14 posts tagged “music”

Working on a presentation for work--Hey! it's about social networking websites, so this WAS work--I needed a random search on You Tube & Ofra Haza came to mind & this is one of my favorites by her:

Lordy! what a voice! Still makes me all shivery. She passed away like seven years ago...I'm just glad she left such a large body of recordings that I can continue to discover them for years...

OK, back to the presentation...

I have blathered on about her singing before. I love her first & second CDs ("What Might Be" and "Lonesomers") and really like the third ("Refuge Rock Sublime").

This is from the movie "Georgia"...I have a huge framed poster from it on the wall at home...and yes, I have the soundtrack--which is mostly OUCH because well, the whole point of the movie is that Jennifer Jason Leigh's character CAN'T sing & yet she's all over the soundtrack. (I love Jennifer Jason Leigh...was she not fabulous in "Margot at the Wedding"?) Still, the soundtrack is worth buying for the two new and one re-recorded (from the first CD) songs by Mare.

If you like this, go buy all her CDs & maybe she'll record more! :-)

The two Oscar races I cared the most about (obviously if you've been bored enough to read my blather) and they both won! Woo hoo!

Best Song "Falling Slowly"

Best Actress Marion Cotillard!

Hey! I takes my excitement where I can get it! :-) And the ceremony was not nearly as painful as it has been in years past! Musta been the lack of musical montages. I was so gald that John Stewart made fun of them...hopefully they won't do as many of them in the future.

I had a very musical Christmas season. I got Cds from all around & they're great. Here's what's making the rotation in my CD changer thanks to my friends & family :-)

 

 

 

 

That coupled with the Cds I bought myself (used) just before Christmas & the Birthday Cds I'm still playing make for a very happy Cd player!

 

 

 

 

 

The newest is the soundtrack to "Once" which was a great movie (on DVD now, go rent it!) Best soundtrack of the year!

(My MP3 player has a whole different shuffle (Cat Stevens, more Sandy Denny, Concrete Blonde, Gorillaz, Morrisey, Ofra Haza)

A couple weeks ago I got our homeowner's insurance policy. I noticed they had Trent's & my birthdates wrong; actually it was just the year on each of our birthdays that was incorrect. I was, according to my insurance company, in my 60's and Trent was a toddler (Creeeepy!) So I called our agent & she said that company had just gotten new computers or something & they were having birthdate issues. She said she'd fix it for us.

So yesterday I got a reprint of our policy and the rate was over fifty bucks higher!! I called our agent again. And...turns out the Senior discount on policies like ours is $53.

Sigh. I guess it will come soon enough. Today, fifty-three bucks is the price of honesty!

Been spending the last couple days with some old broads watching--->

 

And listening to...

<---I got a signed copy!

W00t!

(Hey! It's my sad little life & I LIKE it!) ;-)

Yes, I know I am a generation off...but I am a Judy Collins fan. I have been since high school. I love the Judy songs you probably haven't heard unless you are a fan too: "Prickilie Bush" "O Daddy Be Gay" "It Isn't Nice" "Farewell to Tarwathie" "Granddaddy" "Cook With Honey" "Marat/Sade" "Hard Lovin' Loser" "Secret Gardens" & anything Leonard Cohen wrote that she sang...

We saw her for free (in Springfield, OH) after returning from ALA in New Orleans in the summer of 2006...I never thought I'd get to see her again so soon. She was at the Schuster (local BIG venue, new & very nice) & packed the house. Unfortunately, it was a superpops concert...so like Anne Hampton Calloway back in 2003, we had to sit through the "first half" played just by the philharmonic (boring--yes, try it on cold medicine!) I know they are talented musicians. I know I couldn't do what they do--but if I want to hear the Nutcracker, I'll pop in a CD...But Judy was fantastic. And...just like Springfield, we were front row center (snicker!)

No photos allowed last night...so here's one from Springfield:

We were actually closer in Springfield, but this was still great. What a set of pipes that lady has & as Trent says: "She has a wonderful stage presence." She sang a mix of holiday and non-holiday. She made Trent (and me) cry again with "Dream of Peace." Loved it!

So there! This year we have proven our eclectic tastes...Dresden Dolls and Bonnie Tyler, The Cliks and Judy Collins.

Still my favorite Kate Bush CD...I actually have it on vinyl and in my boxed set "This Woman's Work" (Mine came from Japan...so the extra books are all in Japanese...sigh...). I loved all the others too...some took some "growing on" ("Never Forever") and some have gotten a little worn out in my ear ("Hounds of Love"). I liked "Sensual World" and "Red Shoes" and "Lionheart" but "Dreaming" and "Kick Inside" and the two CDs of rare stuff from "This Woman's Work" are my favorites. I am still working on "Ariel." It took her 12 years to record them all...I figure I should take as long to fall in love with them.

I know I will.

My co-committee member Jean from Kansas posted some pictures of our time in DC to her Flickr account. They are better than mine for the simple fact that I have a shyness-based tendency to NOT ask people to smile or pose for me. This means I get lots of pictures of people's butts...if I'm lucky I get a profile. Jean has someogood ones:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9763901@N05/sets/72157600694673308

Who knows why I'm making kissielips at her camera in the first picture...

Had the day off yesterday and actually enjoyed cutting the grass--my neighbors likely didn't since I sang along with Erasure (Chorus) & Cyndi Lauper (Hat Full of Stars) whilst mowing and blowing.

Then made spaghetti with home-grown squash on it & watched "You Can't Take it WIth You." I'm surprised I'd never seen it...it's probably hubris to say, but it reminded me of a play I wrote long ago called "Writer's Cramp."

Still reading Stephen King (though not for much longer)...and here's what I have to read next!!!

 

when you have a CD you (or a dear one) loves very much...and that CD has a crack:

 

Try to make a copy of it in your computer.

The second CD in this set developed a crack. Trentie adores it & I wanted to make a copy so he would have it still.

Fourth song in...there was an explosion in our DVD drive...loudest sound I have heard that close to my head (I was reading the book below--just started, LOVED the first in the series "Year of the Dog" will report on this one later). It scared the begeebers out of me and I spent the next half hour shaking the tower of our desktop computer upside down watching pieces of Kiki & Herb fall out.

Trent said, "Funy thing is, the CD title is true!"

Now we will have to buy a second copy--oh well, disc one was wearing out too. :-)

Went for a lovely walk in "The Narrows" recommended by my parents--it was only after Trent and I got there that we realised we had been there before when lost six years ago. Ha!

I got to host a band today! Yes, a real band. For those of you who still thnk libraries are quiet places of books and bun-wearing shhers...today DML hosted Ruetschle (richley) in our garden out back. The audience ran from toddlers to people on walkers. And I think everyone had a great time. Check out their website!

http://www.ruetschle.com/music.html

http://www.myspace.com/ruetschle

They have three CDs & they remind me of XTC (Dukes of Stratosphere--whatever).They say their influences are The Beatles, The Pixies, Buddy Holly, new Order, Guided by Voices...I don't care, I like 'em!

On to a new book to review:

I reviewed his last book which also featured Gryllus the Pig (and erstwhile member of Odysseus's crew). Lots of fun. Fall publishing season is starting and that means lots to read and write about--and that means I don't get to read big boy books. However I am listening to a HYlarious one...if you like British humor:

Of course it's biography that just happens to be funny...and touching. And isn't Ru just the cutest!