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Great topic! I know this may seem like I'm riding the fence here, but I find both equally important. You can have a great melody or great lyrics, but if they don't match up, the song stinks. Happy lyrics with a dark toned melody just doesn't work and vice versa. I've heard music without lyrics and have been moved emotionally, same with great peotry. Combine a great melody with great lyrics and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I think that's why we all love to play and/or write songs with lyrics. It's the ultimate form of expression.

I'll ditto the capo advice as well. Getting a song into a key that you are more comfortable with will certainly help and you'll be able to sing more confidently.

As far singing and playing at the same time...I've always found it helps to tap my foot. It helps me keep the strumming rhythm better. The other thing I do is use the most basic strumming pattern when I first learn a song. Down-down-down....(or you could just strum at chord changes too) It doesn't sound great at first but it gives you a chance to learn the chord progression without having to make real quick chord changes. Once you've mastered the progression and found the right key (with a capo), you'll be able to start to feel the rhythm of the song and the strumming will come natural. Keep after it, I'm sure you'll have dozens of songs that you can confindently belt out in no time!

I agree with so many that have already been listed, but another I can think of is "A Knight's Tale"..."We will Rock" playing before a joust is just hillarious!

What about "Empire Records"...a lot of off the wall tunes that are pretty cool (pretty awesome movie too).

As far as an actual "score" for a movie, I really like the score for "Gladiator". I've heard it used in quite a few other films since, but it really fits the tone of the "Gladiator" perfectly.

Congrats Reb! Good luck to you in all of your future endeavors...by the way, what are your post HS plans?

It just seems like people have replaced "um" with "you know" or "well" (is a deep subject for shallow minds) or "so" (buttons on your underwear). The phrase I catch myself using a lot is "watcha gonna do"...in my defense though, I usually say that to someone who has complained about the same thing for about 10 minutes and I'm tired of hearing about it so it's basically my way of trying to politely tell them to quit their cryin"!

I've gotten so used of hearing everyone say these words or phrases that I kind of tune them out...watcha gonna do

I learned to play while I was working at a Lutheran camp out in the Black Hills so my very first song was "Humble Thyself". My first non-camp/praise song was "Wolves" by Garth Brooks...then I saw the light and realized that country stinks and my first rock song was "Be Like That" by 3 Doors Down.

Is it wrong to have 3 firsts?

I agree that the younger you are, the more you text. I have a "two text" rule. If someone texts me more than twice about the same subject, I just call them and get the matter settled. Partly because I'm a slow texter, mostly because I find it annoying to have my phone beeping at me all the time.

Cell phones in general get abused. I hate it when I'm at a meeting or giving a presentation and someone's phone rings (and they're always the ones with the really annoying rings too). I can understand if someone just forgets to turn the phone to vibrate, but there are some people who will answer it in the middle of a meeting...without walking outside! I mean, who doesn't have caller ID these days! Silence the phone and call them back at a break, or at least politely walk out and call them back if it's a super important call. I also like the people who will turn the phone to vibrate and then set it on the table in front of them so the whole room can here it when it buzzes...kinda defeats the purpose of setting it to vibrate doesn't it?

As far as texting and driving...that's insane! I watched a Mythbusters episode where they proved that just talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than driving around with a six beer buzz (just so we're clear, driving drunk is a bad idea too!). I'm sorry to hear that people are being injured and killed as a result of complete lack of common sense. I hope your buddy makes a full recovery Zurf!

I love baseball...but I hate the fact that so many of the players have a big plug of Red Man or Levi Garret in there cheek during the game, spittin their snoose all over the place. I started chewing tobacco cuz of baseball...still wish I never started. It's getting better than it used to be though.

Never understood cricket...I agree that the rules don't make sense. I always thought that hitting with a flat bat would take a lot of the sport out of it until I realized that you sometimes have to hit the ball off a bounce...that should be a Ball and you should take your base after four of them!

Football is the biggest sport here in the US. To answer Docs question, usually there isn't big pre-game and halftime shows at the games...that's just at the Super Bowl. By the way, go Vikes!

After football, I'd say it would go baseball, basketball, hockey (I'd put hockey ahead of basketball, but most other people wouldn't). NASCAR is popular down south but it doesn't gain much traction (no pun intended) up north. And I don't really consider it a sport...but if I did I would still rank below all the others because it's more regional than the others.

I will be the first one to say golf IS a sport Southpaw! Not as strenuous as tennis...but it takes a lot of athletic ability and talent to be good at it. Guys like Phil and Tiger are amazing! Did you see Phil's shot around the tree at the Masters? Wow! I can't hit a draw to save my life and he controled his so well that he put it a foot from the pin! Golf is definitely the number one leisure sport in Minnesota (MN has more golfers per capita than any other state), but I couldn't speak for the rest of the country.

I don't know if I agree. I think you can call records from other eras into question as well. Was Babe Ruth really playing against the best of the best as he didn't play in a fully integrated league? Many of the pitching records were set when the mound was 6 inches higher (Bob Gibson's dominance forced MLB to lower it). Baseball has evolved over the years so it's not fair to compare stats and players across eras, and therefore, not fair to single out something different about the era and declare that they can't be in the HOF as a result.

I honestly feel hypocritical (and MLB should too) screaming about steroids in baseball because steroids put baseball back on the map. I turned my back on baseball after 94 like a number of other fans did. What brought me back? McGwire and Sosa...everyone knew they were juicin'...and no one cared because we all wanted a reason to watch baseball again. The casual fan loves the long ball (I dig the fundamentals and "small ball" because I grew up watching the Twins...and that's all they've ever played), so MLB, owners, and players looked the other way when it came to steroid use because: more HRs=more fans=more ticket/merchandise sales=more profit to team owners and higher salaries for the players. Basically, MLB and players put a product out there that we wanted...how can we be so irrate about steroid use now?

Don't get me wrong, I wish roids had never become a part of the game so players like Griffey, who most people believe did it the "right" way, could have been highlighted even more. We will never be able to separate users from non-users so I don't think steroids should be a factor in HOF voting. Now, with better testing procedures etc, we can be more confident that users will be caught (except HGH users) and then we could start keeping roid users out.

Lacey Mosley from Flyleaf can really belt it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZZauVBV … re=related

Amy Lee from Evanescence is pretty good as well...I'm sure most of you have heard her sing before.

My yard is too shady...and gravelly for a garden which is a bummer. I just moved in my place a year ago so I'm gonna do some landscaping this summer using compost and I'm gonna buy/build a rain barrel to water my plants.

Even though I don't have a garden, my mom has a huge garden with peas, green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, and sweet corn that I get to "borrow" from every once in awhile. I also help my dad with his 400 acre garden as well! Same concept as gardening...we just use a bigger hoe!