Volume Up! How great is this! ‘Tis the Season.
Notes: 1) Lori, thank you for sharing! 2) Post title from lyrics and music by Redbone: Come and Get Your Love (1974) (Don’t miss their video on Soul Train)
Let’s just say…Wow. (28 sec)
November 8, 2018 by 21 Comments
Back story here: How Drones Are Helping Scientists Study and Protect Endangered Whales (Thank you Christie!)
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
October 10, 2018 by 13 Comments
Notes:
- Inspiration: Thank you Kiki!
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Jerry Seinfeld: “This guy just makes me laugh…”
July 22, 2018 by 53 Comments
Silience (135 sec)
July 14, 2018 by 15 Comments
n. the kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably—the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the slapdash eloquence of anonymous users, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists—which would be renowned as masterpieces if only they’d been appraised by the cartel of popular taste, who assume that brilliance is a rare and precious quality, accidentally overlooking buried jewels that may not be flawless but are still somehow perfect.
I’m Not Going Anywhere
May 6, 2018 by 22 Comments
I tripped into David Ramirez and this tune on Billions, Year 3, Episode 6 – “The Third Ortolan”. He’s an American singer-songwriter from Houston, TX, currently based in Austin.
“The best damn songwriter you don’t know yet”. – Paste Magazine
“Soulful, stirring, heartbreaking. David makes you hang on the turn of every phrase”. – The Civil Wars
“He knows no luxury. He wants no satisfaction. All he needs is an acoustic guitar and the words in his mouth to tell the true stories of a wandering man. But to see him live, with only that acoustic guitar in hand, spitting those words into rings of fire, is to experience something real…something that cannot be reproduced.” – Rudyard’s British Pub
Notes: Find David Ramirez’s Album “We Not Going Anywhere” on itunes and Amazon. Find his website here: davidramirezmusic.com.
Fleetwood Mac and “Dreams” – A thing of beauty is a joy forever
December 30, 2017 by 17 Comments
It has been 40 years (40 years!) since the release of Fleetwood Mac’s masterpiece 1977 album, “Rumours.” This is a deconstruction of the hit song “Dreams” from the album. I think it is safe to say that 40 years from now, we’ll still be listening to Fleetwood Mac. And as John Keats wrote, “a thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
December 27, 2017 by 27 Comments
James Blake sings a cover of Don McLean’s “Vincent” which was filmed and recorded live at Conway Studios in Los Angeles in December, 2017.
