In the Butler family, Halloween is as much of a holiday season as Christmas. From Classic Monster Movies to decorations inside and outside the house to … yes … holiday music. Here are...
Thank you Paul G. Hill of KidLinks for sharing your music with me, and allowing me to share it with my congregation at First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City today. I’ll let the music s...
I usually am a man of many words. But all I can say on this dark day is what I put to words and music when I was a much younger man. For the victims of Newtown, for the families and teachers affec...
This post is the last in a five part series. Goldeneye One thing was certain. No Bond movie for six years meant no Bond music either. That was the worst soundtrack of all. But six years after Bo...
This post is the fourth in a five part series. At this point, my analysis starts to skew. I discovered the Bond of the 60s and 70s as an adult. But the Bond music of the 80s and beyond I listened ...
This post is the third in a five part series. Diamonds Are Forever The 70s really was an ugly decade. The only thing uglier than Washington politics were Hollywood fashions. Bond films fared about...
This post is the second in a five part series. Dr. No We’ve already talked about the James Bond theme, which makes up only a portion of the opening credits. The movie is actually very lightly scor...
This post is the first in a five part series. Snertman: Ok, so they all start this way. He walks onto the screen through this circle and somebody is going to try to shoot at him but he shoots...
Fair Warning: This isn’t an album review. It’s a light pop-cultural study of one of Rock’s most interesting dramas: Van Halen’s career. The departure of David Lee Roth due ...
A few lines from my favorite lyricist Neil Peart of Rush explains my powerfully optimistic mood: “Ceiling unlimitedWindows open wideLook and look again, look againFeeling unlimitedEyes on the pr...