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Music Monday – “And you won’t understand/But you will learn someday/That wherever you are and whatever you face/These are the people who’ll make you feel safe in this world/My sweet blue-eyed girl”

This is a bit shaky cam but I haven’t posted this amazing Christmas song for a few years so I thought I’d do so with a different version that’s even more fun than the original… “White Wine in the Sun” – Tim Minchin

Posted 17 December 2018 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Sad § Travel § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Where is Santa at his sleigh?/Tell me why is it always this way?/Where is Rudolph? Where is Blitzen, baby?/Merry Christmas, merry merry merry Christmas”

“Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)” – The Ramones

Posted 10 December 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

My 10 Favourite Christmas Songs

I’ve posted a lot of Christmas songs over the years, mostly as Music Monday posts, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried to make a list of my favourite Xmas songs, at least until now. So what makes a great Christmas song in my mind? Weirdly with how joyful the season is, my favourites mostly […]

Posted 02 December 2018 § Family § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Trump Sings Ariana Grande

This is pretty funny… …though, to be fair, Obama also got the same treatment:  

Posted 30 November 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “If we were vampires and death was a joke/We’d go out on the sidewalk and smoke/And laugh at all the lovers and their plans/I wouldn’t feel the need to hold your hand”

A lot of my music-loving friends had posted something about this song but I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t even give it a listen because I thought the title was terrible and reminded me of “Twilight” or something. But I finally gave it a chance and boy, was I wrong.  Probably one of the most […]

Posted 19 November 2018 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Captain Connor Rap

I’m going to tag this as “Music” but that’s probably stretching the definition somewhat. 😉  

Posted 16 November 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Comparing Some Swedish Guy’s 7 Year (7000 Hour) Guitar Progress To My Own 22 (!) Year, Didn’t Count The Hours Guitar Journey

I bought my first guitar after coming back from a University exchange to England in 1995.  It cost me $60 and I still have it.  It’s an El Degas model which is Spanish for “cheap crap”. 🙂 (Wow, Google tells me these guitars were actually made in Japan and mostly exported to Canada in the […]

Posted 14 November 2018 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Get me drinking’ that moonshine/Get me higher than the grocery bill/Take my troubles to the highwall/Throw ’em in the river and get your fill”

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was really getting into Tyler Childers – watching videos of him, reading articles about him, dreaming about taking “road” trips to see him, joining Facebook groups about him, playing his songs (badly) on guitar and listening to his music non-stop. At the time, I made a Music Monday […]

Posted 12 November 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “The war has been incited/And guess what, you’re all invited/And you’re famous/Modernity has failed us”

“Love It If We Made It” – The 1975

Posted 05 November 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “It’s a 24 foot long vessel/Measures 8 feet wide/It’s a 53 year-old camper/It’s made to pull behind.” (also “I can guarantee you, we were the quietest people in the Circleville Public Library” if you click through to the live version!) :-)

I’ve got a new musical obsession after really getting into Kentucky’s own Tyler Childers this past weekend… He’s got a lot of amazing songs but the one I’m featuring for “Music Monday” today, while still unreleased, caught my ear when I found it on YouTube.  See if you can guess why? (He’s also got a live […]

Posted 29 October 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: