Cool Music on Tour: Elvis Plays Sitar

If you're in Texas, Chicago, or in between this fall, consider attending an Aradhna concert (check their website for the tour dates).

Aradhna plays music I'd never, from the description I got, have thought I'd like: Indian sitar music.

Now, I've heard Indian music. To my ear it can be whiny sometimes.

But this is a white guy with American influences in his head playing it -- and to me it comes out like, Elvis plays sitar.

We were blessed to have Chris and Pete stay with us during a NY stay a couple years ago, and after we heard their sound we were so sorry we'd skipped the concert!!

Pete, DuckyBoy, and Chris in NYC 2007

Do these look like the nicest guys in the whole world or what? They are. (Well, except maybe for that one in the middle. We're working on that.)

They are committed to playing Christian music in a style that can reach a largely non-Christian population, which is also way cool. Looks like Pete will not be on the tour but I'm sure Chris, who is the sitarist, will be surrounded by with other wonderful musicians.

The Truth About Elvis!

I apologize for all the edging marks -- I'm not so great with Illustrator yet...

Recently DuckyBoy and I stumbled across a whole galaxy's worth of YouTube videos reviewing various Transformer Toys.

One of our favorite reviewers is SeanxLong. His humorous asides have sparked several interesting conversations between DB and me:

DB: "Why does he have the Autobots talk about looking for girls a lot?"

Me: "Because he's a young man, and that's what young guys do and think about."

But! When we watched Sean's 100th-video special, we found out a secret! Learn what really happened to Elvis at about 2 mins: 30 secs into the video ...



The story of how Grimlock and the DinoBots come to be was just on this morning. I don't get to see much while DB watches it before school, so I actually watched it myself while I had my coffee after DB got on the bus!

Fortunately I haven't had to tell DB what "beyatches" means yet. Can you watch the language, Jazz? Thanks!