Well Yesterday was a busy day indeed. Starting with helping with set up and working in the kitchen at University Friend’s Meeting in the morning to help prepare for their annual potluck. Afterwards to a friend’s in Capitol Hill for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d been curious about Big Hero Six since I started seeing concept art nearly a year ago as the first joint Marvel/Disney’s joint project since Disney’s purchase of Marvel comics. I’d been skeptical about it of course. I especially had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s always fun what you find when you’re researching. I’d never heard of this one until recently and it is so funny! So here is Surabaya Santa from Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for A New World featuring Mrs. Claus singing about her…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So here is on that I have been looking forward to doing, Duke Ellington‘s version of the Nutcracker Suite. I just love the way he has Tchaikovsky’s original melody drifts around the piece at first almost a subliminal accent behind Ellington’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay for today’s selection I’m going to drop my search for all things in Christmas cynicism and go for something completely soppy. With “It Feels Like Christmas” from the Muppet Christmas Carol. As a lover of both the Muppets and adaptations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week I did the second of my “forgotten Oscars” selection though in this case, neither of these films are anything that I would call “forgotten” since 1976 was probably the best year for film for a long time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s Rhapsody is Rhapsody na gCrann by Clannad from their Nádúr album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KExVc-zRrM8
This week’s Rhapsody is Masao Ohki‘s Japanese Rhapsody (along with Ideas of Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJeRdA4ztA
In honor of the fifth season of Game of Thrones starting last week I decided to look back and look at some of the bad fantasy movies that inspired all of the fantasy authors to do better. Part of me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy birthday to Mr. Duke Ellington! let’s celebrate listening to his incredible Money Jungle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE4kPbMwXbA
