Started out as Hogwarts...

This literal version of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart made me giggle. "Emo Kid is throwing slo-mo dove at my face" "ninjas!" Watch up to the fencing and if you don't find it amusing, then feel free to stop...

"We're misunderstood-deep down inside us there is good."

I feel like once I start talking about something, it keeps popping up everywhere to entertain me at every turn. Today, that something is West Side Story. Which I totally loved when I was a kid and thought Anita was all awesome, all the time. And here is where it popped up now-Vanity Fair. I'm not really clear on why J. Lo is Anita, and everyone else is supposed to be like, young and up-and-coming hot stars or something. But some of those pictures are totally awesome. Also, I love to sing the song about being a Jet all the way. And do the dance with the crouching and snapping. Or maybe I don't.

an interlude of ridiculousness

OK, I am, at times, a giant nerd. Although to some people in my family, the following will not seem nerdish, but that's because they are music geeks. I say that in the most loving way possible. Anyway, I was about to quote West Side Story to someone , because somebody was complaining about something here and someone else was like, go somewhere else, I'll buy you a plane ticket. And that made me think of the part in the song America where Anita tells Bernardo she knows a boat he can get on (bye bye!). But I couldn't remember how that song began, so I googled it. That musical was my favorite for a time in my childhood. And the rooftop dance to America was one of my favorite parts. I love that it says 'an interlude of WHISTLING and DANCING,' followed by 'an interlude of MORE DANCING.' I dance around a lot at home. The other day at lunch, Shannon was home for lunch too, and she started to walk away from me, and I did a high kick and discovered I could kick her in the head if I wanted to. So then we both faced each other and took turns doing high kicks just to be sure we both could, if we so chose, kick the other in the face. Yeah, we should probably get out more. To be clear, there is no kicking that goes on at our house. Intentionally, anyway, since we all know animals can get underfoot and make you kick them accidentally. My dancing around rarely includes kicking either, unless I'm doing the Russian man dance. Which never happens. Please remove that image from your head.

Two songs that made me happy just now

A classic silly song, of course.

And this song was the backing for our sermon series bumper video a couple of months ago and I kept forgetting to look up what it was. I really like it.

When I was sitting in the airport in Boston today, they played How Bizarre. That made me smile because the first time I went to Boston, approximately eleven years ago (for a week long mission trip), that song was on the radio every time our group got in a car. It was almost like our trip song.

Confession

Every time I see a trailer for High School Musical 3, I laugh. The first time I saw one of those giant cardboard things at the theater and realized it was going to be a theatrical release, I laughed. That movie has brought me so much joy without me even needing to see it. Just the thought that it's out there, a giant candy-colored confection that is a 90 minute music video a la Disney, is enough. Also, the one part in the trailer where Zac Efron throws his head up and his hair is all wet, is so reminiscent of Justin Timberlake throwing his head up (although his hair is not all wet from sweat-eww)after he drops to the ground in the NSYNC video for Bye Bye Bye. Wow, I feel old. That song totally came out my senior year of high school. OK, I totally looked that video up and that made me laugh too. I forgot about his curly hair. So, gentle readers, here is my present to you on this fine afternoon.