Wordless Wednesday .... shhhhhhh 😶

Music Monday: Hallelluja, Leanord Cohen's arrangement sung by K.D. Lang.

I can't post videos anymore that I know of...... I've tried everything.   

But I hope you WILL go and find it, and listen to it.   It is the most gorgeous song, and it's sung by one of the most powerful, beautiful voices I've ever heard.  This one is truly worth the effort.

There isn't any way I can link it either.  So this is just a prompt you will have to follow though with at YouTube.  I hope this singer, singing this song, moves you right to depths your soul. 

This is the last of Music Monday unless I can find a work-around for the problem that has arisen in this over-monetized New World Order.  

If you copy: Hallelujah , Leonard Cohen's arrangement sung by K.D. Lang, and paste it in a new window, you should find it at Duck Duck Go or at YouTube without a problem. 

But I hope you WILL go and find it, and listen to it.   It is the most gorgeous song, and it's sung by one of the most powerful, beautiful voice, ever.  This one is truly worth it.

Sunday Komiks. heeheehee

 

Some Cuteness on a Saturday

FROM HERE: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/travel/thomas-dambo-trolls-tupper-lake-wild-center.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Saturday 9 will be along shortly … slow day… 🥸

Saturday 9: Big Girls Don't Cry (1962) Boy did I ever mess this one up!

Saturday 9: Big Girls Don't Cry (1962)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) When is the last time you shed a tear? 

Last night- I'm a big cry baby for melodramas. Plus, I even shed tears when I'm laughing.

2) Lyricist/producer Bob Crewe recalled he got the idea for this song while watching a movie on TV. "Big girls don't cry" was a line from the 1956 film Slightly Scarlet. Give us a quote from another movie.

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father... prepare to die."  That's from "Princess Bride".  I love that movie!

3) This inspiration came to Bob during the late night/early morning hours. What time of day are you most productive?  

Apparently when I am asleep.

4) Bob wrote another song for the Four Seasons, "Silence Is Golden." The band was not happy with their recording and never released it as a single. Three years later, The Tremeloes had an international Top 10 hit with "Silence Is Golden." Tell us about a decision you wish you could do over. 

But that would be telling!  Anyway, it would be staying in this house I am in now. 

 If I'd have known we were going to be here for the rest of our lives, I would have kept on looking.  

It turned out that it's only three blocks from the city I really wanted to live in, to keep the two older girls in the same school district.  

I was 6 months preggers, but we couldn't stay where we were.  My little girl, allergic to horses, could hardly breathe and the "neighbor" was keeping a horse and foal in her postage stamp back yard.  We had to move.   

5) Before he got his big break, Four Seasons lead singer Frankie Valli worked as barber. Do you have a hair care appointment scheduled? 

I am almost 84 and the last time I had a hair appointment was when I was in my 20's.  I've always cut my own hair from that time forward.  My hair is "stealth curly", and no one else can cut it.  If I don't pull it back and tame it, there is no living with it. 

 

This is the straight version of it.

Lordie!  was I really ever this young?   

Me at 83

6) Oscar-winning actor Joe Pesci has a connection to the band. He was a young chum of Four Seasons founding member Tommy DeVito. By the time DeVito left the group and found himself overwhelmed by gambling debts, Pesci was a star. He helped his friend out, making Tommy his personal assistant and getting him cameo roles in films. Tell us about someone who has been there for you in tough times.  My friend Vicky.  She took me in when my drunken paternal unit threw me out of the house. Vicky helped me get "a job that paid the rent" and put me up at her three gal apartment until I could find my own place, which happened really quickly because everyone helped me.  Friends have been the best People in this life.....friends, my hubby, and my girls.

  

7) The Four Seasons disbanded in 1977 after 17 years together. The original bandmates reunited onstage 1990 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was an important night for them professionally and personally, too, as it gave the old friends a chance to reconnect and mend fences. Is there anyone from your past you wish you could reach out to?

My Mother. She had done her best for me, in life, but she was married to our father, who was a rotten man.  My sibs and I all wished that she had lived, and that he had finally succumbed to his vices. I would have sought her, in main part, because she was so easy to talk to and to love.  

