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Hy Zaret, who wrote the haunting lyrics for Unchained Melody died at age 99 this week. Unchained Melody was one of the most recorded songs of the last century. The version most of us knew was the Righteous Brothers one that had a resurgence in the movie Ghost. According to stories I read about the song, he was asked toContinue reading “Unchained Melody lyrics”

Last night Niki and I saw Rush at Jones Beach. We met up with Craig and his friends and family and we had a blast. I’ve seen the Canadian trio at least twice in the past, with Tommy Shaw opening for them once and King’s X another time. Last night there was no opening act,Continue reading “Catch the mist, catch the myth, catch the mystery, catch the drift”

We were driving along in our car and Jack said, “I wish there was a jump button in our car for if someone was going to hit us.” So do I, little man! One of Jack’s two betta fish is dying. He has swim bladder disease, basically a big air bubble in his body thatContinue reading “Things I heard from Jack”

I guess I didn’t quit AOL in time to be eligible to enter this mind-blowing Autoblog contest — and I even knew the contest was coming. To coincide with their redesign, Autoblog is giving away an all-new 2007 Dodge Nitro. It’s good news, bad news for me. The good news is that one of our blogsContinue reading “Want a $29,000 car for free from Autoblog?”

It’s not because they got rid of my old Autoblog logo and it’s not an April Fool’s joke involving Twitter this time. About a year ago an old friend of mine asked me if I wanted to be involved in a comic book publishing company with him. We discussed it off and on and I was hooked. After all I hadContinue reading “Why I am leaving AOL”

Like I said, I’m glad the new Autoblog logo is a new take on my old one and not something radical. I am considering snagging the old “tire tracks” background I drew in Illustrator and slapping it on my own blog. We’ll see. My old logo: Matt’s Dennis’ new one: UPDATE: Matt did all of the site’s design work, butContinue reading “The Autoblog redesign”

I read a story about Bono and The Edge writing the music for a Spider-Man musical about a month ago and I have had trouble getting it out of my mind. When I saw Spider-Man 3 I thought to myself, “Wow, I hope Spidey has better luck on Broadway than Mary Jane had.” Just like with Cork’d, IContinue reading “Spider-Man on Broadway”

Last night, Gwen Stefani kicked off the summer concert series at the Nikon Theater at Jones Beach. I half expected someone in the tour’s marketing team to place little stickers over those signs changing it to the “Akon Theater at Jones Beach” for the night since he was one of her opening acts, but thatContinue reading “Without a Doubt”

Some of my favorite Dans — one I worked with and one I haven’t yet — made a clever little social wine site called Cork’d about a year ago. Just a few days ago they sold it to a new company run by Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV. When they launched I had a ton of great ideas for Cork’d, but IContinue reading “Cork’d gets acquir’d”

I’ve been a big fan of Squeeze for a long time, seeing many of their line ups over the years and turning my sister on to them as well as individual members like Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Difford, Paul Carrack and Jools Holland. This year after an eight year break they’re doing a short reunion tour. Their reunion isn’t getting the press thatContinue reading “Tempted by the flute of a Mothra”