As they age, most people wistfully look back at pictures from their younger days and long to look as they once did. Inevitably as we grow older, we put on weight, we lose our hair or go gray, we gain wrinkles and creases, all the while wishing we could look a little bit more like we used. Most of us, men and women alike, probably look back at things...
Monday, September 28, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
BOOK REVIEW: XTC: Song Stories
Never achieving the international stardom that they seemed to be eventually destined for in the early 1980s, XTC nonetheless managed to carve out a long and successful 25 year career as critically acclaimed cult favorites in both their native UK and the US. They've sold millions...
Saturday, September 19, 2015
One Month 'Till China
In less than a month I will be boarding a plane here on the east coast and flying to China for a week in Shanghai. The closer it gets, I'm actually getting a little less nervous and a little more excited. Even the prospect of the long flight (14 hours!) doesn't seem quite as daunting to me although that is still an awfully long time to be on a plane....
Monday, September 14, 2015
BOOK REVIEW: Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is one of the most critically and commercially successful bands in rock history, carving out their own uncompromising niche as sonic pioneers who revolutionized music and the live concert experience in the 1970s in a manner analogous to the Beatles in the 1960s. However,...
Thursday, September 10, 2015
International Literacy Day
All of you who read this blog regularly, and especially those of you who know me in real life, know that I love books and writing. For me, the written word is the gateway to knowledge, adventure, comfort, creativity, and expression. Oftentimes, however, we take for granted that...
Saturday, September 5, 2015
The Harry Potter Tag
The Harry Potter section of my bookshelfI love the Harry Potter series of books and films. That's probably not a surprise to you since after all, you're reading the beginning of a post on them, and why would I write about something I'm not passionately interested in? I've been...
