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Button Sunday


Here’s one of my Tom Petty buttons. I literally think of Tom every day, as I do Eddie Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jon Bon Jovi, and the Beach Boys and Beatles (individually and collectively) because of various accounts I follow on Instagram.

I saw the movie She’s The One (1996) and bought the soundtrack. The music was by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Related: The album Angel Dream (I’ll include the Record Store Day website information at the end of this post), which I got recently, included five postcards. I wanted to keep the postcards, but I also thought it would be fun to receive them. Since Marika is my go-to postcard person, I sent them to her, and she’ll be writing something on each of them and sending them back to me sporadically. Thanks for having some Tom Petty fun with me, Marika!

The first one arrived Friday, and though I won’t share the message, it made me laugh.

Enjoy “Walls.” I hadn’t seen this video in so long!

And some things are over
Some things go on
And part of me you carry
Part of me is gone

From the Record Store Day website: Angel Dream is a special reimagining of the album She’s The One to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its original release. This also brings to a close the celebration of Tom Petty’s masterpiece Wildflowers, as most of the songs on this album were recorded during the same time period. She’s The One included some songs that were left off the original Wildflowers album, recently included in the Wildflowers All The Rest re-issue. To take the place of those songs, four previously unreleased songs have been added here – two Petty originals (“105 Degrees” and “One of Life’s Little Mysteries”), a cover of JJ Cale’s “Thirteen Days”, and the instrumental “French Disconnection”. An extended version of “Supernatural Radio” is also included. The album has been remixed and remastered and brand new cover art commissioned – emphasizing that this is a Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers album, rather than a soundtrack album. This very special version for RSD Drops is pressed on cobalt blue vinyl.

Back to it

Laid this paint down on canvas a while back, but I work any creative stuff around writing, which has first priority.

For the past few days, I haven’t written because there have been more critical things that needed attention and deserved the energy given. But I’ve made a little more progress on the painting.

I’m showing the back of the canvas only, because the front still needs lots of work and also because it will be finding its home with someone who deserves to see it first.

Kinda groovy from the back, though.

I can still sing this song like I last heard it yesterday and not during the Mesozoic Era.

The video link I posted no longer worked, but I think the song might have been this one since I used the word “groovy.” No idea.

I want to bang on the drum all day

Here’s my awesome nephew playing drums.

And my grand-niece when she was little doing the same.

For way more than a year, I tried to find a drum set at 1:6 scale. They are out there at many prices, but if the pandemic taught me anything, it’s buyer beware. If it shipped from anywhere outside the U.S., no thanks. Fool me once…

However, Axe Heaven is the company that I get my doll guitars from, some of them at Guitar Center, some ordered through Guitar Center, and some from Axe Heaven. I used to check those sources for drums all the time, but no luck.

Until a few days back and SUCCESS! They said they are about 1:4 scale, which would be a bit big, but I decided to take a chance, and two days later, I had my drums, and they really are close enough to 1:6 scale to work just fine. I mean…it’s not like the dolls actually play them.


I AM SO EXCITED.

Sing it, Todd.

Bonus: A gentle drum solo but really it’s about the photos. =)

Fly Me to the Moon


Fairy brooch, longtime part of my collection

Years ago, when Tom hit a milestone birthday, lots of friends and family sent videos that I compiled into one video of happy birthday wishes from around the world.

We had spent some time in Vegas, and I had my video camera (before everyone and their cat had a cell phone with video capabilities) and sneaked away from Tom to stop in front of hotels and casinos and record random strangers saying, “Happy birthday, Tom!” I can’t remember if I was able to use any of those, but I DO remember that Frank Sinatra’s version of “Fly Me to the Moon” was playing at the Bellagio Fountains while I was recording.

Can’t believe how much I used to travel to be such a homebody now. Glad someone else captured this and put it on youtube. Music begins about 15 seconds in. This is fun to see in person, plus it’s just such a great song.

Put me in, coach

Sometimes you ask for something, and when it’s delivered, it’s even better than you thought. THANK YOU to The Brides and to Bill.

I got a beat up glove, a homemade bat
And a brand new pair of shoes
You know I think it’s time to give this game a ride
Just to hit the ball and touch them all, a moment in the sun
It’s-a gone and you can tell that one goodbye

John Fogerty

Tiny Tuesday!

