For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.
Wishing you all a very Happy Valentine's Day!
1 - Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley
2 - Somewhere in Your Heart - Frank Sinatra
3 - Shape of My Heart - Sting
4 - Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake - Kate Bush
For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.
I'm in such a Christmas mood! I'm rescheduling the final Hit Makers of 2014 to Boxing Day, because A Piece of My Mind is in the middle of the yuletide season.
This week I've got a romantic Christmas songs set for all you lovers out there.
1 - Merry Christmas Darling -- The Carpenters
2 - The Christmas Waltz -- Frank Sinatra
3 - All I Want For Christmas is You -- Mariah Carey
For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the sets posted by the other 5 on Friday bloggers -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.
I'm in the last two days of the November writing marathon known as NaNoWriMo, wherein crazy people write a 50,000-word first draft novel in 30 days.
This is my fifth year slogging through the ordeal. At this point everyone participating seriously questions their sanity.
However, from past experience I also know that pushing this far past my normal creative process always gives me amazing material to work with later.
So, as I head for the 50,000-word finish line, here are five tunes about writing.
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Time to celebrate September birthday boys! So let's start with my
cousin-in-law, Stephen MacLean,
shown above with his wife, my cousin Julianne MacLean.
Stephen's getting ready to celebrate by having a rather huge dream come
true. This Sunday evening at 9:30 pm, his feature film Wispdebuts
at the Atlantic Film
Festival.
Wisp screens at Park Lane
Cinemas on Spring Garden Road, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
"A gripping lost-in-the-woods video-verite horror flick that begins
with a whimsicle search for the lights of the Will O' the Wisp and then
descends into a struggle for survival against an unforseen biological
threat." -- Dream Front Entertainment
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
When I was looking through the arts section of the paper yesterday after I finished eating supper, which is my chill out time between the day job and my evening writing shift, I noticed several event listings that featured World Storytelling Day.
What a great thing to showcase for 5 on Friday, I thought. So here are five story songs as we head into World Storytelling Day, March 20th.
1 - Rocky Raccoon - The Beatles
2 - Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
3 - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
4 -Darlington County - Bruce Springsteen
5 - Taxi - Harry Chapin
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend--I'll be at my second Women Making Waves conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Storytelling through film, television and digital media, by women. It's not a women-only conference, however--it's a film industry event attended by both genders. In fact, my fellow conference-goer this year is my husband Brad.
I'll share the highlights in next week's Thursday Thirteen.
Welcome to my second single-artist showcase for 5 on Friday. For this post, I had to enlist the help of my lifelong Best Friend Forever, Connie.
I wanted to bring you five songs by Bruce Springsteen, and Bruce is to Connie what ballet is to me. In fact, over the years she has flown to Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston, Orlando, Dallas, Houston and London, England to see Bruce in concert.
To find out what other tunes bloggers have gathered up for us, drop by 5 on Friday Central and say hi to Travis at Trav's Thoughts.
And now - over to you, Con!
TOP 5 SPRINGSTEEN:
This was a little more difficult than I had anticipated. The first 4 were easy, but it was tough to decide on the last one. There are just too many to choose from:
1 - Land of Hope and Dreams (Live version) - gives me goosebumps and makes me cry every time I hear it.
-I will provide for you And I'll stand by your side You'll need a good companion for This part of the ride
This Train Dreams will not be thwarted This Train Faith will be rewarded-
- Bruce Springsteen
2 - Born to Run - not really my favourite song, but it is iconic Springsteen. This song catapulted him to stardom and has become the unofficial New Jersey state anthem.
-Let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions
Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun-
- Bruce Springsteen
3 - Thunder Road - Driving in a convertible with the top down and Thunder Road blasting from the speakers. Life does not get any better than this! CLICK HERE to watch the video
-Well now I'm no hero That's understood
Well I got this guitar And I learned how to make it talk And my car's out back If you're ready to take that long walk
It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win-
- Bruce Springsteen
4 - The Rising - Gospel sound, uplifting and inspirational!
-Can't see nothin' in front of me Can't see nothin' coming up behind I make my way through this darkness I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me Lost track of how far I've gone How far I've gone, how high I've climbed On my back's a sixty pound stone On my shoulder a half mile line
Come on up for the rising Come on up, lay your hands in mine-
- Bruce Springsteen
5 - Dancing in the Dark - FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN! I first fell in love with Bruce Springsteen 30 years ago while watching the video of this song on Much Music at my best friend, Julia's house (a love that continues to this day!)
-Man I ain't getting nowhere I'm just living in a dump like this There's something happening somewhere I just know that there is
You sit around getting older There's a joke here somewhere and it's on me I'll shake this world off my shoulders Come on this laugh's on me
You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart-
- Bruce Springsteen
Travis says I remember getting caught up in how good the Born in the USA album was.
Jamie says The variety of Springsteen always surprises me. One of my favorites, "The Rising". Thank you.
Anne MacFarlane says That was the best 5 on Friday. Ever!! He's the only singer I would camp outside overnight to get tickets for. In the rain. With a broken foot. By myself.
Champion of the Arts - I write historical and paranormal fiction, as well as poetry. I love to showcase creative works by artists of all stripes. Blogging from Nova Scotia, Canada
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