Greetings and salutations. I know I've been gone for several weeks now--after over a year of posting voluminously every day I woke up one morning and realized I needed to step away from the blog. So I did. I think I got tired of forcing myself to have an opinion on everything that happened in the world and I've been digging a lot of dirt, planting a lot of plants and reading a lot since then. And biking. And swimming. And teaching karate and stuff. I'm just sneaking in to post a couple of songs--one was mentioned by a friend of a friend in a recent blog post (quoted actually, not quite mentioned) and the second is one of the few other John Prine songs that I know and love (...got more balls than big brass monkey!). So here's Prine's Spanish Pipedream (3:10):
And on the other side of the break you'll find "In Spite of Ourselves"--the song doesn't start until about the 1:30 mark:
Awww, Rebecca would be so proud. I guess you are responsible for her most recent subtitle, so it's only fair that the influence is mutual.
Posted by: K | June 08, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Wecome back, g, we missed you.
Posted by: Lynn | June 09, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Ha, I am proud! I almost embedded that video but I was really hoping for an earlier version (the 1989 fashion is SO incongruous with that song!!) Why don't I listen to more John Prine?
You may resume reading to your plants now.
Posted by: Rebecita | June 09, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Hey, G! Just checking in on you...it's been a while;-) Hope you're doing well. Since I see you're biking & swimming, you might be interested to know that Dave just competed in his first sprint triathlon back in August. He started training back in March for it and is hoping to do two a year. I put a few pictures on my blog (bethkush.blogspot.com) if you're interested. Keep in touch:)
Posted by: Bethany | August 29, 2009 at 08:41 AM