R.I.P. Whitney. Thank you for sharing your gift with us while you were here.

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Keeping it brief today… What’d you think of Madonna’s halftime show? It’s gotten some mixed reviews. I thought it had some good moments, but overall, I just had sort of an, ‘eh’ feeling about it. Did you love it? Hate it? Somewhere in between? What has been your favorite or least favorite halftime show?

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My daughter recently took up guitar. She plunks around on it just about every day and can now play the Peter Gunn theme and the basic blues riff of Bad to the Bone. It got me thinking of other songs she might start to try or at least listen to to get a feel for [...]

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If you’re like me, you probably get a tune stuck in your head every now and then. Sometimes it makes sense. You heard it on the radio, or wherever and it just stuck with you for the rest of the day. Some songs make less sense. Maybe you haven’t heard them in a while, but [...]

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Happy New Year everybody! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season, no matter what or how you celebrate and am hopeful that this year will be the best one yet. Besides, the holidays, I had a birthday in December. A milestone birthday – the big 35. Somebody asked me, do I feel 35? [...]

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Ok, I know it’s Music Monday, not Movie Monday, but we had so much fun last week talking about our favorite Christmas/Holiday songs, I figured, what the heck? Let’s talk about movies. What is your favorite Christmas movie? That one movie or movies you MUST watch in order to have the holiday season feel complete? [...]

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It’s amazing how your first few waking moments can set the tone for your entire day. I used to have my alarm clock set to the loud buzzer setting on the alarm clock. I used to be a heavy sleeper and the grating buzz buzz buzz was the only thing that would wake me up. [...]

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Danny Elfman, much like John Williams, is almost instantly recognizable. As the composer of the Simpsons theme song, and contributing/scoring such films as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Delores Claiborne, and Red Dragon, his music is often found in somewhat dark and creepy stuff. And then there’s Oingo Boingo… One of my favorites has always been, of [...]

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So, I went to Universal Studios this weekend with the fam for my daughter’s birthday. A good time was had by all. So, what does this have to do with John Williams? As I stood in line for the Jurassic Park river adventure ride, I realized how much of the music pumped into theme parks [...]

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Today on Music Monday, I’m going waaaaay back. Well, in the grand scheme of things, perhaps not so long ago, but for our current time, back to a bygone era to the time of Billie Holiday. She was born in 1915, as Elaenora Fagan, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her life, to say the least, was tragic. [...]

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