'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Baron Dave Romm's Review
Children's Music, Part V
By Baron Dave Romm
I've been making mix tapes for my nephew, now 12, for many years. Recently, I embarked on a project to make mix CDs for my neices, roughly 2 and 3. It was a lot harder to make compilations for the younger kids, since I remember what I listened to when I was 10, but I don't remember what I listened to when I was 3. A secondary consideration was to make music compilations that wouldn't drive adults crazy. I mostly succeeded, and all four CDs were well recieved by their parents.
I've mentioned some of the music previously, containing songs that young kids would like: A Child's Celebration of Folk Music, The Happy Wanderer by Bill Staines, The Wombles by Mike Batt, Peter Paul and Mommy, Somewhere In The Corner by Debbi Friedlander, Schoolhouse Rockthat now had a DVD with the tv spots, The Cat In The Hat Songbook with lyrics by Dr. Seuss, and much more. I also threw in some worldbeat, some of which I've mentioned here: Tunes from Bolivia, Ireland, a lullaby in Icelandic, a bouncy song in Yiddish, gamelon music, etc. Here are a few others your young kids might like.
When the Teletubbies were about to enter the US market, a friend in England sent me the short (four song, 14:33) BBC CD, Teletubbies say "Eh-oh". It doesn't seem to be available from the Beeb anymore, so the link is to a used CD place. For what it is, it's a lot of fun. Two of the songs are the Teletubbies theme; on the CD I used the Again Again Mix, the longer of the two with more stuff thrown in. I also used both the instrumental dances. Whether the kids actually like the tv show, the music is engaging, non-threatening and upbeat.
Disney, of course, has a staggering amount of music for kids of all ages. The youngest Disney CD I have is Children's Favorite Songs Vol. 3. Donald, Mickey and the gang sing favorite songs; fortunately they're not on all the cuts. It has favorites like Alouette, Waltzing Matilda and a great original, Just For You. The others in that series look good too.
Of the three CDs that comprise 101 Favorite Childrens Songs, I have the last one, R-Z. Better and more diverse than most collections, it's mostly short versions of well-known songs (31 cuts take up 56:46), ranging alphabetically from Riddle Song to Yellow Submarine. Decent versions that play to a short attention span.
Sorry to recommend a CD that I can't find on the net, but World of Music for Grade 1 is a nice collection; I got it used, and you may come across it too. The people credited with the CD are Silver Burdett & Ginn, who seem to have gone off to serve "Catholic and Christian communities". This CD is diverse with adaptions of Disney songs like Hey Ho, Heigh Ho, as well as works by DeBussey, Prokofiev and Brahms. Few songs are great, but many are good, such as the Caribbean Basay Down and the negro spiritual/work song Old House. I never really got much use out of it before making mix CDs for toddlers, but wound up using several cuts.
Aside: Talking about this project, a friend who spent 20 years working in the Children's Hospital mentioned that kids really liked "The Name Game" and "Stairway to Heaven". Go fig. If I did any more, I was going to throw in Leo Kotke, Lionel Hampton and Elvis. Gotta start the kids off right!
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with a radio show, a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
Reader Recommendation
Austin, TX
This is happening in my home town of Austin, Texas next weekend (Sept 27 - 29).
I mean, good GOD look at the lineup.
www.aclfestival.com/tickets.html
Anyone who can go, should go.
Carol
Wow! Sounds like a great time - Thanks, Carol!
'My War'
by Alvin
MIDILink
MY WAR
{Sung to 'My Guy' by Mary Wells}
{As Sung By Commander-and-Thief, Dubya Bush}
Nothing you could say
Can tear me away from my war
Nothing you could do
'Cause I'm not listening, my war
I'm sticking to my word like a stamp to a letter
Birds of the same feather, we stick together
I told you from the start
I can't be torn apart from my war
Nothing you can do
Could make me untrue from my war
Nothing you could bribe
Could make me turn my back from my war
I gave my dad my word of honor
I'll go alone to my - Desert Storm
You best be believing
I'm not deceiving, my war
As a matter of opinion I think I'm cool
My every word Saddam should heed 'cause I rule
I don't take a sh!t from stupid dicks
And this pRez is no dumb b!tch!
