Posts tagged “music”

The Rainbow Connection

The Rainbow Connection – Kermit the Frog

the Beatles

Are The Beatles part of many of our lives because they sang about things we are familiar with in our everyday lives? Is that why they’re still with us, all these years? Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl / but she doesn’t have a lot to say / Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl /

seven years ago

The day the music died

Music

I was very happy to see that Bruce Springsteen‘s Born to Run, Paul Simon‘s Graceland, and The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated were among some of my favorites mentioned in NPR’s list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. [link via dollarshort.org]

Crutchfield

<swoon> I think I’m in love … </swoon>

Less Than Jake

I saw Less Than Jake last night at The Hollywood Palace. Amazing concert. I love those guys. One of the songs from their new album is called Gainesville Rock City. (The CD case has a spinner-dial on the back that tells you the mileage between numerous cities and Gainesville, Florida. Very cool.) The encore began

Can you name the car with four-wheel-drive?
Smells like a steak and seats thirty-five!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down.
It’s a country-fried truck endorsed by a clown.
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Twelve yards long and two lanes wide,
Sixty-five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports!
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts.
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super-high beam.
She a squirrel-squishin’, deer-smackin’ drivin’ machine!
Canyonero! Canyonero!

music

I found an incredible resource for music lovers: Musictoday.com will let you know when and where your favorite band is playing next. link via sixkill

ten club

I continue to be impressed with the design of the ten club web site. Navigation is easy, the low-res version is practical, and the high-res version is beautiful. If you like this band, you will enjoy visiting their web page. <Kurt Loder>In other music news</Kurt Loder>, one of my favorite bands was at the House

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.