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Tag: Music Other People Made/Make

  • Song as a plug to a live current

  • Scratching the sacred itch of secular mysteries

    We’re big appreciators of Tom Waits around here. H.o.p. as well. He’s been an avid listener since he was little. When he was two or three he listened to “Bone Machine” non stop for a year. Back in 2004 when he was, what, 6, he did the below picture as a tribute to Waits’ “What’s…

  • Dancin' Fool

    Shorty’s has great pizza.  And Key Lime pie.  I know because we went out there tonight to see King Johnson.  That link is to their myspace page where they have some songs up off the 2005 album that Marty mixed.  Great fun, funky band. This was one of  of their two reunion shows. I love…

  • And the band played on

    Was talking with a sister last week about her eldest daughter’s engagement to an Australian and she brought up the song “Waltzing Matilda”, how she was unfamiliar with it and he’d introduced her to the song during his Christmas stay with the family. My mind went immediately to “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” done…

  • Wildly imaginative worlds of Yannick Puig

    A couple of wonderful whimsical offerings. H.o.p. loves the animations of Yannick Puig, such as the below “I Lived on the Moon”. Another is the delightful “Krapooyo”. I like Puig’s animations as well. P.S. “I Lived on the Moon” was replayed over and over here today and probably will be for a while. I showed…

  • I buy for my IPOD

    I love Pistolera’s “Cazador”. I got IPOD! I can buy the song and port it around now. Will probably end up getting the album later. Hungry IPOD says, “Feed me!” This is good for it. Lots of protein, vitamins, minerals, what have you.

  • Monteverdi's Orfeo

    How I came across Marilia Vargas was looking up Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” at Youtube. “Mom, look up some opera for me,” H.o.p. said. He meant something like Mozart’s “Requiem” but he’s never seen Ponnelle’s 1978 staging of “Orfeo”. Instead I found clips from the Jordi Savall/Brian Large 2002 production. The opening is promising… Marilia Vargas as…

  • Just Became Aware of Marilia Vargas This Morning…

    Marilia Vargas singing Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilerias No. 5. To listen is to breathe more deeply, it is that affecting. Vargas’ voice strikes me as alternative, faithful yet modern, and I’m not even sure yet how so. Something in her expressiveness that is as open to the concert hall as the corner food mart, as…

  • BACKSTAGE AT THE BIG ARENA POP CONCERT

    David, H.o.p. and Amy back stage The other night, H.o.p. was being a real jerk, and what came out of my mouth was, “Yeah, you better hope you grow up to be Pablo Picasso”. He had no idea I was referring to the song, “Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole”, my preference being the…

  • THAT MOUNTAIN TOP HIGH

    THAT MOUNTAIN TOP HIGH

    Penthouses From 14th Street View On White Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage… Music for the ride. Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet with Butterfly Wings at You Tube. [clear] The truth is the world really does look different from the penthouse, or the mountain top. And the ministers never tell their…

  • Waaaaay too much

    Way too much Monkees the other day. I woke up from a dream this morning of looking at old black and white pics of them in pot cleaner ads. (I only briefly had to wonder why it was pot cleaner ads.) But while we’re on it here’s a great Mike Nesmith quote on Hendrix opening…

  • Head

    Nearly 40 years after, here I sit watching The Monkees’ one and only feature film, Head, on a little Toshiba (won’t play on the ‘puter), my mind pretty well blown away by the fact this was co-written and co-produced by none other than Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin…