As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Playlist for SCOTUS


This morning, the day after the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, I happened to hear The Platters’ classic “With This Ring” (on the world’s greatest oldies station). Naturally I took this as a sign that I should come up with a playlist marking the occasion.
 
(Yes, I know that this wasn’t the only significant Supreme Court decision this week, but I couldn’t really find any good songs about health insurance subsidies.)
 
With This Ring – The Platters
Same Love – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Chapel Of Love – The Dixie Cups
Power Of Two – Indigo Girls
Love And Marriage – Frank Sinatra

Friday, June 26, 2015

Monday, June 22, 2015

June 21, 2015 – Nationals 9, Pirates 2 – Nationals Park


 
Attendance: 40,015
Game Time: 2:34
Weather: 87 degrees, cloudy
Wind: 11 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Sean Barber, First Base - Mark Wegner, Second Base - Mike Winters, Third Base - Mike Muchlinski
Seventh-inning stretch song: It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones (excellent choice!)
 
Highlights – 2-run Harper homer, 3-run Escobar shot, double by Gio, all in a 9-run first inning off poor Charlie Morton, who was lifted before getting the third out and saw his ERA rise from an excellent 1.62 to a pedestrian 3.97 … 7 shutout innings by Gonzalez in an efficient 85 pitches … Pirates outfielder José Tabata, who ruined Scherzer’s perfect game bid Saturday by managing to get plunked by a pitch with two out in the ninth, was booed lustily by the sellout crowd every time he came to the plate
 
Other – inbound traffic worse every game; left home at 11:30, got to the bridge that replaced the old Humpback Bridge on the GW Parkway just before noon, took 25 minutes to make it the rest of the way