No muscle bound man could take my hand from my war
No enemies face could ever threatened, my war
The UN should not treat Saddam nice
Or I will do their dirty job
There's not a man today
Who could take me away from my war
{instrumental break}
My brain may not be up to par
But when Bush comes to shoved, I dare:
There's not a man today
Who could take me away from my war
There's not a man today
Who could take me away from my war
There's not a man today
Who could take me away from my war...
Alvin
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The kid woke up sick on Saturday morning. He was even more full of snot today.
Later in the morning, Mo the lizard started 'not acting right', and she died just before dinner. Services will be held tomorrow.
Got a really bummed kid.
Watched the Emmy's, but, it was tape-delayed in LA, and that bites - if it sucked a purpose could be served.
Tonight, Monday, CBS is ALL fresh! Fresh 'King Of Queens', fresh 'Yes, Dear', an hour of fresh 'Raymond', and the fresh series premiere of 'CSI: Miami'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Bruce Willis, Eve, and the new Miss America.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is David Alan Grier.
NBC is also ALL fresh with the season premieres of 'Fear Factor' and 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Rosie O'Donnell, the world's smartest dog, and Kelly Clarkson.
On a traditional Monday-rerun, Conan has Chris Rock, Richard Schiff, and Dan Naturman.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 8/13/02), are Alicia Silverstone and Goldfinger.
ABC has fresh episodes of 'Drew Carey' and 'Whose Line' as well as 'MNF', where Georgia's Little Lambs visit Tampa Bay.
The WB has fresh episodes of '7th Heaven' and 'Everwood'.
Faux fills with a 2-hour 'American Idol In Vegas'.
UPN is ALL fresh with the season premieres of 'The Parkers', 'One On One', 'Girlfriends', and then the series premiere of 'Half & Half'.
PBS is rerunning Ken Burns' The Civil War'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Outstanding Drama Series
'The West Wing'
Aaron Sorkin, the creator of 'The West Wing' and the show's cast accept the award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 54th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 22, 2002. Sorkin is in front holding the Emmy.
Photo by Adrees Latif
Complete List of Emmy Winners
List of winners in major Emmy categories announced Sunday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
Drama Series: ``The West Wing,'' NBC.
Comedy Series: ``Friends,'' NBC.
Variety, Music or Comedy Series: ``Late Show With David Letterman,'' CBS.
Miniseries: ``Band of Brothers,'' HBO.
Made-for-TV Movie: ``The Gathering Storm,'' HBO.
Variety, Music or Comedy Special: ``America: A Tribute to Heroes,'' various networks.
Actor, Drama Series: Michael Chiklis, ``The Shield,'' FX.
Actor, Comedy Series: Ray Romano, ``Everybody Loves Raymond,'' CBS.
Actor, Miniseries or a Movie: Albert Finney, ``The Gathering Storm,'' HBO.
Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program: Sting, ``A&E In Concert: Sting In Tuscany ... All This Time,'' A&E.
Actress, Drama Series: Allison Janney, ``The West Wing,'' NBC.
Actress, Comedy Series: Jennifer Aniston, ``Friends,'' NBC
Actress, Miniseries or a Movie: Laura Linney, ``Wild Iris,'' Showtime.
Supporting Actor, Drama Series: John Spencer, ``The West Wing,'' NBC.
Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Brad Garrett, ``Everybody Loves Raymond,'' CBS.
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or a Movie: Michael Moriarty, ``James Dean,'' TNT.
Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Stockard Channing, ``The West Wing,'' NBC.
Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Doris Roberts, ``Everybody Loves Raymond,'' CBS.
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Stockard Channing, ``The Matthew Shepard Story,'' NBC.
Directing for a Drama Series: ``Six Feet Under: Pilot,'' HBO.
Directing for a Comedy Series: ``Sex and the City: The Real Me,'' HBO.
Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special: ``Band of Brothers,'' HBO.
Directing for a Variety or Music Program: ``Opening Ceremony Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games,'' NBC.
Writing for a Drama Series: ``24: Midnight-1:00 a.m. (Pilot),'' Fox.
Writing for a Comedy Series: ``The Bernie Mac Show: Pilot,'' Fox.
Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: ``The Gathering Storm,'' HBO.
Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: ``Saturday Night Live,'' NBC.
Complete List of Emmy Winners
For a listing of all the Emmy winners & a lot of pictures, Special Emmy Page
Explores Universe of Photos
Leonard Nimoy
Former "Star Trek" actor Leonard Nimoy is exploring a new universe.
A shutterbug since his teens, Nimoy has produced his first book of photographs, titled: "Shekhina: Photographs by Leonard Nimoy."
It contains black-and-white images on the theme of Shekhina, which Jewish mystics consider to be the feminine aspect of God.
Leonard Nimoy
Nimoy's photography site
Skirball Cultural Center
Soaked Faux For Big $
Pamela Anderson
The Fox network finally caved in and paid Pamela Anderson's ransom. The pin-up was demanding big bucks to appear in the "Baywatch Reunion" movie, and she apparently got her number. Spies
in Hawaii said the picture - in which Anderson's character, C.J., opens a bar/restaurant - has started shooting. "Baywatch" regulars Carmen Electra, Gena Lee Nolin, Brande Roderick, Nicole
Eggert, Stacy Kamano and David Hasselhoff all reappear. Fox is airing the two-hour movie during the February sweeps.
Pamela Anderson
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Paul Shaffer
Long-time band leader for the David Letterman Show, Paul Shaffer addresses the crowd during the official unveiling of the street named in his honor Saturday Sept. 21, 2002 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Shaffer, originally from Thunder Bay, was also the guest of honor at a tribute concert.
Photo by Rob Linke
Loans Art to Students
MIT
The Miro prints were gone, stripped from the gallery walls. Someone had walked off with the Marc Chagall lithograph, and the Robert Rauschenberg silkscreen was nowhere in sight.
But Hugo Solis didn't call police. He just walked away, disappointed there wasn't much left for him.
Solis and dozens of other Massachusetts Institute of Technology students had turned up at the university gallery hoping to benefit from an unusual student loan program: Instead of keeping
its art locked up, MIT lets students take home original works to hang on their dorm room and apartment walls.
All of the more than 300 pieces available for loan at the center are original works, though only a handful are unique — most are limited editions of prints, silkscreens or lithographs.
They are appraised at between $250 to $2,000, and all are insured.
Students sign contracts agreeing to return the art at the end of the year. Aside from bumped or scuffed frames, every piece loaned out since the program's start in the 1960s has been returned in good shape, officials say.
MIT
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To Create Sega Video Game
Michael Crichton
Bestselling novelist Michael Crichton is collaborating with Sega to create an original video game title.
"This deal has been percolating for more than a year," said Sega of America president-chief operating officer Peter Moore. "A lot of people in Hollywood are now looking at the interactive
medium as a better way to tell their stories."
Crichton has had huge success in television, movies and books but little experience or success in the video game industry. He is still drafting his concept, and executives
declined to detail the storyline or even its genre.
But sources close to the project said Crichton, the writer behind movie thrillers such as "Coma," "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain," is developing a project
with the kinds of suspense and thriller aspects of those films. Once the game concepts have been drafted, he will work with Sega's game-development studios in Japan to create the actual game.
No decision will be made for eight to 10 months on which of those platforms Sega would release the Crichton game.
