This past weekend the youth at my church participated in a 30-hour fast, in which they drank only juice and broth from Friday afternoon until dinner on Saturday. During this time of hunger and crankiness they held a food drive, listened to guest speakers, and planned and ran a service that would cap off the […]
Category Archives: Pop Music
My Latest 25 Mix – March 2013
Finally! The blog you have all been waiting for! What ridiculous music have I been listening to for the past 10 months? You are about to find out. For those of you not familiar with the concept, my latest 25 mix is the place where I put the catchiest, rockingest, songs that have caught my […]
Lapses in Lyrical Logic
Let’s face it; lyrics do not generally make any sense. And they aren’t supposed to! Song writers use exaggeration, hyperbole, flights of fancy, and all sorts of other jibber-jabber to try and create a mood, or an emotion. No one really believes what songs are saying, do they? I mean, when Bryan Adams sings “Everything […]
Ironic “Weird Al”-Related Injuries
If you are looking for a good starter song for trying to indoctrinate your young children into the cult of “Weird Al” Yankovic (and come on, who isn’t trying to indoctrinate young children into the cult of “Weird Al” Yankovic), then you can’t do much better than his cover version of “George of the Jungle,” […]
Band Names That Could Be Adult Soft-Core Fiction Novels
I was at a Halloween party the other night, and one of my friends brought with her to the party a guy who had taped 50 different color samples onto his shirt, such as you might find at a paint store. All of these samples were different variations on the color grey, and though most […]
Cake: Live in Concert
For my birthday, which was two months ago, I received concert tickets to go see Cake, which was three nights ago. When I was young and childless I used to go to concerts all the time, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen any sort of live concert that does not involve arias or […]
My Latest 25 Mix – May 2012
The last time I told you about my 25 latest, favoritest ear-worms was way back in August of last year. You can do the math, but I won’t make you. That is 9 months ago (and really almost 10, since tomorrow is June already!). It has taken me that long to find 25 new songs […]
Pop Lyrics as Filtered Through a Pre-Schooler
We listen to the radio a lot in the car. We listen to kids songs on the iPod as well, but as often as not we are tuned to a pop music station. Sometimes I worry that the lyrics are not appropriate for my children, but when I actually stop to listen to how they […]
Rap Music Is Music, But It’s Still Okay To Hate It
Back in the arrogant days of my youth, I firmly declared to anyone that would listen that rap was not real music. Where were the notes? Where were the pitches? It was all just yelling and thumping as far as I was concerned, and I have heard this argument repeated by many other grumpy old […]
My Latest 25 Mix – August 2011
Way back in November I wrote a post about my Latest 25 Mix, and talked about the different pop songs that had caught my ear for one reason or another. Well, here we are in August and I have finally cycled through all of the songs on the list, removing Glee’s version of Teenage Dream […]