Jingle This

Y’know how gmail looks at the content of your mail and advertises to you? Sometimes I find that interesting, sometimes I ignore it. This one I could not ignore: Jingle This They say: not some guy in his basement How offensive is that? I feel a song coming on…

Shingles Jingle

A couple interesting things have happened to me over the last couple of weeks. First, I seem to be one of those lucky people who gets that adult relapse of Chicken Pox known as Shingles. Second, Polly has said that my vocals are too blah, for lack of a better term. I know I’m not […]

Get mad – write a song

Sometime last year my older daughter got mad at her younger sister and cousin; she was feeling excluded. As expected, there was yelling and hitting and other displays of hurt feelings. Punk Rock Dad to the scene! I intervened with, “Do you know what I like to do when I get mad?” This caught her […]

50 Songs per Year

I set myself a goal to write and record 50 songs this year. That would be pretty cool to do while holding down a day job and helping to raise a family. I want to go work on a song now but I have a cold and should get some sleep. I actually sung myself […]