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Tag Archives: #music
Music Monday: What‘s Your Favorite Christmas Song and Why?
By Christopher Ryan I usually last until a little further into December before I lose myself in Christmas music, but this year The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special did me in. Such a fun soundtrack, it offers a bunch … Continue reading
Posted in #U2, Christmas, Christmas Music, classic rock, Fountains if Wayne, GuardiansofTheGalaxy, holiday hits, JamesGunn, Julian Casablancas, Kevin Bacon, Music, pop culture, The Pogues, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Waitresses, The Wombats, TomPetty&TheHeartbreakers, writing
Tagged #Christmasmusic, #classicrock, #holidayhits, #holidaymusic, #holidays, #holidaytraditions, #music, Christmas
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Why Christine McVie’s Passing Hits Some of Us So Hard
By Christopher Ryan I’m not what would be recognized as a Fleetwood Mac fanatic, hardcore fan, or, um, even official fan. I’m just a music fan who spent my teen years in the 70’s and 80’s. And that means Christine … Continue reading
Posted in Christine McVie, classic rock, Fleetwood Mac, Music, pop culture, writing
Tagged #America, #ChristineMcVie, #FleetwoodMac, #music, #womenwriters, #writerslife
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Music Monday: Roger Waters’ Comfortably Numb Video Makes Me Wish He’d Pull a Taylor Swift
I wandered onto YouTube last night and amid the “new releases” there was a video of “Comfortably Numb” by Roger Waters. Liking both the artist and the song, I innocently hit play. Mind blown. Not because it was part of … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Music, pop culture, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb, The Wall, classic rock, writing
Tagged #amwriting, #classicrock, #ComfortablyNumb, #ComfortablyNumb2022, #Dystopian, #music, #PinkFloyd, #RogerWaters, #RogerWatersComfortablyNumb2022, #Storytelling, #TheWall
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Music Mondays: Bright Harmonies Defeat Politics
By Christopher Ryan We have an ongoing relationship with music. Sometimes old friends come back to visit. Other times, new sounds energize us wonderfully. This Monday series is about all of that. Like most of the country, I was just … Continue reading
Bono and The Idea of America
by Christopher Ryan U2’s Bono spoke at the 23rd annual New Yorker Festival last night. Well, first he riled up the crowd, and sang, and recited new poetry, and sang some more. And then he ignited my soul. During his … Continue reading
Posted in #amwriting, #community, #reading, #U2, #WeThePeople, America, Bono, Book lovers, digital publishing, ebook publishing, Faith, fiction, horror fiction, Music, New Yorker Festival, politics, pop culture, self-publishing, Spirituality, writing
Tagged #Amazon, #America, #AmericanSpirit, #amreading, #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #Bono. #U2, #BookBuzzr, #books, #Dystopian, #ebook, #ePubChat, #eReaders, #getcaughtreading, #IndieAuthor, #IndiePub, #Kindle, #music, #publishing, #selfpublishing, #Storytelling, #theideaofamerica, #WriteMotivation, #writerslife, #WriterWednesday, #writestuff, #WroteToday, writing
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Sunday Chill: We All Need That Soft Groove Sometimes
Been a long, challenging week. Got my geezer badge, irreversibly sliding into the fourth quarter. Buried a mother who was at best equal parts battle and blessing. And I did all that with my Irish siblings whom I love, but … Continue reading
Posted in #amwriting, #inspiration, healing, pop culture, Sunday reset, weekend chill, writing
Tagged #authorlife, #goldenhour, #kaceymusgraves, #music, #reset, #star-crossed, #sundaychill, #sundayreset, #WriteChat, #writerslife, family, healing
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Pandemic Plusses: James McMurtry Shares a Great Notion
Amid all the Coronavirus blues we got going on, there are some moments to applaud. Celebrities are giving online performances or reading children’s books (the LeVar Burton/Neil Gaiman exchange was beautiful, and worth Googling), or adapting to quarantine and doing … Continue reading
Pandemic Plusses: The Last Thing I Expected to Do During the Pandemic Was Dance
Outside, a human wanders by, alone. Then no one comes into view for long stretches of time. A geezer wanders by with a small dog and a filled plastic bag. Remember back in the good old days when plastic bags … Continue reading
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Tagged #amlistening, #amwriting, #classicrock, #coronavirus, #dancing, #flotsamandjetsam, #igrieve, #intoureyes, #music, #pandemic, #petergabriel, #selfcare, #sledgehammer
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Advice to a young artist
(I wrote this to a former student and musician who posted on FB a cool bit of music video of him playing a work in progress. He called it “trash” and, well …. This happened.) Stop calling your contributions to … Continue reading
Posted in America, comics, digital publishing, ebook publishing, education, fiction, film, independent publishing, love, Music, pop culture, self-publishing, writing
Tagged #art, #artlover, #booklover, #criticism, #filmlover, #music, #musiclover
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