Imagine....

2 girlfriends have invited me out to dinner and a movie, Brokeback Mountain.

DSs are building a masterpiece with legos and knexs.

DH is draped in the recliner watching the Olympics.

I am listening to Dave Mathews, Let You Down, truly that man could convince me of anything with his voice!

I have made chocolate chip cookies. You want to know how I like them? Warm from the oven with melted butter on top! Yum! It is cold outside and I have no guilt today!

DSs have made thmeselves mini margaritas, their version with lime sherbet and 7up. Funny thing is neither DH nor I drink margaritas but they see them everytime we eat out for Mexican food so they created what they think it is!

We have also had 2 batches of oatmeal.

And I am still in my pj's.

Ah....some musical favs today:

Pink Martini - Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler
Dave Mathews Band - Let You Down
Pink Martini - Andalucia
Ella Fitzgerald - Fever
Bruno Coulais - Les Choristes
Narnia Soundtrack
a bass mix of the Pink Panther (to which the dog HOWLED to!)
Yo Yo Ma - Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G Major for Cello
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
Jon Butcher - If Wishes Were Horses

Jana

the one I bought a while back by my favourite (because I did a masterclass with him - I'm biassed) is actually pretty awful. I didn't get to listen to it first, but the chance of finding it in Singapore made me grab it. Any suggestions Becky?? And what about that piece you're listening to Jana - what's that like?? I've never seen Lloyd Webber play live, so perhaps this isn't a fair comment, but he mostly doesn't seem like a very friendly individual. That said, his Travels With My Cello (I have it on cassette - might be time to update) is a really nice mix and his comments on the album are quite fun. Maybe he just needs plastic surgery!!

Jana, it really sounds like you've hit your sweet spot... long may it last!

Kerri.

It is off The Essential Yo-Yo Ma. I don't have the disc but you can go and listen to is at Amazon.

Check out Pink Martini while you are there! I do have Sypathique and highly recommend it!

Jana

...means "to work." That song's lyric, loosely translated, is:

I don't want to work
I don't want to eat lunch
I only want to remember
and so, I smoke.

from the home of Pink Martini (one of my friends went to school with Thomas L.),

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

I was wondering if you "knew" them since they were from Portland.

The CD has the lyrics in English, luckily. I love that song! And I love Pink Martini!

Jana

I hadn't seen your list before somehow... looks good. I remember watching some televised masterclasses with Paul Tortelier many years ago... I shall have to make a note of all those suggestions and then drag myself into somewhere to get them ALL!

thanks Becky too... is Dutilleux the name of the composer, the concerto itself or the cellist?? I've never come across that name at all. I really have only a handful of old favourites in my classics section because DH isn't a great fan, though he does enjoy the ones I have, so I'm sure he could stand a bit more.

Kerri.

as far as 20th century music is concerned, but then I once sat through an awful performance of Kurt Weil's Mahagony (no, it wasn't pronounced like the wood, so I'm not sure if it was spelled that way or not) with my grandmother. My uncle got us free tickets because he was performing in this debut - dreadful stuff. And he's found some new rotten composer too... so I'm a bit squeamish on more modern stuff. Can you describe it Becky?? I mean, I like melodious modern - Stravinsky, Copeland, maybe some Shostakovich... Gershwin!! But Kurt Weil was like hours of torture - nails across a blackboard continuously. And my grandmother for company to make things worse!

Kerri.

my mistake... found out more about Kurt Weil in the last 5mins than ever before. And I never really wanted to know. The other horrid composer was Judith Weir and my uncle was in Blonde Eckbert. I never had to sit through that though... just hear bits on the radio.

Kerri.