The Fourth of July - This and That

First of all, celebrate the day.....we are a great nation despite several things happening in the news right now(the oil spill, the difference in opinion I have with our President right now, the very fact that I am a planner and leaving on vacation in one week and I don't know where we are going) .....

Next go to this link (French Kissed).  She says it all with her red, white and blue.  http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/french-kissed/~3/6W96q1Qv6u0/7438.  I do love this web site.

Last night I went to see The Eclipse picture show with my friend Cristina.  We squealed when Jacob came on screen (you will too).  This movie is wonderful.  Great director (he's English) and you'll enjoy the werewolfs.  We did!  Team Jacob!

Have I mentioned watching CBS Sunday Morning every Sunday (well, morning) at 8 a.m.  There is no show that can educate you in the arts, movies, political world and just the lives of everyday people like Sunday Morning can.  The Host is Charles OsGood (who always ends by saying "I'll see you on the radio".  Bill Geist is so funny and Nancy Giles will give you opinions on everything....She is fabulous. If 8 is too early for you, record.  You'll be glad you did.  Charles Kurat was the original host until he died and the show always beings with the sound of a trumpet. 

The trumpet fanfare is called "Abblasen" and is attributed to Gottfried Reiche. For almost 20 years, "CBS News Sunday Morning" used a recording by Don Smithers, who played on an eight-foot baroque trumpet.

"Sunday Morning" chose to retire the old, scratchy vinyl phonograph version in favor of a new, clearer, high-tech recording. This was provided by Doc Severinsen, the former music director of NBC's "Tonight Show," who performed the theme on a specially fabricated four-valve piccolo trumpet. Famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis later recorded another version of the theme, also on a piccolo trumpet, which is currently in use.

Each segment begins with a "sun" image which in itself, is so interesting to watch.  The shapes of the sun are so artistic and are connected to the segments.  Stories I have enjoyed in the past
1.  The artists that comprise the team that Google uses each day to change their logo on their web page;
2.  The son of Warren Buffett who received  $18,000 in stock when he  turned 18 and it would be worth millions now if he hadn't cashed it in, but he did, and he says he's happy because he started his music career.  (personal aside.....I have some doublts about his total happiness) At any rate, it was a great story;
3.  Each Sunday there is always a music individual or group interviwed. 
4.  Today "In this Sunday Profile, correspondent Bill Whitaker talks with Norman Lear about his remarkable and diverse career, and about what's next for a man who insists on making every day matter."  Can't wait.

Tune in, you'll be glad you did.