let all the children boogie

[freckles_and_doubt]

I think the Cosmic Wossnames are feeling bad about Monday, Day Of Hell, because they obligingly rained buckets all afternoon yesterday. This is, as you are well aware, balm to my soul. Today is equally cloudy and rain-promising, and things are Looking Up. Nice phone call from my dad last night, plus promises of kid mohair yarn, also helped. Also, the faculty manager has approved my day officially ending at 4pm, which means - yay! - I can resume Friday afternoon Angelfests with d_hofryn. (Although not this Friday). This resumption was clearly foreshadowed yesterday when the nice student's cellphone went off in the middle of a curriculum advice session with the Angel theme, which shows a degree of taste almost mitigatory to the iniquity of having your cellphone on in my office in the first place.

Random linkery! Because I have too much work to do (again!) to post properly. We have discussed, somewhat volubly, kiddie music in this venue in the past, and I feel obliged to pass on Zoogobble, which is a blog dedicated solely to - surprise! - music for kids. I hope this will materially assist all desperate parents, aunts and other purveyors of indoctrinatory music to the very young. The latest news is that BareNakedLadies are about to release a children's album, which should be worth a listen, yes indeedy.

And, on a not unrelated theme, Improv Everywhere, for whom I am vast developing a geeky passion, staged a "spontaneous" Food Court Musical. Their dedication to "scenes of chaos and joy in public places" makes me very happy.

Comments

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

On your recommendation I arranged to have a nice shiny copy of the Colours are Brighter delivered by Amazon and left upon our front door step last week :-)

I woke up this morning to the sound of monkeys escaping from the zoo, I think I'll be smiling all day!

Also MM picks up song lyrics very quickly so car trips over the last few days have included snatches of some class lyrics.... thank heavens... I am over the Wiggles and I find Des and Dawn Lindberg appealing based entirely on nostalgia for my own childhood (I am not even mentioning the other tat I am forced to listen too).

I thank you for this glimmer of taste in the parental-auditory-annihilation-chamber!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

My pleasure, glad you're enjoying Colours - I found it very boppy. I think I have to grab the Might Be Giants one next, and I'd love to see what BareNakedLadies make of kiddie stuff. They have the necessary element of whimsy, I think.

Although I suspect one too many repetitions of "Go go ninja dinosaur!" might be as annoying as the Wiggles...

yee

[d-hofryn.livejournal.com]

ha!