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Saturday, November 21, 2009
I Love this Commercial
Current Mood: CC is listening to: an episode of Law and Order
I laugh so much every time I see this commercial, mostly because it's happened to me a couple of times and I end up picking up plastic containers off the floor :-).
Current Mood: CC is listening to: An episode of Angel
I know that the movie Team America: World Police was created in 2004 to parody movies like G.I. Joe, but it was really funny to us that G.I. Joe, which was released a full 5 years later, had scenes that were eerily similar :-).
The Paris scene in Team America
The Paris scene in GI Joe
As soon as the Eiffel Tower fell, Steve and I both mimicked the line from Team America: "Don't worry, everything is bon!"
And at the ending scene of GI Joe, when the desert sand parts and the aircraft launches, it's almost impossible to keep yourself from singing, "America, {bleep} yeah!"
Current Mood: CC is listening to: The Wanderer--Jim Chappell (Over the Top)
Saturday turned out to be an impromptu, musical day for me :-). On Friday Steve came home with a page from the paper's Friday "what's-going-on-in-entertainment-this-week" flyer. The Rippingtons were performing at the New Daisy Theater on Beale Street!
My brother Noel introduced me to The Rippingtons' music a few years ago and since then I've loved listening to them :-). They've been around since 1986. Heck Kenny G used to be a part of The Rippingtons :-).
They have seventeen albums to date (eighteen if you want to count their "Best of" CD). Listening to a Rippingtons album is like listening to a soundtrack of a specific place or event. My favorite one is Topaz--it's set in New Mexico and there is definitely a Southwestern flavor to the compositions: a wooden flute here, Spanish guitar there, there was even an eagle's cry at the beginning of one composition. It definitely brings up images of wide, rocky, orange landscapes. It's both a Spanish and Native American sound at the same time.
So naturally I had to get two tickets for Steve and me to see them Saturday night.
And then early Saturday morning I found out that the Germantown Performing Arts Center's Iris Orchestra had a show that night. And that usually means they have a rehearsal at 10am Saturday morning, which the general public can see for $10. It doesn't usually matter to me what they're playing, it's just a really cool treat to be able to sit down in a theater and listen to them play. I usually take some light work with me, but I always end up putting it down and just watch them instead :-).
So that was my Saturday: watch the orchestra practice in the morning, then watch a jazz concert at night :-).
Steve and I took pictures.
I was also able to capture a clip of them playing "Spirits of the Canyon," which is from their Topaz album :-). It shows just how talented all the musicians are :-). Sorry it stops after 4 minutes; my arm was getting tired :-D.
Current Mood: CC is listening to: Night Fever--the Bee Gees (Tales from the Brothers Gibb)
No reason for the disco dancing emoticon other than that I'm listening to the Bee Gees...plus I'm hopped up on coffee :-).
I wish I could say I had news to blog, but it's been pretty quiet. Other than all the chores associated with getting ready for the move, not much has been going on. I've tried a couple of times to write a blog entry in the last few days, but I would always end up asking myself, "Well what do I write about? The only semi-exciting things that have happened lately just make me look like a bigger geek than I already am, like..."
having found free screen capture software which records whatever you're doing on your screen and your narration (via desktop microphone) at the same time--which will work great for automating systems training.
finding a free equivalent of MS Visio--which is great for diagramming flowcharts and org charts.
See what I mean? Geekazoid :-). I'm sure I'll have more news soon--there's sure to be lots of activity closer to the actual moving date :-).
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