Browsing Category: Music

  • My U2 Fandom Captured In A Painting

    It’s hard to imagine that someone could capture my U2 fandom (and other fandoms) in one painting, but that’s exactly what my friend Kelly Eddington managed to do. What you see above is a gift given to me by the @U2 crew just moments before our 20th anniversary party began last month in New York …

    August 30, 2015
  • Let It Go

    At the few shows on U2’s current tour where they’ve played “Bad” — a song in which “let it go” is one of the key lines and ideas — Bono tells the audience something along the lines of, “This is a song about surrender. Whatever you’re holding onto, whatever you need to let go of …

    July 3, 2015
  • My Favorite Album of 2013

    Talk about a landslide. Promises by The Boxer Rebellion was easily the best album of 2013 for me … and also the only physical CD that I bought all year, I think. Did you have a favorite album from 2013??

    January 1, 2014
  • Rethinking ’80s Song Lyrics

    I listen to music pretty much all day while I work. And a lot of that is ’80s music. (The best decade for music, bar none!) But now that I’m comfortably in my mid-40s, I find myself having this experience on a daily basis: I’ll hear a song that I used to love with lyrics …

    March 31, 2013
  • song-pop

    Room for Improvement

    As you get older, it’s important to continue to identify areas of your life where you can do better and learn more. You should always be growing and striving to do better. Clearly, based on my performance in the Song Pop game, I have a lot of room for improvement in knowing the Modern Rap …

    July 15, 2012