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While I feast on last years fruit cake with my 16 oz. Nascar commeerative cup full of Food Lion brand Egg Nog I would like to wish everyone of my blog readers and all those search spiders a very special holiday and best wishes for the new year.
Wes…..
Ok so I am not a huge country music fan per se but when I saw these two in a commercial for Overstock.com I was quite amazed at how well they harmonized together. To my surprise I just found out that they are in fact a real couple with true blue ties to the country! Yee Haw!! It’s just something about them and the music that just sits me right at home and my foot just won’t stop a tappin’.
From their personal website: To any onlooker, the humble Rory, in his daily uniform of overalls and work boots, is the obvious match for the down-to-earth Joey. The honey-voiced Joey is a throwback to old school female country entertainers in her standard attire of western-yoked shirts, Wranglers and belt buckles. She’s as at home onstage or at the Pottsville, Tenn., farm she shares with Rory and his two daughters. Link
Being in a band, and trying to make it your living requires a few sacrifices. After a while you lose certain parts of normal life that you used to take for granted. Clothes, friends, hygiene, material things, all eventually seem to dwindle. After a while you realize all you have is a beat up suit case from goodwill full of toiletries, really bad smelling jeans, and two shirts you stole from the Medic Droid. Link
“Kermesse Fantastique” was created by the famous dutch animator William Van Otterloo for Phillips Electronics back in 1948. He also created another famous animation entitled “The Tale of the Fox”.
Update January 4, 2009
Correction
Willem van Otterloo is a conductor, not a animator, and conductec the music which was written by George Auric. “Kermesse Fantastique” was animated by József Misik and produced by Joop Geesink’s Dollywood.
Wikipedia says, “Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band signed to the labels Sub Pop and Bella Union. The quintet describe their music as “baroque harmonic pop jams.” Link
