The first truism is I will never pass up the opportunity to play a classic pinball game. I am talking 1990 and later.The second is I don't shirk from riding new roller coasters. I am always game to try out a new coaster. If it beats me up the first time I simply won't go on it again ... much.Rather then jump to the story about guns, cleavage, and drugs I will start with what ever is left. I pro...
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I am just about to get gussied up and head out to the Umstead Hotel and Spa for the annual Law Offices of James Scott Farrin holiday party, where we will celebrate our tenth anniversary and a drop-dead year where internet marketing experienced 68% growth. Woo Hoo! As happy as that makes me, tonight is bitter sweet. I have accepted a great job offer with IBM in Research Triangle Park, and so wil...
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...the song I've needed for the last couple of days was there. But MOG wouldn't let me upload it until now.
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two of his brothers, and the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Wardell Quezergue, on a tune covered by hundreds of artists since firstly cut by Jerry Butler and the Impressions in 1958
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Aaron Neville's great vocal on an old Gospel song from the new ***All star mucic celeration*** cd released this week.
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Ain't no one can sing a pop song like Aaron Neville. The second-youngest of the four Neville Brothers, Aaron had two huge hits (Don't Take Away My Heaven and Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight) from 1993's the Grand Tour, the second of his modern-day solo records for A&M, but all of his records are filled with nuggets that never come anywhere close to the airwaves, most pulled from a wide and ecl...
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The grammar police will be on your back if you use a double negative, there ain't no doubt. But from my brief days a linguistics major, I learned that "grammatically incorrect" language like this, when used widely enough, takes over. It's how language evolves. So "whom" Nazis, give it up.The double negative is a unique "mistake" though, as it seems socioeconomically based, and racially some ...
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wow !!! what an awsome song !!
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Brandon's post in late July got me listening to a lot of Allen Toussaint, so I thought I'd post one of my favorite Allen Toussaint produced songs, Aaron Neville's "Hercules". ("Last Train", which a commenter so rightly highlighted, is a close second. Oh and all of Rock of Ages by the Band; Toussaint did the horn arrangements.) Aaron Neville is on his A game here - he floats out the falsetto
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