New Release Tuesday

Not a lot new that interested me this week, so instead I give you Carol Channing, first as silent film star Cecilia Sisson and then as Dolly Levi in the 1994 revival of Hello Dolly. A unique performer in every way!

Bonus Raspberries!!!

Discover this song for Columbus Day!

Tina goes country! I really like her version....

I also love this Glamourshot album cover, even if she doesn't look like the more recent versions of herself..

I believe the children are our future...

I love this kid! Learning to cook is one of the best things I ever did as a kid and is something that I continue to do as an adult. I still enjoy dining out, of course, but cooking at home is one of my favorite things. It's a life skill as important than balancing a checkbook or being punctual. 

My favorite recipes changes frequently - right now my household seems to be obsessed with rice pudding, so that's the next one I will be making. Does anyone have a recipe for it that they love? Please share if you do!

An Operatic Moment

I vividly remember watching this in 1993 on PBS. The whole performance is just wonderful, but if you are pressed for time or unsure if this kind of music is for you, at least jump ahead to the 6 minute mark and listen to the end. The ease and smoothness of the the coloratura, the sheer joy of her singing, and the way the penultimate note floats out of her mouth are great pleasures to behold. 

I was doing this same thing and didn't know it!

Personal Trainer Gains 60+ lbs to Show People How to Go From “Fat 2 Fit”

This doesn't seem like a good plan - what does it prove? Naturally fat people are not like naturally thin people, even when the fat person is thin and the thin person is fat. Boy, that sentence is confusing!

How wrong would it be to hope he can't lose it?

Not that I would do that ;-)

New Release Tuesday

1) The title track of the new Bangles CD - very low-fi and unpolished but I sorta love it. It's nice not to hear Autotune once in a while!

2) Mayer Hawthorne falls somewhere on the blue-eyed soul spectrum between Daryl Hall and Robin Thicke. This song from his new CD has a great Motown sound.

3) My favorite kind of Beatles song - a cover by someone else :-) Roberta Flack still sounds great after all these years.

4) No one can replace the late great Teena Marie, but Marsha Ambrosius (best known from the duo Floetry) is giving it her best shot. This song and her cd is not new but I've been listening to it a lot. I also love that she is not typically pretty (although I think she's beautiful) and also not a stick figure. The safe-sex message of the video rocks as well. 

Lifestyles of the poor and unknown

We Are The 99%