I just wanted to say sorry I have not posted for a month! A Month, really, crap! I Promise to get back to it this week. I've been working on the railroad - well my webpage and other life interferences!
Looking for something to do - catch up with the season opener of Leverage on TNT's website, download Let Me Go - Christian Kane's new single released today, and I recommend these films - The Grand - piss take on poker with Woody Harrelson, Diamonds - with Kirk Douglas and Dan Aykroyd - Danny;s best ever work. IMHO and Atonement with Keira Knightly!! IT IS JUST GREAT
I'll be back tomorrow - Same Bat Time - Same Bat Channel
D
5.25.2011
Take my license, all that jive, I CAN'T DRIVE 55!
Top 5 Road trips! - that don't involved Rock n Roll
Pennsylvania - Nashville and back via a blown transmission on Skyline Drive
Massachusetts - Minneapolis - Massachusetts to see MST3K!
Massachusetts - Florida with Liz in the 63 Chevy
3 car caravan road trip to Magnum Opus Con in South Carolina
My week long drive around Scotland - (1st time with Right Hand Drive!)
And in the Word's of Bill Engvall - here's Your Sign!
Pennsylvania - Nashville and back via a blown transmission on Skyline Drive
Massachusetts - Minneapolis - Massachusetts to see MST3K!
Massachusetts - Florida with Liz in the 63 Chevy
3 car caravan road trip to Magnum Opus Con in South Carolina
My week long drive around Scotland - (1st time with Right Hand Drive!)
And in the Word's of Bill Engvall - here's Your Sign!
5.24.2011
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. = Alls Well That End's Well
Times Square - NYC
I firmly believe that everyone should ring in th enew year in Times Square at least once! I did it with a very special person, my friend Brian, He is an amazing music teacher - one of those people that is just a joy to watch when he is working. In all the classrooms I have visited him in, the children are always so happy and into the music! We were lucky enough to be right in front of Dick Clark and on a night that was not too cold! You are not supposed to drink but I did hide a split of champagne in my back pack and we were the only ones who had a proper toast at Midnight! The excitement and the cheer sence of time and place were just amazing!
London - in the snow the night Big Ben almost froze!
This was an incredible night with another great friend Teri! She is one of those people that is just an adventure waiting to happen and will do anything! No really! This was one of those rare times when is was unbelieveably cold and snowy in London. So cold, in fact that there was talk that Big Ben might not ring as the clapper was frozen! We had been on a guided walk and then had a great time in a pub with some great Craic. We came out of the pub to lightly falling snow and walked up the Mall to Parliment and there wasn't a soul on the street but us - magic - you could hear the sounds of all the people in Trafalgar Sq, but for one moment it was just us and the snow and the night.
Ringing in 1984 with all my Sci Fi friends - Beware Big Brother
This group of friends and I have been together since 1980. Most of them met and married their significant other from this group. We all rang in the turn of the centuray together but this night was just sheer fun - we were all young, single and without care! Since a love of science fiction is how we all met, it seemed logical that we would cellebrate 1984. There were Big Brother is watching you poster up in the room we rented at the hotel. I remember lots of dancing and drinking and - chair racing??? I laugh everytime I think about it!
Aerosmith at the Boston Garden
This was another night that is burned into my memory! Some friend you have for life and other come into your life , burn really bright and then are gone. Sorry I make it sould like she died! Only our friendship did but as sad as it was, I still have some of the most amazing memories of my times with her. We were truly rock n roll partners in crime and had many, many an adventure, which, if you stick around this blog - I'm sure you'll read more about her! P - Aerosmith had a great party at the Garden that night and they did a food drive so if you bought in cans of food you could get in line for a meet and greet after. It was to celebrate "the turn" 1989 to 1990, the music, the old Garden, and a live TV feed to Times SQ - who could ask for anything more.
