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Time Stand Still

October 31, 2008 /

Updated: A very small 15 second video of the boys performing Amore, as captured on my POS cell phone…

Photos (again from the same POS cell phone) are available in the Gallery…

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So what if it’s been 25 years since Roger, Tommy and I together first saw them perform at City Gardens in Trenton on the night before Thanksgiving, 1983? So what if Tommy’s now living in Georgia and I’m quite a bit up the road in New Jersey? So what if we’re a bunch of middle aged guys, married with children and mortgages?

We are getting the band back together.

For the first time in a many a year (since maybe 1985?) we’ll be hanging out with our buddy Pierre for the Hooters show at The Electric Factory on November 26th.

Woo Hoo!! The Phillies are the 2008 World Champions of Baseball!!

October 29, 2008 /

The Phillies are World Series Champs... again!!

The Phillies are World Series Champs... again!!


Who’d have thought? This team certainly had all of the pieces, but many times this season seemed unable at times to put them together. Then came that HUGE series against Milwaukee in mid-September where they swept the then wild-card leading Brewers 4 games to none to move into a tie, and right then and there I knew this team could go all the way. They followed that up with a sweep of the Braves, while the Mets continued to choke (again) and the Phils moved into the NL East lead and never looked back. Ya gotta’ believe!

Go Phils!!

Dar Williams – The One Who Knows

October 23, 2008 /

Dar Williams – The One Who Knows

Time it was I had a dream
And you’re that dream come true.
If I had the world to give
I’d give it all to you.
I’ll take you to the mountains,
I will take you to the sea.
I’ll show you how this life became a miracle to me.

You’ll fly away, but take my hand until that day.
So when they ask how far love goes
When my job’s done you’ll be the one who knows.

All the things you treasure most
will be the hardest won.
I will watch you struggle long
before the answers come.
But I won’t make it harder,
I’ll be there to cheer you on.
I’ll shine the light that guides you down
The road you’re walking on.

You’ll fly away, but take my hand until that day.
So when they ask how far love goes
When my job’s done you’ll be the one who knows.

Before the mountains call to you,
before you leave this home,
Wanna teach your heart to trust
As I will teach my own.
But sometimes I will ask the moon
Where it shined upon you last
And shake my head and laugh and say
It all went by so fast.

You’ll fly away, but take my hand until that day.
So when they ask how far love goes
When my job’s done you’ll be the one who knows.

Elvis at The Home Depot

September 1, 2008 /

Artist of the day: Elvis Costello and The Attractions

OK, so I guess times have changed a bit… while W. and I were waiting at the paint counter at The Home Depot this past Saturday, for just the right shades of Americana blue and Antique White to be mixed for W.’s bedroom, and Innuendo purple and Zephyr pink for K.’s bedroom, I heard the familiar strains of Elvis Costello and The Attractions performing Radio Radio over the store’s piped in music. Wow. The same song that a rebellious angry young man Elvis performed on Saturday Night Live instead of Less Than Zero, an act that got him banned from NBC for many years to come, the same song that I saw the rebellious angry young man Elvis performed at The Tower Theatre back in April 1979 in my junior year of high school, the same song that for me captured the angst and energy of the punk and new wave music scenes, the same song that I used to blast on my stereo while playing the This Year’s Model album, was being piped to entertain the shoppers at The Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon. I doubt that anyone else noticed the irony.

Elvis finally re-appeared on SNL, interrupting The Beastie Boys, to perform… what else? Radio Radio.

View it here

Somerset County 4-H Fair

August 22, 2008 /

We love the 4-H and the 4-H Fair. Photos from our annual visit to the Somerset County 4-H Fair have been uploaded to the photo gallery here. I must apologize in advance – some of the photos are out of focus, as we brought our little Vivitar digital camera instead of the better Nikon. Oh well.

Click here for more information about the Somerset County 4-H.

Winnie Cooper Is My Hero

August 9, 2008 /

I have to say up front that I’ve always loved the ABC television series The Wonder Years. I’ve got just about all of the first three seasons on VHS, taped from the original broadcasts c 1988-1990. Unfortunately, the series has yet to be released as a DVD set due to licensing issues for the music that was used in the series. The soundtrack to the series is so essential, that removing or replacing it from any DVD set would tragic – I don’t know if we will EVER see The Wonder Years on DVD.

All that being said, the actress who played Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, on this past Tuesday released her second book Kiss My Math. Apparently, Danica’s true passion does not lie in acting, but rather in mathematics. Rather than focusing her school energies on the dramatic arts, she chose to instead concentrate on studying math, physics and statistics. Now, she is on a mission to dispel the belief that mathematics, especially for girls, is not cool. Her first book, Math Doesn’t Suck, was released last year to a primarily middle-school girl audience with the message that “cute and smart is better than cute and dumb.” Now,with Kiss My Math, Danica addresses pre-algebra. I truly support Danica’s mission (I bought Kiss My Math yesterday, to hold onto until K. is old enough to read it herself…) and I am truly encouraged that Danica serves as a positive role model, as opposed to the current string of pop-culture “icons” that have been flooding the media in recent years.

