Gnome is a band I found out about during the spring of last year via the algorithms of YouTube. Their video for a song called “Wenceslas” just happened to come up as I was scrolling through the app. My enjoyment of this song led to checking out a couple of their other videos, which then …
Every once in a while, when my dad would be practicing guitar or bass in our basement, I’d sit and listen to him play or play along with him on drums. One time, I remember watching him work on a song and trying to figure how a particular part went by playing along on a …
October 18th starts a season of birthdays for me, all of which are five or six days apart from each other. My niece will turn four years old on October 23rd, my grandma will turn ninety-eight years old on October 28th, my birthday is on November 2nd, and my buddy Rory and my cousin’s birthday …
I’ve done a lot of driving on this trip, maybe more than I’ve ever done during a single trip to Michigan. I’m not complaining, though, as I actually enjoy driving. My 3-year-old niece, on the other hand, might have a different outlook. When we started making our way to Lake Michigan, after about only 10 …
Until I looked it up yesterday, I had absolutely no idea that Smokey Robinson wrote the Mary Wells’ song “My Guy.” Even before I learned that fact, however, just purely by thinking of the song itself, the next song I thought of was “My Girl.” Now this I definitely knew was written by Smokey because …
The Michigan football team played their biggest game of the season to date earlier today, and I was fortunate enough to witness it firsthand. Though Michigan seemed in control of the game from the beginning, they found themselves in a bit of a back-and-forth battle during the first half of the game. As the game …
For me, The Blues Brothers is one of those movies where you can completely miss the overall plot and still really enjoy it because of the humor and the music. This was probably the first time I ever saw the likes of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and John Lee Hooker perform “live.” But it wasn’t …
After seeing both Batman and Batman Returns in the theater and enjoying them a lot, I had high hopes for the following picture, Batman Forever, despite the change of actors for the Batman role. Unfortunately, the movie was nowhere near what I had hoped it would be. At a certain point, it seemed like the …
Having been denied entrance to the Motown Museum earlier this week, we decided to give it another shot today, albeit a much earlier shot than before. Whether because of the early arrival or going on a weekday instead of a weekend, we managed to secure a spot with one of the morning groups without issue. …
As I make my way through Michigan, I think about the impact that growing up here had on me and how it affected where I find myself today. I find it so fascinating how someone or something, regardless of how long or how short of a time it was around, can influence the world. While …