SONNET TO A SONGWRITER I decided to write a sonnet to the so-often unsung heros of music, the composers, or songwriters. I tried put words to the process of creating a song, or what I would imagine the process would be like. This is a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of…
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Song Lyric Sunday — Pearl Jam’s Bee Girl
Album cover from Blind Melon’s 1992 self-titled album Helen’s Theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is Girls. Lost Dogs is a double-disc collection of Pearl Jam B-sides and other released and unreleased rarities that were recorded between 1991 and 2003. Lost Dogs was released on 11/11/03. The song “Bee Girl” is a tribute to…
Townes VanZandt –Magic of the Ordinary
image link “Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things And the only words that are worth remembering.” ~ Townes Van Zandt * “I don’t envision a long life for myself.Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know?I’ve designed it that way.” ~ Townes Van Zandt Townes started out…
“Roadkill” (1989) Bumps and Thumps
The Word of the Day Challenge is venturesome . Fandango’s One-Word Challenge is target . image link “Roadkill”, described as the first film in what has been called a loose 3-part trilogy, is a stand-alone story. There are no loose ends that need to be tied up, as the other two, “Highway 61” (1991) and…
Kinky Boots (2005 & 2013?)
Fandango’s One-Word Challenge is free. Todays Word of the Day Challenge is kinky. Ooh there are so many directions to go with kinky. An attempt will be made to keep it x-free – go to porn hub if you want to be titillated – but still keep the spirit of the word intact. Kinky Boots…
Song Lyric Sunday — Danny Boy
image link and more info about the song Although there were several good choices for Song Lyric Sunday’s theme of boys, I chose this one. My firstborn is named after it and it is one that makes me cry every time I hear it sung right. Joe Feeney, who sang many beautiful Irish tunes on…
#SoCS Music(als) from 1970
I didn’t live far from one of the first big department stores in the area from the age of 10 to 16. My best friend and I would walk the couple of blocks to it at least once a day, sometimes multiple times. It had everything, a snack bar, shoe repair, ice cream shop, clothing,…
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