Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Dad wakes up at 3am to get Jonas Brothers tickets
I don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand, I guess its a nice thing for dad to do — get up at an ungodly hour so that his kid could get good seats to a Jonas Brothers concert. Specifically, he first got up at 3am to drive to ANOTHER STATE to get the tickets, then didn’t get them, then managed to score some online. He also was “willing” to sit in the nosebleed seats so his spawn and her friend could scream like maniacs fans in the third row.
When I was in high school, I went to a couple of concerts. If I recall correctly, my first concert was a Grateful Dead show at Giants Stadium. The kid described here is 15, I think I was 16. My mother definitely did NOT drive me someplace to get tickets. There was no internet ticketing (this was, you know, the pleistocene era) and I didn’t have a credit card, so I guess we got the tickets at a record store or something. (Kids, record stores were these places where people went to buy music. Records? Those were… oh, never mind.)
I do remember getting tickets for the first reunion tour of The Who. We got up early, went to a local record store, waited on line (that’s “on line” not “online”) and bought the tickets using cash. (Kids, cash is this filthy currency thing that people still use today. Really.) At this point I was 17 or 18, and someone had a car, but if that wasn’t the case, we would have found a way to get there.
As for getting to the shows, for the Dead show we took the bus. Got home late. And you know what? It was fine. (I did put the apple juice in the cabinet with the plates and other dishes, but that’s a verrry different story.) Once someone was old enough to drive, we drove. But it was our job to figure it out.
So it’s nice of dad to do that, but really, why can’t kids do this stuff on their own?
Source: The Poop
Spiritual Octane – Land of the Lost
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Some band singing the theme song for ‘Land of the Lost’.
Old School Hip-Hop for the kiddies
This little ditty – Peanut Butter And Jelly by Ah-Choo – works much better than you would think. The truth is, a lot of regular old-school stuff (Run DMC, LL Cool J) could find its way into your toddler DJ’s rotation without too much concern about lyrics (just listen to it yourself first). I’d avoid most of the Wu-Tang Clan, at least until age 12 or so. But Biz Markie? Why the hell not?
Just to prove that it’s not that easy to come up with a good kiddie hip-hop song (kid-hop, anyone?), here’s something from The Dino 5 that kinda sucks.
source: Babble.com
