12 posts tagged “music”
Yesterday the MO was off to play cards so I had the house to myself. I decided to give myself a guilt-free no-demands weekend, and I watched movies & tv (Tom Petty documentary (led to cava-induced (but not regretted!) Amazon purchases), Paint Your Wagon (referred to previously), a couple of episodes of House (yes, I'm late to the game but entirely hooked)) and connected the xbox to xbox live to find out what this xbox live arcade is all about. WELL. I didn't go to bed til about 2. So anyhow, I felt like I was gaming "in spirit" with the boyz, even though I wasn't there. The MO straggled home this afternoon, and off we went to the Stag's Head for the requisite hair of the dog. The weather has been perfect lately, and we really enjoyed sitting outside in the sun. Just as we were leaving, though, these guys showed up. They're not a paid gig, near as I could tell, and I would have stayed all night to listen, but it's not the MO's m.o., ifyaknowwhatImean. But Dad, I wish you had been here :-)
Okay, I admit it. I am a complete Guitar Hero addict. It's a good thing I have a bunch of vacation stored up! Between playing the toy guitar on the xbox (warning! noise on that site!) and mah kitteh guitah with the cool electronical hickamajiggy that the MO got for me, I have sore fingertips and a sore wrist and a HUGE SMILE!
I am one happy camper....
"No one is too young for coffee. It tastes like progress."
An electronic animated in-the-round rendition of "What a Queer Bird the Frog Are." You really can find anything on the internet....
[via Coudal]
One of my many terrific gifties this year was a new car stereo. I have been moaning for years now (yes, seriously, years) about my blown speakers, non-functional CD player, tuner that only gets double-digit stations and tape deck that keeps spitting out the iPod-converter-tape-thingamajig. Lo and behold, what shows up in my stocking? A faceplate for a new MP3/CD player!
Not only that, the MO had it installed and hooked up with Sirius satellite radio while I was at Mom & Dad's in Florida! I've read thirty-three pages of instruction manual (which I may have to keep in the car with me for a while) and I've contemplated driving around the loop several times just to try all the channels.... I am so happy to have a CD player again (and mp3s too!) and I don't plan on listening to a commercial again EVER. (I already had a very low tolerance for them, immediately switching stations when they came on, and turning off the radio entirely if all six stations (no triple-digit stations, remember?) had commercials, djs or news.)
Oh, and those blown speakers? Well, I bought the babycar brand new in 1990, so the speakers were sixteen years old. I don't know a whole lot about what they're supposed to look like, but I'm pretty sure these are missing some crucial components. No wonder they rattled!
So now my little car and I are cruising in style! Time to start burning my mp3s to disk so I can take the whole library on the road. We've been joking about moving just so I can have a long enough commute to really appreciate the satellite radio ;-)
The MO is out drinkin' wit' da boyz tonight, so that means I get to watch movies :-) Usually I go for one of the classic musicals that Joe & Marianne have given me, but tonight I decided to see what was on iControl. Often I don't recognize the offerings even after viewing the extended description, but I got lucky and found Thank You for Smoking (which was quite entertaining, actually) but the reason I'm posting about it is because of the closing song. Imagine my surprise to hear my childhood faves, The Kingston Trio, singing Greenback Dollar! Well guess what, my husband's sound system goes to 11 :-) So just ten minutes ago I was bopping around the living room singing along with Dave, Nick and Bob. (I count on the fact that the MO actually never reads my blog, or he'll start unplugging the amp when he leaves just to avoid such misuse of his equipment....)
In my search for an mp3 to link to (boo hiss, none found--had to make do with the snip from Amazon linked above) I discovered that Greenback Dollar isn't actually on the album that I remember (At Large, pictured below) so I guess Mom & Dad had more than one (oh darn!). This is the one whose cover I remember, though. To this day I can sing every one of those songs word for word, even Scarlet Ribbons, which for some reason I took a violent dislike to. (No idea why, although if I think about it, I still don't like it. It's kind of treacly.)
My Blues with Attitude station has been superb today, just now serving up Stagolee by Mississippi John Hurt. Definitely music that goes with the current weather....
Anna has a really great post up that starts to explain why I'm addicted to my Shuffle:
My life, in fact, would make among the world’s worst movies.
The opening scenes of great cinema are not, sadly, composed of chubby girls in sneakers walking down city streets with a bottle of tap water and a backpack, looking both ways when she crosses the road.But none of that matters. Because the thing that makes it great in my head is the soundtrack.
See, to you, I might just be ambling along on the outside, but on the inside, I’m pimp-strutting, the light hits me brightly inbetween the tall buildings, and the effect is a little like strobe.And it’s all because I’m listening to the Theme from Starsky and Hutch.
This is also why I don't wear my Shuffle outside of my own house unless I'm safely ensconced in the dentist's chair or an airplane seat. The mental pimp-strutting has a tendency to sort of ... leak ... into the real world. With tremendously embarrassing consequences.
