This is what happens when I’m over-tired…
July 24, 2010 - 10:05 pm
Songs and their movies pop into my head, like -
Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me…
and – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head…
and – Mrs. Robinson…
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Oh…the Russians are so balletic…
February 17, 2010 - 8:28 am
And oops! She fell on her really nice skating butt! Pairs skating. Once one person falls, it’s like Dominoes – everybody starts falling.
The real problem is that I’ve been watching the Olympics for years and I still can’t tell the difference between a Triple Lutz and a Triple Salko, a Triple Axle and a Triple Toe Loop, but I know the lingo…
She stuck that one…
She barely managed to hold on…
He over-rotated…
Look at the height on that quad…
He needed that quad triple after failing on that triple double…
Look at the disappointment on …..’s face…..
The skaters like to pull out all the tearjerkers from the sixties and seventies to skate to. Love Story. The Way We Were, and by the way, that sailor suit kinda sucked. I’d like to see them skate to the music from Porgy and Bess or Westside Story, you know, give me a rumble between the Jets and the Sharks. Now that would move me and you could fit in lots of triple flips and the costumes wouldn’t look as if they’d been designed by Cirque du Soleil.
My favorite all time tragic skating pair? Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Goddamn, they were beautiful and their love story was one for the ages. So sad he died at the age of twenty-eight of a massive heart attack.
In other news: WATCH!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw
Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. This was all her idea to help promote their new pink gloves.
When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms for the community. Please check it out. It’s an easy and great way to donate to a wonderful cause, and who hasn’t been touched by breast cancer?
Music to Soothe the Savage Beast
December 7, 2009 - 10:04 pm
Do you write to music?
Many of my author friends do. Katalina Leon, a writer with Ellora’s Cave, mentioned in her blog over at Seven Sexy Scribes that she likes to put on a song and loop it so that it plays over and over again. I’ll do that on occasion, but only when I’m alone in the car and I can sing at the top of my lungs. And only with certain songs. I pity the poor fool driving behind me on the freeway watching me dance in my seat at 75 mph!
I found myself wondering just the other day, the Allman Brothers blasting on my car stereo, why do we sing? Birds sing. Some insects sing…sort of. What evolutionary advantage does singing confer? I came to the conclusion that it provides none – I guess I think of singing and music as a gift – oh…I don’t know…as in a gift from the gods? I suppose one could surmise that a person who could sing the best got the pick of the litter, attracted more mates, because most of us do love to listen to a beautiful voice, but somehow that doesn’t seem right. Men and women are attracted to each other for more reasons than I can count, the ability to make music is merely one.
I think we sing for the sheer joy of it. Or maybe out of sorrow – poetry and weeping put to music. Yes, to sing is to be one with the heavens. Music is sublime…well, aside from maybe William Hung.
So. My favorites? Too many to mention but I am partial to rock and roll and Motown. In my contemporary romance, Beauty and the Feast, coming out in March – Resplendence Publishing – my heroine, Eva Raines, likes Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George of Little Feat. Grace Raphael, in My Everything, coming with Cobblestone Press, is a big Barry White fan. Both women love to sing. Me too!
