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Pollee and I recently returned from our old neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska for our pals’ [Jorden and Bret] wedding.

Juneau saw some of its finest weather that week and a pod of humpbacks graced us with their presence all weekend.

This is the best clip of them all - as a few of us stood on the shore at Adlersheim these beauties hung out in the bay at the closest range many of us have ever witnessed - the end of the clip shows Topaz standing within mere feet as they swim by.

Thanks, Ryan, for having your digi with you!

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Pollee and i hadn’t yet been to see a movie in a theater in 2008.

How suhweeet that we waited…

Last night, we drove out to see The Dark Knight at IMAX.

Easily thee best action-hero movie made so far.

It topped $400 million last week. Will it beat Titanic’s $600 mil?

At $14.50 a ticket, it’s not cheap to see a flick at IMAX but totally worth it, especially considering tix to regular, non-6-story-high-screen-theaters are $10. It truly was an EXPERIENCE.

Ledger’s role will be huge shoes to fill in the next one but, all told, the film was one of the greatest ever IMO.

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…you want to learn how to yodel like cowboy Wylie here :

From Wikipedia :

Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register (or “chest voice”) to the falsetto voice, making a high-low-high-low sound. This vocal technique is used in many cultures throughout the world.

In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps as a method of communication between mountain peaks, later becoming part of the region’s traditional music. In Persian and Azeri classical music, singers frequently use tahrir, a yodeling technique that oscillates on neighbor tones. In Georgian traditional music, yodelling takes the form of krimanchuli technique, and is used as a top part in three/four part polyphony. In Central Africa, Pygmy singers use yodels within their elaborate polyphonic singing. Yodeling is often used in American bluegrass and country music.

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If you’re not hip to Black Cab Sessions, you are in for a treat!

…if you touch me, well i just think i’ll scream
cuz it’s been so long, since someone challenged me.
and made me think… about the way things are…
made me think…about the way they could be.
i believe it- why? oh my…
ooh my lord…ooh my lord…i don’t even know why…but…

oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!
oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!

feelings…why? oh my: human needs. heartbeats.
i can see it…all. by the way you smile.
i’m smiling too! i see myself in you.
i am with it! ooh man i am wired!
ooh my lord! ooh my lord- yeah…now i really know why!

oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!
oh! this feeling it is wonderful! don’t you ever turn it off!

Now that I’ve dived earnestly back into playing music every day, I’m looking for a few good tunes to learn.

Pollee immediately suggested this jewel and not only is it a great song but very simple and thus gratifying because a fella can play it almost immediately :

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