Now that the summer entertainment season has officially started with the smash opening of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” (go see this movie, by the way), it is time to think about choosing the “song of the summer.” Summer, of course, used to start in June, but studios and record companies found that they could […]
Category Archives: Song
How to Write a Song
I like to write songs. Some of them are okay. Most of them are terrible. A few might even be good. But it occurs to me that people could be interested in how songwriting works, since music is this weird ephemeral thing that we sort of pull out of the air and create out of […]
A Phone Call to Santa
I know that writing letters to Santa is the tradition, but in this day and age, why can’t we call him instead? Probably because it would turn out something like this. Merry Christmas everyone!