Southside Johnny at the old Studio 54
My friend Helen is one of those rare really beautiful woman, who don't have ANY ego about themselves. She can do anything and we met because of The Monkees and for a while she and I were New Year's Eve buddies. her Ex Hubby was in a band so he worked every New Year and I used to come and hang with her.
This night was just us girls though, in New York, all dress up and Johnny rocked the house!
I apologise that all the pics for this post are stuck on a currently non functioning hard drive! Promise - I'll get up em soon as it's fixed.
Until then a picture of a goat in a wheelbarrow!
I firmly believe that everyone should ring in th enew year in Times Square at least once! I did it with a very special person, my friend Brian, He is an amazing music teacher - one of those people that is just a joy to watch when he is working. In all the classrooms I have visited him in, the children are always so happy and into the music! We were lucky enough to be right in front of Dick Clark and on a night that was not too cold! You are not supposed to drink but I did hide a split of champagne in my back pack and we were the only ones who had a proper toast at Midnight! The excitement and the cheer sence of time and place were just amazing!
London - in the snow the night Big Ben almost froze!
This was an incredible night with another great friend Teri! She is one of those people that is just an adventure waiting to happen and will do anything! No really! This was one of those rare times when is was unbelieveably cold and snowy in London. So cold, in fact that there was talk that Big Ben might not ring as the clapper was frozen! We had been on a guided walk and then had a great time in a pub with some great Craic. We came out of the pub to lightly falling snow and walked up the Mall to Parliment and there wasn't a soul on the street but us - magic - you could hear the sounds of all the people in Trafalgar Sq, but for one moment it was just us and the snow and the night.
Ringing in 1984 with all my Sci Fi friends - Beware Big Brother
This group of friends and I have been together since 1980. Most of them met and married their significant other from this group. We all rang in the turn of the centuray together but this night was just sheer fun - we were all young, single and without care! Since a love of science fiction is how we all met, it seemed logical that we would cellebrate 1984. There were Big Brother is watching you poster up in the room we rented at the hotel. I remember lots of dancing and drinking and - chair racing??? I laugh everytime I think about it!
Aerosmith at the Boston Garden
This was another night that is burned into my memory! Some friend you have for life and other come into your life , burn really bright and then are gone. Sorry I make it sould like she died! Only our friendship did but as sad as it was, I still have some of the most amazing memories of my times with her. We were truly rock n roll partners in crime and had many, many an adventure, which, if you stick around this blog - I'm sure you'll read more about her! P - Aerosmith had a great party at the Garden that night and they did a food drive so if you bought in cans of food you could get in line for a meet and greet after. It was to celebrate "the turn" 1989 to 1990, the music, the old Garden, and a live TV feed to Times SQ - who could ask for anything more.
Southside Johnny at the old Studio 54
My friend Helen is one of those rare really beautiful woman, who don't have ANY ego about themselves. She can do anything and we met because of The Monkees and for a while she and I were New Year's Eve buddies. her Ex Hubby was in a band so he worked every New Year and I used to come and hang with her.
This night was just us girls though, in New York, all dress up and Johnny rocked the house!
I apologise that all the pics for this post are stuck on a currently non functioning hard drive! Promise - I'll get up em soon as it's fixed.
Until then a picture of a goat in a wheelbarrow!
5.23.2011
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
Top Five New Year's Eve's!
Times Square - NYC
London - in the snow the night Big Ben almost froze!
Ringing in 1984 with all my Sci Fi friends - Beware Big Brother
Aerosmith at the Boston Garden
Southside Johnny at the old Studio 54
Stories to follow tomorrow!
Here's another sign for you!
Times Square - NYC
London - in the snow the night Big Ben almost froze!
Ringing in 1984 with all my Sci Fi friends - Beware Big Brother
Aerosmith at the Boston Garden
Southside Johnny at the old Studio 54
Stories to follow tomorrow!
Here's another sign for you!
5.22.2011
"For through his mane and tail the high wind sings, fanning the hairs, who wave like feather'd wings" -Venus and Adonis
If you know me well and you read yesterday's list, you are probably thinking - sports, D likes sports?!
