Hello! I discovered that this blog was offline/invisible/ GONE! the other day when trying to find a bit I had posted some years ago. I thought it all had disappeared into thin air, but it seems to be here, after a little tinkering. Just a test post. Maybe I'll write some real stuff again? Facebook sort of took away the urge to write here... but I do miss it! All the best, Scurvyann. PS: c6 is now TEN years old!
here is a video I made for Ad Frank & the Fast Easy Women. The song is called "French Translation". Enjoy!
It is Boston Music Awards time! Vote vote vote for Ad Frank (best male vocalist) and Ad Frank & The F.E.W. (best song - "Winterthru"). You may vote as many times as you wish, oddly enough. Go here TODAY, voting ends at 5pm!
And here's a little somethin'-somethin' for ya. This is the video for WINTERTHRU. Enjoy!
This is going to be a fabulous show. Downstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge, MA.We're on at 9:00, nice & early! Wewt!
Come out, come out, wherever you are! A big night, upstairs at the Middle East with handfuls of great bands, y'see?!
This song just kills me. I can't help but listen to it/watch it over and over and over and over...
The ever-so-awesome Angie C. does a radio "progrum" on Houndstooth Radio. Fabulous Kay Hanley wrote a WICKED CATCHY theme song for the progrum. So catchy, that it has inspired a few to do their own li'l 'tributes'. Here's mine!
Today was C6's "sneak peek" into his new classroom, where he got to meet his new teachers. On the drive over to school, he chose this as his "get psyched" song. Buzzcocks, Everybody's Happy Nowadays. Enjoy!
I'm gonna be playing some rocknroll music with Frigate. We're touring with Slapshot. Here's the stuff:
| Trix | Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| Endless Summer Open Air | Tourgau, Germany | ||
| Backstage | München, Germany | ||
| Café Central | Weinheim, Germany | ||
| Landespavillion | Stuttgart, Germany | ||
| De Kelder | Amersfoort, Netherlands | ||
| Musikbunker | Aachen, Germany | ||
| Zwischenfall | Bochum, Germany | ||
| Rock My Ass Festival (Hauptsmoorhalle) | Bamberg, Germany | ||
| Little Devil | Tilburg, Netherlands |
C6 and I caught a bit of Sesame Street this morning. We turned it on in the middle of this bit and of course when I saw a lemon wearing glasses knew it had to be Liz Lemon! HAHRHHARH!!!!
Tinted Windows:
Taylor Hanson, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger and...Bun E. Carlos!
Luv! Them!
Our latest dig is right here, Gene Kelly tap dancing in An American In Paris. Luvving it!
Hey, maybe this is the year I'll finally get those tap shoes I request annually for my birthday ... (or the trombone ... or the Mariachi band ... or ...!!!)
Somehow I had forgotten how much I love Elbow. Ahhhhhhhhhh. I particularly love "Newborn", especially the second half of the song. For some reason, the video (below) cuts out at that point but audio continues. Listen all the way through!
And now, I do believe I've got to catch up and get their album "The Seldom Seen Kid".
Happy Superbowl Sunday or whatever!
I read about Theresa Andersson in BUST magazine and was fascinated by her approach to music. Look here:
Have a listen to more of her gorgeous music at her myspace page. LOVE! HER!
A few days ago, C6 and I caught an in-between-shows short on The Disney Channel. It was called "Brian O'Brian" and it really grabbed our attention. The theme music drew us in, and we found ourselves laughing out loud to the antics of a funny guy who was just trying to clean up a small spill on the floor of an art gallery. As he tried to eradicate the spot, it quickly turned into a larger, brilliant pink mess that kept getting worse and worse the more he worked on it. C6 was laughing as hard as I've ever heard him laugh! He LOVED it. Interestingly, there was no dialog - just the music, some vocal sounds, and, oddly, a rather loud audience laugh track.
A quick investigation found that Brian O'Brian is a series of these shorts, and the main character is actor Brian Stepanek, who is also in Disney's Suite Life of Zack and Cody. The series is made without spoken words in order to show it in non-English speaking countries without having to redo the dialog. Brian O'Brian has been compared to Mr. Bean. I can see that - and I think C6 would enjoy some of Mr. Bean's antics as well. (BTW, who knew there was a Mr. Bean animated series? I didn't!)
The day after discovering Brian O'Brian, C6 was EXTREMELY excited when we stumbled across the same episode embedded in a Handy Manny show we had DVR'd. He INSISTED C5 watch it too - he had excitedly told him ALL about it the day we had seen it. There are a couple of Brian O'Brian episodes on YouTube but, alas, not the one that had elicited such belly laughs from C6.
I like his suspenders!
Santa visited one of our favorite hiking spots, Whip Hill Park, last week. He was set up inside the Whip Hill Manor...
I have been dying to go in the house - it was so beautiful inside! And it was great to see Santa - he was awesome. Totally didn't rush the kids...was funny, and had the best deep voice, and booming HO HO HO! Truly magical.
In other news...here's C6 decorating a gingerbreadhaus! Merry Christmas!
C6 and I are quite fond of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! We especially dig the fun pop tunes. Here is our latest favoritest Wubbzy song called "Pet Party". We've been perfecting our Pet Party dance moves and we're ready to throw down. Yeah, YEAH!
C6 likes all the senses and the counting in XTC's "Senses Working Overtime">. He also likes that Andy Partridge sings about lemon and lime. Lots to like about this one! Although everytime I hear the line "...and all the world is football shaped" I recall seeing a Laser Show at the Museum of Science years ago. At this lyric in the show, the graphic that whirled above was an american football shape. I do believe that XTC had a soccerball shape in mind, don't you?
We started a new twist on our morning routine a few weeks ago. When C6 wakes up, he'll come down to Mummio & Daddio's room and hop into bed. Okay, that part is not so new. But, for the most part, the kid hits the ground running, so he usually wouldn't stick around with us - after a quick hello, and the obligatory climbing all over us and being the exact opposite of cuddly, he'd bound down to the kitchen to "make breffix". This could be either a delightful surprise (good aim with getting the juice *in* the cup, milk AND cereal *in* the bowl) or not so delightful (making peanut butter and marmalade sandwiches and storing one of them on a shelf in the cupboard "for later!", putting the peanut butter-smeared utensils back into the drawer...)
So here's the NEW part of our morning: C6 hops into bed, we all chat a bit and then I fire up the laptop to watch Peep and The Big Wide World. Every day on the website there's a different episode. And it is about 8 or 9 minutes or so long, giving us a few more minutes of sweet, sweet, cozytime.
The show itself is really good! I like the simply drawn characters (especially the blue duck with the sailor hat named "Quack". It is pretty funny and there's a science or math twist to each episode. And! It is narrated by Joan Cusack! OH! AND! Yesterday, Megan Mullally (Karen, from "Will and Grace") showed up as the voice of a rival duck! What's not to love?
C6 also likes the games on the website - particularly the paint mixing one. Try it - 'sfun!
Of course, right AFTER our Peeptime, C6 is off and running. What'll it be for breffix this morning?
