It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.