A lot on my mind today as I find myself at the first crossroads of my trading career, discarding an old strategy and trying to learn (gulp) three new ones. My efforts so far have been decidedly mixed and some discouragement is setting in. However, even with the sky typically overcast on yet another Pennsylvania day, I find I must stay the course. There simply are no other alternatives; I must excel at this, it is what I feel I am destined to do.

It is always on days like this I find my thoughts drawn as murky as the gray sky. Listening to the collection of Leonard Cohen music I had on my HD (which I have not heard in a long time), I recall how much I  felt the emotion of this song.

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On a rainy day, this is just the kind of song you need. Harken back to bygone days and shadowy glens whilst enjoying the song which might as well be the Irish national anthem. It’s hard to imagine anyone doing it better than the Celtic Woman troupe, particularly one of the original soloists, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha.

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I heard just part of an old Cliff Richard song on the radio and it took me right back to when I was a kid in the early 80s.

So I felt like sharing some of this great music with you. With songs like “Dreaming”, “”We Don’t Talk Anymore”, “Devil Woman” and “Suddenly” (a great duet with Olivia Newton-John), it seems almost impossible to pick just one to feature.

Yet, here is one of the best, “A Little in Love”, released all the way back in 1981.

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I occasionally browse through my playlists of 80s hard rock and this particular song is one of those that I still love cranking up. Despite a number of great hits from that era, I feel this is the one WASP track that will continue to stand the test of time.

Turn it up loud for another great entry in the Jukebox!

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I’m sure it’s happened to everyone: that moment when you hear a song in the context of a film or episode of a TV series and become consumed with finding a copy somehow. Sometimes there isn’t even an indication of who performed it and all you have to go on is a patch of lyrics in your head.

Thank God for the Internet at times like these, as I have found countless songs that stuck in my head — later to share them with you. A few months ago I heard this song and searched and searched until I could get a copy of  the last single released by the late Warren Zevon.

Needless to say, it has a resonance…

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I don’t know how it happened, but recently I went through one of those weird confluences of events and experiences which somehow all coalesced around one person or thing. Like sometimes you’ll see an actor and all at once you’ll randomly see three different movies in one week starring them, even though you hadn’t planned it.

I caught a couple TV specials recently on Syd Barret and Pink Floyd, including the excellent documentary, Which One’s Pink?. Watching these different specials, along with seeing parts of The Wall again (which I hadn’t seen since college, despite having purchased a copy some years ago on DVD) was coincidental enough. But then I also saw a few Floyd music videos on different days and on different channels not too far apart from each other.. and it started to seem like I’d subconsciously immersed myself in all things Floyd.

So the tl;dr version is that I ended up with this last single from Pink Floyd’s final album The Division Bell stuck in my head for two weeks. Enjoy.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the original Grinch himself. One of these days there has to be a Christmas when my life isn’t a wreckage of miserable disappointment. I mean, it’s a statistical certainty, right?

Oh well, let’s pump out some monster Charlotte Church caroling and forget our worries:

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This song has been rolling around in my head the past few days. So, once again, I’m passing it along to you to see if it does the same. Time for an 80s flashback!

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Things had been going pretty well with my eBay business. At least until a rival seller (who under eBay rules outrageously is allowed to remain anonymous) trumped up false charges of pilfered text and/or images. Now I’m in a fight to clear my name (I never appropriated anything) and the way eBay treats Sellers it’s doubtful I will prevail.

Borne of this frustration and the sincere, deep-seated desire to utterly rearrange someones face, I give you the classic cover by The Clash of the 50s Bobby Fuller Four hit, I Fought the Law.

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A great new single that’s kicking my ass is the latest from Mötley Crüe, off their new Saints of Los Angeles album. It’s the title track and, for my money, the best Crüe single since Primal Scream back in the 90s.

Most of the great 80s and early 90s bands seem to think it’s more important to “reinvent” themselves and change their sound in a futile attempt to appeal to every new fad that comes along. Meanwhile, the best keep doing what they do best and let the audiences find them.

Mötley Crüe clearly are back and I’m here to help you find them all over again:

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