Posts Tagged ‘music’
10 Favorite Movie/Song Remakes
Time for Ten On Tuesday. These are not in order of best liked to least, merely in the order I thought of them.
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- Forever Young – Jerry Garcia Band – originally by Bob Dylan
- Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- Fisherman’s Blues – Railroad Earth – originally by The Waterboys
- The Birdcage (1996)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- I Will – Alison Krauss – originally by The Beatles
- Chim-Chim-Cher-Ee – Seldom Scene – originally from Mary Poppins
- Halloween (2007)
- The Ring (2002)
Kind of funny that most of the movie remakes I’ve liked are horror movies.
L Is for Live Music
Ironically, as my camera has gotten better, I’ve become less likely to actually bring it to shows with me, so these photos are mostly pretty old. I don’t want to have to worry about the camera when I go out.
Hail No, Del Yeah!
What a weekend! I was going to write a more detailed post, but I my brain is still too fried.
Steep Canyon Rangers, Infamous Stringdusters, Del McCoury, Railroad Earth, Cornmeal… so much music!
Railroad’s set on Friday was decent, but the Saturday late night set was where is was really at. We survived hail the size of golf balls Saturday afternoon and a tornado that hovered over us without, thankfully, touching down. Between that and all the cancer stuff this past 6 months, I never meant it more when I sang “ain’t it good to be alive?” along with the rest of the crowd.
The above photos show our wonderful camp before the storm. Below is after. Amazingly, our dinner team got out a hot, tasty meal after the storm.
More photos can be found in my Flickr set.
Happy As a Family Singing
We got home yesterday from an incredible weekend of friends and music. It was just what I needed, even if there was some yucky stuff along the way that may lead to a yucky decision in the next few weeks. More about that another time, though.
Railroad Earth was way better in Woodstock than in Northampton, but both shows were worth the trip. Scott was particularly pleased to not have to drive either night, as we had a hotel within walking distance on Friday and K. was our designated grown-up on Saturday. That’s a rare treat for Scott, to not have to watch his alcohol consumption and stop drinking before intermission. A treat for me, too, really, since I usually don’t drink much when he can’t drink, either.
I discovered that a couple of people I know but didn’t know read my blog read my blog. (Did I mangle the language in that sentence, or what?) That’s always a surprise, though a nice one. Obviously, I live my life for the world to see! It’s just still strange for me, though, because I’ve been doing this for 6 years – as of last Monday – and it’s only in the past year or so that I’ve been meeting people in person who say, “Hey, I read your blog.” Sometimes I think only those of you who comment are reading.
I tried to articulate that to the first J. who mentioned it to me on Saturday, but I’d already spent the afternoon drinking my way toward the show and I think I may have ended up sounding unwelcoming, which is absolutely not what I meant.
So, hi J. and J.! Welcome!
In all, it was a really great weekend, spent with wonderful people and wonderful music. I hugged a Goat and a Hun and a Toad and had my ass squeezed by a Mouse.
And, oh yeah, yarn! I won’t even mention how much I spent at WEBS, but as K. pointed out at the time, think how much I saved on shipping!
Happy as a family
Happy hand in hand
Happy as a family singing
Happy as a banjo
Happy as I am
Happy as a banjo ringing
