Tag music

Moody: Random takes on music, alcohol and candy Comments

Mar12

You are getting sleeeeeepy … you are going to wake up thinking this is the most brilliant blog post you’ve ever seeeen ..

Moody: Because nothing beats a good mondegreen Comments

Mar9

Heard, or misheard, any good ones lately? We’re all ears.

Moody: A singing endorsement Comments

Feb26

I did a fun new thing last night: went to “A Grand Night for Singing” at the Historic Grand Theater in Salem.

Moody: Valentine songs for mature audiences Comments

Feb14

So CNN had an interesting article on what song, by sheer number of weeks at the top of the Billboard charts, ranks the sexiest. Ready?
“Physical,” Olivia Newton John.
This moment of shocked silence, followed by howls of outrage, is brought to you by yours truly. Not Marvin Gaye? Barry White? The Stones? It’s … Miss Legwarmer?
The [...]

Moody: Concerts vs. CDs = no contest Comments

Feb4

Buy a CD rather than go to a concert? Psh. As IF.

Moody: Cleaning out my closet Comments

Jan28

So few social occasions call for a good Judas Priest concert T-shirt any more.

Moody: Generation gap Comments

Oct20

We had a smokin’ hot Beatles: Rock Band party over at our place this weekend. I served a White Album cake, strawberries, submarine sandwiches (no, not yellow), scones and British chocolate digestive biscuits. Guests rocked out for hours on our Hofner, the Ludwig “drum kit” and the Strat that we ordered when we couldn’t get [...]

Moody: Three updates Comments

Sep21

In which: I provide an update on the factoids, briefs and trivia currently milling aimlessly in my mind, the ones keeping me from remembering important things like the Pythagorean theorem and where I left my cell phone.
Update the first: I ROCK on the lyrics to The Beatles: Rock Band, even on expert. I can play [...]

Moody: Fab family Comments

Sep12

Husband bought me an early birthday present!

Slightly Older Princess wants to do the singing.

Little Princess wants to play the drums.

Luckily, we can do all those things at the same time.

And we don’t have to wear Beatles shirts, or play on replica Beatles instruments (all but the Strat; we couldn’t get the Rickenbacker or the Gretsch [...]

Moody: Obama, I did it again Comments

Sep8

I should have kept myself home from school today.

I knew the president was scheduled to deliver an address to the nation’s schoolchildren, urging them to set goals, work hard and never give up. I should have begged off the assignment, knowing the subversive effect it was going to have on me.