Well in a word - Hell Yeah - alas - yet another pleasure I put away for my married years!
Football was certainly the first sport I fell in love with. When I was small my Dad would sit in his green recliner chair with a beer - the only time he ever drank in the house- and watch Sunday football. I'd sit on the floor at his feet with my little "shrimp cocktail" juice glass, he'd put a sip of beer in it and explain the game.
I can remember, later on when I was probably 10 or 11 and my Mom would ask what was happening and we would look at her and roll our eyes and say together - Fourth Down! or Field Goal! - My poor Mom - in a family of 3, if was always 2 against 1. I was first, last and always my Daddy's girl!
(note to those of you not old enough to know - you used to be able to buy 3 packs of shrimp cocktail in small glasses with a tin cover. We used to get them all the time and afterwards my Mom used the glasses for juice.)
As I got older a love of football served me well as I spent four glorious years at each and every high school game with my best friend Tina. She played trumpet in marching band, and third quarter the band had "off" - I'll save those stories for another day.
When I first moved to London I used to stay up to some ungodly hour to watch the American football broadcast.
I was lucky enough to find a good friend who introduced me to "proper" football (soccer for those of you who don't know!)
I spent many a Saturday chanting and singing on the terraces cheering on the Wanderers! CHAIRBOYS!
Living in the UK also allowed me to live out a live long fantasy of watching tennis at Wimbledon. In the mid-seventies I used to make my Mother get up at 5am and make strawberries and cream for me so I could watch Bud Collins live match coverage!
I am also a baseball fan, and since I am a Bostonian by birth, I am a Red Sox fan. And what a time to be one! I wish my Dad could have been around to see the World Series Win - he would have been over joyed! But while football memories always lead me back to my Dad, baseball always makes me think of the best bunch of SciFi fans around! I know what you're thinking - SciFi nerds and baseball - I know but this particular bunch were always the black sheep of Starfleet. We were notoriously the drunkest ship in the fleet - Beer Belly's one and all - and sorry but that too is a story for another day! Suffice to say - the USS McCauliffe - were all about rock n roll, beer and baseball - oh and once in a while we might talk about Star Trek. I cant hear Centerfield without smiling and thinking of them all.
I'll leave you today with some pics of horse racing -
2004, my last year in the UK, I went to Ascot and Aintree - what a thrill to have picked the winner at the Grand National! And in case you don't know - Ladies Day a Ascot is notorious for outlandish hats , so here are a few, including mine!
Meet ya all at the winners circle with a Pimms
D
Well in a word - Hell Yeah - alas - yet another pleasure I put away for my married years!
Football was certainly the first sport I fell in love with. When I was small my Dad would sit in his green recliner chair with a beer - the only time he ever drank in the house- and watch Sunday football. I'd sit on the floor at his feet with my little "shrimp cocktail" juice glass, he'd put a sip of beer in it and explain the game.
I can remember, later on when I was probably 10 or 11 and my Mom would ask what was happening and we would look at her and roll our eyes and say together - Fourth Down! or Field Goal! - My poor Mom - in a family of 3, if was always 2 against 1. I was first, last and always my Daddy's girl!
(note to those of you not old enough to know - you used to be able to buy 3 packs of shrimp cocktail in small glasses with a tin cover. We used to get them all the time and afterwards my Mom used the glasses for juice.)
As I got older a love of football served me well as I spent four glorious years at each and every high school game with my best friend Tina. She played trumpet in marching band, and third quarter the band had "off" - I'll save those stories for another day.
When I first moved to London I used to stay up to some ungodly hour to watch the American football broadcast.
I was lucky enough to find a good friend who introduced me to "proper" football (soccer for those of you who don't know!)
I spent many a Saturday chanting and singing on the terraces cheering on the Wanderers! CHAIRBOYS!
