I would watch Grease fifty times straight and listen to every Steely Dan song back to back just to have any one of my songs on any movie soundtrack. It could be a kid’s movie, an adult movie, a terrible movie, or even a completely lame documentary. As long as some portion of one of my songs was played at any point of the movie, I would be totally pumped, for many obvious reasons. There is perhaps no better way to be taken out of context. Unless you wrote a song specifically for that movie, or even more specifically, for that movie moment, chances are your song had a message or a feeling that somebody wanted to put in their movie. The intention could simply be to maximize the moment with a feast for the senses, or it could ... read more >
I don’t have a TV, so it’s a rare moment when I find myself in front of one, forced with the mission of finding myself something to keep me entertained for a brief period of time. One such rare moment arrived just the other day. I was at the gym because the weather sucked, and I decided to watch TV as I exercised on the cross-training thing instead of listening to my iPod and watching people watch themselves. The person using the machine before me had left the TV tuned to VH1, and as I could find nothing else to intrigue me, I decided to stick around and watch 31 through 40 of the best 100 songs of the ‘90s. I remembered all of the songs, but over half of the artists were either fads or one-hit wonders. They mentioned how that so... read more >
