I’m seeking inspiration in the dog days of summer, and I’m cheating a little bit. This 3-song playlist isn’t songs, but it is three opportunities to laugh. And can’t we all use more laughter?
I first saw this video a few years ago. I always knew dogs were smart!
I first saw this video a couple months ago. It still cracks me up every time I watch it.
And what do we want to do most on those lazy, hazy days of summer? Sleep!
Where I grew up [in Louisville, where the women are fast and the horses are beautiful...] the first Saturday in May means the running of the Kentucky Derby. I haven’t posted a 3-Song Playlist in a while. Here’s one for Derby Day, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The Big Sleep [1946] featured Humphrey Bogart as Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe and continued the on-screen chemistry between Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I like mysteries and I like Bogie and Bacall and I love this bit of trivia [as described on IMDb]:
While working on the script, writers William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett couldn’t figure out from the novel who murdered a particular character. So they phoned Raymond Chandler, who angrily told them the answer was right there in the book. They shrugged and returned to their work. Chandler soon phoned to say that he looked at the book himself and couldn’t figure out who killed the character, so he left it up to them to decide. In the original cut, shown to the armed services, this question is resolved; in the film as released, it isn’t.
In one scene Bacall and other casino patrons sing And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine. Embedding for the clip is disabled, but do yourself a favor and click over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z11dA7srESo to give it a listen.
Big [1988] includes this iconic scene of Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia playing Heart & Soul and Chopsticks with their feet in the FAO Schwartz toy store. I like this movie a lot and I love this scene.
The Big Chill [1983] has a great soundtrack. I never found the story believable, but I like the cast and I love the music. This little clip with Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by the Temptations I think displays nicely the interaction of the characters and how the music is woven into the story.
RRR: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This is an update of a post from 2007.
Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. So here’s a 3-Song Playlist with Thanks as the theme. And, “Thanks!” to all the online friends I have here in the blogosphere.
My favorite radio station plays Alice’s Restaurant every Thanksgiving at noon. I saw Arlo Guthrie in concert once. He did not play Alice’s Restaurant that night, but I really enjoyed the show anyway. He had a good sense of humor. Lots of people yelled for that song and others. At one point he said, “We don’t have time to play them all. Thank God we recorded ‘em!”
There are, of course, other songs that would fit this theme. I also considered a theme of things I am thankful for [but this was easier]. What songs would you include [either songs about thanks or things you are thankful for]?
Here’s a 3-Song Playlist I put together for personal reasons just for today.
The melancholy and the joyful. Hopeless and hopeful. Yin and Yang. Two parts of a whole. Ends of a spectrum. Can we truly know anything without having seen it from both sides?
Like a dance, we choose partners and then [more often than not, it seems] promptly step on each other’s toes. Dancing gets easier with practice though and with the right partner — it’s magic!
ONE two three… and so we dance two three… and we hope two three… and we dream two three… Of two three forever….
RIP Les Paul, pioneer of the electric guitar and multi-track recording, 1915 – 2009
Over at The Collective they’ve been posting about their crushes [and inviting us to do so too]. I’ve heard that no one forgets their first crush. You may have many others throughout your years — your memories of them blur and fade. But that first one….
Her name was [I suppose it still is] Elizabeth — a blue-eyed blonde. I was in first grade and she was in second [an older woman!]. I was [and am] very shy and [given my age, understandably] immature. [My immaturity is less understandable now....] So naturally I never told her that I liked her [LIKED her liked her]. But I still remember vividly that that was the first time I was so aware of another person. I can’t explain why I would care what she wore, what she said, what she thought, whether she noticed me. I only know that I did. Attraction is a strange and wonderful force. [I'm strange. She's wonderful.]
I don’t know how long I pined after her. [Pine, punishment, and pain all come from common linguistic roots. Does this surprise anyone?] Her family moved away the next year and my crushes rarely survive long distances [unless, like celebrity crushes, they started out that way]. Crushes, infatuations, unrequited [or imaginary] love — I have a much different perspective these days. I’m not immune, but I know they are transitory and they are anything but romantic.
Sometimes I worry whether I reveal too much of myself in this blog. I am reminded tonight of this bit of wisdom:
I can prove that worry works because most of the things I worry about never happen.
(M)ary from As If You Care posted about a site called Typealizer that will analyze your blog’s personality type using the familiar Myers-Briggs Type Indicators. I have taken shortened versions of such personality tests [they said I should get one....] but not recently. I was pretty sure though that I was INTJ. I was quite surprised then with the Typealizer results:
ESFP – The Performers
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead – they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation – qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
This is the complete opposite of INTJ. And these web-based tools are always accurate, aren’t they? Suspecting that I wasn’t remembering my personality type results from years ago [the old grey matter ain't what it used to be] and to quiet the voices that were arguing loudly in my head [um, maybe you didn't need to know that?] I turned to Humanmetrics — a free short version of a personality type indicator. [And these web-based tools are always accurate, aren't they?] Sure enough, my results from that short questionnaire are:
Your Type is INTJ
You are:
- very expressed introvert (89%)
- moderately expressed intuitive personality (25%)
- moderately expressed thinking personality (38%)
- slightly expressed judging personality (22%)
I am not my blog…
…or am I?
All of the following statements about hydroxic acid (DHMO) are absolutely true and independently verifiable:
So, should we be worried about this dangerous chemical compound? It does have many practical uses and even healthful benefits to virtually all plants and animals. More importantly, hydroxic acid is more commonly known not so much as DHMO but by either its chemical formula or a vernacular term. DHMO is dihydrogen monoxide… H2O… water.
And one more: embedding is disabled on this one, but it’s definitely worth a click.
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