Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Tune #28 Inspired by GMFB

Late in the show on GMFB today, Peter Schrager talked about Garner Minshew. He is the starting quarterback for the Jacksonville jaguars. He became the starting quarterback after the first quarter of the week one game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Nick Foles injured his clavicle. They say he is going to be out for eight weeks. Garner Minshew just got the win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.

I asked Sean if he knew what Garner Minshew looked like after that first week. He didn’t know so I texted him these pictures that the breakfast table shared on TV.:

I told Sean that he is a character and Sean laughed!

The whole breakfast table wore mustaches like his during a segment about him couple weeks ago.

Then, they showed a picture of Garner with uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.

It made me laugh to see that picture because that movie made me laugh a whole lot!

Today, Peter was speaking and he said that he wasn’t going to talk about the fact that Garner is a, “Cult of Personality.” He wanted to talk more about the win but my mind went completely to this song:

I immediately was a six year old, little kid once I searched for the video on YouTube. Again, I thought of my two oldest brothers! Most especially, my second oldest brother, Steve.

Almost Forgotten Tune #54

I heard this song while watching the Lions game. I checked and I can’t believe that I have NOT put this on my blog before today! Lenny has ALWAYS been so cool! He has been on the news with all the work he is doing with the Bahamas after the hurricane and he still is SO delicious! I had Sean watch the video with me and I told him that THIS is how I knew Lenny, before he was Cinna in The Hunger Games and before he played the Super Bowl with Katy Perry!

Almost Forgotten Tune #53

It was 3:22 am this morning when I opened my eyes. MS has deprive me of so much sleep! Because it took a while for me to fall back to sleep, I checked my Facebook alerts. Another person reacted to a song I posted a few days ago that ended up in my YouTube feed. When I saw that, I was immediately taken back to my time as an undergrad:

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My Mom had to wash my hair this morning because, well, “Sometimes it bees like that” and MS ain’t no joke! I closed my eyes as my Mom combed shampoo through my hair with her fingers. She began to talk about my Dad. She was not talking about my Dad as my Dad but my Dad as a high school student on retreat with her. For some reason this song came into her head and she wasn’t sure of who sang it. I let her know that it was Otis Redding:

My Mom told me that my Dad really liked this song and it was one of his favorites. I asked her why he liked it and she said that he said that, “It was easy. It was peaceful,” I told her that Sara Bareilles had a cover of this song:

I couldn’t see her face as she scrubbed my scalp but I could hear in her voice that she was NOT here with me in 2019 but somewhere back in time and on retreat probably in 1969 with my Dad.

I vaguely remember hearing my Dad say something about, “The ‘Frisco Bay” in conversation when we were driving when I was about eight or nine. I told my Mom that I tell everyone about my favorite ANYTHING. When she was finished pulling the soap suds out of my hair and was going to rinse it, I raised both open hands over my head and yelled,

“Daddy! I could use a little, “peaceful” right about now!“ with my head and eyes slightly tilted toward the ceiling because I REALLY could use some of that right now and I knew to ask my Dad to intervene on my behalf to God because I am CERTAIN that is where he is now!

Good Music and a Serene Pic

I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t feel well yesterday night. I just felt off. It was a nagging feeling and I couldn’t figure it out. I went to bed and in my YouTube feed, this song popped up. The ABSOLUTE BEST cover recorded!:

I woke up this morning and checked my phone, of course I felt off last night! Yesterday was three years to the day since the last time I worked out at Barwis Methods. Three years ago today, I was injured. My meniscus is torn. It would be another nine months before I had surgery to repair it. I am still dealing with constant pain and my knee popped out twice yesterday upon transfer. I absentmindedly scrolled through Facebook just before my Mom got here to help get me out of bed and I saw this picture:

The cliffs of Moher. How beautiful?! I swear I will get to Ireland before the end of my life!

So, I don’t feel well today. I’m pretty bummed but good music and a serene pic can do wonders for me! Michigan lost today but when I turned the TV back on, Forever in My Heart was on again. I HAD to watch it for the fourth time to hear the Irish accents and see the greenery. I really need to get there before a die!

Tune #27 Inspired by GMFB

I can’t even remember what they were talking about. I think it was something about Gardner Minshew’s performance last night on Thursday Night Football but just as they were going to go to commercial, Peter Schrager said, “Savage Garden.” Kay Adams added, “Truly. Madly. Deeply.”

I tweeted them and let them know then I am back in high school. I even embedded a picture:

The picture is 20 years old and my hair is at least 14 inches shorter now. My high school was extremely small. My graduating class was 46 students and there were two hallways and a basement in the building. The above picture was taken in one of the science rooms that were adjacent to the cafeteria in the basement.

