BORN TO BE WILD by STEPPENWOLF. Story by Paul Dufficy.
I realised that oratory is a wonderful thing but passionless rhetoric is both hollow and soulless. My debating career was over.
MY GIRL by THE TEMPTATIONS. Story by Violet St Clair.
As I swayed to the rhythm and pulse of the song, I watched early morning Toronto on display like a Vermeer painting.
BAGS by CLAIRO. Story by Jennifer Manoogian.
My name sounds different when she says it, and often, I ignore her the first time so I can hear her call it again.
KIND OF A DRAG by THE BUCKINGHAMS. Poem by Craig Kirchner.
Craig Kirchner takes us to the drug store corner of his teenage years in Baltimore.
DRINKING AT THE DAM by SMOG. Story and video by Troy Walsh.
Fishing, though, was what brought most of us lads to the dam in the first place. Going out with our fathers and uncles back in the days when fishing was more about catching and eating, catfish and even carp.
BADGE by CREAM. Poem by Craig Kirchner.
I’m reading about an outbreak of laughter, /that broke out at a girl’s school, /ended up involving the whole town,
STAND by REM. Story by Nicole Langtip.
It’d be almost another year of blasting it out on repeat though til the song actually got into my bones, got in there so deeply, that it took me by the hand and transported me into my new life.
KILLER by PHOEBE BRIDGERS. Story by Molly Jones.
There’s nothing the policewoman can do. My witness is the cloudless sky, and I know he’ll lie about it.
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by LOUIS ARMSTRONG. Story by Violet St Clair.
From Strauss to the Stones, I jammed my classroom with music, matching songs and symphonies to subjects, activities, and transitions.
BE MY BABY by THE RONETTES. Story by Chiara Vascotto.
The boys dare each other to read out loud the titles of the X-rated movies showing down the road, some claiming to have been snuck in there by mysterious older mates.