Category Archives: art and music

It’s Cloud Illusions I Recall…

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I really don’t know clouds at all…

(from Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now)

City Jackdaw inspired this with his post.

You can still see with the imagination…as long as those aren’t chemtrail clouds**, which invariably are shapeless flat expanses… that you really should not be under after sprayed…your health depends on it.

**brought to you buy Bill Gates and his two, count that, two, scientists who have all knowledge of all the universe to control weather and kill us in the meantime….

 

Eye Candy

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This week’s pics of beautiful Canada.  I was thinking about Neil Young’s song and the video of the Earth before the energy companies move in, and how much is lost that cannot be regained after they’re done stripping the land…

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head…

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…was a popular song back in the day.  The radio station played it this morning…very apt as we’re basically drowning here….

They’ve forecast a lot of rain on top of the piles of snow on the ground—so we’re worried about flooding.  I still think it’s nature trying to correct itself from the drought and high temps the prior past summers.

But, hey, it’s going to reach 50 degrees today. Woot!  It will be above freezing until Sunday, when it goes back down again.  I’m dreading that because it there is nowhere for the water to go, and it’s standing…well, ice rinks for streets will be the rule for the day. Oy.

Anyway, I went to see if B.J. Thomas had a video up on his song, and I’m pretty sure this is official because it’s from Branson Music Factory. Enjoy.

Well, this is different…dancers disrupt protest

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Well, you have to hand it to them–the Vietnamese gov’t deployed ballroom dancers to disrupt Vietnamese folks from laying wreaths and chanting anti-China slogans.

The protesters were marking the 35th anniversary of a bloody border war between China and Vietnam, where anger over Beijing’s increasingly assertive territorial claims on islands in the South China Sea that Hanoi insists belong to it is already running high.

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Instead of using guns and armed forces, they use…dancers.

A-W-E-S-O-M-E

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The Beatles on CBS….Oh.My.God, how I wish I were there!!  I had a great time at home, so I can only imagine…

I was great to see George Harrison’s son, Dhani, and his widow there.  Dhani resembles George–it was a little eerie seeing him on stage.

Loved Keith Urban and John Mayer (Meyer?) playing….awesome vocals as well as guitar.  Keith and John both have such strong voices…carried the notes so well.

Loved hearing “Let It Be”…one of my favorites, along with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps…”

“…with every mistake, we must surely be learning…”

Loved hearing Joe Walsh and David Grohl play…awesome talent…

You know, until tonight, I did not realize Katy Perry had such a great voice.  She sang so well.  So I have to wonder at the Grammys and how they did such a disservice to such talent.  It’s amazing when the sex thing and the trivial music is taken out of the equation…the talent really shows through.  Instead of being accompanied by synthesizers, Katy was accompanied by real string instruments tonight…hmmm…what a difference it makes!

I had to chuckle at “We All Live in a Yellow Submarine.”…if you recall, it suddenly popped into my head awhile back, when I was in the middle of a migraine, laying there like a slug.  Wasn’t too funny at the time, but yeah, had to smile once the pain was gone.  Heh.

Great to see Ringo and Paul sing together again.  Such energy!  Who says we’re over the hill…?  I have a few choice words for the ageists….ahem.

Music is still alive….