Found this tiny box among my old business stuff. It was full of coins that I moved to the piggybank. It now has incense cones in it. Incense burns and becomes wisps of smoke that vanish into the air.

Now all them things that seemed so important
Well, mister, they vanished right into the air

Bruce Springsteen

You can’t say I traded money for nothing because I’ll be giving Houndstooth aromatherapy.

Pick your video, or be bold and go for both.

Hoping for some Zzzzzz

I keep up monthly with good New and Full Moon information on Body Mind and Soul’s Instagram account. Kevin offers a wealth of information in his videos, and all it takes is a little time to watch and listen. It’s particularly fun when your birth sign is involved.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping full nights, and Kevin says rose quartz, blue lace agate, and amethyst will help, as well as hematite to quiet a chattering mind.

Here’s hoping!

Questions, No. 5

From the 3000 Questions About Me book: 1132. What is your favorite song beginning with the letter I?

Do you know me?

Of course, this made me try to think of more songs beginning with the letter I. I started listing them below the video, in no order, and whether or not I like them is irrelevant. I already answered the question. =)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
If I Fell
I Feel Fine
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
In Your Eyes
Immigrant Song
In the City
I Feel the Earth Move
It’s Too Late
It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Ironic
In Bloom
I Want Your Sex
If
If You Leave Me Now
I Can See Clearly Now
It Ain’t Me Babe
I Dreamed a Dream
I Shot the Sheriff
If It Makes You Happy
In the Air Tonight
It’s A Beautiful Morning
In the Ghetto
Iris
It Don’t Mean Nothing
I Get Around
I Can’t Tell You Why
I’d Wait a Million Years
I Can Turn Off the Rain
I Don’t Want To Know
Independence Day
I Can Hear Music
I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
In My Life
In My Room
I’m So Afraid
I’m Your Man
It’s Late
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Want You
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
I Won’t Back Down
It’s Good to Be King
In the Still of the Night
I Need A Lover
I’m On Fire
I Can’t Make You Love Me

I wonder how many of those artists you can name without googling (or YouTubing)?

Break on Through

Today I planned my activities to be sewing and writing. I’m making a three-piece outfit for a character doll with which I hope to surprise a friend. She gets neither the doll nor the fashion! But she gets to see my doll version of a character she likes.

The sewing took longer than I intended because SEWING IS HARD. Also, it’s not perfect. Nothing I do can be, I think, because I’m not. Never said I was, never thought I was, never wanted to be. “Perfection” in my world is a highly overrated concept. Like one of my characters would say, “I’m not looking for perfect. I’m looking for real.”

Real is hard, too, because it can require tough decisions. About what we want to show and who to show it to. About the things we’re able to see and hear, and the things we can’t. Or won’t. Sometimes that’s self-preservation. Sometimes it’s a choice. I have a character (in the current chapter I’m working on) who’s spent her life grappling with it. I understand her well.

Whether or not I’ve had past lives or will have future lives, in this time, I have one life. We all do.

All that was part of what I was thinking about as I sewed, and I was accompanied by a most persistent ear worm: The Doors’s “Break On Through (To the Other Side).” Oh, that charismatic Jim Morrison. There is a Doors reference in the Neverending Saga because I always love a musical bad boy.

Mr. Mojo Rising, or whoever is tapping on my psyche, from this world or another, I think I’ve been dealing with over a year of breakthroughs, some good, some not so good. It all finds its way into all I do.


Here’s another of the posters I unrolled back in March. I was an assistant manager in a bookstore in 1991 when Oliver Stone’s film The Doors was released. An associate on the staff, Dorrie, also worked in the theater in our same complex. I put together a music display (I BEGGED to do it, and my manager knew my band-loving ways and okayed it) to help promote the movie, and Dorrie gave the store a theater poster to hang above it. When the display came down, the poster came home with me.

It was two-sided, which made it that much cooler.

Here are some photos of the display.


The tie-dyed fabric covering the cubes behind the books in some of the photos was a joint effort by Tom, Lynne, and me. I don’t think I still have it.

And here’s the song if you need a breakthrough, too.

Thanks, Tom, for being tall enough and also willing to climb a ladder to get photos of the movie poster back when the house was a wreck and we were still recovering from February’s snowy, icy storm.

ETA: Added as No. 8 in my Numbers Photo Series (because of the number ten over one of the displays).