The songs stuck in my head

Lady Madonna

Don't be deceived by the title. This is not a song by Madonna, but rather a song by The Beatles.

What a great song it is too. Go Beatles go. Such a shame there isn't any more music for this group to produce.

And with today's song, I have enough music for another compilation disc which, as you know, I like to give away right here on my blog along with other "valuable" prizes.

So...... here we go friends.

PRIZE NUMBER 1

The best of the songs stuck in Brady's head volume 6- 19 songs I've blogged about since about Thanksgiving on. Not only does this compilation have good music, it also represents music from the 60's, 70's 80's, 90's, 2000's and 2010's. Your ears will be happy and it will be like you're having a history lesson in music. Good stuff indeed.

PRIZE NUMBER 2

Ellis Peters' classic novel "A Morbid Taste For Bones" on cassette tape! Described as "A Medieval Whodunnit" this book on tape is ideal if you're lucky enough to have hours and hours to kill and if you're lucky enough to run into a cassette tape player while killing time.

And best yet, this classic is read by Glyn Houston. (If you have to google search this person, shame on you. Shame.)

PRIZE NUMBER 3

Do you love mediocre music performed by twins with beautiful long flowing blonde hair? Well Nelson should fill your needs indeed! Nelson's classic 1990 album "After The Rain" only here on thesongsstuckinmyhead.blogspot.com

PRIZE NUMBER 4

This is my most proud moment of generosity. Yes, friends, you could be the lucky owner of this glass encased scorpion, 7 inches in length! Impress your friends and family with fake stories about how you captured this beast in the jungles of Siberia just before it attacked you. Don't tell them the truth, that it really came from Hy and Mike's Pawn shop (for 5 bucks) on 35th south.

What's saddest about this scorpion is that it looks like it's been placed in there with an asbestos background. For all I know he died from asbestos poisoning. :(

Check out the sharpie pen I've placed on the 2nd picture to give you a perspective on how big this mofo is.

OK, here's the thing people. THESE ARE SOME GENUINELY AWESOME PRIZES! Seriously, you would be so lucky to win them.

All you need to do is comment on this blog post. Say anything. If you need some ideas, talk about corn dogs, or maybe Milli Vanilli, or maybe something deep like existentialism and stuff. Just make a comment, it's just that easy!

And just for funzies, I'll enter you in this drawing twice if you can prove to me that you've shared this link with your friends through Facebook, Twitter, or poor Google Plus.

Here's the other thing. I know a lot of you come and look at my blog, but few of you enter these contests. Come on! Have some fun and enter! The way I see it there are 5 things that may be holding you back from entering.

1- You are embarrassed that you read my blog and don't want anyone to publicly know that you do. Fair enough, enter anyway!

2- You've entered before and haven't won. Fair enough, maybe today's your lucky day.

3- You've entered before and HAVE won. Enter again, there's no shame! I can assure you that your odds of winning again are just as good.

4- You just don't have the time to win free crap. Well poo on you. Enter anyway.

5- You would feel guilty taking these prizes off my hands when I could keep them for myself. Bless your kind soul, I don't want this stuff. Please somebody take it!

Important, if you leave a comment and I don't know who you are, please leave an email address or twitter name so I can let you know that you won.

There will be one winner of these 4 special prizes. The random drawing will take place this coming Sunday night, February 3rd. I will ship the winnings anywhere in the world for you!

Have fun.

Michael Praytor/ Mr. Kite

I'm kind of cheating today. You see, here's the thing, I just got back from a weekend get-away with my hot wife. We went to Vegas, and each of us got to decide what we wanted to do each night.

My choice was to see Ben Folds Five for the first time. The concert was Friday night, and it was fantastic. If I had more time, I would go into detail. I've never heard a piano sound so loud and amazing. The show rocked, and I was in nerdy music bliss.

Saturday morning I woke up with a song from their new album stuck in my head. Hearing the song live gave me a new appreciation for it. Here it is, this is Michael Praytor, Five Years Later.

Before I play the song, I want to tell you that it's about a guy named Michael Praytor, who has no real significance in the singer's life- but the singer seems to run into him every five years, completely random and inexplicable.

There is this guy I used to work with at Wendy's. His name is Dustin. He's my Michael Praytor. I've run into him so many times, in the strangest places, and we always laugh about it when we see each other.

(The next time I run into Dustin, I'll take a picture and post it here)

OK- moving on.....

So, wifey poo really wanted to see The Beatles "Love" by Cirque du Soleil. The Beatles are sure neato, so of course I went. For me, I had to get used to what it might feel like to do acid (I've never done drugs) for the first 30 minutes of the show. But once I adjusted to the artificial "trip" the Soleil-ites were giving me, I had a jolly good time.

Not trying to sound trite, wow, The Beatles wrote some pretty incredible music and wow, some of those performers in Cirque du Soleil were incredible athletes and performers. The drunk guy behind me shouted through the whole show, but that is the only criticism I can give about the performance.

Sunday morning (fittingly) I woke up with a song by The Beatles that is (fittingly) about the circus.

Here's "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite."

Here's something interesting I came across in all my deep and intense web research I do.

This is the very poster that inspired John Lennon to write this song. Lyrically, you can see that he is quite literal with his inspiration. I never knew this before now, and I likey. You can read more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_for_the_benefit_of_mr_kite

Above is a sign I saw in town. I may be the only one who finds this funny. Perhaps there is something I'm missing, but I read this as "If it's here, then it's here!"

Lastly, here is a picture of me and my sweetheart. We've been married 7 years now. I don't regret a single second and I'm happy as I look at this to see that we are starting to look older. Hopefully we've become more sophisticated as well. I love that she shares my passion for music and has an even stronger passion for tolerating me. But musically, what a fun weekend for me: Ben Folds Five and The Beatles. Awesome.

Now back to the grind.

Weights and Measures

I won't say anything and just let the music speak for itself today.

Here's "Weights and Measures" by Dry the River.

Turn

Wow, it can be exhausting trying to come up with creative things to say about songs. Hopefully some people stop by here to just hear the music!?

I'm sure if I had more time, if I were a better writer and if I were more clever, that I could make this blog really fun and hundreds of people would come to visit, rather than the 50 or so that come each day. I don't know who a lot of you are, but I feel sorry for you that you like my blog.

(Forgive the dialogue, the song starts at about 1:10) (Also, it baffles me that any band would want any lines spoken through a music video, it should just be the music and visuals, but here you go anyway)

Today's song is from TRAVIS, a band that I should have been listening to years ago- and I've blogged about. They just have such a great sound. I love this song too, it seems to be in my head a lot lately.

Anyway, I'm feeling realy uninspired, which says to me that I should stop right now.

But first, here are some pictures of us messing around with camera effects. The kids thought this was the funniest thing we had ever done.