Living in the UK also allowed me to live out a live long fantasy of watching tennis at Wimbledon. In the mid-seventies I used to make my Mother get up at 5am and make strawberries and cream for me so I could watch Bud Collins live match coverage!
I am also a baseball fan, and since I am a Bostonian by birth, I am a Red Sox fan. And what a time to be one! I wish my Dad could have been around to see the World Series Win - he would have been over joyed! But while football memories always lead me back to my Dad, baseball always makes me think of the best bunch of SciFi fans around! I know what you're thinking - SciFi nerds and baseball - I know but this particular bunch were always the black sheep of Starfleet. We were notoriously the drunkest ship in the fleet - Beer Belly's one and all - and sorry but that too is a story for another day! Suffice to say - the USS McCauliffe - were all about rock n roll, beer and baseball - oh and once in a while we might talk about Star Trek. I cant hear Centerfield without smiling and thinking of them all.
I'll leave you today with some pics of horse racing -
2004, my last year in the UK, I went to Ascot and Aintree - what a thrill to have picked the winner at the Grand National! And in case you don't know - Ladies Day a Ascot is notorious for outlandish hats , so here are a few, including mine!
Meet ya all at the winners circle with a Pimms
D
5.21.2011
We're born again, there's new grass on the field.
Today's Top 5 - ok really top 10!
Sporting Events
Larry Bird Night - Boston Garden
Wimbledon Middle Saturday - UK
Grand National - Aintree Racetrack - Liverpool
Ascot - Ladies Day - UK
All Star Game - Camden Yard - Baltimore
Jimmy Conners/Bjorn Borg exhibition match - RI
Bruins Stanley Cup playoffs - Boston Garden
Aston Villa Match - UK
All those great days on the terraces watching Wycombe
Patriots/Jets with my Dad
here's the Queen and Prince Philip - Ascot and Redrum - Aintree
Sporting Events
Larry Bird Night - Boston Garden
Wimbledon Middle Saturday - UK
Grand National - Aintree Racetrack - Liverpool
Ascot - Ladies Day - UK
All Star Game - Camden Yard - Baltimore
Jimmy Conners/Bjorn Borg exhibition match - RI
Bruins Stanley Cup playoffs - Boston Garden
Aston Villa Match - UK
All those great days on the terraces watching Wycombe
Patriots/Jets with my Dad
here's the Queen and Prince Philip - Ascot and Redrum - Aintree
5.20.2011
If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On
Yesterday a list - today an extrapolation! And so that is how I propose to go on, Every other day a list and then a story.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz has always been a special movie for me, but it became even more engrained in my memory and life as it was the first play I was ever involved in. Not on , but backstage. It was the start of my love of the theatre and many happy days in stage craft with some of the best friends on earth. And I still believe that there must be a place where there isn't any trouble . . . .it's far, far away, behind the moon, beyond the rain!
Long and Winding Road - Beatles
1976 - What a year for me! 13 -My first plane flight and it was all by myself - to LA! For the whole summer!, The year of the Wizard of Oz at school and the year my music teacher taught a class on the Beatles - and I couldn't get enough of them! This song was, and sometimes still is, the one I play when I want a good cry and a good lift at the same time! I was lucky enough to actually walk the actual Long and Winding Road - down to the Mull of Kintyre!
Disney Girls - Beach Boys
Blues Street - Moody Blues
These two songs are forever wrapped up in all my high school memories - after school, around the piano, Roger - our choir director playing and all of us gathered around singing! Disney Girls - Blues Street - he played this record for us one day and it is just such a great song with such powerful words -
Wanderlust - Paul McCartney
Anything Macca - but this is the song that sums me up - full of the Wanderlust that my Father gave me from birth!
Empty Garden - Elton John
I was at music school when John died. I had a room full of Beatle pictures - I was out all night playing backgammon with my friend Rob who was an insomniac. This happen quote often and my roommates NEVER stay up. This night I walk in and they are both sitting up in bed and asking me frantically if I am ok! I had no idea what they were on about! They told me someone had shot and killed John Lennon and I was furious - not funny etc - they put the radio on to prove it and I just layed down on the floor and wept. I locked myself in a practice room and played Beatles songs on the piano and sang and cried. I love this song Elton wrote and it gives me a lump in my throat every time.
