Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Social Disease

    Among the great songwriting teams of the 20th Century, your Rogers and Hammersteins, your Lennon and McCartneys, you’ve got to include the two who wrote this song: Words by Bernie Taupin & Music by Elton John. I think it’s fair to say that I’m one of the world’s worst banjo players. That’s not self-deprecating humor Read more

  • Not Safe

    I started blogging yesterday at The Not Safe website. Once or twice a week I’ll be posting thoughts there about life and art in NYC so if that kind of thing interests you please give a visit. Check out their T-shirts, too. They have some very nice designs. Read more

  • Serge – Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY) #9

      Serge was a poet. Not the kind who wrote poetry, or wrote anything at all, but the kind who looked at the same world you and I do and saw something different. Where we saw trees and clouds and each other he saw oaken towers, silver linings, and all the things we pretend we’re Read more

  • The Second Coming

    There’s a unique paranoia to 21st Century life. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume that when you’re in public, especially in a city, your actions are being filmed. Observed. Monitored by agents of both the government and the corporations that own it. After all, if you’ve got nothing to hide… Imagine this: You have traveled back Read more

  • Drunk on Love – Mike’s Musical Monday

    I know what you’re thinking: middle-aged white guy covering Rihanna, what could possibly go wrong? Well, you’re about to find out. Rihanna is one of my favorite contemporary artists. She has a voice that’s both powerful and emotional. Her choice of material is consistently impressive and with tunes like this one and Cheers (Drink to Read more

  • Chris – Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY) #8

    “Oh, God,” Chris moaned, invoking a deity he didn’t believe in. He was distraught over his own stupidity. He’d done the thing that all fools do at some point: He hurt someone he loved. Chris didn’t like to think of himself as a fool but found the conclusion inescapable. He hadn’t often been a fool Read more