With compliments to the Kroger corporate DJ, this song distracted us from our weekly shopping at the 82nd Ave Fred Meyer:
I'm pretty sure the chorus lyrics were, "Must be shopping for an angel. Must be shopping for an angel. Must be shopping for an angel...." over the supermarket loudspeakers.
From last night's Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show (via ohnotheydidnt). Yes, it's very immature and offensive, but still funny:
Christopher Walken also covered Poker Face last week:
And here is the original:
Here's the latest song stuck in my head The Killers:
Apparently, it's a cover of Dire Straits' original:
The Killers are playing the Memorial Coliseum (which has some how been spared from being demolished) in September.
wicked, keller auditorium, portland, oregon, originally uploaded by PDX Pipeline.
Scott and I saw Wicked Thursday night at The Keller. I finally got to see what Scott was raving about and the songs finally make sense to me. The story was great and the music was, uh, very musical. (Okay, I admit, most musicals sound like variations of the same song to me.) But I'm glad I was finally able to see Wicked.
For some reason, we heard Pearl Jam's Yellow Ledbetter twice on the radio today which reminded me of this hilarious interpretation of lyrics.
LyricsFreak.com lists the actual lyrics:
Unsealed
On a porch a letter sat
Then you said i wanna leave it again
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again... yeah
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away yeah...
And they called and I said that I want what I said
And then I call out again
And the reason oughta leave her calm I know
I said i dont know whether
Im the boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they dont wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I dont want to stay...
Make me cry
Ooooh I see
I dont know theres something else
I wanna drum it all away
Oh I said I dont, I dont know whether Im a boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they dont wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I dont want to stay
I dont wanna stay (2x)
Dont
Dont wanna
Oh... yeah... oooh...
I keep re-watching the mid-season finale of Battlestar Galactica. Bear McCreary's score (which he details on his blog) is so optimistic for a such a dark show.
OBVIOUS SPOILER: If you haven't watched the first three seasons then this will be a major spoiler since it's about the fleet finally arriving at Earth:
It's a little less than three months until the final episodes start beginning airing on January 16, 2009.
Dolly Parton @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley, 8/5/08, originally uploaded by jkms.
Photo, stolen from Flickr, is from a concert earlier this week.
Last night, I paid back Scott for dragging him to the Elton John concert nearly two years ago. I could not have imagined ever going to a Dolly Parton concert. I was a little surprised he wanted to go since I've never heard him play her music, but apparently he has fond childhood memories of A Smoky Mountain Christmas.
I was a little concerned when I saw a few too many (more than zero) cowboy hats in the arena, but flaming gay men and drag queens seemed to out-number the cow hats. There were also a few young girls who apparently knew Dolly from "Hannah Montana".
Dolly was great. She sang and played a wide variety of music including a brave cover of Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy". I was surprised how much of the concert was her folksy banter with her devoted fans and reminiscing about her Smoky Mountain upbringing. So the concert was interesting and Dolly is very charming.
Marion Cotillard-La Vie En Rose, originally uploaded by TiVo_epaper.
I just finished watching La Vie En Rose. It started-off as the typical child-with-rough-background-grows-up-discovers-music-fame-drugs-etc biopic, so I was a little bored during the first half. Also, the non-linear editing and jumping around annoyed me. However, the last half of the film brought everything together.
Marion Cotillard was terrific as Edith Piaf although IMBD reports that she lipsynched all the songs -- which doesn't matter because she is very convincing.
The movie version:
The real thing:
Here is the latest sappy song that has been stuck in my head since I first heard it on Sunday's Oscars. The winner for best song Falling Slowly:
Here's the live Oscars version:
Video for "Dark Road" from Annie Lennox's upcoming Songs of Mass Destruction (Wiki) album.
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Last night, Scott, Tammy, David, and I attended the album release concert for Pink Martini's third album, Hey Eugene!. I was a little last-minute in buying the cheap tickets so we ended up at the top row at the top of the balcony of The Schnitz. Even so, the view from 'the nose bleeds' wasn't that bad and we still enjoyed the concert which featured the David York Ensemble and March Fourth Marching Band. Scott liked the David York Ensemble (although their performance was ruined by a loud baby -- WHO BRINGS THEIR BABY TO A CONCERT!?), so we may go to their next concert. March Fourth was crazy and entertaining as always.
Sadly, Thomas Lauderdale mentioned that the Jefferson High School choir that was featured one of Martini's previous albums no longer exists. He urged his hometown to support Portland Public Schools and its music program which, of course, solicited applause.
I like the title track from the album, so I'll probably make my one yearly album purchase.
Well, this posting is really for Scott who I annoyed with my rendition of Dina Martina/Cartman singing In The Ghetto (or "Jet-Tow" as Martina would say):
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Real lyrics: -- In the ghetto On a cold and grey Chicago mornin' A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto -- In the ghetto And his mama cries 'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need It's another hungry mouth to feed in the ghetto -- In the ghetto |
as opposed to: -- In the jet-tow mmm-mmm-mmm ummm-ummm-ummm In the jet-tow -- In the jet-tow |
Poor Scott. He puts up with so much.
Here's a full version which I've never really heard:
I'll be the first to admit that I don't know anything about music. When asked what music I liked, I would say, "I like most music -- except country." Like any dork, my radio is usually tuned to NPR/OPB talk radio, but I do listen to "alternative" rock, generic popularly corporate rock/pop music, and classical music that Scott makes me listen to.
Before the 2005 movie Walk the Line (IMDB.com), Johnny Cash was just one of those country music types that I never knew anything about. I think I even saw Johnny Cash (Wikipedia.org) at a Billy Graham Crusade (Wiki) in 1992 -- although I don't remember anything about it. However, the more of his music and covers (his of others' song, and others' covers of his songs) I hear, the more I like his singing.
Lately, I've had some of these songs stuck in my head:
Johnny Cash's 2002 cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" (Wiki) -- his last hit. His retrospective, farewell video is heartbreaking. The video also shows his wife, June Carter Cash (Wiki), watching him perform. They both passed away in 2003 within four months of each other.
Here is a Nine Inch Nails video of one of the original versions of the song:
David Bowie (Wiki) also performed "Hurt" with NIN:
Johnny Cash sang "The Wanderer" on U2's 1993 Zooropa album (Wiki). (Montage in YouTube video is unrelated to the song.)
U2's only live performance of "The Wanderer" (Wiki) for a 2005 Johnny Cash tribute.
Johnny Cash covered U2's "One" in 2000 (Wiki).
Cash's 1969 San Quentin performance of "A Boy Named Sue" (Wiki).
There are some hilarious fan videos of this song:
(BTW, I acknowledge the irony of sharing probably unauthorized versions of the music. I do own and plan on purchasing real copies of these songs -- really, I do.)
