Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

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Dailies 04/29/13

Dailies 04/29/13

Daily Doodle: Life Can Be a Carnival

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Song of the Day: Two of a Kind by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHmbDuxnTuU

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m in an almost vacant restaurant and wearing a penguin tuxedo. A hard spotlight is on me and my eyes are shaded by a black top hat. I tap dance the night away just as if it was a packed house.

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Blurb 1/365: Now that I know who I am, it will be easier to be who I want to be.

 

Dailies 04/27/13

Dailies 04/27/13

Daily Doodle: Angel Beaver (a doodle drawn at a cool art party!)

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Song of the Day: Close to You as sung by The Carpenters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU

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Musical Pipe Dream: In the style of Rick Moranis’s character in the movie “Parenthood” I bust into a crowded room where James is seated and I sing a capella. “Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh … close to you.”

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Blurb 1/365: Keep moving.

 

Dailies 04/26/13

Dailies 04/26/13

Daily Doodle: I swear a lot.

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Song of the Day: Fire by The Ohio Players

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47G-Wa4qfs

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Musical Pipe Dream: I absolutely love how every single one of the members of The Ohio Players played multiple instruments and were able to sing and dance while they played them. The YouTube video of their Midnight Special music video is one of the best performances ever; I envy their talent. Some members have already passed on, but they leave a legacy and a blazing trail of pivotal music. In my musical pipe dream, I sing this song flawlessly. I have this song on Rock Band, so, apologies in advance.

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Blurb 1/365: Woo woo woo woo woo-oo!

 

Dailies 04/25/13

Dailies 04/25/13

Daily Doodle: Portrait – Little D: The Mini Scientist

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Song of the Day: Supernova by Powerman 5000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h48ozMZP70Y

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Musical Pipe Dream: In this musical pipe dream, I’m singing lead. My body is possessed by the music and I require prescription goggles in lieu of my glasses in order for them to stay on my face. I’m sweaty and I’m owning it.

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Blurb 1/365: I’ve been slowly but surely (shirley) ridding my life of filth. It’s been difficult, because wallowing in it became quite a habit. Bad habits are difficult to break, but it is possible. Filthy anxiety, go away. Filthy unnecessary guilt, go away. Filthy negative thoughts, go away. Filthy people that usurp my positive energy, go away. As I slowly rid myself of filth, all that’s left is what’s worth living for.

 

Dailies 04/24/13

Dailies 04/24/13

Daily Doodle: Comic: BART Sneeze

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Song of the Day: Try a Little Tenderness as sung by Otis Redding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiDq4Q62tz4

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Musical Pipe Dream: This video of Otis Redding’s performance in Sweden is magical. His slight movement and groove when the horns come in, the tempo, the audience feeling the music, the bridge, the breakdown, the band, everybody feeling the magic, the two encores, the kids getting their bags ready to leave, the third encore, the audience going nuts, the horn section having to step up to another part of the stage to back up from the audience, the announcer just doing his thing, THE BAND, Otis Redding … my musical pipe dream was that I was actually there. This is the kind of stuff I thank the YouTube gods for.

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Blurb 1/365: “It’s easy to give advice, and it’s even easier not to take it.”

 

 

Dailies 04/23/13

Dailies 04/23/13

Daily Doodle: Super Mario Cereal with Marshmallows

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Song of the Day: Pillar Box Red by The The

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EDX_lylgE

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m on the keys in this one; an odd mini piano that only comes up to my knees. I also see myself doing a weird dance step. Imagine two three foot sticks stuck in the ground with string pulled across them to make a big equal sign with about two feet in between each string. The dance step I’m thinking about is me trying to side step in between the two pieces of string. The leading foot steps, the following foot crosses over the leading foot and so on. This dance step requires a jacket with coat tails.

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Blurb 1/365: (O_O)

 

Dailies 04/21/13

Dailies 04/21/13

Daily Doodle: Elephie

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Song of the Day: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 by The Flaming Lips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzlMeTxVdH8

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Musical Pipe Dream: Robots are frolicking in a field with butterflies fluttering around them. Yoshimi gets a medal.

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Blurb 1/365: My childhood toy was a Hello Color stuffed animal that I named Elephie; an elephant wearing green shorts. “Wanna play stuffed animal parade?”–Ralph Wiggum

 

Dailies 04/20/13

Dailies 04/20/13

Daily Doodle: Space Music (a doodle drawn while my Mom kicked all of our butts at playing Dominion tonight!)

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Song of the Day: Space Oddity by David Bowie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY

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Musical Pipe Dream: For about 10 years, I have had a complete vision of an animation I want to create in the Ender universe with Space Oddity being the soundtrack. It would be about the time in Battle School where they don’t tell Ender and his toons about a battle until the last minute. It would show them eating breakfast, all the other armies being ready in the Battle Room, Ender jogging towards the Battle Room and jumping up to touch a part of the ceiling, his army jogging close behind him and jumping up to touch the same part of the ceiling, the Battle Room door opening, and epic battle of skill, desperation, and deceit, and ultimately triumph as a soldier passes through the door. The animation continues with Ender in space in a ship with three seats, out of the spaceship window is a view from Earth at a distance, a flash of Ender facing two empty seats, a flash of Ender facing seats occupied by Peter and Valentine, then a flash of Ender alone again, far away. Finally, a view of an interpretive figure of Jane as she dances, hops on stars, and flows through space.

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Blurb 1/365: It’s all up there in my head, all I have to do is get it down there to reality.