Helen, hoping you feel better soon. Jim is graciously hosting Helen Vahdati’s Song Lyric Sunday, with the prompt of doctor/health/medicine. Immediately I thought of this song by Harry Nilsson, from 1971. Usually I don’t like songs that endlessly repeat, but for this song, it is sung almost as a mantra for health. That said, Harry,…
Category: music
Let there be light
It was a blessed day as the sun has been shining since this morning and still is. After having a fun lunch with one of my friends, we hit a game store a couple of doors down. After getting the download from the clerk that I then texted my sons about, I got this game,…
Short Dance & Video NYE Playlist
This short list was chosen for both the danceability to the music and the creativity shown in the videos. I’m hoping everyone enjoys their New Year’s Eve and that we all move on to a blessed 2019. Rob Zombie’s Living Dead Girl Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing RUN-DMC Walk This Way …
Song Lyric Sunday 12/30/18 — Ding Dong, Ding Dong by George Harrison
image link Helen Vahdati’s Song Lyric Sunday most excellent prompt for today is “new”. from wikipedia: “Ding Dong, Ding Dong” is a song by English musician George Harrison, written as a New Year’s Eve singalong and released in December 1974 on his album Dark Horse. It was the album’s lead single in Britain and some…
Sonnet to A Songwriter
SONNET TO A SONGWRITER I decided to write a sonnet to the so-often unsung heros of music, the composers, or songwriters. I tried put words to the process of creating a song, or what I would imagine the process would be like. This is a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of…
Song Lyric Sunday — Pearl Jam’s Bee Girl
Album cover from Blind Melon’s 1992 self-titled album Helen’s Theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is Girls. Lost Dogs is a double-disc collection of Pearl Jam B-sides and other released and unreleased rarities that were recorded between 1991 and 2003. Lost Dogs was released on 11/11/03. The song “Bee Girl” is a tribute to…
Townes VanZandt –Magic of the Ordinary
image link “Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things And the only words that are worth remembering.” ~ Townes Van Zandt * “I don’t envision a long life for myself.Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know?I’ve designed it that way.” ~ Townes Van Zandt Townes started out…
Tao-Talk 