lovely things

very cool. literally. i mean, if you can't have snow, you can look at pictures of it. but what i really liked was looking at the video at the bottom of the article -- beautiful visuals and wonderful music!

this is so cool! i'm tellin' ya, people love music and dancing!!

i can do that

this is a good one. i guess the gal does her own singing (a friend did all the music!). check it out. it's fun!!

it speaks to your soul

people love music. i have never understood those religions which ban music or dancing. music is about as universal a language as you can get.

it affects my soul

cute! i love this! a canadian company puts together a music video of carol of the bells.

it looks like they're having a lot of fun and it sounds great -- i wanted to play!

if you look farther down the page you'll see the group that sang the hallelujah chorus in the food court. what a neat thing to see. and i love how it affects people. what does a criminal think when he sees something like this? it moves me to tears.

different music

i still absolutely love and promote Groovera.com and somehow, through them, i started getting e-mails from TruThoughts, whoever that is. at any rate i finally paid attention to one of the e-mails and it took me to this site: www.hiddenorchestra.com and i listened to part of the first recording (vorka ... just really not my thing) and most of the second one -- spoken. i really enjoyed it, especially the trumpet -- did the guy every breathe? anyhow, if you want to listen to some music, check out Hidden Orchestra - Spoken.

pac man, yay!

omg, i just love marching bands. and this one is great! a lot of fun, and how much work that must have been!!! loved the horse and even though i didn't understand a lot of it, i totally recognized the effort and joie de vivre!!!

you have to smile and cheer

i haven't paid much (none) attention to this gangnam craze thats whipping around right now, but you just have to pay attention to a high school or college band. i mean, the infectious enthusiasm and sense of fun is just awfully hard to beat. and here, to the beat of the drums, is finally gangnam-style band music and a couple of shows!! yay!!! yaaaaaaayyyy!!!

you sweet thang....

this is so cute!!!!  these little twin girls are movin' and groovin' to their daddy's guitar ....

break dancing, again...

i like this!! it's a creative dance thing with an excellent little guy in the spotlight. and the music -- oh yes, love the music!

music can pretty much make or break things for me. yay, vincent lee!

lindsey stirling -- yes!

this violinist is a cutie-pie and i very much enjoyed watching her play. she seems to be passionate about music. and i love her outfits.

kt -- listen to/watch the skyrim (peter hollens) vid -- awesomeness triplicated!

Mr. Q is back!

i am soooooooo happy! Groovera is coming back! he sent me an e-mail to say he wanted me to be the first to know and i am so glad! it was just weird not being able to listen to that whenever i wanted to. but apparently quite a few people have let him know they'd like him to come back and, in spite of his health issues, he's going to try it. i hope he can do it and still take care of himself, because i really, really, really enjoy the station.

Yay GROOVERA!!!!!  thanks Tim!!

gets your blood going

a friend sent me a link to a bunch of gals playing benny goodman and i decided to go to youtube and listen to the man himself. i actually preferred the gals a little because they didn't play quite as fast as he did. then i ran across this video of dancing in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. waaaaaayyy much fun! it looks weird, but once you're out there dancing there's too much fun to be had!

after that i watched fred astaire, gene kelly, and lots of others. swing dancing, cha-cha, apache dancing. young kids today don't know what they're missing!

losing a love and learning to hate

all right, that does it. i found out the other day that my absolutely favorite listening station has quit.  yes, Groovera, aka FrostByte Groove Lounge, has called it quits. i loved that station -- specifically Low Mercury -- and it didn't have any commercials to interrupt whatever you had going. tim q. quitting, because of personal health, is a tragedy all by itself.

but now, we find out the first class airline tickets we bought for our trip to MYS's wedding has a leg which is messed up. the plane has been downgraded and they moved us three rows back. WTF??? oh sure, it's a computer system that makes the seating decisions and there's nothing they can do and no you can't have any money back.

well, i'm not in the mood. i've lost my music and now my money doesn't mean anything. after this trip i will never fly again. i don't care that it will take longer to get there. slower pace, back to the roots, remember how sweet it used to be. big business can just get along without me. and i totally do not care if they eventually have money problems, and i would help them down the tubes after experiencing their snotty/hateful attitude toward their customers. greedy bastards i can do without.

but i really miss my music.

many ways to touch someone

if someone you know and care for is in a nursing home and but a shell of their former self, expose them to music and see if it helps them want to be part of the world again. touching video. thanks, husband.

oh yeah...

this kid is definitely getting jiggy with it!

play that funky music

i guess the moral of the story is to always support your kids in what they want to do. or at least in what they're good at. this 8-yr old is pretty good. and cute.

oh joy!

do you like color? i do. and i enjoyed watching this little thing. they're dancing!

the future from the past

this is so neat. all the highways and byways and flyways and the way they get back to the top and how very clever. i wouldn't have been able to envision this thing at all. metropolis 2 is fun to watch -- those cars are going so fast and why don't they fling themselves off -- and i really, really like the music. check out what mahogany says at 5:18.

smooth groove

Groovera is still, of course, my favorite music station. i just listened to a track by Silk on tim's facebook page. very smooth, very nice.

honestly, one of these days i simply have to get an i-pod so i can gather (read: buy) the different musics i love, and listen to them!