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August 11, 2007
> 12:45 PM
random > garden, photos, billy joel OK, time to talk about random regular stuff. I'm tired of being serious and thinking too hard about things. So, here are a few things. First, folks, if you take a look on your left (not really, play along with the bus tour guide please) you'll see a couple of photos I took recently...   Beans and Cucumbers and a veiw from and of my desk in the study. Liz put this garden out, mostly grown from seed inside in the Winter, and we've recently been getting a decent yield. Lots of cucumbers. Do those things grow overnight or what? The one row of beans she planted are still producing well. I just picked quite a few Roma tomatoes and some chiles earlier today. It's time to cook something hot I think.   On the music end, I'm not sure if I've ever talked about how much I love this man (left=then, right=now). I mean, I don't sit around thinking about kissing him in the mouth, but you know, that's not what I mean. Now, I might if I ever met him, but that's different. Billy Joel is my favorite single artist. He has been for a long time.Billy has to be one of the most consistently talented musician/songwriters in American Pop/Rock history. Of course I heard his music as it was played here and there on the radio back in the '70s and early '80s. In High School was when I was really introduced more properly to the man and his music - by my friend Tim Welch. If you, by some weird chance, read this Tim, thanks.  My first purchase was Glass Houses, his current album at the time. A couple of big hits on that album, but for me, it became a whole album deal with Mr. Joel. Sure, You May Be Right (playing as I write this) is great and everybody knows that one, and It's Still Rock & Roll To Me. But how 'bout All For Leyna, I Don't Want To Be Alone or C'Etait Toi? And yes, I can sing those verses in French! And that's just one album. I have most of his work, a lot of it on vinyl. I've re-bought a good bit of it on CD over the years, and now some from iTunes. It is the 21st century after all.I regret that I've never seen him in concert. I have friends who have and what I hear is - yes, it's all that and a couple'a bags 'a chips. He's even been to Lexington while I've lived here, back in the '90s sometime. I actually sold some wading boots to a roadie of his when I worked in the Orvis store here in town selling fly fishing equipment. Close, but no piano keys I guess. Maybe one day. Seems like he's doing a little touring again, playing his non classical music. Hopefully. That's that I guess. Thanks a lot Billy, for all the great music! Thank you for using your talent like that and giving it to us. technorati tags > music, photography, family, gardening, billy joel Labels: music, personal, photography 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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