Category Archives: music

Photo Hunt-Entertainment

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Besides my favorite singer James Taylor entertaining me 4 times over the last 30 yrs, I find it entertaining to take photos off our fairly new HD-tv. I then make collages, etc. if I have enough like I had here. My next tv photo session may be to look at old videos and freeze frame them to take photos. I had tried that on the old tv-like looked awful.
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Happy Lammas Day! It’s the first day of harvest! It was traditional to bake a loaf of bread and have it consecrated at church, thus ‘loaf mass’-Lammas! Thanks Farmer’s Almanac!

Photo Hunt-Rock

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Dome of Hard Rock Cafe, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

We got to eat in here back in 2005 when we took a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida for Sean’s high school graduation. Our waitress took a shine to us and took us on the tour of the John Lennon room that had his furniture and piano in it(the outside of which you see here). Pretty neat.
Incidentally, this is the biggest Hard Rock Cafe in the world.

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Here’s the Hard Rock in Times Square we saw a couple of years:
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RIP MJ

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Michael’s favorite song. It was performed by his brother Jermaine at the memorial service.

“Smile” Written and Composed by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons. Music Composed by Charles Chaplin.

Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You’ll get by…
If you smile
With your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just…

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just…

Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky
You’ll get by…

If you smile
Through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile…

That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile

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Paris and Prince Jackson (center) sing in tribute to their father Michael. We watched the entire memorial and it was really a wonderful, touching event.

Good Times

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We got back from the Boz*Scaggs concert a little bit ago. It was nice to hear someone you’ve just listened to first on vinyl and then CD (I recently bought his greatest hits cd). He did play many of his greatest hits-of course! There were a lot of ladies my age (me too) singing along to ‘Georgia’ and the ‘Lido*Shuffle’. I had a copy of older gents sitting next to me, pushing 80. I thought that was interesting. A few rows in front of us, the former football coach for the Eagles, Dick*Vermeil, was sitting. I thought it was a newscaster and Brian corrected me-lol. Anyway, my photos are bad, but I did a 1 minute video of his encore, ‘Lend me a dime’-Brian said it was the first song of his he ever heard-first recorded back in 1969. He mentioned a keyboard player who he first recorded with, Barry*Beckett, had recently past away.
We had a fun time!

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Here’s a little video I made to remember the night:

Snippets of Boz – Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

25th Anniversary bouquet

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25th Anniversary bouquet, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Happy Silver Anniversary to my husband Brian. I can’t believe a quarter of a century has past in our lives together.
I hope he enjoys the spontaneous gift I ordered-tickets to see singer Boz Scaggs at Longwood Gardens in June!
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I love his music and voice, so it’s a gift for both of us. I wore out his lp ‘Silk Degrees’. I also have another musical gift he is sure to enjoy.

Tonight we are going to the Chinese restaurant-PF Changs. I got to chose and their menu sounded good. Haven’t had good Chinese for a while and we put aside a crisp big bill for the occasion. I’ll let you know how it is. I hope I remember to put the camera in my purse.
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Sean went back to finish up his last 3+ weeks at Penn State. He’ll come home for a week and then we’ll all drive up together for the graduation. We may rent a nice new vehicle. We promised Sean a snazzy phone for his graduation.
Bri went to the doc for his insomnia and is test driving some med. So far he hasn’t gotten up! I hope it doesn’t leave him too tired, but if he’s getting shut eye for a change-it may be worth it. He’ll just have to take up the sit-up chair again to get in some exercise and increase his alertness. Wish him well.

Dianne’s Dummy guide to using a MP3 player

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Brian and I were in Big Lots Tuesday night and after we had checked out with our measly purchases, I took a gander at the locked cases around from the register. Here they had two different kinds of MP3 players for $24 and $40. My friend had recommended one over an i*pod as it was easier to download music (snicker snicker-more later). So I opted for the higher priced one because it had a bigger display screen. You can download photos and videos too. So I got home and while we were trying to get the DVD player to work (always remember to change the channel on the tv!), I looked at music on A*mazon and downloader software. Today I bought some music and the software wouldn’t download the songs to our computer. I called A*mazon twice. The first guy, was definitely an Indian (sounded like the guy from Heroes) and really didn’t help. The second guy, Teddy was a gem. Told me to get rid of the software and download right to our computer. It worked! So I have 20 songs and lots of space left on it. I don’t care for the earbuds-they hurt my ears. I need to get padded ones. And I need a case too. This was an early anniversary gift.
I bought this little Vera Bradley case for my player at eBags (great site)
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Keep Bri in your thoughts as he is suffering from insomnia really bad lately. He had that doctor visit last month and didn’t have any problems from his x-ray and bloodwork. He worries so much.
I may be seeing my mom tomorrow.

