Instead of my standard intro + Youtube link, today’s mid-week music features a book review.
We bought Story of the Orchestra two weeks ago and my kids LOVE it. Especially my 5 year old Monkey.
The book includes a CD, and the book functions like a musical guided tour. First, chronologically through the composers – Vivaldi through [...]
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11 Nov
Mid-Week Music: Getting the Kids Hooked on Classical
3 Nov
That Ain’t Right, but It’s Hilarious
I heard inklings a while back of Weezer performing in full-on Snuggies, but thought it was some sort of hipster parody. Then this was on my Google this morning:
This is legit. It’s even on their main site.
At least Rivers ditched the beard.
19 Dec
Fa la la la la la la la la
I finally sent out this year’s Christmas cards – digitally. We’re goin’ greener (and cheaper) this year. We used Hallmark’s Smilebox and I was pretty pleased. Every year I want to include pictures of the boys in our cards, but by the time I get the pics made, I end up not printing enough or [...]
17 Nov
Time Flies When You’re Putting Together Chinese Democracy
I don’t go to MTV for much of anything these days, but this is interesting – especially if you were a teen in 1991. I remember listening to Use Your Illusion at our neighborhood pool…on a boombox. And if it was a CD, he was one of my few friends that had a CD player [...]
31 Oct
Commitment to Parody
Found this little gem at the end of the Veggie Tales’ Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. Enjoy.
26 Apr
Piano for the Kiddos
I’ve been meaning to look up EASY sheet music for the Monkey as we’d like both boys to at least be exposed to playing musical instruments, and as I play piano and BHE plays guitar (and we have a drumset that neither of us can really play) – we should be able to at least [...]
16 Feb
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard…
I was browsing through my mp3 selection on my way home from work today and strolled across this gem from 1986:
To me, the song and the video are always linked. I was about 8 when this came out, and we didn’t have MTV at that time…but my super-cool cousin (who was in [...]
13 Feb
For My Blake, Incarcerated…
Do you know how many times over the past two days I’ve put on a BAD British accent and said “For My Blake, Incarcerated” to BHE…too many times, and it never gets old. OK, it never gets old to me…
I missed Foo Fighters at the Grammy hoopla due to ongoing Bear and Monkey illness (they [...]
27 Jan
Rockin’ Out
BHE and I went out on our first “date” in a while (and first concert in a very long while, as the last one was Motley Crue back in Summer ‘05), and had a blast at the Foo Fighters show last night. They are absolutely my favorite band, getting better and better with each album, [...]
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