Tag: Music

  • Earworms

    (I’m talking about music earworms. This is your warning. What follows may get stuck in your head.)

    When you say “earworm” to my wife, she immediately thinks of the ear bugs from Star Trek 2. The one that Khan put in Chekhov’s ear. Which is awful and gross, and not what I am talking about.

    NO, I am talking about the earworm of a song that gets stuck in your head, and for the past two days, I have had “The Real Slim Shady” playing, ahh, pretty much non-stop. Now, what I am hearing isn’t the album track. No, I keep hearing this:

    Which is kind’a weird, right? A piano version of the song, no lyrics or anything else; just piano.

    Then, from time to time, I’ll get John Tesh’s NBA theme bouncing around.

    Sometimes when I’m walking around the City, this will play in my head:

    Does anyone remember “Riptide?”

    I guess I’m just talking about tv theme songs now. I always liked “Taxi.”

    Back to the point… “Summer Breeze.”

  • Happy Halloween!

    It’s not Halloween without The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

    And it can’t be The Great Pumpkin, without the Great Pumpkin Waltz, by Vince Guaraldi.

    Happy Halloween!

  • This is What My Kid Thinks Everyone Was Like in the 90’s

    (She’s not too far off…)

    I think everyone was like this in the 60’s

  • Thinking About 9th Grade

    For my group of friends back in 9th grade, we all stayed home the night NIRVANA played Saturday Night Live. I had to go look it up, but it was January 11th, 1992 – I was fifteen with a bad haircut. I remember thinking that I needed to see this because it was what all of my friends would be talking about on Monday morning. I also remember thinking how edgy and dangerous they looked. Not sure why I thought that, maybe it was the red hair.

  • Melancholy Music Wednesday (Travis – Why Does It Always Rain On Me?)

    I bought this album just to have the song. The album was The Man Who by Travis, and the song is Why Does It Always Rain On Me? This also might have been the last time I bought an album just to have a song off of it. It was a wise choice. When I think about melancholy music that I love, I think of this song, and Talk Show Host by Radiohead.