This song did not pass Peppy or it would have become another freestyle song. It might, in the future, but I don't think we're quite there yet--at least not for the choreography and effects I had in mind.

Recording available (helpfully posted with lyrics) at www.youtube.com/watch. I was also guided to this website, on which you can listen to songs as ( Read more... )

I know I did not bring the CD player to Alfred, because there was no sense in bringing a music playing device when all of my music was already on my computer, and because I live in a dorm room which can be easily filled with the sound of a laptop. And I imagine that I would have included my overstuffed binder of CDs in the box containing the player ( Read more... )

I'm sure readers who know me are rolling their eyes right now, thinking something like Go figure, I ought to have guessed she'd start with Whitacre. I really have no argument to make here, other than that Whitacre easily became one of my favorite contemporary composers after I listened and played some of his pieces.

Why would I begin the year with a ( Read more... )

Here is my resolution for 2009: to choose one song, every day, and write about it--either what it makes me see, how it makes me feel, what memories are attached to it.
If it works, one year from now, I will not only have a 365-song long playlist of the year, but I will also have 365 starters for a poem, a memoir, a short story.

You are welcome to ( Read more... )