January 2012
8 posts
AWESOME ALBUM ARTWORK
Ambrosia “Life Beyond LA” (1978)
Does this album cover belong to the original soundtrack to “Logan’s Run”? No, but good guess! I love this band and I even love this album artwork. It’s a little bit like the Kenny Loggin’s artwork but Ambrosia didn’t dress quite as weird. They’re in some kind of futuristic world but they dress classically...
10 Albums That Definitely Had an Impact
#3 “Reel Life” by Boy Meets Girl
The year was 2010. Moviegoers were being thrilled by “Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D” and I was fresh out of the beginning of my middle age, full of all the hope and enthusiasm that comes along with being in your early mid-30’s.
One day, I heard a song called “Waiting For A Star To Fall” on a radio station that plays...
Background Vocal Re-Enactments #29
“Tulsa Time”...
Amy's Adventures in Adolescence
I love words. I’ve enjoyed reading for as long as I can remember and always had a book with me when I was young. I love writing with pen and paper. I value penmanship. I have a genuine fondness for the English language.
In sixth grade, I was delighted that I scored high enough on a spelling test to participate in a school-wide spelling bee. All those years of reading were paying off by displaying...
December 2011
10 posts
Coolest Songs I Heard In 2011 - Part 2 of 2
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Coolest Songs I Heard In 2011 - Part 1 of 2
First...
Merry Christmas, everyone! This is the 2011 Take...
AWESOME ALBUM ARTWORK
“Christmas on The Ponderosa” by the cast of Bonanza (1963)
that’s an amazingly life-like Little Joe ornament on the back of the tree!
and here is the back cover…
here is just a part of what is written on the back…
“Giant pines- snow-tinseled— gleaming under a star-frosted sky; silver sleigh bells jingling crisply far away…
…this is...
3 Questions With a Music Professional
Guests:...
"MOVIES I LOVE" by Amy : The Prestige (2006)
Running time: 130 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
I love a good suspense movie. I enjoy trying to figure out the twists and turns before they are revealed and, unfortunately for people watching with me, I often blurt out my thoughts. Sometimes I’m right, and sometimes I’m not. The Prestige is one movie that had me baffled the whole way through.
The movie begins with magician...
Background Vocal Re-Enactments #28
“When She...
November 2011
10 posts
HORRIBLE IDEA FOR A COMEDY SKETCH
I recently found a piece of paper with this idea that I wrote this when I was 14 or 15. I don’t even recognize the person who wrote this and he’s me. It’s just a sketch of a horrible idea, although I wouldn’t be surprised if worse ideas have been pitched at Saturday Night Live, but two wrongs do not make a right so without further ado…
a dog flies into a guys eye....
10 Albums That Definitely Had An Impact On Me
#4 IN LOVING MEMORY OF… by Big Wreck from 1997
I went to Berklee College of Music. Allegedly, John Mayer was there at the same time I was. I’d find that easier to believe if our careers were capable of being compared. After college, when I became aware of John Mayer with everyone else, I was glad that the Berklee name was associated with him because Berklee often means...
This Thursday- another album that definitely had...
Background Vocal Re-Enactments #27
“Radiation...
AWESOME ALBUM ARTWORK
Michael W. Smith 2 by Michael W. Smith from 1984
Interesting. Michael W. Smith is hanging out on an argyle pattern. But if you look only slightly closer, you might see that he’s hanging out on what might be the argyle-patterned shirt he’s wearing. WHOA.
Go back in time a year to 1983 and check out the original album cover for Michael W. Smith Project.
As cheesy and dated as...
October 2011
12 posts
Movies I Love : Star Trek: First Contact
Running time: 111 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Frakes
When our relationship was still new, Jason and I were so eager to spend time together that we’d do things that only one of us found interesting. He would go to Mexican restaurants with me, and I later found out that he doesn’t like Mexican food. I would go rollerblading down a hill in his neighborhood even though I didn’t know how...
Background Vocal Re-Enactments #26
“Hey...
UNTIMELY MOVIE REVIEWS: Brief Critiques 3rd...
And now for some snarky reviews…
Just Go With It - more like “Just Go To Bed Early”
How Do You Know - more like “How Do You Eject The DVD?”
Fair Game - more like “Sean Penn plays an angry, short man. Wow, he’s really good!”
Hereafter - more like “AnywhereElseNow”
The Dilemma - more like “Too bad Opie Taylor...
Nothing Like You - from WHOLE NEW YOU by Shawn...
She Will Have Her Way - from TRY WHISTLING THIS by...
10 Albums That Definitely Had An Impact On Me
#5 TRY WHISTLING THIS by NEIL FINN (1998),
WHOLE NEW YOU by SHAWN COLVIN (2001),
and.. RESIGNED by Michael Penn (1997)
How can the #5 album on my list actually be 3 separate albums? Good question, me. These 3 records are all great in their own way but they also share characteristics that would make writing about them separately pointless.
All 3 artists are great...
September 2011
12 posts
Background Vocal Re-Enactments #25
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ODD LYRICAL AND PRODUCTION CHOICES IN POPULAR SONG
This song is from the 1982 album, “Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet” by Rick Springfield. It spent 4 weeks at #2.
The track is decent. It feels a little like “Somebody’s Baby” by Jackson Browne so I don’t really have a complaint on the music side of things. Springfield definitely has great pop sensibilities and I love a lot of the vocal things he’s doing. I just wish the lyrics could keep up.
It...
"MOVIES I LOVE" by Amy : The Princess Bride (1987)
Running time: 98 minutes Rating: PG
Director: Rob Reiner
The Princess Bride is the story of Buttercup (Robin Wright), a beautiful maiden who falls in love with a farm boy named Westley (Cary Elwes). After she thinks Westley has died, Buttercup reluctantly agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon). When Buttercup is kidnapped, a mysterious man in black comes to her rescue and reveals the...
