When the umpteenth variation of “Dead of the Living Night” comes on television, it’s tempting to deride the caliber of entertainment available today. And I do, but as human beings we’ve always had something of a spotty track record when it comes to spectacle. Imagine a huge tent filled with people waiting for somebody to be shot out of a cannon. Not long ago, that was entertainment. Before that, it was bear-baiting and feeding people to wild animals. Maybe we’ve come further than we think.
Big Shot
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402 responses to “Big Shot”
I love The Piano Guys. I just forwarded the video link to my friend. She loves The Piano Guys, too. And weddings. She’ll be ecstatic.
Trucker, that was amazing! And you all are amazing as well. And the Piano Guys are going to be playing in Tulsa at the Brady so I can go see them!
Or go to St. Louis or Houston, or one of their other appearances.
I love cello and chamber music, if that is what I just heard? The most upbeat cello’s!
Love, Jackie
I love chamber music and all Classical music, Jackie. I love Mozart the bestest.
Heh, I was just dying laughing to the point where my co-workers were peeking in at me. I got an e-mail from Victoria’s Secret that recommended I get refitted for a bra every six months. What part of 30 AA do you not understand?
I love chamber music and all Classical music, Jackie. I love Mozart the bestest.
Heh, I was just dying laughing to the point where my co-workers were peeking in at me. I got an e-mail from Victoria’s Secret that recommended I get refitted for a bra every six months. What part of 30 AA do you not understand?
The one & only Webb Wilder and his music video “The Human Cannonball”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYAdSaxdt0
“Another lost art”… Jimmy, good one. 🙂
TR- neat video, thanks!
Nodak Wayne, what kind of fish was that?
Folks, thanks for brightening the afternoon. You’re good people.
Lily, I doubt I had ever heard any classical music live and only recordings I bought for myself. I went away to boarding school and heard my first chamber music, first symphony, first everything and I was like Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman”. I was hooked at an early age.
These guys are awesomely talented. My dear husband is in LR watching Fox news and complaining about the “racket”. I said I was going to invite him to go see the PianoGuys with me. He said forget it, he wouldn’t want to.
I just told him it would be easier for me to find a new husband if he didn’t like these guys! The Charlie Brown Medley just made me smile and laugh, which I needed. There is not a bad recording on the list!
Mention he likes the Transsiberian Railroad/way and those Celtic women?
Love, Jackie Monies
I’ve just come across a YouTube presentation about a statue at a mortuary in St George, Utah. It involves a portrayal of Christ, so it’s not for everyone… but it does give hope and comfort to many:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGWhZ-GPTCE
Llee, That is a Minnesota Muskie. Only 42inches long, needs to be 48″ to be legally kept. Every time I see little kids having fun splashing around on the beach I wonder if they know what is swimming around them.
Jimmy: I went to the first page to look at some posts from a couple of years ago (12 06 12). The post for that date came up, but the comments were closed. I don’t want to comment, but this blog is a bit like a diary and there have been certain days worth remembering when the comments were pretty good.
I remember going back to the early days and noticing people that were regulars who either a) Changed their alias b) Actually got a life (just kidding there) or c) Have gone to the great comic strip in the sky. Of course if they did, then we couldn’t know unless there is wifi in heaven. I think that there is wifi in Hell, but it keeps booting you off before you can download anything!
I think only spam makes it to the denizens of Sheol.
I took my stepdad and mom to hear the first symphony they ever went to. Stepdad noticed the repetitive notes and asked why they kept playing same thing over and over. I was reminded of that in the “rant” about the same 8 notes for the cello in Pachelbel’s Canon in D, that he wrote them and then dropped dead!
Also took them to first live musical onstage (and probably movie too) of “Sound of Music” and stepdad asked if it was a true story.
I said more or less?
Don’t think I ever got them to a musical movie actually? No operas, no ballets, no books, no art. Husband says I was dropped from a space ship by aliens in a pod.
Love, Jackie Monies
Twain:
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Steve, I’ve been commenting on the missing comments on and off for a couple of months or so. So far that has not garnered any response from Jimmy or anyone else, and I was beginning to think I was the only one who cared. In there would be the only record of many of my “friends I’ve never met” who, as you say, no longer comment. I too would hate to think they are gone forever.
Perhaps one of my favorites by The Piano Guys…”Michael Meets Mozart”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-TAHrExBP0
Lily might even like it, if she clicks on it.
This is a very funny and enlightening group, full of humor, cleverness, intelligence. I do have other lives but I do live where it is hard for me to find like minded individuals or good conversation. As long as I was on the road or the phone working, I interacted with so many, some of them/many were entertaining.
My customers became my friends, then when we retired and stopped being road warriors my friends became my internet friends. I am serious when I say I’d welcome any of you in person just as I do my boating bunch. That began as mostly internet friends who I invited to come for real.
That number is pushing 300 or more in my back yard nowadays and that is fine. I am with Ghost, I liked reading the old postings, I did that for some time before I decided to move in.
Love, Jackie Monies
Munchkin, you might want to listen to Vicky. You never know when you might need to up-armor to a size 31AA. 🙂
Nope. The only question I answered “yes” to was “Do you have gaps at the top of the cups?” That I do, but I just tighten the straps. I listen to many of my better endowed friends griping about how men stare at their chests and how the straps cut into their backs and their backaches, and I am happy like I am 😛
Jackie – Trans-Siberian Orchestra perhaps? I love those guys! I love Canon in D and Für Elise, beautiful melodies.
The rant on Canon is pretty good, saw it a while ago, but great for a grin. If you want to hear
about a nifty clip of music, go to YouTube and search for “Amen Break.” It’s a six second drum sample that’s been used everywhere.
Ghost, Have to get out the toaster box and count puzzle pieces, I don’t know. But I have been looking forward to putting it together all day!
I think the old posts disappeared when Jimmy had trouble with the site earlier this spring. Remember the new posts kept vanishing from one day to the next? And Jimmy was trying to work out what was happening, and finally said he thought previous posts were gone for good, but he had stopped the new ones from going away.
Jackie, here’s the video for the Ray Stevens Hugo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daJUFDOq83c
Mindy actually I like Trans-Siberian too but I was annoyed he wouldn’t admit the PianoGuys were good or agree to go!
My oldest daughter got a lot of her “ideas on life” from me probably, so when her other grandmother came to visit she bought tickets way down close to stage and took her, thinking she would like the Christmas show. My mother in law could only complain about how terrible and loud they were and “ruined all the songs.”
I am definitely clicking on the links and listening to the music and you know what, I am totally enjoying it! We have awful radio here, so no use even trying that. It is like having an eclectic deejay with good “trivia patter.”
Love, Jackie
Anybody remember the site that emb or cep used to link to where they had works of art that were snarkily captioned or retitled? I need one of them for my Sunday school lesson for next weekend
“That is Priceless”? We had fun coming up woth our own at the MOMA in NYC… 🙂
Lily, I included 2 links so I am being moderated. The blog site is
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/