Category: Monday Night Music

This is a new channel with only one video, but it should have way more than 900+ views and 51 subscribers.

Here’s to more of this joy in the coming weeks!

I was going to share this video (after listening to their album No Need to Argue on our drive home from San Diego last Sunday).

Then I heard the news.

So I listened to this song. Really listened to it.

Today’s immediate relevance makes it more gut wrenching than when I first heard it almost 30 years ago. We keep inflicting tragedy upon ourselves.

Let’s repeat my first video artist for #MondayNightMusic by celebrating the vernal equinox and the advent of Spring!

I’m a huge fan of Stephen Malinowski. He’s posted an immense amount of music animations on his YouTube channel. It’s an amazing library of visual explorations around those odd sequence of sounds that we find so appealing as a species.

If the start of the Gregorian calendar did not go well, I wish you all the best as we enter a new season. Let’s make this an awesome new year!

Wow.

I stumbled across a childhood friend at LegoLand. I’ve known him since from church before elementary school and we went to Berkeley together.

He’s one of the two guys I still talk regularly to from college. This is the first time I got to see his two kids.

One helluva way to start our first vacation three years into the pandemic.

Three years ago, the pandemic landed on our shores.

We were living with our in-laws, but the tenant in their rental house had just left. That gave me a place exile myself since I was still going to the office before the shutdowns were announced.

Even after the shutdowns, I was still conducting a variety of site visits between construction projects and budgeting investigations. So I spent a long spring as a bachelor, until work slowed down and I stopped running around town.

It was a trying time (we celebrated my boy’s second birthday in the backyard) but it was also a cushy middle class sacrifice that pales in comparison to the loss that so many others experienced.

During those long days as a loner, I would take a 40 minute walk every morning, listening to this CD by Seamus Egan, which he has now released as a live performance on Youtube.

This time last year, I was listening to “War Pigs” on repeat.

It’s depressing that it’s still relevant for the foreseeable future.

The video is perfect. No need to embellish Ruthie Foster’s powerful performance of this Black Sabbath classic.

The flip side of leaving Houston ten years ago is arriving in Las Vegas ten years ago.

Gotta celebrate that with the King, though Ann-Margaret completely owns this scene, shot in the old UNLV gymnasium, now the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.

We spent our last night in Houston a decade ago on 2/13/2013.

The apartment was packed up and we’d head out for Las Vegas on Valentines Day.

In honor of our years H-town, here is a ridiculous song that captures the brashness of that energetic city in all its problematic glory.

We miss it.

After a long delay from a busted tire on the car trailer the next day, we’d enjoy our most memorable Valentines Dinner eating packaged salad on the parking lot at Buc-ee’s in San Antonio (as in sitting on the concrete tarmac and eating our meal, cause they didn’t have picnic tables at the truck stop).

Stephen Malinowski is one of our favorites.

And this is our boy’s favorite.

By Dave Brubeck, played by the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.