Change of Address

All Eyes and Ears is officially moved into its new home at Wordpress. Clicking the link will take you right to it!

Please change your bookmarks (and links, if you link to it) and then come on over and say hi at the new home!

And thanks for making the Blogger years so much fun!

An Open Memo

To: L. Nimoy, W. Shatner, P. Stewart, L. Burton, B. Spiner, H. Connick Jr., D. Day, S. King, M. Nelson, J. Hodgson

RE: recent excess of celebrity deaths

I really can’t take too much more of this, and certainly not any more this year. I ask of you the following: please watch your cholesterol, limit your alcohol and prescription drug intake as much as possible, travel sparingly, exercise regularly, wear your seatbelts, visit your doctors regularly, keep antibacterial soap at your sinks, take vitamins, and get flu shots.

I would appreciate it if you kept this up indefinitely, but I’m afraid I will have to insist that you do these things until, at a minimum, the end of calendar year 2010.

Thank you for your attention to these matters.

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze

I really thought if anyone could wrestle pancreatic cancer into the ground, rip out its throat, and kick it in the ear, it was him. You usually get weeks or months to live after a diagnosis, but he fought for a year and a half.

I loved so many things that he was in. Still haven't seen To Wong Foo or Donnie Darko, but still intend to. However, I watched every one of the like, 144 hours of North and South (up until they copped out and gave Orry Main the cheapest, sorriest death scene ever), saw The Outsiders in the theater 14 times (yes, 14), and saw Dirty Dancing - which I was dragged into unwillingly the first time - oh, I don't even know.

And Roadhouse, and Ghost ... and so many other things.

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze.

From Dirty Dancing:

Patrick Swayze - She's Like the Wind

Otis Redding - These Arms Of Mine

Bruce Chanel -Hey Baby

Otis Redding - Love Man

Solomon Burke - Cry to Me

Michael Lloyd - Johnny's Mambo

Representing Roadhouse:

MST3K - A Patrick Swayze Christmas

I'd put up Unchained Melody, but I don't have it, and I'd put up Van Morrison's (in the group "Them") Gloria for the Outsiders, but his people would just make me pull it in an hour. I used to have Stevie Wonder singing "Stay Gold," but I don't seem to anymore.

Feel free to add links to your favorites in the comments.

Schaffner's

Baltimore, Ohio

Summer, and the time for ice cream stands, is over; not just traditionally with the passing of Labor Day, but also weather-wise. It's routinely in the 60s here already, and I have a bad feeling that this is going to be one of those years in which we see snow before Halloween.

So here's a beautiful, if melancholy, song about summer's end.

Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain

Flamingo

Columbus Zoo
Columbus, Ohio

The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

Rider

Ohio State Fair
Columbus, Ohio

America - Horse With No Name

Announcement

So this time, my spotty updating is for a better reason than lack of motivation, laziness, what have you. Given the deletions of several Blogger mp3 blogs this week, I am setting up a new home for myself elsewhere. I can't wait! It will have all the bells and whistles, and be very customizable.

It's just going to take a lot of work, so it could be a while. I would ideally like it ready to go before the October Halloween-a-Thon begins on the 1st, but if it isn't, we'll ride October out here and move in November.

Thanks for bearing with me.

Rising Waters

Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio

TLC - Waterfalls

More Tomatoes

Pataskala, Ohio

Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions (I have no songs about tomatoes, sorry.)