Random Tid Bits

1. I get invited to a lot of things on Facebook. I'm an art instructor, so each and every past student that created an art page I get invited to like. It's annoying at times, but I want to show my support, so I like it.
   
   Recently I get invited to like a page called: The United State of Women. I didn't hit that like button. It's not that I'm anti women. I am one. It's just that I feel like groups like that tend to think women are super heroes, should take over the job market, and should be free to do whatever they please. They often bash men. Yes women are important, but so are men.
   
   I'm a mother of boys. I just don't want to get on the man bashing trail. Yes the idea of being equal is great. I hate that women get paid less then men in some industries. On the flip side there are some jobs where many more men could do better than I could. I could do better than them in other areas. I don't think a woman (depending on the woman) would make a bad president. A job that requires a lot of strength might be better for a man. I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm against women. I'm not! At all! 


2. I put mixed berries on the boy's plates one morning this week. Isaak left a few berries untouched. I said, "What's with those berries?" pointing at them. He said, "There's something wrong with them. They are bumpy." I forgot to tell him that I mixed a few mulberries I picked from work with the blueberries and Juneberries. They are bumpy like raspberries. 


3. There are times where I pull an Alanis Morisette and think about things that are ironic. Just this morning I was flipping through stations on the radio. I finally found a station that wasn't blah blah blah talking. Tunes lift up my mood. It was a good song, but I can't remember what song it was. Just like that static happened. It was a Lincoln station an hour away. 




4. The boys have their show for their theater camp today. I hope it goes well for them.


5. The boys were impossible to get up and out of bed today. What's a Mom/Wife to do? I turned on Milli Vanilli, and sang to it. 



Its's too bad that the real singers didn't get a whole lot of credit, and to be honest these two guys should have gotten some award for being great lip sinkers, and putting on a great show. Instead they lived the rest of their lives in shame, and one committed suicide. It wasn't just the boys that lied, the real singers lied, the band members lied, the sound guys lied, and most of all the producer lied. Were you a Milli Vanilli fan back in the day?

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday

I started doing what I call Sing, Sing a Song Saturday.  I'm going to post one song on Saturdays that the boys or I like. 

The song may be part of a movie, a kid's video or just a song we like. I'll try and include why we like it and/or the history of the song/singer.

This week I'm covering a group named Freelance Whales. They are an American indie rock band from New York. The band connected on Craigslist and friends of friends. They all pretty much started alone, playing on Subway platforms. The leader of the band is Judah Dadone. There is singing in the band of course and banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, synthesizer, glockenspiel (which are like bells), mandolin, drums, harmonica and bass.

They had a song featured on Grey's Anatomy called Starring.  Their song Broken Horse was on One Tree Hill.

Enzymes 

Here's a live song. It's pretty cool to see all the different instruments they use.

Ghosting 

This song is about birth and death.

Generator 

Follow Freelance Whales on their website.
Connect with them on FB. 
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Check out their blog.

Parodys of Songs

Do you ever make up songs to sing to your kids? I do all the time! Lately my own parody's have been getting stuck in my head!

I've been singing, "This is the dawning of the age of asparagus, age of a-spar-a-gu-uh-uss." This is off the song, Aquarius by The Fifth Dimension.

And this one, "Oh Scooby Doo baby I love you. Scooby Doo. I like the way you walk..." This is off the song, Suzie Q by CCR. One of Daddy's favorite bands!

I taught both of our boy's how to spell his name with the song, BINGO. "There was a farmer that had a dog and Mica was his name-o. MICA, MICA, MICA and Mica was his name-o." Then the same for ISAAK. I know I was calling them dogs, but it worked. They learned how to spell their names early on.

Do you make up songs to sing? If you like parodies for kids check out Juice Box Heroes. Aunt Terra and I both have their first album and like it! Their website has clips of their songs.

The only crazy thing is that when the real song plays on the radio, our kids are like, "Hey that's not how it goes!" HA