Clowns?

James: "Clowns?"

Me: "Yeah, they block the sun!  So many things I would have done... But those dang CLOWNS got in my way!"  

James: <side eye>  

What Both Sides Now is supposed to sound like:

 

Noted, I must work on strumming, singing tone, but most definitely enunciation/articulation!  Though the motivation to work hard/and consistently at ukulele is starting wear a bit thin (I definitely picked too many things to try/to get back into at once), at least when I do pick it up is still fun.  

Oh my. They are.

Me: "I'm really getting into this KPOP boy band. Do you know them?"
Celina: "LOL. Yeah, they're famous."
Me: "Oh, they are?"

 

Oh my.  They are.  Coachella 2025, sold-out world tours... 

In retrospect, they would have to be to seep under this rock I live under. The path (maybe not so usual): KPop Demon Hunters --> Kevin Woo (Mystery Saja's singing voice) --> Kevin Woo's AMA Reddit post, and then BAM!.  

A discerning palate

James: "Look!  I found popcorn under the couch."

Emma: "I'm not going to eat it.  It doesn't have butter." 

Also currently on our play list: BTS's Butter

New Skill

Surprise!  James can beatbox!  

I'm so impressed (and tickled) that it doesn't bother me (too much) that his song features me being flushed down a toilet.  Emma does some decent backup "singing" too.  

"I miss the luxury..."

"I miss the luxury of caring about stuff that doesn't matter." ~ John Green


It's a marathon.

Mama / Bun

This morning wasn't bad, but The Weakerthans "Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure" played on CBC and I quietly cried.  Paul didn't know what to do.  I calmed down and got back on with the routine. Repeating in my head my version, "I can remember the sound that you found for me."   Unlike Virtute the Cat, I know I'd be called back.




All this sadness is temporary.  Should instead be enjoying the breather away from James and get some stuff sorted for when he's back. 

Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
The Weakerthans

It had something to do with the rain
Leaching, loamy dirt
And the way the back lane came alive
Half moon whispered, "Go"
For a while I heard you missing steps in the street
And your anger pleading in an uncertain key
Singing the sound that you found for me

When the winter took the tips of my ears
Found this noisy home
Full of pigeons and places to hide
And when the voices die
I emerged to watch abandoned machines
Waiting for their men to return
I remember the way I would wait for you
To arrive with kibble and a box full of beer
How I'd scratch the empties desperate to hear
You make the sound that you found for me

After scrapping with the ferals and the tabby
Let you brush my matted fur
How I'd knead into your chest while you were sleeping
Shallow breathing made me purr

But I can't remember the sound that you found for me
I can't remember the sound that you found for me
I can't remember the sound

My Brown-Eyed Strawberry Girl

"You are my strawberry girl... Do you remember when we used to sing?" 

Night Feeds Soundtrack (4)

Summertime

Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your momma's rich and your da' is good-looking (adjusted for our situation :P)
So hush little baby, don't you cry.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

Go to sleep, you little babe
(Go to sleep, you little babe)
Go to sleep, you little babe
(Go to sleep, you little babe)

Your momma's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay
Didn't leave nobody but the baby

Night Feeds Soundtrack (3)

"Look at this stuff

Isn't it neat?

Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?

Wouldn't you think I'm the girl

The girl who has everything?

Look at this trove

Treasures untold

How many wonders can one cavern hold?

Looking around here you think

Sure, she's got everything

I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty

I've got whozits and whatzits galore

You want thingamabobs?

I've got twenty!

But who cares?

No big deal

I want more

I wanna be where the people are

I wanna see, wanna see them dancin'

Walking around on those - what do you call 'em?

Oh - feet!

Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far

Legs are required for jumping, dancing

Strolling along down a - what's that word again?

Street

Up where they walk, up where they run

Up where they stay all day in the sun

Wanderin' free - wish I could be

Part of that world"

- "Part of Your World" from Disney's "The Little Mermaid"

"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere
I want it more than I can tell
And for once it would be grand to have someone understand 
I want so much more than what they've got planned

- "Belle (Reprise)" from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"

Night Feeds Soundtrack (2)

It begins to tell 'round midnight, midnight
I do pretty well till after sundown
Suppertime I'm feelin' sad
But it really gets bad 'round midnight

Ella Fitzgerald's Round Midnight 

Night Feeds Soundtrack (1)

Close your eyes 

And go to sleep.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Burrito boy

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Burrito boy

To the tune of Celine Dion's version of John Lennon's song (most definitely not the original lyrics)

I wanna run where no one else can follow me
Find a calm from the wreckage and the danger of this swelling sea

Johnnyswim "Heart Beats"