It’s That Time

The Pool of Sacred Tears

Kashmir

The making of…

Rainbow—Since You Been Gone

Stuck in my head at the moment…  From 1979, the Graham Bonnet version of Rainbow.

The Beards

24 Years Later

Very cool.

Hat tip Modern Commentaries.

Amos Moses

The Godfather

I just finished reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo. I can’t believe I’ve never read it before, but I so rarely read fiction any more that it must have been an unfortunate oversight on my part. In any case, it’s a fantastic book and actually makes you appreciate the skill with which the movie was made even more.

Guy Movies

There are some movies that a guy just can’t NOT watch when they are on. Included in this list are:

Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars (any)
Godfather (I and II)
Terminator
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Die Hard
Goodfellas
Dirty Harry
Any James Bond Movie
Lethal Weapon
Blazing Saddles

Merely a starter list… what else?

Mashup

I was driving home from work today listening to Lake FM and heard a very interesting mashup. They played Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall Part 1:”

And followed it with Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep:”

As radio stations are wont to do, they bled the first song into the second song. In this case they seemed to do it for a good 10 or 15 seconds and the mashup of the end of “Another Brick” and the beginning of “Deep” was very very cool. A professional mashup of the underlying track of “Another Brick in the Wall” with he drums and vocals of “Rolling in the Deep” would be quite good, I think.

Sidewinder

This is Sidewinder, the 571st Air National Guard Band of the Central States Rock Band, stationed at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri as part of the 131st Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and deployed as part of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Band.

Girl’s Got Rythm

Since I’m jones’in on AC/DC…

Ride On

There’s a marvelous live version of this song that’s 10 minutes or so. RIP Bon.

Albums

I know I’m not the first, nor will I be the last, to lament that the age of digital music has obliterated the art that was The Album. While a great album has songs that can certainly stand on their own, the full experience is not appreciated until the song is taken in context of the entire album. For example, Pink Floyd’s The Wall should never ever be listened to in parts. One must listen to the entire album to fully get it.

I’ve been on a mission as of late to remind myself of this fact by listening to albums in their entirety instead of listening to just my “favorite” songs as one in wont to do with an iPod. I bring your attention to three albums that I love but had forgotten just how good they are when listened to from alpha to omega.

Mountain Music by Alabama.

The Joshua Tree by U2.

Metallica by Metallica.

Humpty

I miss the Humpty.