Cornbread – Panama
Just because you CAN play “Eruption”, doesn’t mean you SHOULD; particularly when your audience is entirely comprised of restaurant patrons who are expecting nothing more than a bit of ambient folk music.
Yep, at a Mexican restaurant last night, one of the fairly inebriated diners asked the performing guitarist if he could play a [...]
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What is going on here????
Yes, that’s right; he’s playing Duck Hunt.
Yes, that’s right; he’s using a mirror to, like a banked basketball shot, shoot the ducks at an angle.
Yes, that’s right; it’s a Disney Princess mirror.
Oh the fun we have during the school lunch period!
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Lady Gaga vs. Journey – Just Stop Believing
‘Nuff said (or heard)?
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E.L.O. – Mr. Blue Sky
Sun is shinin’ in the sky There ain’t a cloud in sight It’s stopped rainin’ ev’rybody’s in a play And don’t you know It’s a beautiful new day [...]
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Spoon – Written In Reverse
I’m a math teacher, which means that I have an innate sense of lame jokes, to which I regularly subject my students. Last week, I was harping on my students that they really need to have their textbooks covered (typically with a paper grocery bag), even trying to tantalize them [...]
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Police vs. Bee Gees – Roxanne Should Be Dancing
I keep forgetting that Los Angeles has amazingly picturesque mountains, from which you can see both the scampering city lights and often undiscovered sunset colors as an evening closes.
The occasion last night was the wedding, and hilltop reception for two of my friends, Chris and Cindy who, [...]
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Def Leppard – Animal
Ah, the wonders of teaching in Los Angeles. Today, during my first period class, one of my students nonchalantly raised her hand and informed me (or rather, the class) that there was a giant roach scampering around the back of the classroom. While such occurrences are certainly not out of the ordinary, [...]
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Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question
Today’s L.A. Times article is sure to ruffle some feathers.The title “An unplanned revolution in L.A.’s public schools” seems to suggest that the solution to the woes of public education in the city of Los Angeles has finally been arrived at in the form of charter schools. Unfortunately, as [...]
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Michael Penn – Walter Reed
Today is a bit melancholy (hence the melancholy music from phenomenal musician Michael Penn) because, despite the wonderfully warm southern California temperatures, the reality of 3 days left of winter vacation is beginning to sink in. I’m trying to cram in all the stuff I had hoped to do during break [...]
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Brian Wilson – Our Prayer/Gee
There’s snow on the ground.
You know how I know?
Because the air is so beautifully clean that it provides breathtaking views (even from the LA basin) of the surrounding mountain tops that are beginning to become snow-capped. Yet none of that snow is privy to our mid 70 degree temps we’re [...]
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