You Just Never Know: From Chicken Soup For The American Idol Soul

Excerpt From Clay Aiken
American Idol Runner-Up, Season 2

It was December 2003, and Christmas was just a few weeks away. I was in Atlanta as part of a radio tour around the country when I received a very...

The moment that people create a melody which they feel is great, many think it already sounds like another song. This is common, and I suffered from this many times. What you’ve got to understand is that ALL SONGS are RECYCLED MELODIES.

Every song has a ‘portion’ of the...

You Don’t Know How Write To A Song … You’re Not A Musician!

This is something I briefly touched on in a previous newsletter – …over and over I get asked “will I write better songs if I’m a musician”?

What’s the...

The Wedding Singer Tickets – A New Film Classic Comes To The Stage

The Wedding Singer tickets are a chance to see a play thats based on a highly successful movie, and early reviews are overwhelmingly positive. If youve seen the movie, you know the story, but even if you havent, you...

As the music industry continues to change and new musical acts surface that are reflective of the styles of trend-setting youth, we have come to embrace bands of every variety. One such band reaching a recent pinnacle of popularity is My Chemical Romance, considered to be one of the most...

The companies that create the video game decks like Xbox and Playstation are locked into what seems to be a bitter rivalry for the top spot in the hearts of gamers the world over. While both systems offer similar concepts, games and graphics, there are still those that have their favorites....

The title comes from a Desperate Housewives episode, a program that has exemplified to great effect the idea that evil doesn’t just come in the form of dictators, suicide bombers, corrupt governments, or disasters, but rather, that evil subsists among the ordinary and the mundane....

Have you ever dreamed of being handy in your own home? Have you ever hoped that one of these days, you would not only be able to fix or refurbish old tables and chairs, cabinets, doors, and other fixtures whenever they get broken or need a serious makeover? Have you ever wanted to be able to...

Once upon a time women everywhere were blessed with the ability to sew. Not just because they loved it; as a matter of fact, love had very little to do with it. Sewing was an absolute necessity in the households of yesteryear. Mothers in addition to their role as caretaker, cook, nurse, and...

Most beginners start their first scrapbook as a chronological album. They have sorted their photos according to date, and start scrapbooking each event in order. However, there are so many other scrapbooking album themes you could use. Don’t limit yourself to just a chronological album. A...

The Uniqueness Of Pandora Jewelry Taken Out From The Box

When we hear the name Pandora, automatically our mind races to the Greek mythology, where it is said that a woman bearing that name and created of God Hefaitos opened a box that she was not supposed to only to let out all the evil...

In the days of Pong, it would have been hard to imagine all the video games we take for granted these days. Handheld, high-tech, dancing on a mat thats recorded by the TV. It would have seemed surreal.

Well, the surreal has become real and the newest addition to the video game revolution...