(transferred from Tumblr - I should do this more often, but I don't usually write so much there...)


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Song of the Lonely Mountain

I'd heard Neil Finn was doing the end credit song to The Hobbit movie; I'd thought I'd have to go see the movie or buy the soundtrack to hear it!  I know Crowded House songs have been featured in soundtracks before, and I know his brother Tim has done credits songs before, but this is the first one I've heard Neil doing ( Read more... )

And so comes fall, the days get shorter again, another school year starts. Angus is starting high school, though not at the one he thought, Gareth is in his last year of middle school, and Avalon in her first year of it. Angus has been taller than me since last Christmas, and I just realized a couple of days (when I was trying to figure out t- ( Read more... )

Go to the Google home page right now and click the gold arrow (or you can do it below if you like, but there's a nice image collage there as well), to see a great little 80's-video-game-inspired animation to salute what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday using the Queen track "Don't Stop Me Now." Freddie passed away in 1991, but the ( Read more... )

( Gentle Hum... )

(I started a group at Gather.com for grownup fans of all kinds of animation...this was originally posted there. I'm sure you guys, being far more internet savvy than the folks over there, have all seen it already...)


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One of you here on my friends list here turned me on to Great Big Sea a while ago, I can't remember who it was - but I've always loved folk, celtic and sea songs anyway, so it was a no-brainer for me. I enjoyed it and other albums by them are now on my wishlist for eventual purchase. As a matter fact, when I went out on the R/V Jordan a couple of ( Read more... )

My brother Doug turned my dad on to this station when it was still on the radio. When that station changed formats (as do most of the ones I enjoy), it became a web station. Lounge music is not my everyday listening, but I turn it on sometimes when I'm in the mood for it - or when I'm remembering what he liked to listen to. They're struggling ( Read more... )

Well, I've done it and bought tickets. I haven't gone to see Neil Finn (or Crowded House) the last 3-4 times he's been in the area ( this was the last time I saw him - crap, in 2003!!). Next month he's going to be playing at some divey bar/venue in Costa Mesa, the next city over from me, about a block away from our local DMV. It's in a strip mall ( Read more... )