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Got some new CD's and loaded them up to all my devices.  My music is always, always, always bought, paid for and very much appreciated and utilized.  : )

 

 


A live version of a beautiful song!

 
Studio version.

 

And this popped up in my head  
one night as an earworm.  Darned thing woke me up out of a sound sleep!

My Dad  took the family out for Easter dinner again this year.  Its always so nice not to have to cook or clean up afterwards.  So relaxing.   At one point, my sister was saying something, I don't remember what, when her husband suddenly put his hand down on the table.  She turned to him and asked him what it was she was saying that he could possibly be objecting to.   He wondered  why she reads purpose into the most casual moves he makes. We all laughed so hard recounting  the ways the situation was familiar to all of us.  My sister and her husband have been married for 33 years, my husband and I for 29, my parents for 61!  We wives are  so sensitive to the changes that our husband's make in the molecular field around them at this point......to a ridiculous extent,  but...... if we didn't care, we wouldn't care.  

 


 

For all my many tatooed nephews.   I love you all.

 

So conflicted.....not!   St. Valentine's Day comes on the second day of Lent.  But the tradition will continue....the sixth posting of the annual St. Valentine's Day song!    Ta Da!  And May He Intercede On Our Behalf Today, His Day, And Send Us All The Lovin We Can Handle!

 

Oh, yeah!  

 

The devise qued up these serendipitious songs about men who are decidely not like my Daddy then JUMPS in and proposes an upbeat solution to their woes .  : )    The shuffle feature is so much fun and I'm glad nobody reads these things because my MP3 is starting to sound downright Oedipal!  

 
 
 
 

Croons like these, some of the best that touch so tender and sincere.  

 

 

 

 



 

Owww...Owww...Hooooowl!

 


Where's my shillelagh?  Gotta get it out from under the bed.   Damn, this video crackles.  Love those old guys.. really,.they can still snap a wire~

What is the possibility that I am going to be able to suppress the urge to howl when this begins?  Zero.

 





BANGA

Loyalty rests in the heart of a dog
Don’t set all your eggs on the back of a frog
You can lick it twice but it won’t lick you
And salivating salvation gone so long so

Loyalty lifts and we don’t know why
And the paw is pressed against the nerve of the sky
You can leave him behind but he won’t leave you
And the road to Heaven is true – true blue

Banga
Say Banga
Say

Loyalty lives and we don’t know why
And his paws are pressed to the spine of the sky
You can leave him twice, but he won’t leave you
And the way to Heaven is true – true blue

Say – Banga
Say – Banga
Say – Banga
Say – Banga

Loneliness lifts when you open the night
Pilate awaits, as Jesus Christ
Forget him not – won’t forget about you
The way to Heaven is blue – boo hoo

Say - Banga
Say - Banga

Loyalty shifts if you carry a load
Ah, don’t shit it out in a golden commode
You can kick him twice – it’ll erode
Night is a mongrel – believe or explode

On the lonely night
On a golden road
Night is a mongrel
Believe or explode

© 2012 Patti Smith

 

 

Purchase Banga

 

  
 
 

 



 

I Got The News

So let's kick it up.  Movin on .


 
 

 
Brass needs no amplification and David Byrne is as fresh as ever and a hell of a lot of fun. Saw Byrne and Annie Clark of St. Vincent at the Beacon last night.  It was a great night of  new music.  We attended to mark our marriage anniversary.   Been married now longer then we were not.   How's about that!


 
  
Found some great photos on line:    http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/09/david_byrne_st_2.html

Here's a real review of their music and I can't say its not accurate.   Its true, the two of them came from the same planet.  Its a planet I like but I suggest listening to their CD..Love This Giant, and maybe St. Vincent's STrange Mercy before attending the concert......  St. Vincent can be an acquired taste.


"......    There's something spooky, too, about Love This Giant, the collaboration between David Byrne & St. Vincent (Sept. 25, Beacon Theatre). That's not surprising—both artists have something of a fascination with oddities and grotesques. In both his solo career and his work with Talking Heads, Byrne often obsessed over the unusualness and uncomfortability of being human. In Byrne's songs, the human condition is a nervous one—the body is often treated as alien and day-to-day life is treated with a kind of clammy unease. In "Making Flippy Floppy," from 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food, he wheezes "Snap into position/ snap until you ache/…bring me a doctor, I have a hole in my head," before unconvincingly concluding, "They are just people, and I’m not afraid." St. Vincent—or, as she is known to her parents, Annie Clark—shares Byrne's concept of human-as-alien, but the characters in her songs often feel more malicious. In the video for "Cruel," the first single from her bewitchingly twisted 2011 album Strange Mercy, she is kidnapped and forced to play mother to a strange family in a remote, empty house. The video ends with her being buried alive in the backyard. So small wonder the record Byrne and Vincent made together is full of alienated people who are either unwilling or uninterested in joining the rest of the human race. As befitting such uncomfortable subject matter, the arrangements jab rudely, like elbows in a packed elevator. Ice pick guitars puncture bloated-belly brass, and vocal harmonies are stretched and distended until they sound more robotic than organic. It often sounds like a 50-piece marching band gamely attempting free jazz, an appropriately violent sound for such discomfiting subject ."

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/09/6537460/streets-your-town-weeks-concerts-david-byrne-st-vincent-jay-z-corin-

I'm not positive, but I think these guys are in my future.

 

Saw my cousin Saturday.  Claimed he had 14,000 songs on his Ipod.  I believe him.  He's a big Talking Heads fan.  He's a big fan....period.

Fresh from the interwebs....

 

There's going to be no getting away for us this year. Not even for the few days we've been accustomed to taking.   We're on spending lock down because of the wedding and his looming retirement.  The time away really charges my romantic batteries.  But my imagination is going to have to do the job this year.  Buck up, Annie. Its not the end of the world. 

 

My list of desired discs is getting woefully long.  

 

http://mickeyhart.net/mysterium/

Tom Waits, Ladies and Gentlemen
: )

  

 

There is that.

 

This film is wonderful.  Quirky and magical.  Not for young children, I think because although it depicts a child's perspective it does it through an adult's eye.  You might disagree.  Still, the stage settings, props, camera work, acting, music, plot and costumes are wonderful to experience.   Slices of time and place, framed and presented as a kind of narrated pageant.  The many close up views of the children's  faces are worth the price of the ticket alone. Stay for the closing credits if you go.

 

Updated:  Added video