Fake Band Names

Posted on 2019/11/21 by circuskitchen

Because there must be a repository (to be populated…):

 

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Uke-Oke SONG BOOKS for Ukulele

Posted on 2019/11/21 by circuskitchen

Treasure troves courtesy of the Strummerville Ukulele Club.

 

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The ”A” Book:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xq81TuVEJyT1JBQjdYR2hlWjg/view?usp=sharing

All My Loving 1
Aloha Oe 2
April Showers 3
Are You Lonesome Tonight 4
Bad Moon Rising 5
Blowing in the Wind 6
Brown Eyed Girl 7
Bye Bye Love 8
Chapel of Love 9
Day O 10
Don’t Worry Be Happy 11
Edelweiss 12
End of the Line 13
Fire and Rain 14
Five Foot Two 15
Friday I’m In Love 16
Hallelujah 17
Have You Ever Seen the Rain 18
Home On the Range 19
I’ll Fly Away 20
I’m a Believer 21
I Walk the Line 22
I Would Walk 500 Miles 23
It’s Only a Paper Moon 24
Jambalaya 25

Karma Chameleon 26
L O V E 27
Leaving On a Jet Plane 28
Let It Be 29
Little Red Riding Hood 30
Love Love Me Do 31
Love Potion Number 9 32
Mello Yello 33
Mr Sandman 34
Norwegian Wood 35
Octopus’s Garden 36
Scarborough Fair 37
Somewhere Over the Rainbow 38
Summertime 39
Surfin’ USA 40
Swing Low Sweet Chariot 41
Tennessee Waltz 42
The Lion Sleeps Tonight 43
This Land Is Your Land 44
Three Little Birds 45
Up On the Roof 46
Walking After Midnight 47
Wayfaring Stranger 48
White Sandy Beach 49
With a Little Help From My Friends 50

Spotify Book A:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NcwAcXrj5G5tdvJNTQc77?si=RWSGRim-TUau60QvgGRuqA

 

The “B” Book:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xq81TuVEJyRS1Gam44S2llZHM/view?usp=sharing

9 to 5 page.1
And I Love Her 2
Anytime 3
Beautiful Kauai 4
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You 5
Cecilia 6
Crazy 7
Desperado 8
Eleanor Rigby 9
Every Breath You Take 10
Everything Is Free 11
Eye of the Tiger 12
Goodnight Irene 13
Happy Together 14
Heart of Gold 15
Heroes 16
Hotel California 17
House of the Rising Sun 18
I’m Looking Through You 19
I Can See Clearly 20
I Will Survive 21
Imagine 22
In My Life 23
Jolene 24
Killing Me Softly 25

Lava 26
Love Me Tender 27
MTA 28
Mustang Sally 29
Nowhere Man 30
Paint It Black Rolling Stones 31
Rocket Man 32
Ruby Tuesday 33
Runaround Sue 34
Sea of Love 35
Shake It Off 36
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay 37
Stray Cat Strut 38
Sweet Caroline 39
Teenager in Love 40
Under The Boardwalk 41
Wagon Wheel 42
When I’m 64 43
Wild World 44
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 45
With or Without You 46
Wonderful World 47
Yellow Submarine 48
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away 49
You and I 50

Spotify Book B:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1t5pB41iDEg2XZuFq379B1?si=74LDtd6UTR-gt4I1OCmNag

The “C” Book:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7gaoV1ugUEuQkJNQnpmZ1VBNWc/view?usp=sharing

A Hard Day’s Night 1
American Girl 2
At the Hop 3
Baby Love 4
Baby, I Love Your Way 5
Band on the Run 6
Blitzkrieg Bop 7
Come Sail Away 8
Crazy Little Thing Called Love 9
Dancing Queen 10
Delilah 11
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 12
Drift Away 13
Eight Days a Week 14
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 15
Everybody Wants to Rule the World 16
Everyday 17
Home 18
Hooked on a Feeling 19
I Believe I Can Fly 20
I Should Have Known Better 21
I’m Into Something Good 22
Kokomo 23
Lola 24
Maggie May 25
Maneater 26
Margaritaville 2
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard 28
Modern Love 29
Mrs. Robinson 30
Old Time Rock and Roll 31
On the Road Again 32
Proud Mary 33
Ring of Fire 34
Secret Agent Man 35
Shake Your Booty 36
Something 37
Stuck in the Middle with You 38
Take Me Home, Country Roads 39
The First Cut is the Deepest 40
The Man Who Sold the World 41
What’s Up 42
Where Did Our Love Go 43
Wonderful Tonight 4
Wouldn’t It Be Nice 45
Yakety Yak 46
YMCA 47
You Make My Dreams 48
You’re So Vain 49
You’re the One That I Want  50