8) Another hit song from 1962 was "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Tony Bennett compares San Francisco to Rome, Paris and Manhattan. Have you visited any of those four cities? I've only been to Frisco.  It's got to be one of the ten greatest cities in the U.S. if not the world.

 
9) Random question – You're home all alone. Do you close the door when you use the bathroom? Doesn't everyone? lol  

I guess it would be guys who don't.  Hubby does it sometimes and I know my little brother didn't but likely his wife had a stab at curbing that little male tendency. 

 

Thanks Sam, for another great Saturday Nine Meme! 
 

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!

 

Three on Thursday

 1. I want to knit but my mojo has taken a HIKE.  Not only that, it's taken the pattern books with it!  I have some serious sleuthing to do to recover them all!  The book piles and shelves are silent on the issue.  I think they are hiding something.  They have been eating my knitting books .....absolutely devouring them?  This has to STOP!

C/o Getty Images I look almost young here.. Lol

2.  The weather has cooled down a lot.  Fall is always this way.  Cools off and then for no reason AT ALL, it hikes the temperature up to the 90's even after Thanksgiving!  Grrr

Sometimes California is Hell in a handbasket.

3. The old kitchen faucet Bit the Big One the other day, and we have a gorgeous new one.  If I was able to still be dancing in the kitchen, like in days of Yore...I would be.  Now I'll just skip around the kitchen with joy!

THIS one has a Sprayer that actually works!  It's really pretty and the sprayer finally Works!  

Did I say the Sprayer actually works?  heeheehee

Wordless Wednesday: Shhhhh

 

Saturday9 East Bound and Down (1977) Very Late... I think...

 Eastbound and Down (1977)
Sorry this it Late!

 Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This week's song was featured in the movie Smokey and the Bandit, the surprise box office hit of 1977. Have you seen it?

I've seen it.  It was fun to watch.

2) Though not well received by critics, Smokey and the Bandit had one very famous fan: Alfred Hitchcock. The classic film director enjoyed re-watching the movie on video at home, often while having dinner. Do you ever watch TV with your meal?

Not ever.  It's just not convenient to do it.  And it's messy. Lol  

3) Jerry Reed not only wrote and performed the movie's theme, he appeared in the movie as truck driver Cledus "Snowman" Snow. Have you ever driven, or ridden in, a big rig? 

I've ridden in a big rig, but never driven one.  But I have driven a tractor.  

4) He sings, "We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there." Have you recently felt rushed? 

I've been feeling rushed in small ways but nothing like being late AND having to drive ANY thing ANYwhere.   

 5) Director Hal Needham asked Jerry Reed for a song that explained the plot of the movie. He wrote this overnight and always considered it a happy accident. Can you think of a time when something turned out better than you expected?

My own Life.  I thought it was over when I was 18.  Then I went to a neighbor's party where I met my future hubby.  Had I not met him at that time, I would have likely not been around for another month.  It was that close. 

 6) Reed was born in Atlanta and, coincidentally, he mentions Atlanta in the lyrics. Has your hometown been immortalized in song? Nope.  

7) Jerry met Priscilla Mitchell at Capitol Records, where Jerry was a session musician and Priscilla was backup singer. Though she was only 18 when they wed, it seems their union was a happy one and they were together until his death almost 50 years later. If a newly engaged 18-year-old asked you for advice, what would you say?  

I would say that my own life didn't even BEGIN until I met someone, at that very age, who changed it so much for the positive that you can not give up hoping and trying....

8) In 1977, when "Eastbound and Down" was on the radio, nostalgia for the 1950s topped the TV ratings. The two most popular shows that year were Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days. If you magically transported back to the 1950s, what do you think you'd like about it? What do you think you'd miss about your life in 2026?  I would literally kill myself if I was transported back to the fifties. 

9) Random question: Were you ever afraid of monsters in your closet or under your bed? I had a real life monster to deal with from the time I was three, so No,  Monsters under the bed or closet would have been welcome.  

Sorry to be so dark, but the truth is the truth.  I didn't have a happy childhood and I barely survived it.  

 

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!