I used to do this Playlist thing on here, and I miss it, so today I am resurrecting it for my own amusement.
 
Recently, I decided to give a listen to some “world” music and other tunes completely foreign to my element because I wanted to jump out of my skin a little. I tend to [...]

I’ve oft professed my undying love for music. As an angsty adolescent, I laid in bed with earphones every night, my yellow Sony walkman clasped in my hands, listening to the Little River Band’s Help is On the Way or Chicago’s I’ve Been Searching So Long. Way before that, as a new-to-school third-grader, I stuck [...]

You wouldn’t believe the enormous writer’s block I’m battling right now. My brain’s shut down. Maybe to devote its energy to raising my serotonin levels. Seems like every sentence I write is clunky and humorless. So, let me just tell you that I’m walking along oceans, listening to music, and eating healthy. My mind and [...]

 
This Sunday’s Playlist is dedicated to my mom, Angela, who would have been 67 today. (Please note that if you do follow that link above, I included it in the interest of full disclosure. I wasn’t all light and rainbows when it came to my mom. In fact, after she died, I was still angry [...]

Welcome!
 
It’s warm and sunny here in SundayLand, is it not? Also, did you just get back from church?
 
Being that it’s Sunday, I thought maybe you had.
 
Or perhaps you just had a Sunday brunch?
 
Or a Sunday walk with the family?
 
Better yet, did you just have a sundae?
HA HA! That would be funny.
 

All these songs mean something to me.
 
None of them are random or afterthoughts. Each offers specific insight into the emotions that shook me this weekend, then left me to crawl on the sand of my husband’s shore.
That doesn’t make sense does it?
 
It does to me.
 

I’m sorry for the delay, it’s just that Spoorie had to be stopped.
 
So this playlist is special. This guy sang at my wedding and he is an awesome and insightful songwriter, and you hear him and think, “yes! yes! that’s how I feel, too,” and then you wish you could write like him and then [...]

 
ALSO:
Ends/Everlast
I Feel Alright/Steve Earle
For a Dancer/Jackson Browne with Venice
 

This one is completely dominated by the artist we heard play last night.
 
And how about this? Please list in an e-mail or in comments or in your blog (just leave me the link) three songs you can’t live without (for now). It can be songs you’ve just discovered, or songs you’ve loved long time.
 
I [...]

Love Love Love/Tristan Prettyman
Spanish Stroll/Mink De Ville
Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)/MIKA
Oh! (What a Glorious Thing)/Akira the Don
When I Write the Book/Rockpile
I Believe In Love/Indigo Girls
Run/Indigo Girls
Last Request/Paolo Nutini
California Grace/Long Beach Shortbus
I Saw/Matt Nathanson
 
And that’s the way I like it.
 

If my emotions were mapped today, this would be the topography.
 
Darlin’ Do Not Fear/Brett Dennen
Circle/Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Kindly Unspoken/Kate Voegele
In My Own Mind/Lyle Lovett
Myriad Harbour/The New Pornographers
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games/Of Montreal
Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes/Paul Simon
Silver Lining/Rilo Kiley
Step On My Old Size Nines/Stereophonics
Landing In London/3 Doors Down [...]