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 |   Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland |
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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland    |
| Soundtrack of my Life Challenge Feb 20th, Entry 14 Home We'll Go, Walk off the Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwSQq44O_U Walk off the Earth is the quirky band that found fame after Ellen discovered a video of all five members playing one guitar. It was an impressive and original display of musicality. I discovered them just before Ellen helped them go viral. I was drawn to their use of unusual instruments, many homemade, and the haunting vocals of their lead singer Sarah. They are a group of Canadian music students who have been lucky enough to develop a following. They put on an amazing all ages show that features their wide range of original tracks and inventive covers. They do a cover of Ed Sheeran's Shape of You with an odd assortment of pool noodles, cutlery, bells and kazoos that's pretty unbelievable. We've seen them five or six times, the last three shows, my daughter attended with us. This is her favorite track from the band. |
| Soundtrack of My Life Feb 19th, Entry 13 Wait For It - Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr I was a late comer to "Hamilton" fever. In the early days of pandemic, my family was one of the thousands who were lucky enough to experience Hamilton live on Disney+. All of us were immediately hooked by the music, by the performance and by the story that took familiar characters from the history books and brought them to life with pulse and music, clever story-telling and some of the most compelling stage performances I've ever seen. My ten year old daughter was transfixed from the first chords. She has likely watched it now over eighteen times and regularly blasts the soundtrack in the shower. Hamilton transcends, it captivates and it moves you. It is very hard to pick a favorite song or vocal performance but Leslie Odom Jr is an absolute master of his craft and that is never more apparent than during his performance of "Wait for It". Lin-Manual Miranda crafted a song captures Burr's struggles and conflicts that builds at just the right moment. It gives Odom Jr a chance to deliver Burr to the audience with all his complexities and glory. There are by far many, many great performances among this original cast but this one, in my opinion, is one of the very best for Odom Jr. If you've not seem Hamilton, I can not recommend it strongly enough. It is truly amazing. I wish I could have found a link that would have had both the original audio and visual of the stage performance but I had to settle for the audio of the original cast performance. I also included another version that is also very good and gives just a hint of Odom Jr's amazing stage performance capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulsLI029rH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9AyO8h2I0k |
| Soundtrack of my Life Feb 18th , 12th entry, Moondance, Van Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU Once upon a time, I found myself on a 180 foot schooner. It was a floating scientific lab/classroom for the SEA, Semester at Sea. It was an amazing week long journey that departed Woods Hole, MA and traveling out to meet the edge of the gulf stream current. It was full of memorable moments but one of the best ones is connected to this song. We had just reached the edge of the warm water currents that make up the gulfstream and had begun encountering the large floating rafts of sargassium seaweed that was home to a virtual treasure trove of organisms. We were charged with pulling the great rafts onboard and cataloging all the organisms we could find in the pockets of these slick, brown floating carpets. It was hands-on scientific foraging - all done to the strains of Van Morrison's "Moondance", blasting from the boats speakers. It was surreal and amazing. It is a precious memory from another lifetime when I dreamed such different dreams for my life. |
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