Please check out Kevin’s Uncle Danny’s new website. He’s written some great songs and now he has a place to show them off. 🙂
Kevin and I recorded his “Back to New Orleans” with him soon after Hurricane Katrina hit.
If you’ve listened to our show in Washington Square Park from 2009, you may remember his name from the credits. We recorded his “Let’s Shoot for the Moon” then.
Soon, I’ll also be adding another of Danny’s songs that Kevin and I recorded with him called “Coffee in the Morning.”
Is it just me or is there something Monty-Python-ish about this “building” in the upstairs play area of the Danville Science Center?
I made a palette! “Dragonfly” on @COLOURlovers: http://t.co/PdG7Uc1u
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I just named a color! “Sky About to Rain” on @COLOURlovers: http://t.co/OvpdQLwf
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Passing Stranger :: East Village Poetry Walk http://t.co/u2gqqu67 <<Adding to NYC to-do list 🙂
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Lucas has been playing the harmonica for a few weeks now.
He picked it up one day, and (with my very rudimentary understanding) I showed him how the holes work, in for one note and out for another. We worked out the notes to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” and he was set on learning it.
After a day or two, he had it down. He played it for us. Very impressive, yes.
But Kevin said he wouldn’t really have it until he could play it from his soul. So Lucas kept at it. The next morning, he got up and grabbed the harmonica and played it perfectly without even thinking.
Maybe the missed notes were about the video, although Lucas says he doesn’t get stage fright. I actually wondered at one point if he were even for real about messing up.
You can hear him tell me a couple of times in the video not to stop it, no matter how many times he messed up. He said that was what would make it interesting. So I let it roll. And I haven’t edited it.
I actually love the way he stops and looks at the harmonica when he hits a wrong note, like it’s betraying him. Very comic. 🙂
Atticus has been a bit obsessed with Neil Young for the past year or so.
Yes, it all began way back when he was only four and a half. Before his dad and I went to see Neil Young live, we downloaded and burned his awesome Live at Massey Hall album from 1971.
Well, Attie went crazy over it, wanting to hear certain songs over and over. He wanted to hold the CD cover in the car, so he could name the songs as they played and he sang along. He had me upload them to his own CD player.
And we sang along with him: Kevin, Lucas, and myself. It’s still a fun family event in the van when number 3 (“Old Man”) comes on. 😛
I’d known all of the songs for forever, of course (Neil’s one of my faves <3), but I’d never known all the words to all the songs. And some of them came to me with new meaning, after having lived through so much since.
It wasn’t long before he’d memorized the songs and could even name which song was which number on the album.
We thought it was amazing.
But anything in excess can get, well, um — even though I feel like a bad mama admitting it — downright annoying … which is to say that we didn’t exactly mind when Atticus started to sway from his Neil Young obsession.
Anyway, as you can see, he didn’t turn away completely and has continued to fan the flame over the months. 😛
My boys watching “Knight Rider” on Netflix last night: Lucas, Mr. Blue, Kevin, and Atticus.
We were busy speaking to an old friend and her grandson after Jack and the Beanstalk. Atticus was the one who noticed the outline of the water left from the thunderstorm that wetted the cars: “It’s a boy!”
“One of the things I’ve learned is that if you think you’re an expert or think you know almost everything about a subject, then you’re going to be blind to the opportunity to learn more.”
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