Music theory websites, books, DVD’s and software
This post’s dedicated to all the musicians of the world. I am a musician, though I don’t read music. I have good pitch, but play by ear; I started with guitar by learning how to play based on basic guitar chord charts and transferred my skills to piano by seeing what notes made up the [...]
WWII in HD and pictures of the American homefront
Howie and I recently watched the excellent documentary series WWII in HD on the History Channel. Aside from a few war movies, novels, and what little we covered in high school, I was quite ignorant of many battles and events of the war. The majority of the footage the filmmakers used was original full color [...]
I wanna catch the Google Wave
This is what I submitted in my request to beta test Google’s newest creation, Google Wave. As my search engine, you shone But you brought it on, never ceased to amaze When Gmail took the throne I was with you in the invitation-only days And now my favorite app creatah Has hatched another chick to [...]
Learning music online
This post’s dedicated to all the musicians of the world. I am a musician, though I don’t read music. I have excellent pitch, but play by ear; I started with guitar by learning how to play based on basic guitar chord charts and transferred my skills to piano by seeing what notes made up the [...]
Favorite Pushing Daisies quotes this week
I thought Emerson’s reaction to Olive being a nun was hysterical…It tickled me how he kept blocking his view of everything except her face, then not, then covering everything… Olive’s way of speaking kills me. As the Depends-like package appears in the jumble of worldly goods falling from the nun’s closet, she says, “Ohhh, top [...]
Pushing Daisies: Brainy eye candy
Howie and I are big fans of ABC’s Pushing Daisies, now in its second season. It is probably the most unique show currently produced on television, pure eye candy, but also intelligent with its wonderful character actors, original storylines and quick dialogue. Its quirky style is reminiscent of Tim Burton’s 2003 movie, Big Fish with [...]
New page: Teshy Goodness John Tesh page
We’re huge fans of John Tesh and are going to see his Alive! Music & Dance concert in Cleveland on October 23. We’re so excited! We’ve been fans since before he was cool. He is cool, right? Oh well, we’re in our 40′s, so coolness is not so much a criteria for us. Actually, it [...]
