Category: Melodies and Memories: Music, Songs, and Singers
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My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists
My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five “Favorites” Lists Movies Books (Non-fiction) Books (Fiction) Computer/Video Games Songs (Standards, Mostly)
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, October 14, 2023, or: Music for Rest & Relaxation
Afternoon, Saturday, October 14, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. I hope your weekend is off to a good start on this second Saturday in October 2023. I don’t have much to report, except to say that I’m going to take the day off from writing. I’m a bit fatigued, and I (obviously) can’t write well…
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A Quick Music-Only Post for Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Hey, dear Constant Readers. I had an unexpected and intense bout of insomnia last night. As a result, I’m tired and not at all in the best of shape, so I’m going to take the rest of the day off and rest In the meantime, here are a few of my favorite musical compositions from…
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Songs in Minor Keys (A Haiku)
Clefs, notes, and stanzasMelancholic melodies;How still the day seems!
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On Music & Melodies: A Quick Music-Only Post to Start the Workweek
Hi, everyone! I’m a bit behind my usual schedule for posting on A Certain Point of View, Too, and I must get ready for my novel-writing journey for this first day of the official workweek, so today all you’ll get is another collection of music videos from YouTube, including another cover of All the Things…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, September 22, 2023, or: There Shall Be No Weekend for This Writer
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in A Certain Point of View (Blogger), Alex Diaz-Granados, All the Things You Are, All the Things You Are (Kern and Hammerstein), Blogging, Creative Writing, Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Melodies and Memories: Music, Songs, and Singers, Music, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Writing as a CraftMidday/Early Afternoon, Friday, September 22, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. So, here we are again at the end of another workweek and on the brink of another weekend. For me, Fridays aren’t as full of promise as they used to be regarding restfulness or weekend fun. If I have a reasonably productive writing week (which…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Music that Inspires Me While I’m Working on ‘Reunion: Coda’
Late Morning, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi all. As you know, I love listening to music when I write. It doesn’t matter what I’m writing; it could be a blog post such as the one you’re reading now, or a first draft of a screenplay, or a prose story, but unless I have…
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Weekend Musical Interlude, Sunday, September 3, 2023
Early Afternoon, Sunday, September 3, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, here we are on the second day of the long Labor Day weekend, and it’s a hot third day of both the new month and the new (meteorological) autumn season. Here in the Tampa Bay area, the weather is still summer-like, although if my…
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Weekend Musical Interlude: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Early Afternoon, Saturday, September 2, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Even though I’ve gotten some rest over the past few days, I’m still a bit tired today and don’t feel like writing too much at the moment. It’s the weekend, anyway, so I am going to take some time to rest, read for a while,…
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On Music & Melodies: A Loving Look at ‘All the Things You Are’
If you’re a regular visitor to this space (Thank you for that, by the way.), you may have noticed that I have developed an affinity for the song “All the Things You Are.” Originally written in 1939 by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II for the Broadway musical Very Warm for May, “All…
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