Cap ready to tilt, eyes ready to close... Back to my roots. Songs that “will change your life,” as Natalie Portman might say. It’s a transitional period. I need some new jams. Especially for those upcoming Autumn afternoons when the car randomly stops while facing the ocean and...

  Yes? HansBeth is a friend. A great friend. A friend currently driving cross-country to Atlanta to begin a brand new phase of her life as Graduate Assistant Coach for her alma mater, Georgia State. Her musical taste is brilliant, therefore the request of this playlist was only natural. In fact, it...

My wife and I have a spare bedroom. It has relatively nice furniture. You know: suede couch, chair and ottoman, two lamps, bedside table, cast iron bedframe, Simmons Beautyrest mattress, decorative comforter with matching pillow cases, a flat-out seriously cool dark wood/cast iron leaning desk, Japanese...

Apparently law and music go together like death and taxes. And maybe a little golf... Trevor Ozawa is not a pro beach volleyball celebrity. He’s my brother-in-law, and soon to be attorney-at-law at one of the best firms in the state of Hawaii, Case Lombardi & Pettit. But the guy also has a keen...

Five years ago, I played my first full season on the AVP Tour with Matt Olson. At the time, I had no idea how good he really was, and of course, I didn’t fully appreciate what he brought to the team until years later. What did Joni Mitchell say? “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what...

If you’re unfamiliar with the name Jessica Gysin, then you don’t follow women’s collegiate indoor volleyball. Which, of course, is quite possible considering my blog is beach volleyball-based, but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to unabashedly predict the future and tell you who could be...

This is the pilot episode of what I would like to become a new monthly feature appropriately titled: “Volleyball Celebrity Musical Playlist.” It all depends on “sweeps week” to see if it gets picked up. You know… What classifies a particular volleyball athlete as a “celebrity?” Well,...

Be good Zoot. Don't let that kid who now claims to "own you," take you down the wrong alleyway... There’s a new plan of attack this fall for yours truly that I honestly couldn’t be more excited about. First step is to sell the Zoot Scoot. I know, I just bought it, and I love it, and...

I know this is pretty much just the “500 Days of Summer” Soundtrack, or, at least, my favorite tracks from the film, but if I didn’t pass them along, I would almost feel guilty. And can I just say; please, please, please find an artsy theatre nearby your home and see it… It’s what the movies...

It Certainly is Peanut Butter Jelly Time... The ultimate in Beach Volleyball Musical Playlists. And one I cannot believe I didn’t think of earlier… The 2006 “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” Playlist Brought to us by the living legend himself, Mr. John Thompson; with his Lloyd Dobler style boombox...