Spotify Book C:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5yR7fSxFvHX6uNGO5amjCF?si=bzKamMfoTO2QNZsCpXLbcA

 

Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/BostonUke/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Strummerville-Ukulele-Club-102715341125916/

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Democratic Debate with My Son

Posted on 2019/11/20 by circuskitchen

Wednesday, November 20th 2019

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2020 Presidential Candidates:  Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Andrew Yang, Corey Booker, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Tom Steyer, Amy Klobichar, Pete Butteigeig, & Tulsi Gabbard

 

Listening to the Democratic Presidential Candidates debate the idea of potentially taxing the 0.001% of the elite class all of $0.02 to fund innumerable programs, and how to fund healthcare, my son gets up from the couch and stands to face me.

He says:  “I would love it if the next candidate gets up there and says, ‘You know how I’m gonna fund all this?  By taking 1% from the 52% of our country’s budget for the military.  BOOM!!!”  

 

#Truth

Check.  It.  Out:

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#WokeAssElevenYearOld

#AttaBoy

#HellYes

#Absofuckinglutely

#BoyfriendKnowsWhatsUp

♠

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ClaraJane’s Jewelry Pop-Up Shop

Posted on 2019/11/18 by circuskitchen

Monday, November 18th 2019

 

After school today ClaraJane opened her new Jewelry Shop.   And since I’m the only family member with pierced ears right now, I was basically the only customer for this Soft Opening / Pop-Up / VIP Preview of the Biz.

She’s still working out her pricing structure:

 

Rent a a pair for 4 days:  $00.25

(One pair only)

 

 

Rent a pair for 2 weeks:  $00.50

 

 

Buy a pair:  $1.00

 

 

Being unfamiliar with earring rentals per-se, I opted to buy two pairs.   It took me a few tries to discover which ones she was willing to sell, since her “favorites” are not yet for sale.

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Another customer did stop by, but as he doesn’t have pierced ears it didn’t garner much more than a nod and a shrug.

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Brother Gavin checks out the new jewelry shop.

 

So she can continue to generate inventory make jewelry, at one point she asked me, “Mom, could you, um, keep the supplies coming?” And being that this is a business I’d like to invest in, I said “Yes honey.”  (o: 

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Then it was closing time.

 

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Note to CJ:  Mommy is so very proud of you Babe, for everything you do and try.   Keep up your efforts, and thank you for my wonderful new earrings!

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Try Everything (by Shakira)

Posted on 2019/11/18 by circuskitchen

November 2019

 

This song by Shakira is the story of my life.

If I had to choose a swan song or funeral song this would probably be it:

TRY EVERYTHING – Shakira

C   F  C   G   C   F  C  G   C

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[VERSE 1]

               C              F

I messed up tonight, I lost another fight

                C             G

I still mess up but I’ll just start again

               C                       F

I keep falling down, I keep on hitting the ground

                C     G         C

I always get up now to see what’s next

[PRE-CHORUS]

   C              F             Am           G

Birds don’t just fly, they fall down and get up

C     F             Am G     C

Nobody learns without getting it wrong

[CHORUS] (X2)

            C                     F

I won’t give up, no I won’t give in

                 C                     G

‘Til I reach the end and then I’ll start again

            C                 F

No, I won’t leave, I wanna try everything

            C             G     C

I wanna try even though I could fail

                                 

[POST-CHORUS]

C               F

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Try everything

C               G

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Try everything

C               F

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Try everything

C       G       C

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[VERSE 2]

             C                             F

Look how far you’ve come, you filled your heart with love

            C                 G

Baby you’ve done enough, take a deep breath

                    C                     F

Don’t beat yourself up, don’t need to run so fast

             C                 G       C

Sometimes we come last, but we did our best

[CHORUS] (X2)

            C                     F

I won’t give up, no I won’t give in

                 C                     G

‘Til I reach the end and then I’ll start again

            C                 F

No, I won’t leave, I wanna try everything

            C             G     C

I wanna try even though I could fail

                                 F

[BRIDGE]

F                   C               Am         G

I’ll keep on making those new mistakes

F           C                    Am G     F

I’ll keep on making them every day

             Am  G   C

Those new mistakes

[OUTRO]

C              F

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Try everything

C               G

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Try everything

C               F

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Try everything

C       G       C

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Am G   C

 

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This guy does a wonderful tutorial:

 

And these guys do a tremendous cover!

