Out of all the celebrity couples out there, I spend the most time contemplating Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams’ relationship. Not that I spend that much time contemplating any celebrity relationships, really, besides theirs. There is something so endearing and yet baffling about that pairing to me, I just can’t leave it alone.
Today, in the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘music’
June 24, 2009
Like Sugar to My Heart
May 22, 2009
Oh, That’s Good/No, That’s Bad: a Musical Retrospective
Photo by Timothy Lloyd.
An entire wall in my parents’ living room is devoted to my dad’s record collection. Yes, records, what The Kids These Days call “vinyl”–not CDs, although he has those by the hundreds too, a collection constantly in flux. He orders new CDs, makes room in tucked-away boxes for those he likes, sells [...]
March 14, 2009
Running Songs
(Photo by chefranden.)
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I don’t trust the iPod’s shuffle algorithm. Every time I charge my iPod, Islands’ “Jogging Gorgeous Summer” is the first song up. I don’t complain because it’s the perfect song to get my ass up and out the door on sunny days. I play imaginary steel drums while I run across the park [...]
March 11, 2009
Brenda Holloway
(Photo by makohl.)
Brenda Holloway was once famous enough to open for the Beatles. She was one of three women that ever performed with them on tour; the other two were Mary Wells, the Queen of Motown, and Jackie DeShannon–then famous for “Needles and Pins” but probably better known now for “What the World Needs Now [...]