Michael Crichton
Peterhof
Samson Fountain
Fireworks illuminate the Samson fountain in Peterhof, one of 176 fountains in the Peter the Great park outside St. Petersburg, late September 21, 2002. Peterhof celebrated the end of the summer fountain season on Saturday night.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
Let The Lawsuits Begin
Rosie O'Donnell
The day after she pulled out of her eponymous magazine, Rosie O'Donnell claims her partners can't say they didn't know who they were getting into bed with.
As observers of the nasty publishing feud wait for lawsuits to start flying, O'Donnell's spokeswoman says her May revelation - in public and in her book, "Find Me" - that she was a
lesbian was not a surprise to Dan Brewster, Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing's CEO, or to the other executives at the company.
The magazine's fate was sealed on Friday, Sept. 13, when lawyers from Gruner + Jahr USA and O'Donnell spent the whole day meeting but were unable to resolve their differences. Finally,
an exasperated company executive offered the magazine to O'Donnell for $1.
O'Donnell rejected the offer, because she did not want to assume the subscription liabilities of $30 million to $50 million, according to Berger.
But the battle for editorial control of the magazine - the heart of the dispute - had grown nasty long before that. Over the summer, even something as routine as picking a cover photo
became a battle as editorial director O'Donnell blasted her staff for "trying to destroy my image."
For the rest, Rosie O'Donnell
Re-Mixing Elvis
David Bendeth
RCA vice president David Bendeth spent a year uncovering hidden tones in original Elvis recordings to produce a richer "less distant" sound.
He was awe-struck.
"Imagine mixing the King!" said Bendeth, whose work, "Elvis 30 1 Hits," will be released Tuesday.
The tapes, some recorded over 45 years ago, included "Heartbreak Hotel," "Jailhouse Rock," "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and "Can't Help Falling in Love."
David Bendeth
BartCop TV!
Twins In His Future
Luciano Pavarotti
The partner of opera star Luciano Pavarotti is expecting twins, his spokeswoman said Sunday, confirming months of rumors.
"Yes, (his partner) Nicoletta (Mantovani) is four months pregnant," Renata Meroni told Reuters.
The children will be the first for Mantovani, 33, but the fourth and fifth for Pavarotti, 66, who already has three daughters from his former wife.
Luciano Pavarotti
At The Emmys
Jane & Brad
Pregnant actress Jane Kaczmarek, nominated for best lead actress in a comedy series for "Malcolm in the Middle," and husband Brad Whitford, nominated for supporting actor in a drama series for "The West Wing," arrive at the 54th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles September 22, 2002.
Photo by Fred Prouser
'Jay and Silent Bob'
Jason Mewes
Half of the comedy team "Jay and Silent Bob" is missing and feared dead. Jason Mewes, who's played the drug-loving "Jay" in such Kevin Smith flicks as "Chasing Amy," "Clerks" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,"
has not been seen by friends or family since an arrest warrant was issued for him 10 months ago. Mewes was sentenced to two years' probation after pleading guilty to heroin possession in 2000. Now the Chicago Sun-Times
reports his friends believe he's either dead or on the lam in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States.
Jason Mewes
Extra Biscuits?
Unhappy Customer
A Mill Valley (CA) KFC restaurant employee was arrested after a customer received a little something extra with his chicken dinner.
This customer received two bags of marijuana Friday, instead of the extra biscuits he had requested.
The customer gave the marijuana back to the employee, got his extra biscuits and called police.
Police arrested Carlos Ayala, 26, of Vallejo, shortly after the customer complained about the pot.
Ayala often worked the drive-up window at the restaurant and authorities say he may have been selling the marijuana to customers who used the right secret word as a code.
Extra Biscuits?
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Heavy rain and hail brought out a rainbow at the end of the day near the Winnipeg, Manitoba airport on Saturday Sept. 21, 2002.
Photo by Ken Gigliotti
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