Funny The Way It Is

Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass
And the children play
Sirens pass and fire engine red
Someone's house is burning down
On a day like this

The evening comes and we're hangin' out
On a front step and a car goes by
With the windows rolled down
And that War song is playing
"Why Can't We Be Friends?"
Someone is screaming and crying
In the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is
Makes you think about it
Somebody's going hungry
And someone else is eatin' out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody's heart is broken
And it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in your lover's kiss
Like a pretty bird on the breeze
Or water to a fish
The bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter
While the children play war

Funny the way it is
Make you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school
Another's droppin' out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath
His baby's being born

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Compared to how it used to be
With mountains and oceans
And winters and rivers and stars

Watch the sky
A jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there
Looking down on me?
A boy chase a bird
So close but every time
He never catch her
But he can't stop tryin'

Funny the way it is
Make you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school
Another's droppin' out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath
His baby's being born

Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody's broken heart
Becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is (Funny the way it is)
Make you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school
Another's droppin' out

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Compared to how it use to be
With mountains and oceans
And winters and rivers and stars
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Funny The Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band
Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King

I Want To Go To There

from TheChicagoTheatre.com

Actors/Directors/Musicians and comedy icons Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are doing something they have never done before; performing a six week, 30 city multi-media acoustic tour without wigs and electric instruments.

UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED are the guys behind Spinal Tap and The Folksmen (from A Mighty Wind) coming out from behind the hair, the facial hair, and the absence of hair, to perform as themselves songs from both films, and more, in a rare acoustic setting. You'll never hear Tap songs less loud!

UNWIGGED & UNPLUGGED will feature songs from the original soundtrack This Is Spinal Tap (1984), the studio album Break Like The Wind (1992), and A Mighty Wind (2003) along with some special surprises and rarities thrown in.

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Just got tickets for that concert. SO pumped as This Is Spinal Tap is my favorite film of all time! Between DMB, Jason Mraz, & The Travoltas, it's going to be a busy summer of shows this year...and I'm not complaining.

Saw Watchmen last night at the midnight screening.

Believe the hype. It's really well done.

Now they're naturally going to be haters out there (regardless of if they actually enjoyed any part of it or not) as I'm sure it'll be the cool thing to bash the film because it's popular right now. To this vain attempt to gain some sort of 'cred' in between getting another piercing or tattoo so that you can stand out and be so different - just like everyone else - I offer the following: it's a popcorn blockbuster film & doesn't runaway or try to hide from that. Enjoy it for what it is or don't pay the money to go see it because you should know by now what you're getting into.

I'm not saying you're not entitled to your opinion, but those people that are already going in with the mindset that they're going to hate it and have already passed judgement (graphic novel purists and film snobs alike), your pre-bias is unwarranted and not needed.

Knight rides again

Whole. Lee. Crap.

Through some friends of mine, I was able to get comped tickets to see The Dark Knight at our local IMAX Theatre.

Granted, I already own it on Blu-ray, it was like a whole different experience and I can't recommend seeing it in this format enough. Almost vertigo inducing at times, the performances seem even more intense and I was actually more impressed with it than I was on previous viewings.

Just stop reading & go see it.

You're welcome.

Going to see Jason Mraz (for the 6th time) in concert next week at Northern Illinois University, and also got tickets to see Dave Matthews Band (for the 35th time) in Nashville, TN, with Mraz opening for them. Woot!

Now get off my lawn, you crazy kids.