Neglect

I sure have neglected my blog this month, and I've neglected reading my faves as well. I really like blogging. There are plenty of things to share. I've just been lazy I guess. 

I got to see Kevin Bacon tonight. Un-pixelized. In the same room. He is freaking cute, looks like the type to dance all night and can play a ridiculous number of instruments. If this is news to you, go check out The Bacon Brothers. Of course, that he's cute is not news. One of my favorite songs is Memorize. Beautiful. 

I just got an e-mail for NaNoWriMo. That was a complete failure last year. I could try again and aim for consistency. I did write 6,000 words. Maybe 6,005 could be a goal.

"You Should Have Heard the Horn Section"

I listened to classical music while commuting today. It's not completely out of the ordinary for me to do this but to keep it on the station the entire time is.

I once read an article about in inventor who will do something different just for a new perspective. While I felt like I was in a cartoon or that my drive was incredibly dramatic - you should have heard the horn section when I made a left turn - the thought came to me to see if I could keep this up for a week. Classical music is supposed to make you think better. I let you know how that works out.

Do the Salmon Dance

 

I love this! You might, too. Just give it one chance. Salmon have a keener sense of smell than a dog or a bear? What?!

The Way I Am

B and I went to our favorite coffee shop for dinner, and he was boasting about all the Pepsi points he has on Amazon to buy songs (coworkers are bringing him in bagfuls of Pepsi caps) so I mentioned that there was a song I really wanted. You probably know it from the Old Navy commercial last winter: "...if you are chilly, here take my sweater..."

It is the sweetest love song ever. And I'm a sap for that, so I want it.

When we get home, I Google it and find out that is it by an artist who is performing in my city this Sunday. I'm like, "Oh, THAT'S who Ingrid Michaelson is!" Our cool alternative station, WBER has given her song a bunch of airplay so I have been enjoying it for some time. They are sticklers for telling you who just sang what song which I love them for, but somehow I had not put it together. However, it would not have been as exciting if I knew all along.

Click here to check out her cool sound.

Cliffs of Dover

So my Guitar Hero "career" has progressed to the spot where the song Cliffs of Dover comes up, and I'm thrilled to finally know the name of this song I fell in love with 13 years ago the first time I heard it, but had no idea who it was by or what it was called. I even called radio stations over the years trying to hum it to no avail. Admittedly my humming wasn't that good, and this song gets really fast! I'd whistle, but that's even worse than my humming.

I scurried to iTunes and downloaded Eric Johnson's album and if you love yourself some amazing guitar, check him out. This guy rocks. It's as if this guitar was made to express puring screaming joy; Johnson's fingers are infused with it.