a good friend and i were discussing music & how you don’t really need a bunch of talent if you have good looks….the best hairstylists, make-up artists, choreographers, lyricists & songwriters will be provided for you. long gone are the days when talent was foremost….where a band was booo’d offstage because their sound was mostly engineered in the studio.

and that got me thinking about talent. there are those musically gifted and then there are those with the voices of angels.

those who train their voices for years in order to blend them seamlessly….

ensemble pleneta~ air on G string

Johnny Rivers~ Rockin’ Pneumonia

Time for some holiday

All created with just a gourd & a blade

I’m sure you’ve heard about the $150,000 make-over

Did you know there are some unsolved mysteries regarding these expenditures?

There are still aspects of the Republican National Committee’s shopping sprees on behalf of Gov. Sarah Palin and her family that are murky.

stormy monday

A very, very good friend “gave” me this a couple days ago.

I’ve been singin’ it ever since.

Enjoy!!

~&hearts~ Pony Party is an Open Thread. Please don’t REC the pony. ~♥~

from yahoo news

WESTPORT, Conn. – Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “The Color of Money” – and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario – has died. He was 83.

Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.

the other day edger put his finger on my problem…..

and yesterday was just a horrible day for me.

but i had a coupla very good friends remind me, in very different ways, to count my blessings.

you see, i’d forgotten. I’m dizzy from all this spinning….