Here are the 4 new albums (CDs) I bought. 3 of them were used through discogs but the Idles one is new. It started with the HBO series, Treme, Season 1. For anyone who hasn’t seen the show, set in New Orleans, not long after Hurricane Katrina, it’s all about the music. And of course…
Author: Lisa or Li
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Spring is wiggling its way…
It was sunny part of yesterday, and at 5:27p.m., it is still light out AND it was sunny all day today. First are pics taken inside of the African Violet (above) and the rosemary in bloom in the atrium. Next, are a couple of the prickly pear cactus plant. I believe every one of the…
#SLS — “Vogue,” by Madonna
Dick Tracy (Beatty) and Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) I knew I wanted to choose this song, and I thought it started with Madonna, but wikipedia says otherwise. Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. Voguing gained mainstream…
The Oracle Speaks — A Day Suited
bare my tiny dream symphony honey moon music from above wanting less at my feet but chanting for light to spray about a day suited as summer Using the original set at magnetic poetry I’m always grateful for what The Oracle tells me. Try it and paste a link to what The Oracle told you…
Friday Favorite Feature 24 — “Waiting,” by Joe Wong and the Nite Creatures
Joe Wong and The Nite Creatures I found this tune at SRR. When I started looking for information on Joe Wong, I really went down the rabbit hole! From Joe’s official website, I learned: Born in Milwaukee, WI, Joe studied several instruments as a child and began touring and recording with punk and indie bands…
dVerse — OLN 355 — Around the Bend* (Ekphrastic for Woman with Flowered Hat)
Woman with Flowered Hat by Jean Dupas Perfumed rainbow blooms within,masked without by strained repose;mind that’s gone around the bend. Destination some may know,riot ruffles, tongues that speak;masked without by strained repose. Normals titter, “dumb and weak,”blockish shades who cast awayriot ruffles’ tongues that speak volumes, writ large in red clay;poems hummed by honeybees.Blockish shades…
FMG 013024
On Tuesday it was another drive to Grand Rapids to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (FMG) to spend time with family. Since the temps got warmer, mixed with the snow, the drive over was very foggy. It looks like they are having musical event in what we call “the big face room” on Tuesday…
Tao Talk 