Once

Brilliance doesn’t have to be expensive.  For less than $100,000 the movie Once was made and is now one of my favorites.  With a simple story line and music that is so good it’ll make you cry, you need to check it out if you haven’t.  Oh, and it won an Oscar.
Glen Hansard “Once” Say it to me now…

One of the best scenes is Glen Hansard (of The Frames) playing music on the street.  He works as a vacuum repairman for money, and plays music on the street for his soul-food. In this particular scene, it’s late at night, no one is walking by.  No one is tossing money into his guitar case.  It’s just him and his guitar, and his memories of a woman who is no longer in his life.  But the song he was singing … oh!

The rest of the songs in the movie are just as good, but i couldn’t pass up the link to this scene.

Check out the reviews and details on IMDB.

May 04, 2009 | Music | Leave A Comment »

No one likes you

Obviously this is not our Ladybug ... though their agility levels are similar.

On Sunday, when we were getting things ready at our church, Ladybug was buzzing around humming one of the songs we had been singing in the car.  It wasn’t long, and she was outright singing it with her 7 year old vibrato and doing little dance moves that are part football player, part ballet dancer.  When she was humming, I recognized the song.  The chorus of the song is “There is no one like you”.

Ladybug’s song, “No one likes you!”  

And she closes her eyes and sings it with all her heart as she twirls and raises her hands.

Apr 11, 2009 | Alaska, Family, For Kicks, Music | 2 Comments »

Smells like something’s different

There are times when something old takes a new form, and it almost becomes something new altogether.  I’ve had friends, who after having long hair for years become different after getting a haircut and a “respectable job” … his words, not mine.  A old truck after getting the nasty old pee-stained seat recovered is like a almost brand new 1993 truck  … it was dog pee, not mine.  And a song, when it is revisited, especially after many years, can become even better.

Feb 28, 2009 | ADVrider, For Kicks, Music | 1 Comment »

Got myself a Chocolate Jesus

Feb 25, 2009 | Ministry, Music, The Journey | 10 Comments »

Dingalingaling

In the garage today, working on the bike and listening to odd radio stations, I heard a song that made me stop wrenching and just stare at the radio with wide eyes and giggle.

Okay … some background:

Chuck Berry is rock and roll.  According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, no one individual invented rock and roll, but they hold that “Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together.” John Lennon  said: “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”

One of Chuck Berry’s most popular songs (even young people know it because of Michael J. Fox in Back To The Future) is “Johnny B. Good”.  A Rolling Stone article quoted Joe Perry of Aerosmith as saying about this song in particular, “If you want to play rock & roll, you have to start here.” 

But “Johnny B Good” never made it to number 1.  A funny thing happened.  In and out of jail, on and off the charts, Chuck Berry didn’t have a number 1 hit until 1972 … 24 years after his first album.  And in a wierd twist of irony, one of the greatest songwriters of the rock and roll era achieved his only number 1 hit with a sophomoric schoolyard sing-a-long called “My Ding-A-Ling.” It became Berry’s best-selling single ever.

If I were Chuck Berry, I would lie awake at night thinking, “I worked my butt off all my life to change the face of music, and I’m most known for this? “

Feb 21, 2009 | ADVrider, Alaska, Family, Music, The Journey | 2 Comments »