Music Age Gauge

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Gee, this meme stuff is not that easy. I found this and since it relates to music, I played along here
You said your birthday is 11 / 19 / 1959
which means you are 49 years old and about:

26 years 9 months younger than Yoko Ono, age 75
18 years 6 months younger than Bob Dylan, age 67
16 years 4 months younger than Mick Jagger, age 65
14 years 8 months younger than Eric Clapton, age 63
11 years 8 months younger than James Taylor, age 60 (I added this one)
11 years 6 months younger than Stevie Nicks, age 60
4 years 1 month younger than David Lee Roth, age 53
1 year 3 months younger than Madonna, age 50
2 years 3 months older than Jon Bon Jovi, age 46
7 years 4 months older than Billy Corgan, age 41
10 years 4 months older than Mariah Carey, age 38
14 years 6 months older than Alanis Morissette, age 34
22 years 0 months older than Britney Spears, age 27

and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:

Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean: 1
Sherry, The 4 Seasons: 2
The Beatles first appear live on The Ed Sullivan Show: 4
Downtown, Petula Clark: 5
The 8 track tape player first offered in 1966 Fords: 5
To Sir with Love, Lulu: 7
Hey Jude, The Beatles: 8
Woodstock Music Festival: 9
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin: 11
ABC TV premieres In Concert: 13
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce: 14
I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton: 14
Silly Love Songs, Wings: 16
Elvis Presley Dies: 17
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, Rod Stewart: 19
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 20
John Lennon is shot to death: 21
MTV makes its debut: 21
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 22
The recording of We Are The World: 25
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 27
Didn’t We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 27
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 29
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor: 30
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 31
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton’s inauguration: 33
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 34
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 35
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We had a few inches of powdery snow yesterday. I went out and got some fresh air and took the little camera around for snaps. As I was uploading my first patch, we had a gorgeous peachy sunset:
A gorgeous peachy sunset

I did more basement organizing-the dust is so bad I was coughing with a dust mask on!
I’ll be doing a post on this special day-sure of it!

I Recommend-#6

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Welcome to the sixth edition of ‘I recommend’. As the name implies, this is a share to recommend just about anything you like or have tried. It can be a book, drink, food, movie, music CD-anything. Mister Linky will open to another page (that’s how it works on WordPress). Please add your link there and don’t forget to leave me a comment here.

Bloggers-this is a meme kind of post to help you think of things to add to your blog. So if you comment here, don’t forget to post about your favorite Christmas music (or whatever) on your blog. It doesn’t have to involve an entire blog post, just a small part of it. Thanks. : )

Short and sweet-what are your favorite Christmas CDs? I think the yearly offerings from Hallmark are pretty good. James Taylor did one a few years back and it’s excellent.
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Michael McDonald was the next year or so-love his soulful voice. I’d like to get Sheryl Crowe’s Hallmark CD-new this year.

Love Sarah McLachlan’s too:

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Other favs- Nat King Cole, The Carpenters, Jewel, Mariah Carey and Josh Groban.

My favorite radio station starts playing Christmas music 24/7 before Thanksgiving now. Although I enjoy hearing some favorites, I want to pull my hair out by the 18th of December I’m so sick of the music.

I do enjoy Handel’s Messiah. When I went to community college, I signed up briefly for the choir there and we were going to perform it. Not an easy piece of music to learn, especially for sopranos. I ended up leaving the choir, but later was in our church choir for a number of years. I told Bri I may join again next year.

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It’s your turn:

Can you hum them all?

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Here is a partial list of the American Film Institute’s top 100 movie songs.

1. “Over the Rainbow,” “The Wizard of Oz,” 1939
2. “As Time Goes by,” “Casablanca,” 1942
3. “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” 1952
4. “Moon River,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” 1961
5. “White Christmas,” “Holiday Inn,” 1942
6. “Mrs. Robinson,” “The Graduate,” 1967
7. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Pinocchio,” 1940
8. “The Way We Were,” “The Way We Were,” 1973
9. “Stayin’ Alive,” “Saturday Night Fever,” 1977
10. “The Sound of Music,” “The Sound of Music,” 1965
11. “The Man That Got Away,” “A Star Is Born,” 1954
12. “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” 1953
13. “People,” “Funny Girl,” 1968
14. “My Heart Will Go On,” “Titanic,” 1997
15. “Cheek to Cheek,” “Top Hat,” 1935
16. “Evergreen (Love Theme From ‘A Star Is Born’),” “A Star Is Born,” 1976
17. “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “My Fair Lady,” 1964
18. “Cabaret,” “Cabaret,” 1972
19. “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1937
20. “Somewhere,” “West Side Story,” 1961