I already know that you are not going to believe this, but I swear on all things wallpaper the Nacho Libre soundtrack is amazing. AMAZING. I had dinner at our musically trustworthy friend's house on Sunday and kept asking, "What are we listening to?" Each and every time, the answer was, "The Na-CHOOOOOOO Libre Soundtrack!" Here - try it out for free first. You can thank me later.
I can't believe that I haven't mentioned that it was recently the 25th anniversary of Prince's Purple Rain. Prince is obviously one of Minnesota's favorite sons, and the movie was filmed at Minneapolis rock shrine First Ave. I can remember playing the soundtrack on a friend's boombox during recess when we were in fourth grade and dancing madly to "Let's Go Crazy." In honor of his purpleness, here's a gem of a cover.
We had dinner last night with friends and a neighbor who's a musician. He was all about Phoenix, so I had to check their latest album out this morning. As I expected, it's awesome. And available for downloading for just $5 on Amazon right now. By the way, have you noticed how freakishly accurate the "You may also like" functions on both Amazon and iTunes are? When I pulled this album up, I owned EVERY SINGLE ONE on the list. Yikes. Either Amazon's computers are about to become self aware and take over the world or I have become predictable :)
Wade and I and a couple of our friends went to the Elton John and Billy Joel concert last Tuesday. Well, we sort of did... The concert took place at Wrigley Field (baseball stadium of the Chicago Cubs) and our seats were on one of the roof tops. Usually that's perfect if you're there to watch a baseball game... you're sitting right across the street from the stadium and the view is great. However for the concert, the stage was facing the home plate so we had a fantastic view of the crowd enjoying actually seeing Billy and Elton.
It was still a phenomenal experience. The sound was great, we could see the light show and the roof top was pretty packed, so it just felt like a big party. And it was all-you-can eat and drink too! I wish someone had told me they were going to serve food all night, because I filled up within the first twenty minutes and then the waiters kept coming out with new types of foods every half hour. They even had ice cream, cookies and brownies for dessert!
I'm really glad we could experience the two musical legends in concert. I hope some day I'll get to go again and be able to not only hear them, but actually see them!
Maybe it's the New Mexican in me, but boy, do I love a good mariachi band. In fact, we had one at our wedding - I'm working at my mother in law's today because our washer is broken, or I'd have scanned the photo from the old wedding album.
My amazing friend Jess just sent me this link to mariachi cover songs, and all I can say is, "Ole!" And speaking of cross cultural song covers, at our last big family event we danced to the polka Macarena, performed live by a polka band mostly made up of distant cousins of mine (Christiana was there, she can vouch for this). Am hoping the reunion this weekend will feature more polka classics - will keep you posted...
I went over to Hidden Beach with my son and some friends for a little mid-afternoon break today. It's actually chilly here so the beach was unusually empty - normally there are all kinds of interesting people and music. Today, just one lone guy with a guitar. But he did an especially stirring rendition of Terence Trent D'Arby's Sign Your Name, so I've tried to recreate it for you here. Speaking of TTD, what ever happened to that guy?
