Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Grandma's Song
For more than a hundred and forty years Spanish composer Sebastián Iradier's beautiful song, "La Paloma" has been popular in diverse cultures. He wrote it in Spain after having visited Cuba. The influence of the Cuban habanera (the music and the dance, not the pepper) is noted in its character and...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Pretty Baby Forever
Mom, with her big blue eyes was a pretty baby of the times when this Billy Murray song was recorded on the Choctaw Indian Label "Okeh" picturing a Choctaw brave, in 1916. A few years later, Dad, with his flashing dark eyes and his slicked-down hair, squired her with the manners and flashing smiles...
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Friday, September 25, 2009
More Than Wishful Thinking
Someday Again... Someday I'll run like the wind--again, sing like a bird on a summer morn, remember each tiny thing, no grasping for words or names to go with faces. Though my heart soars now with the thought of it I can wait knowing it will come.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Skate Death Match
Patrick Swayze in The Rock & Roller Disco Movie of 1979, Skatetown, USA
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
When It Happens...
....it happens. It's magical, exhilarating. It's not always for the best, not always wanted, sometimes doesn't last, may break your heart, may break someone else's heart. It's crazy! It's physical--knees get weak and temperatures rise. Sooner or later, the magic ends and the work begins. Maintaining...
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