Visit www.kissmymath.com or www.danicamckellar.com for more details.

SVdP Talent Show

June 11, 2008 /

W. performed The Star Spangled Banner at the St. Vincent de Paul Talent Show. A little off-key? You bet. But I could not be more proud… W. volunteered to perform in the annual talent show, personally chose the National Anthem, and as it turned he out he opened the show and was as cool as a cucumber. He’s come a looooong way…

An Eclectic Mix

May 9, 2008 /

It’s funny how a song can bring you back to a time and place.

Ever since I stopped driving the 4Runner on my daily commute, I’ve missed my XM radio. I used to be able to listen to MLB on 175 each morning, or flip around through The Village, The Loft, Bluegrass Junction, Fine Tuning, Deep, Top and Big Tracks, or maybe pop a couple of .mp3 discs into the player and choose from a few hundred songs…. but no more. Beacuse the Matrix (sans XM radio, sans MP3/WMA player) gets about 10 mpg better gas mileage for the long ride to/from work, my listening selections have been greatly reduced, to NPR on WNYC and CBS News Radio 880. I hardly ever bother to pick out a CD for the ride before I leave the house in the morning.

This morning, however, I brought with me a home-made mix CD, upon which I had hand-written “an eclectic mix”. Since I hardly ever bother to actually write down the track information on any mix CD, I did not recall exactly what was on this disc until I loaded it into the car player. The first track, Thank U by Alanis Morissette didn’t jog my memory at all, but once the beginning strain of the second track started to play, I remembered the details of this CD: I had created it to play in the car on the ride to see Dar Williams at the Keswick Theaterback in early October 2001 with Jay McG.

Here’s the track list. Eclectic? You decide.

  1. Alanis Morissette – Thank U
  2. Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Bittersweet
  3. Jill Sobule – I Kissed A Girl
  4. Catie Curtis – What’s The Matter
  5. Catie Curtis – Magnolia Street
  6. The Story – So Much Mine
  7. David Gray – Babylon
  8. Julie Miller – I Still Cry
  9. Natalie MacMaster – Get Me Through December
  10. Poozies – Another Train
  11. Peppino D’Agostino – Walk Away Renée
  12. Rickie Lee Jones – Walk Away Renée
  13. Rosanne Cash – Seventh Avenue
  14. Rosanne Cash – The Wheel
  15. Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
  16. Sandy Denny and The Strawbs – Who Knows Where The Time Goes
  17. Suzanne Vega – Left Of Center
  18. Washington Squares – Can’t Stop The Rain

St. Thomas, USVI

April 24, 2008 /

This past Friday morning, we all packed up and loaded into the car at 4:00 AM, to drive over to Newark Liberty Airport and catch the 6:25 AM flight to Miami, and thus begin the first leg of our journey to the US Virgin Islands for J. and B.’s wedding.

The flight(s) were uneventful, and the time spent in St. Thomas was great. Beautiful sunshine, beautiful teal blue water gently lapping upon a beautiful white sand beach. Beautiful margaritas, beautiful rum punches, beautiful pina coladas.

Our return trip landed in New Jersey at 12:30 AM Wednesday morning, and after a bit of waiting for baggage and the shuttle to off-site parking, we finally arrived home in North Plainfield at 2:00 AM.

My Schools

April 8, 2008 /

General David B. Birney Elementary School

1. General David B. Birney Elementary School, 900 W. Lindley Street, Philadelphia PA. September 1967 – June 1970

2. St. Michael the Archangel Elementary School, 130 Levittown Parkway, Levittown, PA. September 1970 – June 1976

3. Bishop Egan High School, 611 Wistar Road, Fairless Hills, PA. September 1976 – June 1980

4. Bucks County Technical School, 610 Wistar Road, Fairless Hills PA. September 1977 – June 1980

 

It’s strange, but my elementary schools, i. e., the oldest, have remained the most the same. Birney: “Over the years, it has grown with the addition of 2 wings. The final addition was the cafetorium built in 1968.” I remember when this addition was built and brand spanking new; I remember standing outside in the black-top recess yard, staring up at the moon in the sky, imagining how it was going to be possible to get an astronaut all the way up there; I remember our Civil Defense drills, and the triangle shaped CD signs on the school walls. I remember how all of our kindergarten, first and second grade classes sat together to watch the breaking news on television about the the Apollo launches, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy.

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