Tell me Why?

This past weekend I had the chance to watch the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction show. While I did find the show entertaining, I did have to question the choice of who was inducted, especially when I look at a few who aren’t there.

Donavan was big when I was a teen, and while I enjoyed his music when I look back on it today, some of it seems very 60ish and obviously could have been drugged induced. I would have liked to have seen him performed “Atlantis”, my favorite song of his. But the ones selected was fine. Now that he’s there, I question why it took so long.

Especially when three of the other inductee were Guns ‘n Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Beastie Boys. I don’t have a big issue with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Guns ‘n Roses has a Hall of Fame caliber guitarist in Slash, but as a group did they do anything to belong. I suppose so if a great first album, a great guitarist and a strange lead singer gets you there. As for the Beastie Boys, I’ll just let that lie as noise.

Now for a couple of Bands who should have been inducted long ago, but are still on the outside looking in. Chicago, Heart and Grand Funk (Railroad). How can it be the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without these three?

Listen to the albums of Chicago with Terry Kath and tell me if that’s not Rock in its finest. Or the work of Grand Funk. They are an American Band. And Heart showed that girls do know how to Rock.

Budget Coffee

As I have said before this isn’t a blog relating to coffee, but I did run across the following article and thought I’d post the link.

http://shine.yahoo.com/financially-fit/brew-cheaper-buzz-best-budget-coffee-111000447.html

Personally I’m not a fan of any of these. A couple I haven’t even heard of. And I too don’t consider Dunkin’ Donut Coffee to be a bargain, although the others may be.

I do happen to drink around a pot a day, not as much when it’s warm. It’s generally Maxwell House.

Tony’s Nominations

The Tony Award nominations are out. For those of you not in the know the Tony’s are awarded for shows on Broadway. I very rarely get to see a live show on Broadway, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the Tony Awards show. In fact it is probably my favorite award show.

I can hardly wait for June 10th. Once again Neil Patrick Harris will be the show’s emcee. And in my opinion he is a natural. Don’t we all consider Barney from “How I Met Your Mom” as being the classic New Yorker?

Then again I suppose for some of us who have been around still see him as the teenage Doctor
“Doogie Howser”.

Here’s the full list of nominees:

Best Play
Clybourne Park
Other Desert Cities
Peter and the Starcatcher
Venus in Fur

Best Musical
Leap of Faith
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Once

Best Revival of a Play
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
Master Class
Wit

Best Revival of a Musical
Evita
Follies
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Book of a Musical
Lysistrata Jones
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Once


Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde
Newsies
One Man, Two Guvnors
Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

James Earl Jones, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man

Frank Langella, Man and Boy

John Lithgow, The Columnist


Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur

Tracie Bennett, End of the Rainbow

Stockard Channing, Other Desert Cities

Linda Lavin, The Lyons

Cynthia Nixon, Wit


Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Follies

Jeremy Jordan, Newsies

Steve Kazee, Once

Norm Lewis, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Ron Raines, Follies


Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Jan Maxwell, Follies

Audra McDonald, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Cristin Milioti, Once

Kelli O’Hara, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Laura Osnes, Bonnie & Clyde


Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Michael Cumpsty, End of the Rainbow

Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Andrew Garfield, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Jeremy Shamos, Clybourne Park


Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Linda Emond, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Spencer Kayden, Don’t Dress for Dinner

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Peter and the Starcatcher

Judith Light, Other Desert Cities

Condola Rashad, Stick Fly

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Phillip Boykin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Michael Cerveris, Evita

David Alan Grier, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Josh Young, Jesus Christ Superstar


Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Elizabeth A. Davis, Once

Jayne Houdyshell, Follies

Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Jessie Mueller, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ghost the Musical


Best Scenic Design of a Play
Other Desert Cities

Clybourne Park

One Man, Two Guvnors

Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Once

Ghost the Musical

Newsies

Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark


Best Costume Design of a Play
Don’t Dress for Dinner
A Streetcar Named Desire
One Man, Two Guvnors

Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Costume Design of a Musical
Follies

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark

Nice Work If You Can Get It


Best Lighting Design of a Play
Peter and the Starcatcher

The Road to Mecca

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Other Desert Cities


Best Lighting Design of a Musical
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Follies

Once
Ghost the Musical


Best Sound Design of a Play
One Man, Two Guvnors

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

End of the Rainbow

Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Sound Design of a Musical
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Once

Follies

Nice Work If You Can Get It


Best Choreography
Evita

Newsies

Once

Nice Work If You Can Get It


Best Direction of a Play
One Man, Two Guvnors

Clybourne Park

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Direction of a Musical
Newsies

Nice Work If You Can Get It

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Once

Best Orchestrations
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Once

Newsies

Fifty Shades

Romantic adventures seem to have been a prime topic of books that has been popular to women for decades. I suppose I can understand it, since I have read a few. But I still have a problem with them, especially since many of them are written with a formula. One that to me gets very boring after the 5th or so.

Now there seems to be a popular one written by EL James, a 40ish writer who apparently wrote them just in fun. But the fun of the Fifty Shade series to her must be the strange success that they have gotten.

I’m not sure that I’ll ever read them. I tend to like my sex tame and gentile, while these books, from what I’ve heard are more wild and dangerous. Bondage and S&M themes. But then again to each their own.

Mistakes Learned

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes. The rest of us have to be other people. -Zig Ziglar

Although I do think that at times it seems as if it should be “Most of us are the other people”.

Of course it all depends on how one looks at it. If you believe that you are one of the others, you will be. So let’s all learn by the mistakes of others so we can be one of the some.