Guitar Songs to Learn

Over the past several weeks, I've been listening to my iPod in "shuffle" mode and picking out songs I'd like to learn to play on my guitar using the "My Top Rated" feature (*****). I feel very inspired today and my iPod is doing a great shuffle job (I swear, there must some artificial intelligence with it), so I've decided to translate this from "My Top Rated" to a real list:

• Fire and Rain - James Taylor
• Desire - U2
• Runaround - Blues Traveler
• Yellow - Coldplay
• Time of Your Life - Greenday
• Rodeo Clowns - Jack Johnson/Ben Harper
• No Such Thing - Johh Mayer
• Nothing Left to Lose - Mat Kearney
• Best of My Love - The Eagles
• Dust in the Wind - Kansas
• You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
• America - Simon & Garfunkel
• Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
• What I'm Fighting For - Matisyahu
• World Of Peace/Shalom Rav - RebbeSoul
• Laugh Like I Could Learn to Love - Gus
• My Stupid Mouth - Johh Mayer
• More Than a Feeling - Boston
• Put Your Records On - Corrine Baile Rae
• Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe
• Karma Police - Radiohead
• Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
• No Rain - Blind Melon
• For What It's Worth - Dusty Springfield
• Under the Milky Way - The Church
• Shiver - Coldplay
• Last Worthless Evening - Don Henley
• Crazy Little Think Called Love - Queen
• Singing In My Sleep - Semisonic
• Pinball Wizard - The Who
• Beer For My Horses - Willie Nelson
• I Had a King - Joni Mitchell
• Mr. Jones - Counting Crowes
• Lay Me Down - Crosby and Nash
• Every Rose Has a Thorn - Poison
• Drive - Incubus

I plan on getting most of these tabs online through Ultimate-Guitar.Com and 911Tabs.Com

Disemboweled Doggie

When I got home in the wee hours of the morning from my Valentine's night out with some friends, Crockett got jealous and managed to quickly disembowel his little yellow stuffed doggie friend. Shame on your Crockett... He was your cute little "Mini-Me" daddy bought you right after you were adopted! :(

I think for now, I'll stich-up little yellow doggie before I present Crockett with a new one. Call it my version of a gastro bypass!

Clogged Drain :-(

Thank goodness I have a shop vac!

The Police are Coming!

Upon waking to KBCO this morning, I learned it's no longer a rumor about the Police getting back together and touring. They'll be at the Pepsi Center on June 9th. Tickets are between $50 and $275.

I think I'm going to make this happen. I've always wanted to them growing up, but couldn't do so for whatever reasons. Below is the offical news relesae from their site:

www.sting.com/news/news.php?uid=4772

First Neighborhood Shabbat

Tonight starts my first Shabbat in the neighborhood. I'll be headed over to DAT with a neighbor for Kabbalat Shabbat. Tomorrow, I'm walking over to Kohelet for morning services and meeting-up there with a friend.

I'm finally happy to not have to drive for several miles!

Tomorrow night, I'm headed over to Temple Emanuel for their fundraiser, "An Evening to Build Your Life On." It's a back-to-Shwayder Camp event that should bring back some awesome memories... songs... s'mores... Maybe an old camp girlfriend?

Walking in Memphis

Last night, I went with a friend to hear Marc Cohn at the Boulder Theater. If you're not familiar with Marc Cohn, he's a singer/songwriter most famous for his storytelling song "Walking in Memphis." Marc had the misfortune of being hit in the head by a stray bullet last year in Downtown Denver. Thankfully, he did not sustain any major injuries, but he does have a scar that he said is "pretty cool."

Okay, about the show... Marc started off saying this was his first gig in a long time, and that he may "suck." After playing his first couple songs, he asked the audience for requests and started playing based on that. Pretty cool! All I can say is that Marc did NOT suck, and he moved a packed house with his powerful voice and work on the piano. He played several songs from his new album that will be coming out "soon", that he joked about people downloading for free.

The highlight of the show was when he played Walking in Memphis. During the verse, "Are you a Christian Child...", the house lights went up and Marc signaled the audience to singing with "Ma'am I am tonight!" All I can say is WOW! I've never seen an artist interact so intimately with an audience.

Marc prefaced the song True Companion asking who got married to it, or plans to get married to it. He told a story about how a venue requested that he bring couples on stage who proposed that evening with this song. His response was that doing so would make him a rabbi! "I'm already a cantor," he said!

Marc did talk quite a bit about the shooting last year, and said he has no ill feelings towards the people of Colorado. He said it could have happened anywhere. It was obvious from these comments and his music that he has a strong and friendly connection to Colorado.

www.marccohn.net

Thank you Marc!

Door Knobs That DON'T Suck

The moment I moved into my house, I was blinded by the sight of those sucky gold door knobs all over the house. Okay, call me a snob, but come on... These door knobs belong back in the 1970's!

Instead of continuing to kvetch (one of my friend's already told me to knock it off), I went online today to purchase some modern and "finished" looking doorknobs. Since my house is on the compact side, I went with egg-shaped knobs in a satin nickel finish, specifically the "Laurel" series by Kwikset. I think they look great and are relatively affordable (sorry Baldwin).