So kind of you both to give me suggestions. Thanks, and I'll continue to watch for them.

SS

Chet Atkins had a guitar CD called "Sails" that is nice background music.

Ramsey Lewis.

Get one with the live version of "The In Crowd" recorded in the 60's.

Anyone know Christine Lavin's song, "The Amoeba Hop"?

Did I extinguish the campfire?

Sssssssssssssssssssssss.

Every time I think it's gone... it revives.

Wonder how SS did. I added no new suggestions.

I wanted to tell him to get Miles' Sketches of Spain.

But that's hardly jazz.

Hardly jazz, hard to ignore, but something everyone should hear.

I do not know Christine Lavin. Does she make silly music?

I went to night-night at 10:00. That's too early for me. Couldn't even stay asleep.

Hey cin.

GC

Chrisner-you sure we aren't related? After all, we both know Godot. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Plus- I discovered Klemmer in college and also have the Ramsey Lewis live CD with "The In Crowd". Toe tapping stuff.

Sarah Vaughn is also very smooth, classic vocals-and Chet Baker's Live in Paris is also good for instrumental.

Dianna Krall is great for mellow vocals, especially some of the old standards, and Chris Botti has a great sound with the trumpet.

enjoy-

Just a little puddle of muddy water
Left there after the rain
I got down on my knees
I looked close
I saw things I couldn't explain
There was all those itty bitty
Teeny weeny little tiny creatures
Swimmin' and sloshin' about
I put my ear down to that puddle
I could hear one of them shout

We're goin' to the Amoeba Hop
Everybody's gonna be there
Got my eye on a cute paramecium
You know the one with the wavy hair
Rockin' and rollin' shakin' our cells
and flappin' our flagella all over
Well the good times don't never gonna stop
When you go to the Amoeba Hop

(That's what I heard... I mean it! I mean it!)

Then I spied a shy protozoan
Swingin' all by hisself
He was lookin' for a partner to shake a leg with
But everyone was dancin' with everybody else
So he was so lonely till Mother Nature
Showed him what to do
He boogied down he did a little binary fission
Split his-cellf in two (and now he's got a partner)

For the Amoeba Hop
Everybody gonna be there
My, oh my, of nucleoli
Have you ever seen such a perfect pair?
Rockin' and rollin' shakin' their cells
Slappin' their cilia all over
Well, the good times don't never gonna stop
When you go to the Amoeba Hop
Good times don't never gonna stop
When you go to the Amoeba Hop

Some folks that one-celled animals
Don't know how to swing
People who say that... are wrong
'Cause I saw a band of algae
Get up there and sing:
"When the red red robin comes
bob-bob-bobbin' along"
But to them it's a monster song!

Oooh the puddle was jumpin'
So was I
I guess I lost my head
In my excitement I splashed it dry
Oh my god I thought they was dead!
But no! They just come splashin' down
Right here into my hand
And sure enough I could still hear
That swingin' algae band Sayin'

We're going to the Amoeba Hop,
Everybody gonna be there,
Got my eye on a cute paramecium,
Look at the hair girls! Look at the hair!
Rockin' and rollin' shakin' our cells
Slappin' pseudopodia all over
Well the good times don't never gonna stop
When you go to the Amoeba Hop
Good times don't never gonna stop
When you go to the Amoeba Hop-hop hop bada
Good times don't never gonna stop
When you go to the Amoeba Hop!

Cinderella,

Have you ever listened to Nelly McKay? Her lyrics are a hoot. Her style is somewhere between Jo Stafford and Eminem. Guys beware, she is a male bashing specialist but really worth a listen.

The world is a better place because of tamales.

and tater tots.

I love them both.

(le sigh)

I had a good tamale for breakfast.

I had a green tamale (green on purpose) last week. I know I liked it but I ate it like a dog so I don't know what it tasted like.

GC

Chrisner - never heard of her. May have to check her out....in the good sense of the word.

Though he does not drink, friend's husband has cirohssis of the liver....I can't spell it but God doesn't care. His condition is life threatening. Please pray for him to be healed and to live a normal life to see his daughters grow up. For his wife's strength. For skill for the doctors and nurses caring for him.

Verde, GC, VERDE!

Yesterday, as I was driving the littles to school, Nonio asks, "Mommy, can I wear my costume when I get home?" I tell him, "Sure, you can play dress up."

OMGoodness!

You could hear the wheels grinding in his little head, and the derision that came from the back seat!

"MOM! Dress up is for GIRLS!"

As I'm trying to take that comment serious, I say, "Yes, but PRETEND is for everyone. When we get home, you can PRETEND to be Superman."

Ah-ha! Quiet contemplation ensues, the tumblers clink into place, then:

"MOM! YOU'RE THE BEST, MOM!"

Got close to your old neck of the woods on our way home from Savannah, Kimmy. Stopped in Maggie Valley in the Gorge early Friday and ended up staying the night to listen to a Blue Grass band that was posted on a sign.

They had a little 14 yo fllor bass player with this big huge red bass that was twice his size. And he had on a bright red hat and shirt with farmer jeans. They also had a 17 yo fiddle player, and then the other two players were old guys. It was awssome, and I don't even really like blue grass.

Oh and one night we were on Tybee Island outside of Savannah on this cafe balcony overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and a Blue Grass band started playing. Had a really old guy playing the mandolin and it was the coolest thing. I am so used to being on the beach and listening to Jamaican music or something like that, I could hardly believe it.

Tonight or tomorrow will be the first installment in my campfire ghost story serious. LOL Savannah really believes it is totally haunted, and I was talking to this girl at that beach bar and she told me it is the honest to God truth and to believe them. They're the strangest bunch of people down there even stranger than in New Orleans, and I just can't wait to move there.

bluegrass is cool

Bluegrass makes me happy.

"Deliverance" kind of ruined it for me though. Freaks me out sometimes down there.

GB loves blue grass. Tortures this old banjo he has every now and again.

That was a great scene!

The Banjo Kid