A bereaved father blogging for catharsis... and for distraction. Accordingly, you'll see a diverse set of topics and posts here, from the affecting to the analytical to the absurd. Something for everyone, but all, at the core, meeting a personal need.
Congratulations to my son Shalom and his bandmates in The Flip for winning the JEC Talent Show "Battle of the Bands" last Motzai Shabbos! First prize is ten hours of time in a professional recording studio, which they plan to use to record two of their original songs, "Down The Road" and "Midnight In America".
Here's a rough-cut video of those songs from Saturday night's event. Sound quality isn't too great, but that's what the studio will be for, I guess. You can catch a glimpse of Shalom in the back, playing keyboards on both songs and bass guitar on the first. And if your hearing is real sharp, you may even hear Shalom's parents cheering on the band like a couple of teenage girls at a Beatles concert!
Welcome to the 130th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.
Thare are two separate sub-themes today, songs 1-10 and 11-20, which together comprise the overall theme. The songs in the first group are also in somewhat of a sequence. I was disappointed in not finding more songs for that group; likely there are quite a few recent ones I don't know well that would fit it.
1) "I died in thirty days!" 2) "But it seems the good they die young" 3) "Edsel is a no-go" 4) "Bring on the lions and open the cage" 5) "I laid traps for troubadours" 6) "She never kept the same address" 7) "They sat and watched TV, on their RCA" 8) "We're finally on our own" 9) "Scanning life through the picture window" 10) "It's money for dope, money for rope"
11) "If the puppet makes you smile" 12) "Coming down like an Armageddon flame" 13) "And it makes me feel so fine, I can't control my brain" 14) "Just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice" 15) "Exchange the cold days for the sun" 16) "Take a ride on a West Coast kick" 17) "We've all seen it on the movies, now let's see if it's true" 18) "But there's a couple of bananas and a bottle of booze" 19) "From a terminal gate to a black limousine" 20) "He was heading for Pennsylvania, and some home made pumpkin pie"
Welcome to the 128th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.
There is a single theme this week, but the break between songs 14 and 15 separates two groups that relate to the theme somewhat differently. Also, apologies that due to a busy week as well as computer issues, this will be a shorter edition than I had hoped. I do think there are likely quite a few more songs that fit the theme, and hope you guys will find - and add - some of them!
1) "Can you tell me where he's gone?" 2) "All those dayglow freaks who used to paint the face" 3) "...or a Sam (no Sam)" 4) "Canada to India, Australia to Cornwall" 5) "He ate a crocodile" 6) "'Cause I'm swigin' thirty pounds from my hips on down" 7) "And he swore to free all of Asia Minor" 8) "He said how dare that man resent an order" 9) "In colors on the snowy linen land" 10) "Dances like a spinning top" 11) "Only takes one itchy trigger" 12) "Look at them bushes out there" 13) "But you were bad you must admit" 14) "Hate was just a legend, and war was never known"
15) "Went down to Geisha Minah" 16) "And now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight" 17) "A panda for sweet little niece" 18) "We fired once more and they began a running" 19) "He throw us all in jail for carrying harpoons" 20) "You know it's three weeks; I'm going insane" 21) "So you think you can love me and leave me to die" 22) "Like my father before me, I will work the land"
