Jim Adams is the dedicated host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [Forever Young, by Bob Dylan] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression (including but not limited to short stories, a piece of flash fiction, poems, lyrics, artwork, photography, (etc.) that you…
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#MM Music Challenge — Walking this Way
Jim Adams is the committed host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [Walk Like an Egyptian] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression. Jim, I enjoyed your post today very much. What inspired me in it is the walking; the walking in music…
#MM Music Challenge — Mistakes — Taneytown by Steve Earle
I went down to Taneytown I went down to Taneytown To see what I could see My mama told me never go I’m damn near twenty two years old Sometimes I fear this holler swallow me She ran off to Gettysburg Went off with that new beau of hers I snuck off after dark It’s…
#MM — Music Challenges — “I” of the storm
Jim Adams is the dynamic host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [Cat Stevens’ song, Where do the Children Play] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression (including but not limited to short stories, a piece of flash fiction, poems, lyrics, artwork, photography,…
“I’d Have You Anytime,” by George Harrison
“I’d Have You Anytime” is a song written by George Harrison and Bob Dylan, released in 1970 as the opening track of Harrison’s first post-Beatles solo album, All Things Must Pass. The pair wrote the song at Dylan’s home in Bearsville, near Woodstock in upstate New York, in November 1968. Its creation occurred during a…
#MM Music Challenge — Shades of Darkness
Jim Adams is the illustrious host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge, or it that Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Challenges? Whichever it is, it is a fun prompt. Jim has chosen, “The Future’s So Bright,” by musical group, Timbuk 3, which is a satirical commentary on the ever-present threat of nuclear armageddon hovering over us, to inspire…
#MM — Music Challenges — Heartbreak Hotel
Jim chose to write about, “Heartbreak Hotel,” which is full of, well, heartbreak. When I went to lyrics.com and put hotel in the search box, it came back with 6,263 songs with lyrics containing hotel. That doesn’t even include motel. Why is it that motels/hotels are so often sung about as these dwelling places of…
