Kara & Michael’s Blog

I have this habit, it’s really a bad habit. I get addicted to songs. I mean, I binge on songs and then some day, months after I’m done with binging, I get to the point where I can’t even listen to that song any more. My stomach starts turning because I overdid it for the [...]

Michael and I went to see Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine last night at the 9:30 club.
For those who have never visited 9:30, it’s a pretty small club in Washington, DC. I used to visit frequently, the shows are pretty reasonably priced, they’re all-ages unless otherwise specified, and they’re pretty well run. The [...]

This Saturday night Michael and I visited The Bohemian Caverns, on U-street in Washington, DC.
I’m a live music junkie. Back when I had a lot more friends in the area, I was attending local concerts probably once or twice a month. Let me assure you all - I miss it. I love dive clubs, I [...]

Seldom do I look for anything on the interweb and not find it. So imagine my shock, shock I tell you, when I could not find an adequate guitar chord chart for Nick Lucas’s 1929 hit “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” Everybody seems to have tabbed it for ukulele, probably because of Tiny Tim.
Below is my [...]

Editor’s Note: I’m too lazy to be an editor and this entry is all over the place.  Please feel free to skip it. 
I don’t understand how people can function throughout the day without constant music.  When I was younger, I was composing songs in my head constantly,  but knew no instrument well enough to transcribe them, [...]

I don’t know what has happened to popular music recently, but it’s not been good. At least, not in my opinion. I guess my musical tastes tend toward classic rock, and jazzy stuff with interesting melodies. I am totally perplexed by the crap other people my age (20) are listening to, and further perplexed that [...]