4 posts tagged “over the rhine”

Oh, nevermind…

This weekend, the Beloved and I are heading off to Ohio for a wedding in her family.  We arrive in Cleveland late on Friday and drive off to umm – errr – some other place in NE Ohio for the wedding Saturday morning.

I was thinking about it this morning.  I haven’t been to Ohio for at least 10 years.  Should be interesting.  I’ll post this song from Over The Rhine (who are from the Cincinnati area), which is truly one of my favorite songs ever.

Ohio

Over The Rhine

It’s pretty much going to be all family time, so I don’t know that there will be much of a sight-seeing report on our return, but we’ll see how it goes.  I promise I’ll play my Scrabulous turns when I get back.

One of the tracks on this year’s excellent Christmas CD (Snow Angel) from Over The Rhine is a wonderful homage to the late Charles Schulz and the classic music by The Vince Gauraldi Trio.

Goodbye Charles

Over The Rhine

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Congratulations to you, Linford Detweiler, you nailed it.

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) 

I know...I know...the whole “musical horoscope” idea has been done before (and before that a few more times) and like most QotD’s I was willing to let it go.  But I thought that this morning I would track what songs came from my iPod as I drove to work and decide what it meant for me today:

God Has Put A Smile Upon Your Face – Coldplay
Yes, He has.  In fact, with Thanksgiving last week, I even posted about it.  I’m assuming that this is a gentle reminder to always be thankful, not just during holidays with turkey and football.  That’s fairly heavy philosophy for rubbing-sleep-from-my-eyes-pulling-out-of-the-garage time.

The Burnt-Over District – Hem
Given last month’s terrible fires here in San Diego County, this seemed a little mean-spirited of the horoscopic muse.  And then I remembered that I have to leave early today to meet some workmen that are going to convert our wood-burning fireplace into a gas-burning one.  Hopefully that does not suggest that our family room will qualify as a burnt-over anything.

Wildflower – Sheryl Crow
Apparently, while I’m home with the fireplace people, I’m supposed to cut the grass.  I wonder how the HOA got that one in there?

405 (acoustic) – Death Cab For Cutie
Hmm… this one’s tougher.  I haven’t been in Orange County or LA for a bit and have no plans on going there anytime soon.  But I DO travel CA-56 every morning on my commute (was on it when this song came on, in fact) and I decided that “fif-ty six” has as many syllables as “four-oh-five” and that I could substitute...
“Misguided by the 56 'cause it lead me to an alcoholic summer” – yeah, that still works.

Heels!

Ohio – Over the Rhine
Also a bit of a mystery, since I haven’t been to Ohio in years, but as I was listening to this moving, almost mournful, song I tried to think of why people in the Buckeye State should be so sad today.  And then I remembered --- last night UNC beat Ohio State in Columbus, helping the ACC to comfortably win (7-3) the ACC Big-10 Challenge.  Again.  Go Tar Heels!

Not bad, iPod.  Not bad.

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Never heard of this group before last month and have been enjoying listening to their music.

Trouble

Over The Rhine