Introducing the Lyric Philosopher

I’ve been pondering this for some time now, and I’ve decided that my day-to-day life just isn’t interesting enough to blog about on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Yet, I still feel the need to share my opinions on certain topics that may not necessarily be related to my life…at least directly. So, I contemplated starting a sports-based blog, but my good friends over at the Peanut Vendors kind of ran with that idea. So, I thought about focusing on a specific sport, and that may still play out. But most sports are seasonal, and hard to keep going during the off-season. The exception may be football, and there are just way too many football blogs available for me to get noticed. I might try a bowling blog. And maybe a softball blog over the summer, but the jury’s still out on those.

So, after much thought, I decided that I could try to keep a regular appointment with my computer on the subject of music. So that’s what I’m going to do. I’ll be blogging about songs that affect me at any given point in time. No genre is off-limits, though I don’t see me blogging much about rap, death metal, emo, techno, classical, and folk music as those genres aren’t found on my iPod playlist at the moment. More likely, you’re going to see a lot of posts on CCM, Praise & Worship, Country, Rock and Pop music. Basically, I’ll be ranting about all things lyrical and musical. I’ll be digging into lyrics, pointing out the absurd and the annoying. I’ll also point out the thought-provoking and the poignant. I tend to be a lyrical philosopher, sometimes seeing deeper meaning in song lyrics that may or may not be present, but often have an affect on me. I’ll try to provide my opinion and insight into some songs where applicable. And, ultimately, I will give my yea or nay on the song. I’m thinking a “Makes the Playlist” to represent a thumbs up, and “Recycle It” for a thumbs down.

So here it is...The Lyric Philosopher!

So, hopefully you will find something of interest here and perhaps I will find some satisfaction in knowing that my thoughts and opinions might make a difference to someone out there!