Category Archives: old school friday

FUN WITH MUSIC AND LYRICS

The Kind of Music I Like

Tomo­rrow will be a day of redemp­tive iso­la­tion. Though no Wal­den Pond, my place pro­vi­des sec­lu­sion when neces­sary. The soli­tude, an iso­la­tion of con­ve­nience crea­ted by the fore­cast of down­pours and floo­ding, will be wel­come. The week has been busy, and this eve­ning I ate something that didn’t quite agree with me.
That’s tomo­rrow. Today is Old

Someday I’ll Wish Upon a Star on Old School Friday

The OSF theme this week is This Is My “Moti­va­tion”.
Do songs moti­vate? Do they ins­pire? Of course they do. I could list inspirational/motivational songs until this blog burst, and cybers­pace with it. For expe­diency I’ll go with the no-brainer. The num­ber one song on the Song of the Cen­tury List  —  a list I was in

Old School Friday, Saturday

A bro­ken wrist having kept me from snow­boar­ding I went out this after­noon to cap­ture a copy of Shut­ter Island. I dis­like seeing films based on books I haven’t read, and Shut­ter Island looks like a must see for me.
In a week full of news of home grown terro­rism in Ala­bama (by way of Har­vard),

Inspiration on Old School Friday

The theme for Old School Fri­day this week is songs that ins­pire.
I was lucky to have seen this musician/artist a cou­ple of times when I lived in NY. What if God Were One of Us is pro­bably her best known song, though she doesn’t tend to do much pop. Though I loved the gui­tar