Category: Song of the Day

By night's end, I predict me and her will interface.-- Farmer Ted (The Geek) in Sixteen Candles Farmer Ted had a simple approach to love: dance with a girl and she'll go home with you, if it's OK with my dad. Ted awoke the next morning being slapped in the face by the...

Listen:Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.-- from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim floated freely within the time-space continuum, simultaneously experiencing birth, death, and all intervening events. All moments, past, present, and future,...

NBC will not predict the winner at 8:32 Or the count from 29 districts The revolution will not be televised -- Gil Scott-Heron Our current polarizing political paroxysm is not the long-predicted/sought/feared revolution. Because the upheaval we are experiencing most...

A landscape does not exist in its own right... It is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.-- Claude Monet In 'Drawings of Wildflowers,' Vassals surrounds the simple scenario of a couple hanging pictures with an atmosphere of loss and...

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.-- Kierkegaard Need a woman to love me The last two let me down But what does love mean, anyhow? -- Farrow and the Peach Leaves You only need a few notes to tell a story, if you put them in the right...

The demons that followed Holden Caulfield like ducks behind their mother don't end their stalking when the high school sheepskin is handed over. Lean out of your corporate cubicle and you will see Bernice, Marty, and Laverne scavenging for doughnuts in the break room,...

All at once Jukes understood he would have to go. 'Do you think she may?' he screamed. But the wind devoured the reply, out of which Jukes heard only the one word, pronounced with great energy, '....Always....'-- from Typhoon, by Joseph Conrad The Nan-Shan steamed...

We each bear a talisman, a shield over our heart against the slings and arrows hurled by Life and Love. A door sealed by an ancient skeleton key, your father's tortoiseshell sunglasses, a punctuality pin from a private academy, a suitcase carrying Shelly and the...

Sometimes all you want is a quiet song with a steel guitar and some harmony and that will be enough. That's a lot. I don't have to say 'love song' because quiet songs with a steel guitar and some harmony are always love songs, one way or another. In 'A Hymn for Me and...