I'm standin' on a corner....any guess where I am? That's right - Winslow, Arizona! This tiny little town has made the most of their claim to fame. Eagles fan or not, it's worth a stop if you are passing through. I was here in 2021. #Bessie
08:06 PM - Nov 05, 2023
A post about a chart on my sister's birthday that includes a write-up of "My Sister." Coincidence? You decide.
https://musicofmylife.net/2023/10/14/modern-rock-tracks-10-2-93/
https://musicofmylife.net/2023/10/14/modern-rock-tracks-10-2-93/
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Modern Rock Tracks, 10/2/93 – The Music of My Life
I was well into my third semester of teaching the undergraduates at Georgetown College by early October of '93. I seem to recall I had a couple of sections of first-semester calculus and an upper-level geometry course among my classes. Thirty years on, I'm doing geometry again this semeste..
04:24 PM - Oct 14, 2023
It's difficult for me to Spout at a consistent time every day, but rest assured I am here once a day, every day! Check out my timeline for any that you've missed, and be sure to give me a like. Today I have one from Miami Beach, FL from my visit in August. #Bessie
06:03 PM - Oct 12, 2023
Here's one for all the early birds: This is from my visit to Frankenmuth, MI in August. World famous Zehnder's has just been ranked the number one independent restaurant in Michigan, and number three in the country for the number of meals served among US independent restaurants! Congrats! #Bessie
07:48 AM - Oct 13, 2023
08:52 AM - Oct 12, 2023
Things you never want to say to a drug kingpin you're working for: "I know we lost the heroin, but..."
01:55 PM - Sep 09, 2023
Even accounting for the fact that he's playing a 70s TV writer's idea of a rock star, he's just an astoundingly terrible actor.
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jb @ja_bartlettGortner plays a rock star who uses an uncredited ghost writer for his songs and has an album due in two weeks, so he naturally murders the guy.12:44 PM - Sep 09, 2023
01:08 PM - Sep 09, 2023
Gortner plays a rock star who uses an uncredited ghost writer for his songs and has an album due in two weeks, so he naturally murders the guy.
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jb @ja_bartlettNothing guarantees the opposite of quality TV like the words "guest star Marjoe Gortner."12:36 PM - Sep 09, 2023
Settling in to watch the deeply wack 1974 Barnaby Jones episode "A Gold Record for Murder."
12:44 PM - Sep 09, 2023
Nothing guarantees the opposite of quality TV like the words "guest star Marjoe Gortner."
Settling in to watch the deeply wack 1974 Barnaby Jones episode "A Gold Record for Murder."
Settling in to watch the deeply wack 1974 Barnaby Jones episode "A Gold Record for Murder."
12:36 PM - Sep 09, 2023
In response to jb.
TV crime shows from the 70s had better theme songs than the ones today. Didn’t mean you had to watch the whole episode.
04:42 PM - Sep 10, 2023
Labor Day weekend is over, September is here, and it's time to focus on back to school. This week, I am going to share photos from college campuses I have visited. I'll kick it off in my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan with a pic from Western Michigan University in 2023. Go Broncos! #Bessie
04:25 PM - Sep 05, 2023
New TV binge alert: the entire run of LA Law is on Prime Video.
08:30 PM - Sep 07, 2023
A few tunes I mostly didn't know 38 years ago but have become friends with over time:
https://musicofmylife.net/2023/09/04/songs-casey-never-played-9-7-85/
https://musicofmylife.net/2023/09/04/songs-casey-never-played-9-7-85/
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Songs Casey Never Played, 9/7/85 – The Music of My Life
Four years ago, when Premiere last featured 9/7/85 for its 80s AT40 rebroadcast, I reflected a little about some feelings I had at the beginning of my senior year of college. Those months still knock around in my head, especially when the first hints that summer is on its way out arrive. (Living my ..
08:52 AM - Sep 04, 2023
By popular request, here’s another photo from my visit to the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, IN last month. I have others to share over the coming months. #Bessie
10:54 AM - Sep 03, 2023
Outside the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana earlier this summer. Studebaker was an American wagon and automobile manufacturer. Headquartered in South Bend, Studebaker was founded in 1852 and went out of business in 1967. I’ll share pictures from inside in the near future! #Bessie
05:36 PM - Sep 02, 2023
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This is the beautiful harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia from my visit in 2017. #Bessie
06:52 PM - Aug 30, 2023
Two college juniors share thoughts about hits of '84, what Night Tracks is playing, and a movie they both very much want to see. Confluences abound, as a decades-old mystery was solved just last week.
https://musicofmylife.net/2023/08/30/letters-from-jk-late-december-1984/
https://musicofmylife.net/2023/08/30/letters-from-jk-late-december-1984/
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Letters From JK: Late December, 1984 – The Music of My Life
At dinner following James’s memorial service last year, Judy handed me a bag containing virtually everything I’d mailed to him over the years. Since then, I’ve been in the odd position—and believe me, it feels plenty odd—of bearing witness to both sides of our mid-to-late 80s postal conversations. T..
08:40 AM - Aug 30, 2023
Gearing up to do some hiking in the Petroglyph National Monument near Albuquerque, NM in 2022. #Bessie
01:31 PM - Aug 31, 2023
This one ("The Platinum Connection") was disastrously bad. It's not entirely clear why anything that happens is happening, and after 50 minutes it just kinda stops.
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jb @ja_bartlettBack on my Barnaby Jones BS today. Not sure whether the villain of this episode is supposed to be coked up or the actor is. It was 1974 so it could go either way.09:29 PM - Aug 29, 2023
06:24 AM - Aug 30, 2023
I wrote a thing about the first glimmer of autumn and trying to find my way back in time. Maybe you would like to read it.
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Storage and Retrieval – The Hits Just Keep On Comin'
(Pictured: a farm scene in Dane County, Wisconsin, not far from where I live.) One night last week, after one of those 70-degree days that quickly falls into the 60s toward sunset, with a clear light (no Canadian wildfire smoke for a change) and still air, as I left the radio station at 7:00 I&helli..
11:15 AM - Aug 27, 2023
Nicely random TV role: Jo Anne Worley as a gangster's wife in a 1977 Hawaii Five-O.
10:52 AM - Aug 23, 2023
Until her character gets panicky and dumb in the last five minutes, Jessica Walter gives one of the better conniving and slutty performances on 70s TV.
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jb @ja_bartlettToday's Barnaby Jones episode has gone totally bonkers in the last 15 minutes, from a conventional love-triangle murder mystery to one involving arson and rabies.01:16 PM - Aug 20, 2023
01:22 PM - Aug 20, 2023
Today's Barnaby Jones episode has gone totally bonkers in the last 15 minutes, from a conventional love-triangle murder mystery to one involving arson and rabies.
01:16 PM - Aug 20, 2023
Based on what I learned from 70s TV, I expected a lot more people to have split personalities.
04:00 PM - Aug 20, 2023
In honor of Jerry Moss's passing, here's an A&M Records tribute show I did last year: https://hearthis.at/the-uncola/the-uncola-4-26-22-show/
10:20 AM - Aug 18, 2023
What I learned from Madison Facebook this morning: because a road that was built in 1962 is closed for repaving today, we have made no progress in 60 years.
05:59 AM - Aug 15, 2023
