For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I am focusing on Stevie Nicks! Today is Stevie’s birthday so this seems like the perfect topic today. Now, anyone who knows my content probably knows how much I adore Stevie Nicks and her music, so this is definitely not a surprising person to feature on Femme…
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My Top 7 Favorite Stevie Nicks Albums
For today’s post, I have decided to do a countdown of my seven favorite Stevie Nicks albums. This list will include studio albums, official compilations, Fleetwood Mac albums during Stevie’s tenure in the band, and live albums. I felt this was the fairest way to do a cross-section of my favorite albums by…
Read MorePenny Lane: Muse, Leanan Sidhe, Rock n’ Roll Band Aid
For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday I have decided to discuss the character of Penny Lane in Almost Famous and by extension how she relates to the concept of the Rock and Roll Muse and Groupies of the Sixties in general! Now, I do realize that the film is set in the 1970s not…
Read MoreJanis Joplin, Queen of Rock and Roll
For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided that I will be focusing on the great musician Janis Joplin! Janis began to rise to fame in the 1960s when she joined the band Big Brother and the Holding Company. Later on in her career, she would break out as a solo act,…
Read More25 Most Magical Songs
For today’s post, I have decided to go through a list of my favorite magical songs. This is a list that is heavily saturated with rock and roll, as I am a huge fan of classic rock. I also have to admit that certain favorites, like Stevie Nicks, make more than one appearance…
Read MoreMusic Fest Poem
For today’s post I will be sharing another of my poems. Music Fest by Maranda Wabik Dancing in the grass With bare feet and lots of sass. Tye-dye dress float about As bubbles dance in the air. Music beats into my skin Taking me to another Realm. Laughter hangs about as the field is charged…
Read MoreMy Top 10 Rock Bands of the 1960s
For today’s post I would like to do a countdown of my favorite bands of the 1960’s! The music in the 1960s was very much inspired by older cultures, as the counterculture movement embraced many mystical traditions! This is perhaps a reason it is an era of music I truly adore. Without…
Read MoreMy Top 5 Most Magical Stevie Nicks Songs
For today’s post I would like to do a countdown of my top five picks for most magical songs by Stevie Nicks. I love the music of Stevie Nicks, both solo and with Fleetwood Mac. This countdown will have songs that have an ethereal and magical feel that Stevie is so known for!…
Read MoreThe Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux’s tale of a deformed man, named Erik, haunting a beautiful young woman at an opera house in Paris is one that has become iconic. This is likely due to the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has been a Broadway smash since the 1980s! This happens to be my all time favorite…
Read MoreThe Sleeping Beauty Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty Ballet was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is based on the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty. It is one of three ballets composed by Tchaikovsky. It is my personal favorite Tchaikovsky ballet, and actually my favorite ballet of all time! I am, in fact, walking down the aisle…
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White Rose of Avalon 