httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XINDnU3y1Qs
Check this out: A clip from the Beverly Hillbillies featuring Alan Reed, the voice of Fred Flintstone, yabbadabbadoo! You’ll be watching a real person, but swear it’s Fred!
My Favorite Song
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TfAyX8l5-g
This is my #1 favorite song in all of music. If you are interested in more information on this piece, I have a previous post with translation and background information here:
https://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2006/11/ave-verum-corpus-wa-mozart/
Ave Verum Corpus by W.A. Mozart.
Personal Evolution on the Language of Music
This is a thought on the language of music and how my personal vocabulary has changed since working with Cirque and working in China.
I don’t know if this would qualify as a “paradigm shift”, but I had an eye opener today. I had a friend send me a video of a music performance. It’s a group that plays a style of music I used to play. And when I watched it, it was like a foreign language to me. Like something distant I recognized just faintly. And this was a style of music I played for many years.
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Nathan “Flutebox” Lee and Beardyman @ Google, London
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3kyNGVK-hI
The UK’s premier beatboxers performing live at the Google offices in London. If you’re pressed for time, watch the first minute then go up to the last three minutes or so. Good stuff.
Every Day You Love Me
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQPCfORZ5zI
My new favorite song. I think I’ve heard it a hundred times in the last year or so. It’s a little cheezy, but I like it.
I don’t know but I believe, that some things were meant to be. And that you make a better me, everyday I love you.
….and you’ll never really live until you’ve loved with all your heart and soul.
Tulips from Skagit County
I was sent these photos of tulip season in Skagit County, Washington (USA). I don’t know if it was the sender’s intention, but the photos sure make me homesick for the Pacific Northwest of the US. This is a normal spring view in Mount Vernon, WA. A view that even locals know better than to take for granted. Photos by Gary Brown, a great supporter of the arts in Skagit County.
Philippine Vacation 2009 – Palawan
A friend and I have picked the Philippines as our next vacation destination. We’ve decided on the Palawan island chain and with a one day layover in Manila. We were going to Boracai, but decided to go South to Palawan for hopefully a less touristy experience. Boracai is supposed to be a great party area, but Palawan is said to be more pristine and the most beautiful landscape.
Susan Boyle – Singer – Britains Got Talent 2009
47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
Embedding for most of the videos has been disabled, probably because of the high traffic, but you can watch a video clip of her on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg
It’s moments like this that make a life in the arts so rich…
Happy Easter 2009
Billy Bob Thornton ‘Blow Up’ on Q TV
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw
Q was visited by country-pop band The Boxmasters. The Boxmasters’s biggest claim to fame is that their singer is Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton. If you were listening, you heard what could best be described as a ‘showdown at the Q corral’ when Mr. Thornton took offense to our mention of his cinematic accomplishments.