A Song For This Day (and year): I.G.Y.
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before (alright, it’s a habit), highlighting a song that just felt right at this point in…
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before (alright, it’s a habit), highlighting a song that just felt right at this point in…
As we’re now knee-deep into what I refer to as The Slide1, am trying to clean out my drafts bin before the year runs out. This…
As I’ve done in past Halloween seasons, have written some appreciative pieces for a few opening titles sequences involving cinema’s darker fare. Today, it’s for one…
The other day, I came across a 2015 blog post by Tom Nawrocki of his favorite pop instrumentals, which I also recommend reading. Still, it got…
As I’ve been reviewing the revolutionary period I grew up in of late, The Sixties (more on that later), stumbled upon one song that I at…
Here’s hoping we truly are in a better place at stemming the spread of COVID-191 as more of us have returned to watching movies once again…
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before (alright, it’s a habit), highlighting a song that just felt right at this point in…
For those of us around when the country celebrated its bicentennial, it was an extraordinary time. That it landed in the midst of a momentous, and…
As Spring is about to be sprung, and we’ve lost another hour of sleep1, a certain film is soon to reach its 25th anniversary. Due to…
This is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Specifically,…
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before (alright, it’s a habit), highlighting a song that just felt right for this point in…
Even as the spread of COVID-19 worsens in this very cruel year of 2020, really didn’t want it to affect the holiday season. But it does,…
Once again during this time of isolation stemming from the spread of COVID-19, have listened to music to keep sane. Distracting myself with YouTube videos discussing…
During our time of “lockdown”, “safer-at-home”, or whatever your state, country, local government have named their attempts1 at stemming the spread of COVID-19, many of us…
As most every music fan knows, songs are like poems, even if you’re not into the latter. The definition of which well applies to both forms:…
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before, highlighting a song that just felt right for this point in time. As has been…
As promised four years ago, am adding the 2010s to this series. My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few…
As this is one of the films I make a point to watch during the year-end Christmas holiday, will give Three Days of the Condor‘s opening…
“There’s a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don’t need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a…
“All we’ve got going for us is the city. Our only hope is they’re mired down in the same shit that you and I have to…