and meeting two of his DJ idols. A hell of a night, to be sure.
Resilience: A Black Lives Matter Mix
With everything going on in our country, I turn to music now as I have in the past to help work out and work through the pain and hurt. To try to heal in the face of a society that still isn’t whole and has resisted being so since long before I was born. A Facebook friend put together a mix of tunes that helps. #BlackLivesMatter
long ambients1: calm. sleep. by moby
Moby has created an 11-track album of quiet ambient music, perfect for relaxing, sleeping, meditating, doing yoga, or whatever else you may just need to bring it down for. He’s also giving it away for free, because he is truly amazing like that.