Chase all your cares away!
I’ve been on a quest for “happy” songs, which has lead me around YouTube, and found not just the feel good, dancey, not too much thinking needed songs… I’ve enjoyed a bit of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and gone back to the 70s for classic rock.
Not exactly the most feel-good lyrics, but makes me want to dance.
It’s the bagpipes…
We went to see Bohemian Rhapsody earlier in the week. Loved it! Here’s the trailer – watch it and then go see the film. 😀
We took Sweet Bean along, even though it was still school time, and he had some exam/assessment work to do (which he finished well by the end of the week). We had the chance to go, so we took it – I’m putting it down as music history 😉
It’s an experience. We went in the afternoon. This was the cinema when we went in –
We did get some companions by the time it started. Only around ten people. That’s one of the perks of going during the day in term time…
This was the first time in a long time I’ve been to the cinema where everybody has stayed in their seats until the credits finished – no-one wanted to go.
One question for anyone who goes to see it – how long did you last until you began to sing along? I held out till this…
The first week of the final term went well. We did a simple (but satisfying) experiment – microwaving a potato to destruction, in order to find the percentage of water in it. It was around 84%…
Here’s the potato afterwards. I put it on the patio after we finished because there was steam/smoke pouring from it for a longer period of time than I was happy with, and I didn’t want it to burst into flame in the house…
This was the first experiment from a free course on basic science, which covers the importance of keeping a journal, and looks at the applications of experimental data in real life situations. It’s from a site called FutureLearn, which has a range of topics to choose from (good for homeschoolers!) I decided to do a bit of basic science with Sweet Bean as we haven’t done much in the way of hands on science this year. Hopefully we’ll finish this course by extracting DNA from a kiwi fruit.
Yesterday we also finished the day by watching a variety of YouTube clips, starting with Queen and moving through Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis and a little bit of Elvis. There’s many more to watch, but we ran out of time…
I’ve been enjoying watching reaction videos – a young bloke watching classic rock clips (and some opera etc.) for the first time and sharing his reactions – go here to have a look! I found his channel while watching a variety of reaction videos from people seeing Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time, and just kept watching…
I realised that Sweet Bean knows Queen’s songs but hasn’t seen them live. Apart from being enjoyable I thought it was an opportunity to see what a band can aspire to 🙂 Learning a bit of rock history seemed like the obvious next step…
Here’s the first clip we watched – Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985.
Today I watched a few more reaction videos and decided to share vintage Michael Jackson with Sweet Bean…
a bit of creativity, a bit of eco consciousness, a bit of inspiration.... hopefully not a lot of pompousness and blathering :D
i'm not entirely sure what's going on here... let's travel along and see...
1000 Fields of Roses 