Category: Off the Wall

Facebook makes me nervous. I used Facebook for a while, and then I stopped using it. And when I started using it again, they had made a few updates. And, since then, I've always had the feeling that I'm doing something wrong. I have these two Facebook pages and...

And you may find yourself in a beautiful houseWith a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourselfWell, how did I get here?-- Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime My father's father, a lineman for the county who bought the farm years before I was recorded and remixed, once...

Søren Kierkegaard believed that philosophy begins, not with thought, but with existence: an egalitarian life lived passionately within a world of absurdity. George Costanza, the Seinfeldian Everyman who extracted more than should be expected from a life lived absurdly...

Sometimes you need a song that kicks ass and Valentines Night is not one of those times. When the lights go down and the martini shaker comes out, you need a song that lets your significant other know just how sappy and vulnerable you can be. I've tried Led Zeppelin's...

The old man squinted at the sun and spat. He spat and squinted and the time of his grandmother's sister's children rolled across the land and settled at the feet of Noah's father's progeny, the very inhabitants of the Kingdom of Iketombe. Out there across the field...

1   Let It Be Me - Nina Simone 2   The Touch of Your Lips - Chet Baker 3   If You're Young At Heart - Frank Sinatra 4   Time After Time - Margaret Whiting 5   We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters 6   It's Crazy - Sarah Vaughan 7   Love Superstar - Kathleen Smith 8   You...

It’s summertime. Everyone here in Houston is indoors because it’s too @#$%& hot and humid to go outside unless it’s to immerse yourself in a body of water. I’ve heard a lot of music swirling through the house this week, so let’s go around the horn and find out to...

Happy Fourth of July! Today we celebrate the moment we cast off the Cloak of Oppression draped over us by our British Overlords. Had this momentous event not taken place, we would never have experienced The British Invasion. All of that great music that arrived in...

If you were alive in 1993, you heard and saw the Spin Doctors. My daughter – born on the anniversary of Billie Joe McAllister’s leap off the Tallahatchie Bridge – was seven months old when “Two Princes” was released, and she probably knows the song’s lyrics. Well, she...