Prince Album of The Week - The Beautiful Expierence EP

Prince Album of The Week - The Hits/TheB-Sides

Prince Album of The Week - Goldnigga

"Do Your Thing"

Soundtrack to my morning coffee...


Good morning Monday...  How are you?
Oh, me?
I'm doing OK.  I've got a cup of good coffee in my grandfather's coolest coffee mug in front of me, awesome music playing to keep the morning rolling, and I'm just relaxing.
I forgot was relaxing was!  I like it. 
I see a table next to me full of puppets to work on, and a computer in front of me waiting for new scripts to be written, and a dozen sketchbooks all around waiting for the white blank pages to be filled...
I'll get to all of them.
But for now I'm just gonna enjoy my coffee.

Prince Album of The Week - O)+>

Monday Song - Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog

So here's the Monday Song...
The last one...
Figured I'd end it with something amazing

Let's Be Friends!

Music keeps me happy....

Riding home from Central Cafe tonite Russ and I started talking about buying music.  Untill about 5 years ago I was the guy who was at the record store every week (sometimes more than once) buying music every time I went.
I mainly stopped because record stores have all but disappeared.  Sure there are a few left in Connecticut, but none close enough to me to make it a weekly trip.  And I'm not a big downloader too.  I like having the album in my hands.  I want to see the artwork, and I love the smell of the ink, and of vinyl LP and plastic of a CD.  I do downlaod, just very rarely is it a full album.  Usually a b-side or digital only release.  And I do shop at Amazon and other online music stores, but only if I can't find it nearby.
So riding home from Central Cafe tonite Russ and I started talking about buying music, and I started wondering what my favorite album of 2012 was.  Essentially by default it's Ben Fold Five's The Sound of the Light and the Mind.  For two reasons; 1. It's an awesome album I keep playing and 2. I only bought four new albums last year.
And that got me thinking.  Thinking about the albums I did acually by for myself in 2012.  So I went to my CD and LP collection and looked it over.  For fun; here's what I bought, or got as gifts -

CD
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Light and The Mind
Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo's Magic Moment
Michael Jackson - Thriller Special Edition
Jerry Nelson - Truro Daydreams (FIND THIS AND BUY THIS)
Parliament - The 12 Inch Collection And More
Prince - Ultimate Prince
Queen + Paul Rodgers - The Cosmos Rocks
Soul Asylum - Delayed Reaction
The Original Seven (AKA The Time) Condensate
The Time - The Time
The Black Keys - El Camino

LP
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Prince and the Revolution - Around the World in a Day
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
Queen + Paul Rodgers - The Cosmos Rocks
Queen - A Day at The Races
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Queen - Queen 2


I'm gonna make it a point this year to hit up more music stores

Prince Album of The Week - Diamonds and Pearls

Monday Song - Lust For Life - Iggy Pop

I'M WORTH A MILLION IN PRIZES!

And with this Monday Song... I'm gonna retire them for a bit, unless a song really hits me!

Prince Album of The Week - Graffiti Brigde

Monday Song - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy Bing Crosby and David Bowie

All I Need Is Love...

With Subtitles!
Hahaha!

Bonus Prince Album of the Week - Scandalous! EP

These guys need a comeback...

Prince Album of The Week - Batman

Monday Song - Main Street Eyes- Iggy Pop

"The Wandering"

On a normal day I wouldn't premiere an Elmwood Productions film on my personal blog.

But this isn't a normal day, and it hasn't been a normal year.

We started our Ten Years Of Elmwood celebrations in March.  And we'll be wrapping them up in March of 2013, with the premiere screening of Animal Behavior at Paris In Plantsville.

When we shot the movie "Josh and Todd: The Story of A Man and His Puppet" we had an extended sequence in it that was cut even before we started filming about Todd's brief life when he was homeless.  A small part stayed in (all the funny stuff) but I never forgot about the other ideas.  When we were putting together songs for the film this one song Russ found and we used for the homeless part struck me, moved me.  And I wanted to make a video.  I asked my friend and then room-mate Jordan to play the lead.  And he was all for it, he was after all one of the first people to see "Josh and Todd" and he loved it.  The we postponed the shoot a year, waiting till the following fall.

And Jordan passed away this summer, before we had a chance to make the video...

With all the joy and madness Elmwood has brought me and my lovely friends and family who are involved and support it, and all the fun we have making our comedies...  Sometimes it gets serious.  And it sucks.  A lot.

Sometimes out of that though, you pull through, no matter how hard it hurts your heart and brain, and you get back out there and make the funny again.  And we have been.  We've been cracking each other up.  This has been my favorite year in the history of Elmwood, we have kicked so much ass...

But for a moment - we get serious...

Prince Album of The Week - Lovesexy

Monday Song - Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen

Prince Album of The Week - The Black Album

Old Lyrics - Rock Says Dream

Rock Says Dream

It's a place that you
Don't care to be
Some place I go to
Try and find me

So I sit next to a rock
Written on it - dream
You've made me realize I have
A place in this world
Somewhere to start finding my peace

It's not something that
Can happen over-nite
Months and years aren't
Even quick
But if we run away without a fight
We're giving up too easily

Monday Song - Cry Over Me - Meat Loaf

Prince Album of the Week - Sign 'O' The Times

Monday Song - I'm Afraid Of Americans - David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails

Prince Album of The Week - Parade

Monday Song - Something - Frank Sinatra

Sinatra doing George Harrison's classic...
This song always makes me think of Brie, lucky to have her!

Prince Album of the Week - Around the World In A Day

Still None Of Our Business - But Glad The Truth Is Out

So can Kevin go back to his amazing and important work now?

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/Elmo-Accuser-Retracts-Sexual-Misconduct-Allegations-179189481.html


And now...  Some joy or your day!

Old Lyrics - Trouble Girl

TROUBLE GIRL

SO YOU’VE DECIDED NOT TO BREAK DOWN WITH ME,
YOU’RE GONNA LET GO OF THE GUNS.
YOU WANNA STAY WHERE YOU ARE NOW,
AND NOT COME HOME TO ME.
DOES THAT MAKE YOU THE LUCKY ONE?

GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
HAVE A GREAT LIFE WHILE YOU CAN.
GOOD-BYE TROUBLE GIRL
JUST DON’T FORGET I WAS ALMOST YOUR MAN.

SO NOW I LAY HERE IN THIS BED
WHERE LESS THAN A WEEK AGO
YOU LOOKED UP AT MY EYES AND SAID
“I want you to make love to me”
I CAN STILL HEAR IT IN MY HEAD.

GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
I HOPE YOU’RE HAVIN’ A GOOD TIME WHILE YOU CAN.
GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
FOR A WHILE I WAS CLOSE TO BEING YOUR MAN.

WELL, SINCE I’M THIS OLD AT HEART,
AND YOU’RE NOT SURE WHO YOU ARE,
WE’RE BETTER OFF KEEPING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
AND YOU’RE HAPPY WHERE YOU ARE.
ALL I GOT OUT OF US IS THIS SONG.

GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
STAY YOUNG FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN.
GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
YOU’RE GONNA REGRET I WAS NEVER YOUR MAN

GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
DON’T GIVE UP. LIVE AS LONG AS YOU CAN.
GOOD-BYE, TROUBLE GIRL
THERE’S SOMEONE OUT THERE WHO WANTS ME TO BE HER ONE AND ONLY MAN.