Recently, I came across this amazing video chronicling the top hit songs of 2013 (you have to watch it): It got me thinking about the songs that came out this year and all the memories I’ve made. Uplifting songs are a great thing to turn to when you’ve had...
My Fair Lady was hands down my favorite musical as a child. I would prance around like I was THE Eliza Doolittle. The movie, which cost $17 million in 1964, was a soaring success, so it’s easy to see why it continues to be well-loved. But there are things you...
I have a problem. I am an eternal optimist. Many would say that’s not exactly a problem, but it is when you are trying the wrestle with the problems that plague our Earth. Floods, bombs, poverty, rape, exploitation, war… “How am I gonna be an...
I was sitting outside a coffee shop this afternoon, when the radio started playing a beautiful song. My mind searched for the name of it and then suddenly I remembered. “Memory” from the Andrew Lolyd Webber musical, Cats. It’s a song that has a hold...
This past weekend my friend came over and was telling me how the song Blurred Lines was totally stolen from this Marvin Gaye song from the 1970’s. I was skeptical at first but then I took a listen and…wow, that song is totally stolen, not that original in...