Shelter Me - Cinderella
This is just one of many great songs for driving and singing at the top of the lungs - but more than that - it's the lyrics - Im a lyrics kinda girl!
Everybody needs a little place they can hide
Somewhere to call their own
Don’t let nobody inside
Every now and then we all need to let go
For some it’s the doctor
For me it’s rock and roll
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper to get us by
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper ooo, and it’ll be alright
Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones
This is my fav Stones Song - and it is in my will to be played at my funeral - but the memory that comes up anytime I hear it is - Pauletta and I driving down Sunset Strip at 2am singing at the top of our lungs after our amazing week in LA -Eric Clapton, Ron Wood and the Four Seasons will never forget us!
Old Cape Cod - Patti Page
Patti Page is such a part of my childhood - I could sing every one of her songs by heart by the time I was 7 or 8 - standing in our living room with my pretend microphone -wishing I was on stage! And this song about my favourite place on earth fits so well with childhood and memories of me and my Dad fishing.
Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney
See Long and Winding Road - oh and if you are ever at the Mull , take it from me - the cows there are NOT partial to teh actual song, I should know as I parked on the side of road overlooking the sea view there and played the song on my car stereo at 11 - and the cows were not amused but I will never forget it!
In the Cool of the Evening - Dean Martin
Yet another funeral song - Dean is the coolest of the cool and this song is such a feel good, best time singing, partying and drinking with your mates moment in time!
Harness Pain - The Proclaimers
I love Charlie and Craig - but this song - OMG there is NOT a bad line in it and the tune - simply, to me, one of the best songs EVER
You need to harness pain
To raise yourself up again
You need to harness pain
And tell the truth about love
You need to break your heart
Before you can really start
You need to break your heart
And tell the truth about love
Then you need to set a goal that you can't reach
Then you have to attack defenses you can't breach
Then you need to lose and lose and lose again
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain
You harness pain
You need to take your doubts
And spread them all about
You need to face your doubts
To tell the truth about love
You know the cliche's wrong
Hatred is just as strong
You know it's just as strong
Just as strong as love
So you need to take your hate and doubt and fear
Distill them through your word 'til they run clear
'Til they run right through your heart like Highland rainIf you want to hold the flame
You harness pain
You harness pain
Do you want to be the best or be well known? -
Do you want to repeat lines or write your own?Do you want to follow paths or blaze a trail?
When you try to succeed, You mostly fail
And you're gonna lose and lose and lose again
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain
You harness pain
Somethings Gotta Give - Christian Kane
Now to the song that the blog title comes from - I have recently discovered Christian's music - he is on Leverage and if you haven't seen it - check it out - great show!
He is country but with a great rock beat - and this song just floored me - Once in awhile you hear a song that just feels like it was written about your life!
This is it -
See Ya All Tomorrow!!!
D
Picture of the Day
May you all have Strawberry Fields FOREVER
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz has always been a special movie for me, but it became even more engrained in my memory and life as it was the first play I was ever involved in. Not on , but backstage. It was the start of my love of the theatre and many happy days in stage craft with some of the best friends on earth. And I still believe that there must be a place where there isn't any trouble . . . .it's far, far away, behind the moon, beyond the rain!
Long and Winding Road - Beatles
1976 - What a year for me! 13 -My first plane flight and it was all by myself - to LA! For the whole summer!, The year of the Wizard of Oz at school and the year my music teacher taught a class on the Beatles - and I couldn't get enough of them! This song was, and sometimes still is, the one I play when I want a good cry and a good lift at the same time! I was lucky enough to actually walk the actual Long and Winding Road - down to the Mull of Kintyre!
