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Love and Loss
The Hologram / Binary Sunset (Star Wars: A New Hope) This piece captures a moment I barely remember. Already familiar with the film, I was in our "new" house, so I was at least eight years old. And I was watching Star Wars: A New Hope for the umpteenth time.
By Jacinth Ryse3 years ago in Beat
Nothing Ever Lasts Forever
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains “I'm sure it'll be fine I love you, I love you Oh, brother of mine” It is 2011, I am 15, and my older brother has moved eight hours north. It was the right move for his immediate family, but it breaks mine and my mother’s hearts regardless. Particularly because this also meant that my 3 year old nephew – my mom’s first grandchild – would no longer be living an easy 30 minutes from us. No more afternoon babysitting that involved splashing in the pool and watching Power Rangers and Finding Nemo. But their new home is beautiful; Mount Shasta, near the California-Oregon border. It snowed the night we arrived to help them move. We took flashlights out to watch as the delicate flakes fell between the tall pines and landed in our hair and on our coats. They will be fine. I’m sure of it. The homemade art hung on the wall, the half melted candles lit for dinners that go long into the night, the spices on the counter, and the cat nestled on the armchair in the living room all tell me so.
By S. C. Almanzar3 years ago in Beat
Musical Roller Coaster
My parents always had music playing in the car and being a military family, we were in the car a lot. We would travel long distances across the USA to visit family from whatever part of the country the military dropped us in for the next few years. The radio was always playing, and we listened to a wide variety of music from the 60s through whatever was current at the time. Many songs I listened to then are still on rotation today. The songs on this playlist mean a lot to me for different reasons. Some are empowering or happy and some are sad, others are in between. Sometimes a song strikes a chord (pun intended) with a person, and they never really know why. The first song that I fell in love with was one of the latter. I was too young to understand the song, but I imagine the combination of the jangly guitars and the sound of Susanna Hoffs’ voice just made me happy.
By Heather Dotson3 years ago in Beat
Thanks, Phil
In 1986, when I was fourteen years old, my folks told me and my brothers that we were moving. I had just started ninth grade at Johnson Junior High School and had been looking forward to being the “upperclassman”. I was going to be in the Junior ROTC class, I was going to take up the saxophone. I even had a friend, who was a GIRL, and who seemed to kind of tolerate me, which was an unusual state of affairs up to that point. The news that we were moving over a THOUSAND miles away was devastating.
By Noel T. Cumberland3 years ago in Beat
Fossil by Melanie Garside
Introduction This is an album that I love but have not played for a long time, so I dug out the CD from one of my boxes and it is now on the player as I am writing this review to share with you, but before I proceed there are at least three versions of this.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Personal Playlist Zone
Hi there. Man with eclectic music taste speaking (I also fancy myself a karaoker; and neither Rockband 4 nor my MP3 Player have dropped their job performance to tell me, rather rudely, to "stick to my day job." Rude people think they're being clever by saying those exact words; and word people stink. [Wails out {Take On Me/Joy To the World/She Drives Me Crazy/Don't Take the Girl/Bringing on the Heartbreak/etc.}]).
By Kent Brindley3 years ago in Beat
Objects In The Rearview Mirror. Top Story - May 2023.
I spent a lot of my formative years on the road. My father was in the military and when we were stationed all around the country (after I spent my early childhood in Japan). Going from place to place in our minivan was always the solution. We drove from Virginia to California with a pitstop in Washington to visit family on the way down. We drove up and down each coast and the one the that always remained the same was music. Music on the radio, music in my earphones from my bright yellow walkman and later on, my portable CD player. So many songs not only were the guidemaps to my childhood, and I can remember the places we were when I really felt them for the first time.
By Josey Pickering3 years ago in Beat
Abigail's Playlist
Hello friends, My name is Abigail and I’m here to present my playlist for Vocal’s Melodic Milestones Playlist challenge. My human mom told me she wasn’t planning to enter this challenge, so I kicked her off my keyboard and wrote my own story. She’s typing it, of course, due to the me not having thumbs thing.
By Cathy holmes3 years ago in Beat
