Chapman Divas in Command
Taken at Command Studios
(pun intended)

This is truly an historic event, the grand opening of this new blog site, Psychology Comes Alive.  It's a site where students showcase their talent while reinforcing their knowledge and the knowledge of their peers by bringing course content to life.  We do that with acting and singing.  It's a site where students hang out, like the beatniks did back in the day, to reflect on important subjects of the day, from the perspective of psychology.  But we're not too educated, and to highfalutin to be grounded in the music of the Bakersfield Sound, a musical influence that is seamlessly integrated into the various productions. 

This post is kind of about the making of this latest project, a project involving a Family Dynamics course I teach for Chapman University at the College of the Canyons site in Santa Clarita, California.  First, Tommy Isbell, Walter Stormont and myself got together at the BuckarooM, my home recording studio, and put together the low-budget segment of the production, the introduction:

Introductory skit with Walter, Tommy and me, Dr BLT

Download | Duration: 00:03:30

Then, as Walter suggested in the skit, I stepped up to the mic:

Swingin' Doors/House of Bakersfield Medley
Dr BLT featuring Tommy Isbell

credits: Lead guitar and electric rhythm guitar: Tommy Isbell; singing: Dr BLT; keyboardr BLT
original songs by Merle Haggard (Swingin' Doors) and The Animals (House of the Rising Sun)
adapted lyrics by Dr BLT © 2009 (no copyright rules violated as song falls under category of "parody").

Finally, my wonderful graduate psychology students of Chapman University stepped up to the mic at Command Studio in Santa Clarita, California with a skit I wrote with some help from them: