I love the 80′s

…but the 80′s didn’t love me.     I was born smack in the middle of the 1960′s and graduated high school in 1984.  If you’re trying to do the math, that makes me kinda old-ish. Usually I act younger than my actual age, though recently I must admit that I’ve been acting like a [...]

Music Week recap

Thanks to everyone who indulged me in this project and read my stories.  I appreciate you checking back to see which song I picked next and why. When I originally came up with the idea it was to be fun and to tell you how music influences me–a dude with the musical ability of a [...]

Rock Lobster

Boys and bikinis Girls and surfboards Everybody’s rockin’ Everybody’s frugin’ B-52′s People ask me from time to time what my favorite band of all time is and I honestly have a really tough time with that question.  If you were to look at my iTunes and go strictly from the number of songs by individual [...]

Just Another Day

There’s life underground… Danny Elfman–Oingo Boingo For me personally, nothing says growing up in So. Cal. quite like Oingo Boingo.  I don’t know what it was like in other parts of the country, but if you lived in LA, the OC, the LBC, the Val(ley), or the IE you were pretty much a fan of [...]