Phrases go in and out of our collective vernacular. It’s just the way it is. Park as in Billy and Jody parked on their date is luckily (or unluckily, if you’d like to explore the modern-day alternatives) is pretty far out in the celestial graveyard of words and phrases. (While we’re at it far out … Continue reading
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Mind games with the music genome and cookies from Pandora’s box
Can Internet radio be a catalyst for a quarter-life crisis? It probably shouldn’t be, but here we are. I recently discovered Pandora Radio. I’m not sure how it has taken me this long; to be honest, I wasn’t 100 percent clear on how it worked. Moving on… Pandora’s appeal derives from its ability to compliment its … Continue reading
Judge me not by the freckles on my skin but by the content of my iPod*
The past couple weeks I’ve found myself uncomfortably stuck in the car with my high school self. Preserved in the form of an iPod nano (we’re talking generation 3), is my musical taste in transition. Current interests mix with the likes of Fergie, and god help me, Nickelback (just one song, I swear!). In my … Continue reading
If lady sings and lives by the blues, then she dies by them
Nearly every obituary I’ve seen for Amy Winehouse has attached words like “troubled,” to her name. I am disturbed, but not surprised, by the liberties newspapers have taken with headlines, using adjectives that have successfully pigeonholed Winehouse before any conclusive evidence of the cause of her death has been released. The tragic, troubled star is no … Continue reading
