Changing moods. Something that we all experience at many times in the course our lives, in the course of a minute, hour or day in fact.. Although we may dream that we can be happy every day, there are going to be a lot of times that we are not.
Our moods come in all colors in our lives don’t they?
Blue- we have those days. We have those times. We sing them, we are them. Blues
Black- those specific days we want to never live again – the black day
Red- Those angry days
Grey- those days of emotion, of loneliness or despair
Yellow- happiness? caution? urgency?
Our best answer to manage our lives is to understand our “true colors” and make the choices that help to color our attitudes.
What are the colors of your moods? The color of your world?
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
Donovan- Colours – a songwriter of many colors indeed.
Thanks to all who were able to join me on the Internet radio show “How I Met Your Music” on Friday August 1st @ 90FM.org.
It was hard to cover over 50 years of music in just 3 hours, but hopefully I was able to tell the story of how I went from the music I first heard on the little radio above my mom’s Hotpoint refrigerator to the music my children have introduced to me these past years.
There is a lot in-between Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa, between the Ed Sullivan show introduction of the Beatles and You Tube independent music of Foxygen.
But it has been a journey for me and probably for a lot of other parents who grew up on rock and roll, R&B and Jazz influences and their children are still welcome fresh music to fill that need today. Mine will very appreciative of our “old” music, and even to this day keep showing me fantastic and talented new music.
So here are the last few songs I finished my show with. The music my children had a lot to do with when they were finding their own music.
The final song below was the song 3 of them co-wrote together recently. Just coming full circle from my beginnings with the British Invasion to this…..
Dashboard Confessional: Ghost of a Good Thing (Thanks to my son Adam) Maybe we can sing along some day.
Anthony Green: Anytime ( Thanks to my son Greg) Rockin’ music always on the horizon: Circa Survive all the way!
Lydia: The Exit (Thanks to my son Ryan) So many bands, so little time to know them all.
Copeland: You Love to Sing (Thanks to my daughter Jennifer) You sing like an angel, because you love to sing.
And finally, ” I Can Sleep Again”. The song Ryan, Greg and Jennifer ( our children) wrote for my wife and I in December 2013.
An invitation listen for a special 3 hour radio program.This Friday August 1st @4 pm Central Time (US) I will be presenting “How I Met Your Music”. It will map a personal journey of music from the 1960’s to the music my children have introduced to me this year.
If you are a baby boomer with millennial kids who are all about music, you will know that there are a lot of things playing over the air today that sound quite like songs of decades ago.
Time for the 2nd Annual Alumni Radio weekend. The evening of July 30th through Sunday August 3rd, and myself and my college compatriots from late 70’s and early 80’s are coming back to take over the college radio station.
Over the past decades I have grown to like a lot of the music that my kids have introduced to me. Maybe part of it was because I spent seven years joining them at the annual sabbatical of the Van’s Warped Tour. The Warped Tour features over 7 stages lining up live music from 40 musicians and bands that are working hard to make it in the indie/punk/alternative world of music.
Or perhaps it was because there is [and was always was] music playing in our house as they grew up. They heard The Beatles, The Who and Queen and so much more as they started their lives and decided to search for their own music. As they would find their way, they would share it with me. “Hey dad listen to this one“.
So all these years later, I am going to present to my kids and anyone willing to listen ….”How I Met Your Music”.
August 1st for three hours starting with the first song I ever heard on my parents radio over the refrigerator in our kitchen and going through the decades that led up to my children creating their own music.
Does it sound like “How I Met Your Mother” the American TV show? Yeah – yup… sort of like that.
If you have time! Tune in if you can on the Internet at one of the following:
Or Find Windows and I Tunes Links here: http://www.uwsp.edu/wwsp/Pages/default.aspx
There will be a whole weekend of our old radio station team from the 70’s and 80’s playing just about anything! It will be electric, progressive, and a wild ride! So if you feel like steaming – I promise a fun time ( the evening of 7/30 through 8/3).
My wife and I have our morning rituals these days. After we wake and let the dogs out for their morning constitutional we head for the coffee. It is like the kick-start that begins the day. We also reach for our respective technology and get an update on the news of the day and the weather ahead.
I have tried to ignore coffee over the years. I have worked my way toward tea and assorted other hot drinks. I have skipped it entirely and made sure that the breaking-fast was centered around a healthy menu fit to start a day.
But in the end, it is the coffee that I come back to. Like mine with nothing in it generally, but strong enough to give it a bit of rich taste. Admittedly some days it doesn’t end up that way. Never destined to be a Barista I guess, just as long as I get the caffeine I suppose.
Many of my friend and work mates go for other caffeine in the morning. Colas or Diet Colas, the infamous Mt Dew. That just makes me shudder really. I recall younger days after a long night out – waking up with a thirst. But overall I couldn’t do it.
So what are your rituals in the morning?
What are the things that are at the starting line of the day for you?
Tracks In The Dust 