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 …
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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 …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: SIMPLE KIND OF LIFE by No Doubt
3.27.24And all I wanted was the simple thingsA simple kind of life You never know when a core memory is going to form. Maybe this will be one. Who can say until it shows up out of nowhere, maybe weeks, months, or years later? Maybe nearly a quarter century later? That’s the age of the …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: MATH PROF ROCK STAR by Jim’s Big Ego
3.26.24I’ve gone through five different songs so far tonight, and nothing’s clicked. My brain doesn’t want to string words together in a meaningful way. Being in the middle of a four-day block of standardized testing will do that to a teacher. So here’s a silly song about a math professor who’s also a total heartthrob. …