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Our Friday Night Fun

Every Friday we have a family movie night, with each member of the family getting a turn to choose the movie. The week that R.E.M. broke up we watched some music videos on youtube.

Now the kids really like some of the songs. It is fun to see their enjoyment of these songs from my youth. Although now that I think about it, I wasn’t 4 or 7 or 10 when I listened to them.

Here is one of McKelvey;s favorites:
Dead or ALive’s You SPin Me Right Round

Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon

We also watched Aha’s Take on Me, and then I remembered someone made a spoof of the video, making the lyrics talking about what is shown in the video. Pretty funny.

Aha’s Take Me On Literal version

Original http://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914

Then we looked up the literal video of one of Liam’s constant requests, Men Without Hat’s Safety Dance. Although the literal version we discovered was a little racy, at least for 4 year olds.

Men Without Hats Safety Dance Literal Version

Original

That is a glimpse of our action packed Friday nights.

Bit of the ordinary, Memes

Internet Memes | 15 Albums

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I saw this on Facebook tonight:

Liam Feldman’s Notes | 15 Albums.

It was an interesting Meme going on.

Internet Meme- the list of albums
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Basically it was giving you a certain structure to share info about yourself. And the interesting thing about restrictions, I find they are in fact quite freeing. I think that faced with a totally blank canvas, most people would be at a loss as to what to make. Most people need a nudge in a certain direction. I am definitely someone like that, give me a starting point and I can run with it. That is probably why I am in the theater. Give me a play or a story and my imagination starts flowing. Every one is the same, initiating action is harder than reaction, which is what a meme relies on.

Anyway my response to the question of 15 albums:

1 Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
2 Bob Marley – Legend
3 Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
4 Various Artists – High Fidelity Soundtrack
5 Pink FLoyd – The Wall
6 Glen Hansard – Soundtrack to the Movie “Once”
7 Various Artists – Stand By Me Soundtrack
8 Jane’s Addiction – Nothing Shocking
9 Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll
10 U2 – Achtung Baby
11 Pearl Jam – Ten
12 Nirvana – Bleach
13 The Beatles – Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
14 Jimi Hendrix – Live at Woodstock
15 Phish – Junta

I intentionally limited myself to one album from musical artist or group, which made it harder towards the end.