The Adventures of Garrett Squared: Play That Funky Music...Happy Songs...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Play That Funky Music...Happy Songs...

I tend towards the Big Band Era and Swing for my main musical taste sprinkled with a bit of cross over country, hip hop (okay just one song!) and contemporary Christian music. One day I may go through some of my favorite songs in those categories. However, today is all about the Funky Music! You know, the music that just makes you get up and shake your tail feathers, or open the roof, roll down the windows, hike the bass and head down the road just for the fun of it! You hum/sing/shout, tap your feet and in general just can't help but enjoy! One just popped up recently and I LOVE it! So, for your reading (and listening pleasure), here are some of the fun and funky tunes that make me go YIPPEEEEE! Given the name of the blog, I will begin with "Play that Funky Music" by Wild Cherry. Don't know if they did anything else and it actuall was on a 45--can you believe it??? And after all this time, I still LOVE this song!

Pretty much anything by Weird Al Yankovich is good for at least a laugh!

I think the first song by Weird Al of which I was aware was "I'm Fat"...no comment...

Jive Bunny and the MasterMixers is certainly a good one for parodies of music and a lot of fun!

For those of us who love to dance to a good beat and fun song, who can forget "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees. Did he do anything else? I have NO IDEA~

Phil Driscoll--Love almost anything he does, but "Forever Land" is one of those songs that makes my toes tap!

Steven Curtis Chapman comes into the list with "Dive!" Fun!

Chris Rice brings us the playful Cartoon Song...Do you just love the Smurfs and Scooby Do singing Halleluhia!???

One that I just really enjoy is the Newsboys "Wherever We Go--That's Where the Party's At". This is kind of a motto for me! :)

A single Hip Hop song gets into the first list. Vanilla Ice brings us "Ice Ice Baby" the '05 version.

And the song that made me think of this blog...

Drum Roll please......

Michael Buble' singing "Hollywood!" Oh my gosh! This one comes on the radio and I just have a smile for the rest of the day! Having a bad morning? Listen to Hollywood and the world rights itself!

So, get out the LP, 45, CD or MP3 and enjoy some toe tapping, shake your tail feathers mamma, just can't stop smiling fun!!!!!

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AiringMyLaundryFebruary 23, 2011 at 10:50 PM
Weird Al definately has some great songs.
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Kathy's KlotheslineFebruary 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM
Given the fact that I am reading this in your presence .... I don't have to comment ..... do I?
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labbie1February 25, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Oh yes Miss Kathy--I DO expect you to give me some of your favorite happy songs!!!!
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The Mockingjay

It is with great sadness that I say goodbye to the characters of this Trilogy.

This 3rd and last book in The Hunger Games Trilogy was not remotely what I thought it would be. While the first two books were books about horrific competition and massive loss it was also about the indomitable will to live and thrive of the human spirit.

I thought that this book would be much as the other two. Our heros are tested and then survive to live happily ever after.

But, this book is much deeper and probably much more realistic than that. The thin skinned President Snowden in his extreme anger makes it clear that Katniss, her family and even her village are not going to be allowed to live in the peace that we anticipated after the first two books. To the end that President Snowden wants to see Katniss and everyone who follows her and her courage destroyed, we are drawn deeply into a story of battle both internal and external, love and loss and the dramatic results of a long lived, hard fought war while unsure of who is friend and who is foe.

The end of this book was a loss in many respects. The loss of a group of people to whom I was drawn and the loss of a way of life for those characters. While the war was won, the battles took their toll on all of the characters that we have come to know and love and their lives are forever changed by the end of this book and trilogy.

Catching Fire

This 2nd book in The Hunger Games Trilogy was even better than number one!

I read it in about a day and a half.

I simply could NOT put it down!

The main thrust of this book is the Quell games. Every 25 years the districts must take part in not one but two games to celebrate the domination of the Capitol.

If I go further than that with explanation, I will probably ruin #1 for you, so let's just say that the Mockingjay has a part in this and that the families of Peeta and Katniss as well as Gale are well represented.

The ending leaves us hungry for more at the edge of an abiss...

Now, on to book 3.

PS--Don't start this series without purchasing all three books because you will surely kick yourself if you can't go right to the next book!

The Hunger Games

Book 1 of the Trilogy:
GREAT READ! This was recommended to me by my hair stylist while I was in Missouri. I purchased it for my Kindle, but subsequently passed it up for other reads. My mistake! What an engaging book! Following Katniss and Peeta as well as the other characters in a richly written narrative of the Hunger Games which are a fight to the death each year of children chosen from each of the 12 poor downtrodden districts of the country of Penam for the enjoyment of the spoiled, protected class of people in the "Capital". Gripping and twisting right to the end! I liked it so much that the second I finished I felt like I couldn't let go of the characters and zipped right on to the second volume of the trilogy! RECOMMEND HIGHLY!

Pumpkin Roll

Pumpkin Roll by Josi S. Kilpack~~This book was recommended by another blogger who made it sound so good that I I just had to check t out. I purchased my copy for Kindle and really enjoyed it! The author writes a very fine mystery without using vulgarity or objectionable content which is refreshing. This book was a fun one for the autumn season when our thoughts turn to pumpkins, spices and a nip in the air.

The neighbor is rumored to be a witch and with several other colorful characters of dubious nature, we have a fun Halloween culinary novel.

The nice twist at the end of the story gives an interesting wrap-up to make this book a good light read.

In addition, the recipes sounded so good that I had to copy some of them down and try them--including the Pumpkin Roll of the book title. A good read and good recipes! What's better than that?

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Play That Funky Music...Happy Songs...

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