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when your playlist needs a cleansing from holiday music. Madonna and Holiday So, I’m kinda tired of Christmas music. I usually love it but something in my brain chemistry is different this year and apart from a few favorites I’ve mostly avoided it. So instead of actual holiday music I thought I’d talk about a… Read more
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I wrote this at the start of the new year… hoping, praying and trying to manifest some fiery forward momentum for 2026. 2026. The Year of the Fire Horse starts in a little less than a month. According to Chinese astrology, the Fire Horse is intense and powerful. I’m ready for intense and powerful- in… Read more
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In 1979 Rod the Mod went disco and a certain seventh grade girl was awestruck. Because it’s February and this world needs more love right now, and because it’s absolutely freezing outside…I’m going to focus on some songs that are about hot lovin’- in all forms. I have loved the particularly hot artist who sang… Read more
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From my Valentines Day themed YouTube THE perfect song series. Chrissy Hyde is such a badass! Back with the second love themed song for this month. I low-key hate Valentine’s Day but I love this perfect song about love. The Pretenders Message of Love was released forty five years ago this month. I was in… Read more
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Eyes Without a Face is THE perfect song. HTF did he not get more fan votes for the Rock Hall?????? I’d been thinking about including Billy Idol here for a while, and his nomination for inclusion in the RnR HoF, long overdue IMO, spurred me on to talk about this perfect song- Eyes Without a… Read more
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Part of my PERFECT song series. Not Enough Time is THE perfect song! And how the hell did they not get enough fan votes for the Rock Hall? SMH… Since INXS has been nominated for the Rock Hall they are next up for THE perfect song. It was really, really difficult to pick one song… Read more
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How was 1986 forty years ago? This is the first in a series of essays about THE perfect songs from that long ago spring. Blackwell Hall on the Circle of William Smith College. Some fun was had here! I Can’t Wait by Nu Shooz is THE perfect song. That distinctive bass and hand clap is… Read more
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Here I go again….. Over Thanksgiving I attended two shows at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, a very nice smaller venue with great sight lines and acoustics. It’s a cool place if you don’t mind standing for a show. There are some seated areas but mostly reserved for people with extenuating circumstances. This is a… Read more
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Don’t hesitate! Better than missing out, that’s fo sho! Solo shows- Part 1 DSO at Borderland Festival, Knox Farm State Park, East Aurora, New York Donnie Iris and the Cruisers, Robins Theater, Warren, Ohio Jerry Casale and John Zabrucky at the Medici Art Museum, Warren, Ohio I love live music. I mean I LOVE live… Read more
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The confluence of music and attraction. This is part 1 of what will probably turn into a three part saga, LOL. I have to broadcast a warning before anyone reads this. And maybe I am being presumptuous but… if I have dated you, loved you, lusted after you, or had any romantic or semi-romantic relationship… Read more
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