Tag Archives: music

Is Life Just a Game We Play?

Posted on September 19, 2024 by mitchteemley

Music From My Movies Creating music for the films I write and direct is the primary way I pursue my other love, songwriting. Hence, I embedded the song “Healing River” in the opening of my feature film Healing River. Later … Continue reading →

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Listen to “Healing River”

Posted on August 29, 2024 by mitchteemley

Music From My Movies When I was young, it was a toss-up whether music or writing would be the focus of my career. Writing and filmmaking eventually emerged as my creative core. But composing inevitably found its way into my … Continue reading →

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Longing to Fly

Posted on June 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin My Real Memoir I flew every day, straight up into the sky. Admittedly, I had help from my grandfather. But then, before I was two, he died, and I had to learn how to fly on … Continue reading →

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Trying to Get the Feeling Again

Posted on May 28, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image by storytelleradams My Real Memoir Something was wrong with me. True, I was happy when I was writing–songs, plays, poems. But ever since my on-stage meltdown a year-and-a-half before, I’d been living with a lid on my heart, “unable … Continue reading →

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The Long and Winding Road

Posted on April 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image by Ricardo Alfaro My Real Memoir The future I’d planned as a teenager was gone: my almost-famous band had disintegrated, my high school celebrity was yellowing in a scrapbook, and my first “I love you” was fading in a … Continue reading →

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55 Years Ago This Month

Posted on March 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

Dear blogfriends and followers: I owe you an apology! Or at least an explanation: I haven’t visited your blog sites for the past week because I’ve been in a recording studio in Montana. My band The Daily Planet decided to … Continue reading →

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Sixty Years Ago Today

Posted on February 9, 2024 by mitchteemley

On this date in 1964, over 73 million people watched The Beatles storm the Ed Sullivan Show stage, officially launching the British Invasion! But 1964 was an iconic music year for other reasons too: The Supremes, The Beach Boys, Barbara … Continue reading →

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Running On Empty

Posted on February 6, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Warren My Real Memoir We’d moved to a custom-built home in the Coyote Hills, sandwiched between the abandoned oil refinery I’d explored as a kid and the Los Coyotes Country Club where my band had played from the … Continue reading →

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The Greatest Album No One’s Ever Heard

Posted on January 9, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Clarence B. Cash. The name suited him perfectly. He wasn’t a music producer in the sense that Quincy Jones or “the fifth Beatle” George Martin was, an artist in his own right. He was about, well, Cash. … Continue reading →

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Flying High Into the New Year

Posted on December 19, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Stardom was imminent! True, I hadn’t had any lead roles in our college theatre productions so far. But near the end of my first semester, the school paper had complimented my cocky Irishman performance in an otherwise … Continue reading →

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