The Battle of the Bands: May the Force Be With You
It's May 4th! This means one thing: May the Fourth Be With You! Yes, it's Star Wars Day! And to celebrate, I dedicate this month's Battle of the Band to…
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May 4, 2021
Michelle Goulet’s “Stop & Think”: A Lost ’80s Musical Gem
It's #SongLyricsSunday! This week's prompt is to find a song or lyrics with "mind/brain/think". What a perfect prompt to introduce one of my favorite songs to sing: Michelle Goulet's 1986…
February 15, 2021
THE ALFEE’s Plea in “Marie Anne”: Won’t You Stay For Me?
The prompt for this week's #SongLyricsSunday is "Maria/Marie/Mary". What a perfect prompt to write about the legendary Japanese rock band THE ALFEE and their 1983 song "Marie Anne" (メリーアン). If…
June 21, 2020
Journey’s “Send Her My Love”: A 80s Rock Letter to Our Ex-Lovers
Journey is a band that has fans from different generations, both young and old. One of its signature hits, "Don't Stop Believin", gained new popularity in the 21st century when…
March 15, 2020
Tatsuro Yamashita Brings This Kind of Magic to Christmas
Christmas is today! What are your plans for this Christmas? Here in Japan, life goes on as normal. I have to work on Christmas Day with a doctor's appointment right…
December 24, 2019
Battle of the Songs: Celebrating This Independence
🇺🇸 🗽 Happy Independence Day! 🗽🇺🇸 Also, Happy late Canada Day to all my Canadian readers. I celebrated Canada Day a couple of years ago by talking about Jane Child.…
July 4, 2019
Moving to Music With the Liebster Award
Welcome to another Music Moves Me Post. Today is very special as I am going to mention about the Liebster Award, which I got from Ashli and Eric at You, Me and Benny about two months ago!
Check out my music pick for this week and my answer to their questions below the cut!
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May 6, 2019
#SongLyricsSunday: I Will Always Be the King of Pain
Today’s #SongLyricsSunday theme is “Hurt/Pain/Agony/Suffer.” from Jim at An Unique Title For Me. When I thought about this week’s theme, I immediately thought about The Police.
Which The Police song did I choose? Click to find out!
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May 6, 2019
Drift Away to an Island Paradise with Anri's "Windy Summer"
Summer has finally begun here in Japan. “Umi no Hi” Sea Day is the unofficial start of summer as the rainy season is over and it’s time to enjoy the sun. But, unlike the photo above, Japanese summer is nothing like a tropical paradise. We have reached the dog days of summer! Today’s temperature was 40°C (100°F) with humidity levels hanging around 80%. It ‘s a perfect day to hide indoors and dream about a cool tropical paradise with Anri’s “Windy Summer” under the air conditioner.
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July 16, 2018