Ladonia! Ladonia!...

...What makes your big head so hard?

"Jitterbug Waltz"

These guys are amazing. Here they are doing a brain synapse stimulating, "Gypsy Swing" version of the old "Fats" Waller tune (eat your heart out, Django Reinhardt!):

Honey Grove

Honey Grove, Texas

"What's Going On/What's Happening Brother"

 You're getting wet, Marvin. That's what's going on.

I wonder what Brother Marvin would have to say about the times in which we find ourselves:

This live performance comes from the 1973 film, Save The Children (don't bother checking at Netflix - it ain't there) with James Jamerson on bass.

"When You Are Old"

Actor Matthew Macfadyen reads the poem "When You Are Old" by W.B Yeats:

WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

 W.B. Yeats

 

"Quando, Quando, Quando"

Now I know I'm getting old. Tain't no doubt 'bout it no mo'. And I'm slipping into stereotypical black dialect occasionally too, but that is an unrelated issue. While I may have liked this song somewhat ironically ten years ago or so, I now actually like like it...WTF? Engelbert Humperdinck?? The man who denied The Beatles' and their brilliant, groundbreaking "Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" single the top spot on the charts??? Dogs and cats, living together???? But I do like this beautiful damn song. I like it a lot. Good lord - just shoot me now before I start doing Tom Jones posts....

Blowin' through Bonham

Bonham, Texas