I thought of being in the high school because I was when this song came out. I really liked it and I bought the CD single for a few dollars. I bought it from Musicland (Before it was Sam Goody). I took it to school and left it on the floor in front of my locker. It was on the floor for the entire first hour. There is a soundtrack in my head now when I think of my time in those hallways 20 years ago.

That’s the first floor of my high school. The second floor looks exactly the same. I left the CD on the second floor in front of my locker on the left side of the hall before the first classroom on the left in the picture.

Tune #25 and #26 Inspired by GMFB

I got up and out of my bed after gym if you had started. I turn the TV on but was still very much out of it until I heard Kyle Brandt. He said one lyric and I don’t even know what they were talking about but I tweeted him anyway:

Needless to say, this song has been in my head all day long!:

He talked about Limp Bizkit because Fred Durst is from Jacksonville for “Throwdown Thursday.” I actually am not sure who is the bigger 90s I can. Lisa turtle from savor the bell or Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. Peter gave a good argument about her dance, “The Sprain”:


Kyle talked about the song, “Rollin‘.” I did on the album, ”Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water but that song was not one of my favorites. I preferred:

Either way, I had to look up Limp Bizkit songs from the 90s and this song was in my head and I thought of my wall mate, Marissa, at Western.

“The Corner of My Mind”

As soon as I woke up, I checked my phone and somehow ended up looking through my YouTube feed. I’m not sure why this song showed up there but I HAD TO listen to it and I was immediately taken back to being young and my Parents’ living room having a green carpet. I thought of having family picnics with my Mom, my Abuela and my Mom’s brothers, sisters, and their families at Willow park. I posted it on Facebook and tagged my two oldest brothers:

This song was in my head for most of the morning. I listened to it at least three or four times before Sean and my Mom had to move the cars out front so I decided to absentmindedly search through the Tunes tab on my blog to find a good song because I KNOW that I like all of the songs there because I posted them!

Sean came back into the house and went straight into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. I was listening to this song and it ended just as he opened the door:

I scrolled a little bit further and I saw that I had posted this song a little while ago and I wanted to hear it again:

Sean continued to pull things out of the refrigerator as the introduction started and it was at the refrain that he stopped moving and popped his head up! He stopped what he was doing and asked me how he knows the song?! I let him see my phone’s display j The second time the refrain started. He closed the fridge and walked over to hold my phone. He remembered this song, “In the corner of my mind“ and kind of sang-along and told me that this song reminds him of laying on the floor in my Mom’s living room running his hand across the carpet.

He didn’t know the green carpet, I think that was changed out when I was in high school so he has only known her living room with a beige carpet. She has hardwood floors now though. It made me laugh that Sean had a memory from his youth just as I had a memory from my youth this morning and they both were caused by songs!

Tune #23 & #24 Inspired by GMFB

This morning, I turned the TV on just in time to see the opening credits of GMFB. I didn’t even have my contacts in. Kyle immediately started talking about last night’s game. Jameis Winston threw a touchdown pass to Chris Godwin in the end zone. I was so groggy but to hear Kyle say that the Panthers got, “God-smacked” made me smile internally. For the rest of my life, I will always think of Jack at the grill shirtless in khaki shorts shaking his hips to this song by Godsmack:

It was too early to focus on anything but I thought of this album from high school:

But, more importantly, when I really think about Godsmack, I remember being in the pool with all of my clothes on because I get thrown in Add Sean’s great grandparents’ houseand I remember with fondness seeing Jack shake his hips to the music wearing nothing but his khaki shorts. I was pregnant and none of the family knew yet aside from me and Sean’s dad.

I absolutely love that show! It helps me acclimate to being awake and I believe I had just put my contacts in when it was announced that Adrian Amos from the Packers was going to be on the show. Kyle talked about his interception in the end zone last week on Thursday. Before the commercial, Kyle said it was, “Pack to reality.” REALLY?! Soul II Soul?! As the commercials started to play, I remembered being a young child and hearing my oldest brother play the song before he went out:

I tweeted Kyle that his song references were, “🔥🔥🔥” and Nate Burleson liked it and another tweet I sent Kyle talking about the segment that he and Peter were on wall street.

I absolutely love any interaction I have with anyone at the breakfast table or in Culver City (Will Selva)! I always complement wills ties and tell him that, “his tie game is 💯” because it is! Kay liked two of my tweets as well and replied to my #DarkHairDontCare tweet. 😄😄😄

Tune #21 & #22 Inspired by GMFB

I’ve posted both of these songs before but this morning, Peter Schrager said that his least favorite football tradition was, “Seven Nation Army.” What?!

I absolutely LOVE hearing that song at college and/or professional football games! I tweeted him to tell him that. Needless to say, this song has been in my head all day!

Later in the show, Kyle was wearing a tuxedo t-shirt (which Sean has too. But it’s probably too small for him now) and he was the bartender for the other hosts. To end the segment, he quoted Semisonic. “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.” This song was also in my head throughout the day.