OK fellow bloggers. My brother just gave me a gift today. A HUGE gift. I couldn't believe it. I'm going to turn around and give it to you. It's called Spotify.
Go to spotify.com and download spotify. You can listen to any whole album, any song, all the way through at any time. Right now, I'm listening to Neil Finn's new album Pajama Club. Quinn found Trombone Shorty this way. He just finished Tony Bennett's new Duets 2 album and said listen to it! So now, instead of listening to 30 seconds of it on itunes, or buying the whole thing, after Pajama Club I'll give the entire album a listen. Who doesn't love Tony Bennett? He's a fav of mine and I loved his first Duets album. I'll see what Gavin DeGraw's new album sounds like. All for free. Brett's going to love this! No more itunes charges and me shrugging my shoulders with "I had to get it!" While you're at it, listen to the Puppini sister's version of I Will Survive.
Thanks Quinn. And you're welcome.
I'm really happy lately. Everything is really really good. I'm busy. I'm working on preparedness, budgets. I'm seeing a lot of new things which keeps my mind interested and creatively satisfied. I have a playgroup for Kate. I am playing music a lot. (ward choir, youth choir, broadway brunch, various gigs) My mom is here visiting helping me cook, running errands, chatting. Brett is on a 21 day cleanse as part of another trial group at work. Daaaang Brett! Why do you do this to yourself? No meat and all of this special stuff for 21 days. Free food again dropped at our doorstep. It kind makes my dinner prep easier, but I know he's going to get grumpy by probably tomorrow. We'll see, he's excited.
Every month, my friend has a lunch called Broadway Brunch. About 25 people usually show up and she has different talented theatre types/singers perform showtunes for everyone else. It's crazy, fun, great. I have never been able to go. Last month, the theme was divas and not only did I go, but played for a woman who was on Broadway for 7 years..5 with Jersey Boys and 2 as Cosette in Les Mis. She just moved into our stake after just getting married. So she sang for us. She was amazing and my piano abilities were majorly stretched having to play tricky broadway tunes one after the other. Once a month I get to do this now. Happy day!
Syd is now taking violin from a great great teacher and I have picked up a few piano students again. I am missing my boy. My friend said it perfectly, I just want one hug! Then I'd be fine. Just let me get my little arms around him just once. arrrr.
I'll leave you with this. If you are my kids' dentist, and you're super awkward anyway, don't watch me reading "The Lennon Interview" in a magazine while I'm waiting and then start talking to me about Lennon and about how you are in a band. Then please please don't give me a CD of you and your band. Finally, please don't write a song called Hay is for Horses on that CD and sing these words..."Hay is for horses, Also for cows. Not for pigs, they don't know how. You gotta do what you do do do do do" set to a 50's style beat and chord progression. PLEASE don't do that. I don't want to hear you sing! Now how am I supposed to NOT bring it up when I come in for Ali's cavities? I can't lie and tell you it was great. I'm going to have to switch dentists now.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
GOSPEL MUSIC ROCKS
This following clip makes me so happy. I've watched it many times. I especially love the director and when, in the middle of the clip, he and the other boy singers start walking. Oh man, it's a good day when I find something like this.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
I've been thinking about some things lately.
First of all, I just rushed to the store to make a big cookie sheet of Scotcheroos for Ali to take to Young Womens. Her leader ran into me in the store and said, "Is there any way Ali can bring that one dessert I had one time at your house and loved so much? If you can't no big deal, but I at least need the recipe." So I rushed home and made them with 1 minute to spare. As Ali ran out the door, I heard the crash. I slowly, very slowly walked to the front door, knowing already what had happened because Ali and Maddie were so deathly quiet. Sure enough, there were the scotcheroos all over my front steps. Upside down. Wow that was disappointing. I think Ali salvaged about 4 and I told her that no one else gets them but her leader. I hate when that happens.
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE are coming to The Music Box in North Hollywood in October! Oh my goodness. They are my favorite Norwegian guys ever. I even put Sondre a 3rd to them. I never thought I'd see them live. I am MAKING my friend Heidi come and see them with me and she said yes. She's the one who introduced me to them in the first place and they are soooo her. Happy day for sure.
Spencer couldn't teach his first investigator lesson in Omsk because the guy was MURDERED. Yep, he got to the apartment and the neighbor said something like, "I'm sorry. He's not here. He was murdered." Wow.