Disney Girls - Beach Boys
Blues Street - Moody Blues
These two songs are forever wrapped up in all my high school memories - after school, around the piano, Roger - our choir director playing and all of us gathered around singing! Disney Girls - Blues Street - he played this record for us one day and it is just such a great song with such powerful words -
It's funny how our lives are like a prize fight
One day you're up and then you get knocked down
But i have learned the hurt can end
We can come up smelling like a rose again
Wanderlust - Paul McCartney
Anything Macca - but this is the song that sums me up - full of the Wanderlust that my Father gave me from birth!
Empty Garden - Elton John
I was at music school when John died. I had a room full of Beatle pictures - I was out all night playing backgammon with my friend Rob who was an insomniac. This happen quote often and my roommates NEVER stay up. This night I walk in and they are both sitting up in bed and asking me frantically if I am ok! I had no idea what they were on about! They told me someone had shot and killed John Lennon and I was furious - not funny etc - they put the radio on to prove it and I just layed down on the floor and wept. I locked myself in a practice room and played Beatles songs on the piano and sang and cried. I love this song Elton wrote and it gives me a lump in my throat every time.
Shelter Me - Cinderella
This is just one of many great songs for driving and singing at the top of the lungs - but more than that - it's the lyrics - Im a lyrics kinda girl!
Everybody needs a little place they can hide
Somewhere to call their own
Don’t let nobody inside
Every now and then we all need to let go
For some it’s the doctor
For me it’s rock and roll
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper to get us by
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper ooo, and it’ll be alright
Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones
This is my fav Stones Song - and it is in my will to be played at my funeral - but the memory that comes up anytime I hear it is - Pauletta and I driving down Sunset Strip at 2am singing at the top of our lungs after our amazing week in LA -Eric Clapton, Ron Wood and the Four Seasons will never forget us!
Old Cape Cod - Patti Page
Patti Page is such a part of my childhood - I could sing every one of her songs by heart by the time I was 7 or 8 - standing in our living room with my pretend microphone -wishing I was on stage! And this song about my favourite place on earth fits so well with childhood and memories of me and my Dad fishing.
Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney
See Long and Winding Road - oh and if you are ever at the Mull , take it from me - the cows there are NOT partial to teh actual song, I should know as I parked on the side of road overlooking the sea view there and played the song on my car stereo at 11 - and the cows were not amused but I will never forget it!
In the Cool of the Evening - Dean Martin
Yet another funeral song - Dean is the coolest of the cool and this song is such a feel good, best time singing, partying and drinking with your mates moment in time!
Harness Pain - The Proclaimers
I love Charlie and Craig - but this song - OMG there is NOT a bad line in it and the tune - simply, to me, one of the best songs EVER
You need to harness pain
To raise yourself up again
You need to harness pain
And tell the truth about love
You need to break your heart
Before you can really start
You need to break your heart
And tell the truth about love
Then you need to set a goal that you can't reach
Then you have to attack defenses you can't breach
Then you need to lose and lose and lose again
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain
You harness pain
You need to take your doubts
And spread them all about
You need to face your doubts
To tell the truth about love
You know the cliche's wrong
Hatred is just as strong
You know it's just as strong
Just as strong as love
So you need to take your hate and doubt and fear
Distill them through your word 'til they run clear
'Til they run right through your heart like Highland rainIf you want to hold the flame
You harness pain
You harness pain
Do you want to be the best or be well known? -
Do you want to repeat lines or write your own?Do you want to follow paths or blaze a trail?
When you try to succeed, You mostly fail
And you're gonna lose and lose and lose again
If you want to hold the flame
You harness pain
You harness pain
Somethings Gotta Give - Christian Kane
Now to the song that the blog title comes from - I have recently discovered Christian's music - he is on Leverage and if you haven't seen it - check it out - great show!
He is country but with a great rock beat - and this song just floored me - Once in awhile you hear a song that just feels like it was written about your life!
This is it -
See Ya All Tomorrow!!!
D
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