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It was once fairly common for TV show theme songs to become popular hits (Rockford Files, Hillstreet Blues) but is seems it has been awhile.
That might change.
Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad that starts on AMC in February has one performed by Junior Bown that might be do it.
It already has 1.2 million views on YouTube.
Here it is:
Noted Australian musician Gary Turner tells us that we can now get music lessons online via a new Netflix-type subscription service called Apollo-M.Com, which is based just down I-95 in Wilmington, Del.
“Roughly 300 million people in the world play, teach or are learning to play a musical instrument,” Turner said.
Turner is the founder of Koala Music Publications which morphed into LearnToPlayMusic.com.
An Apollo-M subscription goes for $4.95 a month.
An excellent idea.
The harvest moon is the the full moon closest to the fall equinox. Tonight — well tomorrow morning, really as it isn’t scheduled to be full until 1:38 a.m. — is the harvest moon.
Here’s some music for the event.
You’re fat because your legs have nothing to do. Some machine is doing that for you.
At least that is the conclusion of an Stanford University School of Medicine study by Dr. Uri Ladabaum as reported by NPR.
Ladabaum looked at data collected by the federal NHANES program in 1988 and compared it to 2010 expecting to find that we have really started pigging out.
Nope. Caloric intake remained about the same. What was different, however, was that physical activity was a lot less. In the ’80s, 80 to 90 percent of people did at least some activity during their leisure time. About half say the same thing today.
For white and African-Americans — men and women — between 18 and 39 the number of those getting no activity more than tripled. For Mexican Americans, it doubled.
Dr. Tim Church, a professor of preventative medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University said that in 1960 about half of Americans had jobs that had a lot of physical activity. Today it’s about 1 in 10. He said that American men were burning 140 fewer calories during the day while women were burning about 120 fewer calories daily.
As a pound is usually considered equal to 3,500 calories that is more than a pound a month not being burned off.
Blame the internet.
Anyway, here’s the soundtrack for the story that we were sure you were waiting for:
Today’s song is the inspiring “Bedtime Story” by Tony Carey, who might be best known for “A Fine, Fine Day” from 1984.
Today’s musical interlude is some Polish street jazz courtesy of Mariusz Goli “Improwizacja” Katowice Stawowa.
Email him at mariusz.goli@gmail.com.
Tell him Seadog says hey.
Barack Obama is having a tough time of it.
His staggering incompetence is becoming apparent to even the hippest hipsters.
The most love-struck soccer mom is now beginning to understand that he is basically just an arrogant a-hole.
Even newspaper editors and television commentators are turning on him.
Yes, as in Chris Matthews.
Well, Barry. Today’s song is just for you.
In the “Things Tween Gurls Know That You Don’t” category chalk up the tidbit that a disproportionate number, perhaps most, of the pop hits by female “artists” such as Avril Lavigne, Kate Perry, Pink and Kelly Clarkson were written by Martin “Max Martin” Sandberg of Sweden and Lukasz Sebastian “Dr Luke” Gottwald, an American who is the son of a Polish immigrant.
A common theme of the music is “strong”, “independent” womanhood through promiscuity and exhibitionism.
In the “Things You Know That Tween Girls Don’t” category chalk up the tidbit that the music is pretty bad and, well, rather manipulative.
Here is “You’re Not Alone”, the song written by Bruce Broughton and Dennis Spiegel and sung by 64-year-old Joni Eareckson Tada, which was among the candidates for Best Original Song but had its nomination rescinded after a private investigator hired by a competitor found that Broughton sent some of the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences an email asking them to give it a listen. The song comes from the faith-based movie of the same name.
