Modern Skald and Völva.
This is the life of illusion, Wrapped up in trouble, Laced with confusion, What are we doing here? As I went on my run this morning, I had this song, Grease, written by Barry Gibb and recorded by Frankie Valli in 1977/8 playing albeit an EDM version which is
I've been singing it all morning - Night Ranger's Sister Christian. No dear reader, this isn't a throwback to my Southern Baptist days (you can read a little about that if you haven't already here - As for Me and My House)
I've loved Donna Summer's On the Radio ever since I heard it in the early 80s - how two long-lost lovers find themselves all because of a love letter that "must have fallen out of of a hole in your old brown overcoat" was
"WHO LOVES YOU AND WHO DO YOU LOVE?!" Killian screams to the crowd of blood-thirsty viewers in the studio and at home. If you're unfamiliar with The Running Man (you should remedy that immediately, dear reader) - briefly, by 2017, following a worldwide economic collapse and
I keep repeating the lyrics "but I did what I did before love came to town" over and over like an anthem. When Love Comes to Town by U2 and B.B. King was released in March 1989 - I was in 9th grade in my country high
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" Joshua 24:15. An incredible proclamation for the leader of a home, a temple, well, any place really. The first time I was exposed to these words uttered by Jones was in Purple Disco Machine's
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning (Psalm 30:5). The last portion of the Psalm was uttered repeatedly by speaker after speaker at last summer's DNC. The morning; however, would
Robert Tepper's Angel of the City, emerging 10 years after Martin Scorsese's neo-noir classic, Taxi Driver, echoes in the wind with the same breeze as the messages of the film. Early in the movie, we see Betsy (portrayed by Cybil Shepherd) dressed in white and referred
The Doors' classic Soul Kitchen written in the summer of 1965 by Jim Morrison as a tribute to Olivia's a soul food restaurant in Venice Beach, California lends itself to something discovered in the soul's kitchen, the crucible, the fiery forge, the circle of 8
I must be doing something right by Mind Electric featuring Kylie Auldist embraces the acknowledgment of duality. There's a confession that she is not good at things typically assigned to gender-normative roles for women, cooking and sewing specifically, and YET she knows that she still must be doing
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades - the Timbuk3 hit for 1986 originating from Barbara MacDonald saying to her husband singer/songwriter Pat MacDonald, "The future is looking so bright, we'll have to wear sunglasses!" As we're entering the first
"Dearly Beloved, we gather here together to get through this thing called life." According to Prince, “As I wrote it, ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ was about God and the de-elevation of sin." Like so many artists before him, Prince found a way to bring messages from the