 

🎼🎶💕

 

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To: MOM! Invoice “Form” CJ

Posted on 2019/11/15 by circuskitchen

Friday, November 15th 2019

Yes I make my children invoice me for their allowance.  And lately I have been dabbling in NOT REMINDING them to invoice me.  So imagine my delight when Dear Daughter runs to me tonight saying, “I don’t know where the invoice pad is so I wrote this one myself!”

(It quickly got wrinkled by a cat sitting upon it.)
                • What: All(owance)
                • How Many:  2 (weeks)
                • How Much:  16.00 (ie; $8/week x 2 weeks)
                • To:  Mom
                • When:  NOW
                • Grand Total Do:  $16.00

Not bad, especially for eight years old!

Then we went to Target and by the time we got there she drew and gave me this:

to: Mom! form: CJ titel: the rose.

 

Here she is tearing through the FIFTH Harry Potter book, and asking for a teeny tiny microscope, respectively:

 

When we got home she made these for me and Daddy:

(Mine has a clown face in it.)

 

All this in a couple short hours with her brother away on a sleepover.

My god I love mine, yet I don’t know how people have –that is, RAISE– more than two kids.

 ❤️👩‍👧‍👦❤️

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Daddy & CJ: While I Was Away

Posted on 2019/11/12 by circuskitchen

November 11th 2019

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The twins.

 

Oh my.   These two.

I knew that left to her own devices, ClaraJane would know exactly how to operate her dad by herself while Gavin and I were away.  The results do not disappoint.

First up, notes before I leave:

 

Texts while away:

 

Operate Daddy and How:

 

 

And now that we are back, here she is at the bus stop:

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Reading (Harry Potter #4) in mosaic camouflage

 

And because she caught me at school (and because I cannot get enough of her):

 

And last but not least, DaddyLove:

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DLove in cozy shirt with female dog

 

He may not fit in a single selfie shot, but there are two things I know;

1) He’s got a lovely new cozy shirt there for me to snuggle, and,

2) Some bitch be moving in on my territory!

♥♥

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Packages for the Homeless: “Got Empathy?”

Posted on 2019/11/12 by circuskitchen

Tuesday, November 12th 2019

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A woman sits on her possessions under an umbrella in Harvard Square.

 

Traveling through Harvard Square today, I stop by the homeless guy with all the clever signs outside the Coop.  Today’s reads:  “GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY.”

Then I cross the street to give a package to this petite woman sitting under an umbrella on her pile of stuff.  (See photo above.)  Her sign reads, simply:  “Got empathy?” 

 

 

Around the corner I stop by a man selling the homeless newspaper.  We get into an animated discussion about local and national politics.  He is especially tuned to local fraud in the Boston Police and abuses of the parole system, as well as the impact of a Republican Administration on Supreme Court appointments.  His name is Clifton and he lets me take his picture.

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Clifton sells Spare Change News

 

Then across from the Unitarian Church where I got married sits a man, IN THE RAIN, smoking a small cigar.  With his cup in one hand and the package I gave him in the other, he holds the cigar between his teeth and says, “Godblessyou.”

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Man sits against a wall in the rain trying to collect change from passersby

 

Then I read some of the Spare Change Newspaper for a… change, and am astonished by the breadth of its coverage; from the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Syria, to environmental protection efforts around a river in Bangladesh, to the homeless crisis in San Francisco, to the Americorps program and -not surprisingly- the connection between homelessness and lack of access to healthcare.   Dang, I never recognized it as a legitimate source of journalism before.  Check it out!

Spare Change News

 

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My Horsey Dad’s Horsey Journal

Posted on 2019/11/11 by circuskitchen

November 11th 2019

Just before the end of my visit Dad pulls out these beautiful, soulful works of art to show me; a lifetime of notes on dressage training.

Thanks for sharing these with me Dad!

🐎

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Barbarian Versus: Episodes 1, 2 & 3

Posted on 2019/11/10 by circuskitchen
Sunday, November 10th 2019 – Skyline (Oakland CA)

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Gavin “Blade” and Sanjay “Barbarian” prepare for BATTLE.

 

2019-11-09 Barbarian vs. Blade – Episode 1 [0:24]:

 

2019-11-10 Barbarian vs. Blade – Episode 2 [0:52]:

 

2019-11-09 Barbarian vs. Bruce [0:33]:

 

 

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Watch out, Grandpa knows Kung Fu!

 

♥♥♥

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