I've finished my exams for the semester, and to celebrate, it's time for this month's Musician Spotlight. This month, I'd like to start things off with a clarification of the term "winning."

Winning does not look like this. This is what torpedoing your career and ruining your life looks like. That is not the face of a victorious man, in any sense of the word.

This is what winning looks like. If you want a slightly more accurate version, look up the videos of one of the songs from his album Fearless. Maybe the song I Do The Rock, that's a good one.

Anyway, the point is, Tim Curry is a singer as well as an awesome actor. Those of you who are fond of a certain Rocky Horror Picture Show are already well-aware of this, but you might know that he's put out three albums, one of which I'm really rather fond of.

The best way to describe Curry's style is as what you get when a talented singer who's mainly an actor gets bored, and decides to do something fun. His first album was mainly covers, but the second album proved, one, that this man can write music, and two, that this man can write really fun music that takes itself about as seriously as non-child-eating clowns take themselves. Live performances of I Do The Rock feature Tim Curry grinning like a maniac, because he found the definition of the word winning, and then he decided to start living it.

Those interested in starting a collection of Curry's musical work have it easy - he's only put out three albums. Out of those, the first and third tend more towards pop, while the second makes a respectable effort to lean towards rock, which Mr. Curry does, and does well.

For those hoping to get started, I heartily recommend browsing the album Fearless, probably starting with I Do The Rock and Paradise Garage. Anything else just write up on a cork-board and throw darts at, because that's the approach to picking songs that fits the spirit of winning.