Fun night with my mom and dad at Rory Allen’s Christmas show last night…
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Music Monday – “It’s coming on Christmas/They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer/Singing songs of joy and peace/I wish I had a river I could skate away on”
“River” (acapella) – Joni Mitchell
Music Monday – “We watched our friends grow up together/And we saw them as they fell/Some of them fell into Heaven/Some of them fell into Hell” (RIP Shane MacGowan: 1957-2023)
RIP to the only performer that ever scared the shit out of me when he appeared on SNL in the early to mid 1990’s. And what a performer he was! “A Rainy Night in Soho” – The Pogues And at this time of year, I have to mention the greatest Christmas song of all-time… “Fairytale […]
Music Monday – “How I lived a childhood in the snow/And all my teens in tow/Stuffed in strata of clothes”
“January Hymn” – The Decembrists
Things That Are Societal “Constructs”
Been thinking about this a bit lately in a variety of ways – the “controversy” over gender fluidity/Drag Queen storytimes/”grooming”, the notion of what constitutes “professionalism” as I wear jeans and a t-shirt to work every day while having the most rat-nesty beard this side of Santa Claus, and then the above thought I saw […]
Music Monday – “And now, breathe deep/I’m inhaling/You and I, there’s air in between/Leave me be/I’m exhaling”
I’d seen the original viral clip of Maggie Rogers with Pharrell but it didn’t really register at the time. I even told my sister I wasn’t familiar when my sister recently mentioned her and her husband were big fans (“travel the US to see her, name their new dog after her” level fans) and I […]
Music Monday – “Don’t get any big ideas/They’re not gonna happen”
“Nude” – Radiohead