Posted in Malarchy, tagged addictive songs, big band, Bobby Darin, Darin, Frank Sinatra, Mack the Knife, music, Sinatra, songs on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while, I yearn for a little Mack the Knife. Seriously, very few songs today communicate the energy and excitement as this little ditty from half a century ago. Moreover, it’s the only song I know about hitmen and killers, so even the lyrics make you want to sing aloud.
One day in [...]
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged Beck, class, college, databases, E-pro, education, guitar, illness, insanity, life, music, Rock Band, school, sickness on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend activities rendered me quite dizzy, sick, and laid out with a bad head-cold. Thus, much of Monday and Tuesday — freed from my daily academic commute by online classes — I slept most of the day and therefore found sleeping at night near impossible. Incapacitated by illness and Circadian rhythms, my body and [...]
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Whiskey Tales, tagged AMV, anime, geeks, music, music vidoes, otaku, techno, These Small Hours, videos on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago just after posting our trip to the anime convention, Dasad mentioned how much he enjoyed the anime music video (AMV) linked in the blog. Since then I search about for some other interesting or unique AMVs to show him and others. This post-convention season churns out many high-quality AMVs that have [...]
Posted in Wanderings, tagged Cherry, concert, curmudgeons, family, idiots, life, music, Natasha Bedingfield, Neil Diamond, obsession, songs, Sunshine on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lately songs have become lodged in my head, whispering lyrics as I sleep like the ghost of some blond pop diva. I speak of course of Natasha Bedingfold’s “Pocketful of Sunshine,” one of the most addictive songs on the radio this year. If you happen to hear its wispy synthetic prelude, careen off to the [...]
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged ambitions, Bon Jovi, cartoons, dreams, humor, insanity, Johnny Bravo, life, music, oddity, running, Scooby-Doo on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my irrational dreams involves running, racing against time or escaping from evil forces set to some dramatic soundtrack. Like the guy in that Bon Jovi video . . .
Or those chase scenes in Scooby Doo episodes . . .
Life should come with its own soundtrack [...]
Posted in Wanderings, tagged anime, books, family, food, girls, guys, life, literature, movies, music, talk, travel on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ryan and I are driving south this weekend to visit his . . . uh, platonic female friend and her equally platonic girlfriends for dating evaluations. If he manages to pass, he gains the title of boyfriend and man. If not, we eat eighty dollars in gas money, snacks, and tissues. Either way, it should [...]
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged education, insanity, life, music, rhythm, school, sound, writing on November 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Often during the day and usually when under stress, I hear music cycling through my brain. Nothing divine or extraterrestrial mind you, no music of the spheres, or song of the living trees. Just an interesting piece of music on the radio or one of the songs that the kids downloaded filters through [...]
Posted in Malarchy, tagged cartoons, family, hearing, humor, life, lyrics, mistakes, movies, music, songs on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Of all my senses, my hearing manifests itself as the most distracted, absent-minded simpleton. Not worthwhile enough to be deaf, for that would at least augment my remaining senses; no, I hear just enough to be comical, like an old pantaloon in Medieval dramas with a funneled brass horn permanently attached to his ear [...]
