Friday Tunes - Old Devils with William Elliott Whitmore

Finally weekend and I'm back with my Friday tunes! First out is this wonderful treat of a song, by William Elliott Whitmore. Such an amazing voice, tune and lyrics. Love, love, love it!! Do check out his music, if you haven't heard of him before. Lots of great songs.

Happy Friday everyone,

wish you

a

great one!

 

 

 

Ps: We're pulling out our Halloween decoration here tonight.. Lets get started!

Friday Tune - Don´t Wanna Leave The Congo

Lets kick off the weekend with this fab tune from the The Valiants, with Don´t Wanna Leave The Congo!! Don't you just love the jungle rythms, mixed with a good dash of ol' rock'n'roll?

Turn up the sound and let the music fill the room.. Kick off your shoes, lean back, relax and let it sink in; yes, it is weekend! Finally, at last!!

Wish you all a lovely one;)

Raining again..

The rain has been poring down from the sky, ever since we came back from our holiday.. And even before we left.. Will it ever stop? Some surfing on Youtube today, lead me to this song. My man tells me it's a Christian band from the US, I'm not religous so I guess that's why I haven't heard it before. But that's no reason not to listen to it, I think it got a nice sound to it and it fits quite perfect on a day like this! What do you think?

Hope everythings good on your side and that you're having a swell Sunday;)

Meanstreak

A peek at the concert with Meanstreak this Tuesday! I also added a video with the band that came after them, Paranoid Androida. Sorry to say I was standing quite far away on that one, so wasn't able to get the same quality on it as with Meanstreak..

The Andrews Sisters - Rum & Coca Cola

Friday at Scary Mary's.. Time for an other tune as the weekend is closing in:) Close your eyes and dream away.. As the awsome Rum & Coca Cola song by The Andrews Sisters, transports you to warmer weather and summer parties under the stars.. I sure could need some of that right now, the snow keeps coming down and never seems to stop piling up outside!

Is it just me, or does the weeks seem to fly by? It leaves me a tiny hope of spring beeing here pretty soon;)

Valentines at The Crossroads

Voodoo John is back, with some sweet between the sheets Valentine music, for all you love sick puppies out there... Have a good one;)

A Thousand Kisses Deep..

The most beautiful and touching love poem by Leonard Cohen...

The Passenger...

Some of you might have seen this one before, but it's too good not to share.. I just love this spookylishes little short film of a story!!;)

Paul Ansells Number Nine

A small taste of Saturday's concert with Paul Ansells Number Nine on Caven, Enjoy!!;)

Somewhere early in the concert..



And later on..;)

Grim ol' Granny O'Grimm

One of my favourite animated short films... Granny O'Grimms version of Sleeping Beauty! Bed time stories anyone?


Oscar nominated in 2009, directed by Nicky Phelan, produced by Brown Bag Films, and written/voiced by Kathleen O'Rourke..

Scary Flexible Sisters

A wonderful, sweet and crazy video clip from the 1944 movie "Broadway Rhythm". It starts out rather inocent and like any other 1940's movie tune, but hang in there, things will get veird.. And veirder. It's jaw dropping how the Ross Sisters Aggie, Maggie and Elmira can bend and twist their bodies. All in very mysterious ways, while they sing off course. If I only knew half of it, I would probably be world champion in yoga..

Part from how scary flexible this young girls are, the song has been stuck on my mind ever since I found it around Christmas.. Thought it was by time I pass it on;)

The God of Death..

The Aztecs and Mayans considered the owl a symbol of death and destruction, and the Aztec god of death was often pictured as an owl.. I can understand why the superstitious indians believed that the owl had these powers, as it's a creature thats mainly hunting at night. With it's yellow, piercing eyes and the spooky hoot, it must have sent a chill down their spine out there in the rain forest. Though there's other creatures in the rain forest I would have found more frightening myself.. In Mexico they have an old saying that they still use "When the owl cries, the Indian dies"...

It's interesting how the same beliefs is found among the Ho-Chunk, a Native American tribe from Wisconsin, USA. It seems that indian cultures all over the world has much of the same beliefs and traditions, so maybe not so veird after all.. They have always had a very different outlook and closer connection to mother nature than what the westernes had..



While the indians considered the owl as something that brings or stand for evil, in the western culture people has for a long time associated owls with wisdom. This goes as far back as to the ancient greeks, where the godess of wisdom, Athena had the owl as a symbol.

I have to say that for me the owl is a magnificant creature and one of my favourite animals, or birds I guess I should say.. If they beholds great wisdom or not, I don't know. But they sure look smarter than an average sparrow and way cooler the way they can turn their heads around;) I lean towards favouring the ancient greek belief, though I find the whole god of death thing very fascinating.. But me picturing the owl as a wise old man, is probably just a sign of Disneys brainwash since my early years lol..

This is one of my favourite videos on youtube.. I never get tiered of looking at the beautiful motions of the feathers, as it's coming in for landing and the powerful look of the eyes. Such an amazing creature!!

How do you picture the owl? As a god of death, or a wise old man like I do?;) What is your favourite creature?

(History source: Wikipedia)

Forbidden Images From the Past..

This is a short film I found on Youtube the other day. It's made of cuts from old movies, parts which were concidered tabu back in the days... All of the clips is found in the same movie theatre, somewhere in Pennsylvania. It's allmost like a peephole into the past.. Interesting to see how much of the woman body that were considered sexual and forbidden, compared to todays society were the celebreties are trying to overdo each other on each apparance, letting little to the imagination.. I'm not sure if it was better back then, but I do think it's more beautiful with subtle hints, than just laying it all on the plate... Anyhow, enjoy this beautiful, mind tumbler of a short film and transition into the past!

Yule Holiday

My Christmas holiday started today, and oh it feels good.. Getting to sleep in, late breakfast with my love, coffee and surfing the great web... I'll be heading out to buy Christmas gifts and a small Christmas trea bush in just a bit, which should set the Christmas mood here! Hopefully I'll get my butt up to the attic for the Christmas decoration, it's so cold up there I really rather not.. For that reason I've been prosponing it as long as I could, but with only a few days left and Christmas eve right around the corner. Guess I better get it done. At least if I want it all Christmassy and cozy in here, so I can surprise my sweetheart when he gets home from work tonight. Just a little surfing and coffee more....;)

The video below is a clip from one of my favourite Christmas movies... So sad and wonderful!! Still bring tears to my eyes when I watch it now..

The Kingdom Of Witches

Not exactly Christmas, but what the heck! A lovely video I stumbled over right before Halloween, that I never came around to share with you guys before now.. I really love the simple silouette effects, the innocent musicbox music and the fairytale like story line!

Thanksgiving Disaster..

Apparently not allways that easy to get the turkey in the oven, as we can see in this video....:) Hahha