• Music

    Enya: Amarantine

    March 3, 2006 - By 

    I admit it, I enjoy listening to Enya sing. Some of her music is special to me, but a lot of it can be too much of a new-agey muchness. Currently, I’m listening to a CD I picked up on a whim called Amarantine. We’ve been listening to this CD in the car the last few days, and today’s the first I’ve had a chance to rip it to iTunes and really listen attentively, rather than dividing my attention between half-heard melodies and watching the road roll by with David. I absolutely loved the song she did for the Return…

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    In A Slack Key Frame Of Mind

    February 27, 2006 - By 

    I’m in a very relaxed mood after a good meal.. and now listening to my ever-expanding collection of slack-key (ki ho’alu) guitar music. My latest aquisition is by Ledward Ka’apana. How I aquired it is another story. But it’s a nice CD, all instrumental, with a couple of interesting ’70’s-era standards thrown in for good measure – “Killing Me Softly” and “Love is Blue.” Both songs suffer from massive overplay – they were huge hits in their day, and have spent much of the last 2 decades in Muzak Hell. Ledward rescues them in his beautiful and sensitive arrangements. Strangely,…

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    Thanks Be To FSM

    February 22, 2006 - By 

    Ohio Board Undoes Stand on Evolution – New York Times COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 14 — The Ohio Board of Education voted 11 to 4 Tuesday to toss out a mandate that 10th-grade biology classes include critical analysis of evolution and an accompanying model lesson plan, dealing the intelligent design movement its second serious defeat in two months. And we can all thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for this… miracle!

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    Birds in my Beans

    February 22, 2006 - By 

    Chicago Tribune | Beans Recalled; Bird’s Head Found in Can Yack! No pinto beans for me for a good long while! And now, I’ve got a song stuck in my head: My mother told me to put birds in my beans, birds in my beans, birds in my beans. Birds in my beans. And now I can whistle from either end. Either end, either end. And now I can whistle from either end Birds in my beans.

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    Happy Birthday To Steve

    February 18, 2006 - By 

    We went to Bob Chinn‘s yesterday to help Steve celebrate a birthday. It was a typicaly Bob Chinny experrience: waitstaff in Hawaiian aloha shirts with tropical fish, a huge dining room with the handwashing stations everywhere that were supposed to look like barrels of Myers’ Rum (an ingredient in the famous Bob Chinn Mai Tai) and bits of crab shell and aerosolized drawn butter floating in a fine mist over our heads. A word not often heard at Bob Chinn’s was used: “traife.” Well, most of us were not concerned with that, and we tried to keep the spray and…

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    Treat

    February 12, 2006 - By 

    Coffee Hour treats from Holy Moly. Yum! Now I need to remember to get good quality coffee and cream. Via: Flickr Title: Treat By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 12 Feb ’06, 6.06pm PST Technorati Tags: Episcopal, Treats

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    Who We’re Rootin’ For

    February 7, 2006 - By 

    The Grammys are tomorrow night – probably won’t watch. But we’re pulling for some people: Category 69 – Best Hawaiian Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) * Slack Key Dreams Of The Ponomoe Kapono Beamer [Kapono Beamer Enterprises, Ltd] * Sweet & Lovely Raiatea Helm [Raiatea Helm Records] * Kiho’alu – Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Ledward Ka’apana * Slack Key Guitar: The Artistry Of Sonny Lim Sonny Lim [Palm Records] * Masters Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar – Vol. 1 WINNER! Various Artists Daniel Ho, Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers [Daniel Ho Creations] Okay, this is getting pretty obscure: FIELD…