Obsession • an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind: he was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist. My body shakes. I get goosebumps from my arms down through my legs. I don’t want to breathe lest my senses be directed somewhere other than my... Continue Reading →
Back in 2013, in my Idol Musings blog devoted to the TV show, I wrote about the Beach Boys song Good Vibrations. The context was Final 6 Week, and the Idolists had two themes to perform: the Burt Bacharach-Hal David Song Book and Songs You Wish You Wrote. Here’s what I wrote about the latter.... Continue Reading →
Gotta love Eurovision. Where else can you have a song contest featuring loving odes to saunas, espresso, and, uh, the joys of sex? And the song about sex got the fewest votes of the three? What the Hell Just Happened, as the U.K. entry may have sung (they did). Apparently, unrequited love is better than... Continue Reading →
Who’s going to win Eurovision? I don’t know, but I do have some idea. I’ve learned that there are strong clues in the betting markets. I’m fascinated by the intensity of Eurovision betting, and because I’m obsessed with analyzing numbers, I set myself to study how close the betting markets were to the Final results.... Continue Reading →
You’re welcome. Once again, I spent the month of March eagerly consuming and evaluating the release of each country’s Official Music Videos - all 37 of them. This year, I took the additional step of watching videos of many of the winning performances in each country’s national contest to get a sense of what the... Continue Reading →
It’s been a few months since my last Current Obsessions. Apart from trying not to overplay Lady Gaga’s amazing album and deep dives into the catalogs of Justin Timberlake and Alice in Chains - no, I’m not kidding LOL - here are some recent releases that I have been obsessing over. Olly Alexander Whisper in... Continue Reading →
And that’s a wrap. In addition to enjoying some great live jazz with my Dad, I did manage to catch the last 75 final minutes of Grant’s journey to find love. It went as we and Litia expected. After all, on the first Group Date (GD), he told her he knew she was his wife.... Continue Reading →
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