I was reminded of this video while reading a post about etiquette on a wedding ideas blog called Wedding Idea Source. The post advises against drinking too much at wedding receptions.

The lady singing the duet in this video is Kathleen Edwards. I had an awkward moment standing beside her down at the Khyber many years ago. She’s the kind of woman that attracts me against my better judgement. The manager had been comping all the performers with Jagermeister shots from his fancy new sub zero dispenser and she was quite tipsy. When we made eye contact I got the impression that she was worried that I would say something lame and that she was too impaired to be gracious in that way that minor celebrities usually are when dealing with that crap. I said nothing and I felt appreciated for my silence.

We are semi-regulars at a restaurant that almost always has VH1 playing on the big screen above the bar with the sound switched off and a stack of CDs playing randomly on the sound system. I think we are unduly mesmerized by the television because we don’t have it at home. The 80’s show is usually on when we are waiting for our meal. We had a discussion last night about what makes some videos unbelievably dated and others less so.

These kids rock. I had never heard of them until today. Whereas most of the male rockabilly pioneers had tragic ends or scandalous lives that made them household names beyond what was warranted by their music, these two just stopped. She got married at 17 to Johnny Cash’s manager who was in his mid 30s. She quit performing with her baby brother when she had her first child at 19. The young man pictured here was no flash in the pan, he kept performing and writing for most of his life. He wrote Delta Dawn and You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma. These two had a reunion concert in 1993, 32 years after they had stopped performing together, and they are still at it.

I think Britney Spears should look to women like Lawrencine “Lorrie” Collins for role models. It is already too late in a lot of ways for Britney as far as her legacy as a performer goes, but she can salvage a normal personal life if she would just quit the celebrity thing cold turkey.

I think that there are probably many end points to the Internet. I am not going to detail how I arrived at this page. I just know that there was nowhere else to go after I got there.

The songwriter is a somewhat accomplished actor and comedian whose life long passion is actually visual art. People like him, people who seem to have deftly avoided celebrity, fascinate me.

His art is pretty neat too.

I have hardly ever asked for autographs. It is just not my style. I am considering the idea of taking a pen and an album cover with me to an event tomorrow night. If I do this and I am successful, I will most certainly blog about it. This is the second post in a row in which I am blogging about what I am going to blog about in the future.

Talking about Christmas and debt got me song tagged with this old standard. I did a quick search and had one of those small world moments when the top ranking video for this old Merle Haggard song was a cover by a Nova Scotian. Merle Haggard is known for writing great arrangements and riffs, this video is going to be instructional for me. Thanks for sharing your talent on YouTube, Mr. Allan Spinney.

I was getting an early start on compiling a list of Christmas tunes to play during office hours next month. I got sidetracked when I saw a Greensleeves interpretation from the guitarist featured in this video. I’m choosing to embed the story of the instrument to save you some time, because you would be curious if you just saw him playing. He collaborates with another great player on some very pleasant music such as the Greensleeves suite. They call themselves Bardou. You can also find them on iTunes.

This video is kinda stupid. I made it. I was at a different computer when I threw it together and I didn’t have any access to any of my own music. I am a member of The Free Sound Project, so I grabbed something appropriate from there to use as an audio track for this relatively pointless YouTube video. I just tried a few ominous search terms until I saw a synth track that was the right length and had the right tone. I think I will spend some of my free time reading up on creative commons licensing. I have to confess that I do not fully understand how to properly make use of material that has such a license.