Um, oh oh this is exciting! I was finally at the movie The Help with my Maddie last night. At the end of the movie, Abeleine I think is walking up the road slowly and the credits music starts. It is beautiful. All of a sudden there is a chord progression there and the strings playing just so and I knew it was my guy, Thomas Newman who wrote it. He also wrote the score for Finding Nemo. Oh and Little Women. It's weird, but I still remember the first time seeing Little Women and how beautiful that film was, mostly because of that score. I have watched Finding Nemo a LOT and the score is so brilliant! Seriously watch that movie and the score will blow you away. Anyway, he has written for a bunch of movies and now I can always pick him out and it makes me so happy. So I turn to Maddie, "Oh Maddie. It's Thomas. I know it. I know it. Wait. Wait for it....wait for it..." There it came up on the screen . Thomas Newman. Yes!! I knew it! He is really brilliant and my fav bff composer friend for sure.
I want to throw away all of my furniture and stuff and start over with new colors and textures. I am loving subway tile, white yes, but also blues and greens. Glass blue and/or green tile me likey.
I feel really badly about something. We have had a good number of people come and visit us here this past year. I love it. However, this past weekend, Brett and I finally got our bikes in the suburban, headed to the beach and rode from Santa Monica beach south, through Ocean Beach, Venice beach until we had ridden about 45 minutes. Then we turned around and rode back on the road this time in the bike lane. Wow. I kick myself that we haven't done that with every single visitor. This will definitely be a must from now on. Get everyone in the car/s, drive to the beach and RIDE! So awesome!
Also, some families moved into our ward with little kids! Yes! Yes ! Yes! I am actually going to get to trade once in a while this year. Kate is older. It is doable. That will help me a ton this year.
Finally, if you are a dentist office and you go to the trouble to make or buy a wooden sign that says:
First of all, I just rushed to the store to make a big cookie sheet of Scotcheroos for Ali to take to Young Womens. Her leader ran into me in the store and said, "Is there any way Ali can bring that one dessert I had one time at your house and loved so much? If you can't no big deal, but I at least need the recipe." So I rushed home and made them with 1 minute to spare. As Ali ran out the door, I heard the crash. I slowly, very slowly walked to the front door, knowing already what had happened because Ali and Maddie were so deathly quiet. Sure enough, there were the scotcheroos all over my front steps. Upside down. Wow that was disappointing. I think Ali salvaged about 4 and I told her that no one else gets them but her leader. I hate when that happens.
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE are coming to The Music Box in North Hollywood in October! Oh my goodness. They are my favorite Norwegian guys ever. I even put Sondre a 3rd to them. I never thought I'd see them live. I am MAKING my friend Heidi come and see them with me and she said yes. She's the one who introduced me to them in the first place and they are soooo her. Happy day for sure.
Spencer couldn't teach his first investigator lesson in Omsk because the guy was MURDERED. Yep, he got to the apartment and the neighbor said something like, "I'm sorry. He's not here. He was murdered." Wow.
Um, oh oh this is exciting! I was finally at the movie The Help with my Maddie last night. At the end of the movie, Abeleine I think is walking up the road slowly and the credits music starts. It is beautiful. All of a sudden there is a chord progression there and the strings playing just so and I knew it was my guy, Thomas Newman who wrote it. He also wrote the score for Finding Nemo. Oh and Little Women. It's weird, but I still remember the first time seeing Little Women and how beautiful that film was, mostly because of that score. I have watched Finding Nemo a LOT and the score is so brilliant! Seriously watch that movie and the score will blow you away. Anyway, he has written for a bunch of movies and now I can always pick him out and it makes me so happy. So I turn to Maddie, "Oh Maddie. It's Thomas. I know it. I know it. Wait. Wait for it....wait for it..." There it came up on the screen . Thomas Newman. Yes!! I knew it! He is really brilliant and my fav bff composer friend for sure.
I want to throw away all of my furniture and stuff and start over with new colors and textures. I am loving subway tile, white yes, but also blues and greens. Glass blue and/or green tile me likey.
I feel really badly about something. We have had a good number of people come and visit us here this past year. I love it. However, this past weekend, Brett and I finally got our bikes in the suburban, headed to the beach and rode from Santa Monica beach south, through Ocean Beach, Venice beach until we had ridden about 45 minutes. Then we turned around and rode back on the road this time in the bike lane. Wow. I kick myself that we haven't done that with every single visitor. This will definitely be a must from now on. Get everyone in the car/s, drive to the beach and RIDE! So awesome!
Also, some families moved into our ward with little kids! Yes! Yes ! Yes! I am actually going to get to trade once in a while this year. Kate is older. It is doable. That will help me a ton this year.
Finally, if you are a dentist office and you go to the trouble to make or buy a wooden sign that says:
"Children left unattended will be given a new puppy and an expresso"
....just spell it right. ok? It's espresso not expresso. What is an expresso? And I don't even drink coffee! Someone painted that? And then someone else bought it? ha ha ha
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