Tina Turner RIP
May 24, 2023Multi-whammy news day as politics got sadly tapped to the back burner by the death of a musical icon — all over the InterWebs cycle: Tina Turner passes at 83. She carried some talented weight…
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Sunday Serenade: Shelter In The Sound Of Summer’s Poetry
April 23, 2023And some songs, too, celebrating all kinds of shit that occurs during those deep-trench days of summer — here in California’s Central Valley, backs of necks get way-way-worse than dirty and gritty. Yesterday the first…
Sunday Serenade: Sheltering Strains With A Built-In ‘Stairway’
February 26, 2023Of course, due to the hardcore musical fact Led Zeppelin’s 1971 “Stairway To Heaven” is so known, so overwhelmingly continuously common, the riff of all time can’t be played without a music-store employee going “a…
Sunday Serenade: Old Favorites Rebooted
February 12, 2023A quiet early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — once again a seemingly early-spring feel to the day with sunshine and warm temperatures. Beyond another ‘object’ being shot down over the Great Lakes today,…
Sunday Serenade: Shelter The Storm In MLK Remembrance
January 15, 2023In honor of MLK Day tomorrow, some music in reflection. (Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Self Portrait Facing Death‘ [June 30, 1972], was originally found here.) I’m not familiar at all with MLK and music so we’ll go…
Sunday Serenade: Some Shelter-In-The- Storm Mid-70s Rock Sounds
December 4, 2022My own personal sounds of the times to be more exact. In keeping with the sad passing this past week of Christine McVie, I thought to side-swipe the ugly news cycle nowadays this early-evening Sunday…
Sad As Shit: Christine McVie — RIP
November 30, 2022(Image found here.) Adding insult to injury flexing off anxiety, sadness, and worry boiling around our current everything affairs, it an asshole shock to hear this afternoon the passing of the wondrous Christine McVie, the…
Sunday Serenade: 90s Shelter-From-The-Storm Music
November 6, 2022Cloudy this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — a preview of winter. And a change of pace with some music to serenade the anxiety building to Tuesday as so much shit from democracy…
Queen Elizabeth RIP
September 8, 2022Major-crater story this Thursday noon, and probably for a few days hence — Queen Elizabeth II has died, aged 96. Typical of the stories to be posted — per the Guardian‘s Iive blog: Standing outside…
Sunday Serenade Shelter: Annie And Emily — Rain ‘Warbled’ Like ‘A Memory’
September 4, 2022A quick move past ugly and focus on rain — Annie Lennox and rain. Instead of news-related shit to bring you way down this Sunday late afternoon, a quick focus on Annie and what an…