4.1.24I took a sick day today. My first of the year. I hate missing time in the classroom with my students, and as of right now, my tummy still feels like garbage. So I don’t feel much like writing. But I just heard this amazing song on an episode of Resident Alien, a wonderful show …
Category: The Cosmic Jukebox
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: SYNCHRONICITY II by The Police
3.31.24Many miles awayThere's a shadow on the doorOf a cottage on the shoreOf a dark Scottish lake I had a song ready to go for tonight, but I’ve got something else I need to get out instead. I’m probably a bit too tired to even be tackling this, but here we go. Groundbreaking psychiatrist and …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: JUST DROPPED IN (TO SEE WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN) by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
3.30.24Someone painted "April Fool"In big black letters on a "Dead End" signI had my foot on the gasAs i left the road and blew out my mind I was born in 1974 and knew Kenny Rogers as the country singer who wrote and performed The Gambler, Coward of the County, and other good to middling …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: DOUBTING THOMAS by Nickel Creek
3.29.24Sometimes I pray for a slap in the faceThen I beg to be spared cause I'm a coward A few nights back (maybe a week ago tonight?), I wrote about Missed the Boat by Modest Mouse. There’s a line in that song that I didn’t focus on much in my piece, but it brought me …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT WITH ME by Cracker
3.28.24Turn on, tune in, drop out, with meThe whole things coming down So lets just get out of the way “Like every great religion, we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of …