Five Songs, 10/21/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We’ve got three more posts before Halloween, which is…kind of a musical holiday? Like, songs directly about Halloween are sparse and...
Five Songs, 10/18/2026
Anything On Your Mind? As I sat in a cafe, listening to game 5 of the Guardians/White Sox series and reading, I reflected a bit on live music. My son was...
Five Songs, 10/14/2026
Anything On Your Mind? As the year rounds into the final quarter, the music writer’s thoughts turn towards year-end lists. And I’ll for sure write a roundup...
Five Songs, 10/11/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, it is not apparent from the publishing schedule, but I had myself a little break there. I pushed a month and a half or so ahead...
Five Songs, 10/7/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, I received my first promo out of the blue. This comment is going to be confusing to some people, because I mentioned it to them...
Five Songs, 10/4/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, I’m a bit adrift now. The whole yearly review thing was good for about 40 of these things, and now I have to actually tackle a...
Five Songs, 9/30/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, I said I was going to take a look at 1985, so let’s talk about it. At this point, I was in Farwell Elementary, taking classes...
Five Songs, 9/27/2026
Anything On Your Mind? And so, we arrive at 1986. This was the year that my strange trip through elementary school finished up, so we’re way in my past. I...
Five Songs, 9/23/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We have arrived at 1987 in our walk backwards, a year that was a bit of a strange year for me, school-wise. I was sort of a kid...
Five Songs, 9/20/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We’ve arrived now in 1988, which is the year I entered high school. In the district I went to, high school was 10th grade through 12th...
Five Songs, 9/16/2026
Anything On Your Mind? Well, we’re back in 1989, a year that was my sophomore/junior years of high school. As with last time, my high school activities...
Five Songs, 9/13/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We’ve now gone backwards all the way to high school, my junior/senior year, 1990. A thing I haven’t really brought up before now is...
Five Songs, 9/9/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 1991 was a big year, as it was the year I graduated high school and went off to college. So musically, I was still getting it sorted...
Five Songs, 9/6/2026
Anything On Your Mind? I have to say, at some point, we’re going to enter fuzzy territory for my recollection of things. I’ll probably wrap up this walk...
Five Songs, 9/2/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 1993, my sophomore/junior year in college. At the start of my junior year, I enrolled in Operating Systems and Computer Architecture...
Five Songs, 8/30/2026
Anything On Your Mind? And now we’re in my college years. 1994 was the end of my junior year (which featured some of my hardest coursework) and the start of...
Five Songs, 8/26/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We’ve reached 1995, my last year of college, a significant year for me. First and most notably, Megan and I had our first date, a...
Five Songs, 8/23/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 1996! I moved to Seattle in 1996, as my job search concluded with finding what is still probably my favorite job. Here’s how long ago...
Five Songs, 8/19/2026
Anything On Your Mind? 1997! Let’s see, in 1997, I started the year living with two roommates in a shitty apartment that was mostly intended for college...
Five Songs, 8/16/2026
Anything On Your Mind? We’ve reached 1998 in The World’s Slowest Time Machine, a year when I was in the same so-so apartment all year. On the upside, it...
