Over on his blog Ed recently posted a video of him and his daughter Zoe playing the piano.
Now I’m not a competitive parent, but something in me just snapped. So I gave Amy a ten minute crash course in Chopin’s Waltz in D flat major, opus 64, No. 1
As you can see, we totally kicked Ed and Zoe’s arse.
Phil over at A Family Runs Through it has just wrapped up a week of posts based around music he and his family enjoy.
Never being one to let a good idea go by unpilfered, I thought I’d share some music that we’ve been enjoying recently at our house. They Might Be Giants have been a favorite of mine since my early twenties, and through a strict program of brainwashing I’ve ensured that my kids are pretty into them too.
Of course it helps that they put out albums aimed at children as well as adults. Their most recent, Here Come the 1,2,3’s, is based around a number theme - although you do get the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme tune and hotdog song thrown in for good measure as well. As with all TMBG music it takes a little bit of listening to in order to “get it”, but once you do it sinks it’s melodic teeth in and never lets go.
I’m in love with one track in particular. See if you can guess why.
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In July of this year I shall be walking 78 miles in 6 days in aid of the Joseph Salmon Trust, a charity founded by my close friends in memorial to their son Joseph who died aged 3 in April of 2005. Please look here for further details and consider sponsoring me. Thank you.
Someone told me recently that any situation, no matter how sad, can be made infinitely less distressing merely by the addition of the Benny Hill theme music. I decided to test this out with the movie that Channel 4 recently designated the biggest tear jerker of all time.
Mmmm, I think the jury is still out on this one. Perhaps I should devote the entire of next week to investigating it.
Perhaps not.
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Got any hidden talents of your own you would care to share?
Again I ask you to behold the comedy genius that is Mr Greg Lee. This is one of his masterpieces from three years ago. Watch it at your peril.
At the age of 16 I left high school and went to A level college. This is where I met the majority of the friends that I still have today. Our jobs have occasionally taken us away from our home town, but there has always been a pull that has brought us back. I still count the friends I made at that time as among my best.
Wednesdays afternoon at college were allocated to “enrichment”. This was the time designated for all the teams, clubs, and societies to hold their games, practices, or meetings. Despite the official line being that this time had been set aside for both physical and intellectual pursuits, in reality all the college was really interested in was the sports teams.
So as none of us particularly felt the pull of the playing fields, we sought and gained permission to set up our own enrichment activity. Lighting Productions Video Society. In theory we were writing, producing, directing, and staring in short films, but in practice we mostly just messed around with the drama department’s video camera.
In the long summer spanning the end of college and the start of university we put together a sort of clip’s show from all the bits of tape laying around Neil’s house. I present it to you now, with the warning that this is unlikely to be of any interest to you at all unless you are actually in the thing. Also, it gets more boring the longer it goes on.
Still, it fits with my recent looks backwards; and anyway I promise to return to the regular blogging in my next entry.
Ash: Life less ordinary (A Life Less Ordinary)
The Las: There she goes (So I Married an Axe Murderer)
Reel Big Fish: Take on me (BASEketball)
Thanks to Zaius nation for the inspiration.
Continuing my recent tradition of posting movies and pictures in order to avoid having to think of anything to write about.
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