What makes a truly great song great? And I don't mean the songs that are really complex or well played or anything, but the ones that for whatever reason make us feel something really profound ( Read more... )

Put Santana's Viva Santana Volume I in your stereo. Turn it up really really really loud. Put on "Jungle Strut."

Lay on the floor, your head between the speakers. Let the music fill the room, fill you up, until you're about to explode, it's so perfect and powerful.

Alternatively, do the same thing, but dance instead of lying down. It is exhilarating ( Read more... )

 Saturday night I saw Stevie Wonder in concert, and it was the most incredible concert I have ever been to. Go see him. He will blow your mind ( Read more... )

My dad really gets on my nerves sometimes. He is overprotective, nosy, and we rarely agree on politics or values. But, he is also the coolest guy I know, and the best dad too. It would be difficult for anyone to love me as fiercely as he does, or to do more for me. It's strange to think, but I want a guy like my dad. Whenever I'm talking to or ( Read more... )

I was just watching Almost Famous, and as always I felt that incurable itch, that unsatiable thirst for something else. I was born in the wrong time. I should have been born 37 years before I actually was. Then, I would have been 18 during the summer of love, and could have gone to Woodstock, and could've lived when music was good, and it was all ( Read more... )

Today I was listening to a song. I don't even know what it's called or who wrote it, because it's on a CD that a teacher burned for me a few years ago. I've always loved it, but suddenly today as I was listening to it, I felt something more. I realized that it was like someone had looked into my soul, at the very heart of my being, and then written ( Read more... )