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Today’s Theme Music

I thought something about dreams would be appropriate for me for theme music today.

There are a lot of offerings available. ‘Dream Weaver’, by Gary Wright, came to mind. How about The Chordettes with ‘Mr Sandman’?  Susan Boyle, ‘I Dreamed a Dream’, would fit. There are so many songs about dreaming and issues with dreams out there, but I decided upon Aerosmith, ‘Dream On’. 

As I write and think about dreams and dream music today, I think, there’s a novel there, about a man who becomes obsessed with understanding his dreams, and dreaming more and more frequently. It’s not the freshest feed for a story but it could be fun to explore.

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Today’s Theme Music

The big questions arise. Didn’t we just do this? Didn’t that just happen? Didn’t we learn anything? I feel like we’re going around in circles. Sing it with Billy Preston – ‘Will It Go Round in Circles’.

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Today’s Theme Music

I reached out of my usual sphere for today. I enjoy this woman’s voice and like the message behind the song’s lyrics. The song reminds me of ‘Philadelphia Freedom’, but it’s not.

Here’s Heather Small, ‘Proud’.

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Today’s Theme Music

I use the idea behind today’s theme music hours every day, every day of the year. Other fiction writers must do the same. Writing for myself, I look for change, I look for what could be and what might be misunderstood, and what we have missed. I look for insight, I look for fun and I look to understand and tell. I look for hope and I look for dreams. And I’m going to keep on looking, living up to the person I’ve become, to always look and always imagine. So here it is, ‘Imagine’.

Thanks, John Lennon. RIP, October, 1940 – December, 1980. And yes, I can tell you exactly where I was when I learned the news.

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Today’s Theme Music

“One, two, three, what are we fighting for?

“Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn.

“Next stop is Vietnam.”

Yeah, Country Joe and the Fish, for you protest connoisseurs, a flashback to when we were saying the same thing about Vietnam that we said about Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

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Today’s Theme Music

How about a little Dirty Mac today? Mitch Mitchell, John Lennon, Keith Richards (on bass!) and Eric Clapton, from The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968, introduced by a young Mick Jagger. Oh, the hair, the youth, the beat, the playing!

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Today’s Theme Music

“You’re flirting with disaster,” people have told me just about all of my life.

To me, they’re saying, “You’re taking a risk.”

You betcha. Take a risk. Tug on Superman’s cape, pee in the wind…no; those are not flirting with disaster.

Flirting with disaster is about assessing a situation’s intangibles and variables and deciding, “I can do this. I can make this happen.” Others’ impressions that you’re flirting with disaster is more about their state of mind than it is about the situation.

Everything I write seems to be flirting with disaster – which, as an assessment, is about my state of mind. But that’s why we have editing and delete buttons.

Here is Molly Hatchet’s ‘Flirtin With Disaster’, from 1979. It’s a good theme song to hum as you walk the day and make decisions.

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Today’s Theme Music

Today’s rousing little ditty comes via ‘Raised by Wolves’. As I was closing down the day, I watched a couple episodes again (via Acorn) yesterday. This song, ‘Don’t Mess with Me’ by Brody Dalle, was featured on the second episode watched, in which Yoko gets her first bra and Germaine is treated to new underwear. Don’t think much of the video but enjoy the lyrics and the beat. Hope you get something out of it.

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Today’s Theme Music

I dreamed of pretzels. People, mostly women, were pushing around small forest green shopping carts crammed with food. Many had large pretzels in them. I wanted one of those pretzels. I tried asking, “Where did you get your pretzel?” But each turned away as though I wasn’t there. I took to a double-decker bus to find the answer, and returned to the same place where I began. I till didn’t have a pretzel.

Ah, pretzel logic. I always fail to grasp it. ‘Pretzel Logic’ was also the name of Steely Dan’s third album. But this is Fond Final Friday, so I elected to post ‘Black Friday’ from their fourth album, ‘Katy Lied’. Sue me if I got it wrong.

Sing along if you know the words. Fake it if you don’t.

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