so i was sitting on the couch eating shrimp and watching the godfather on tv, when during a commercial break, i heard a very familiar sound. the commercial was about dish washers or something, but i was consumed with the song they played. i couldnt remember who it was by, but i knew i had it somewhere. off to my computer (vito corleone would have to wait) to search for "Mr. Blue Sky." my comput...
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I remember seeing this ad around Thanksgiving day, I wanna say three, maybe four years ago. It stopped everyone in the room, and when it was over, everyone asked, "What was that SONG?" I can't remember if I even knew, and I always know that kind of thing. For some reason I found the spot oddly, ineffably moving. I still don't know why...but I still adore the spot; I think VW consistently has th...
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I know, I know. I haven't posted a song from this century in a while...but this ELO song just seems to say it all for me. If you could have seen all the grinning, excited faces of my little students today and heard all the animated chatter, you'd have been humming Mr. Blue Sky with me. It's all very Hopeful.
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yes, i'm a bad bad girl. i've been away for far too long. but sometimes life just sneaks up behind you and beats you to the ground and you start focusing on all the shitty things and forget to look up. and then one day you do, and you see the bright blue sky and the gorgeous white clouds and think to yourself, "you know, this ain't so bad!"and what prompted me to look upwards? i got excepte...
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I did more lawn maintenance this weekend, complete with putting in a huge new flower bed. Much mowing, tilling, raking, shoveling, mulching and planting ensued. The song that played in my mind through a good portion of the toil and trouble? ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky".
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