My Summer Haiku

Summer

By Preston Sinclair

Summer sun reflects

On Lake Ontario shore

Reading and writing

Great blue herons fly

Orange evening shadows spread

Over green canvas

Silver waters edge

I’m holding my partner’s hand

Lines drawn between us

With words unspoken

Music plays in the background

Jazz and Classical

Chris Craft wooden boat

Sport coup racing over waves

Full of excitement

Gleaming lacquered wood

Feel the cool, wet sparkling spray

Blue skies overhead

The ice cream cone drips,

River gulls scream over head,

They light, then silence.

With sepia tone

Photographs in our mind’s eye

We say bienvenue

(c) Preston Sinclair 2013

The Wedding Date

     OMG...I am so confused. All this time I've been listening to Michael Buble's Save The Last Dance For Me from his CD 'It's Time' and I thought it was from the dance scene in the movie The Wedding Date. The song is actually Sway, another Michael Buble song. I love Debra Messing in this film, she was kind of hot before she got a little puffy in Smash. But that's another blog.  Dermot Mulrony is easy on the eyes as well, however I'm a little concerned because his expression, or lack thereof,  was always a little too serious. Male Botox may have been the culprit.
      I happened to catch the last half of The Wedding Date on TBS after I came home from work the other day.  I came in on the scene where everyone is gathering at the family estate before the wedding, and everyone figures out what is going on and drama ensues. I was able to pretty quickly decide who the players were and piece together what I had missed. Debra Messing is always a joy to watch. She always has that Lucille Ball thing going on. 
     This film is what made me a Michael Buble fan.

     Here's the dance scene from the film.

      Here's the Michael Buble's official Youtube video. It's kind of cute as well.


Wait! What?! Save The Last Dance For Me really was in the movie The Wedding Date. I just had forgotten which scene it was. Whew, Nevermind.

     Perhaps I'm not the only one who's confused. Here's a nice compilation video from Youtube for Save The Last Dance.

     I'd rather go to a wedding lonely and bored than pay a gigolo to accompany me, but that's just me.

Re: Pet Shop Boys: Vocal

     This video makes me want to get up and dance. It's vintage Pet Shop Boys. Not everyone will get it today, but twenty years from now someone will remember dancing to this song on the dance floor somewhere in New York, Berlin, or Rio. And that's all that really matters.  The Pet Shop Boys are masters at creating the sense memory, the misty foggy pounding beat, the light and smell of the club.  As time goes on, this memory become nostalgia, and the music elicits a feeling, an emotion. This is the first song from The Boys in a long time that takes me back to Introspective, one of my favorite albums of the eighties.  I remember dancing to Left To My Own Devices in my bedroom at night, home alone.
     I've really missed Neil Tennant's choir boy tenor. He sounds as hopeful and at times joyous as ever. I remember when they first started using the words alternative music back in the eighties on the radio in reference to bands like Depeche Mode, and New Order, Bronski Beat. Other than a few songs that crossed over into pop such as West End Girls, I've always considered The Pets to be the alternative. I prefer the alternative.
     The video for Vocal is a declaration. It says, 'Hey everybody, this is the kind of music I like!'. In today's world of social media where everyone is sharing and uploading, that's a very good message to send.   I'm proud of The Pet Shop Boys, and I'm glad to have survived to hear a new Pet Shop Boys song.

Resource Links:
Pet Shop Boys Official Web Site

Wikipedia: Pet Shop Boys info.

A blurb about Your Heart Belongs to Me

Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Dean Koontz always moves quickly up my 'to read' list in the summertime. I went to the beach, sat in my folding chair, ate trail mix, sipped bottled water and read YHBTM as sea gulls flew over head. It fit right in with the surfing motif of the story. The rapid pace and movement of the story kept me reading, even when at times I didn't like what was happening. Ryan Perry is a damaged protagonist, both physically and psychologically. Really, I thought he was an a**hole most of the time. I never understood why he didn't go the authorities at some point. Even if the police thought he was delusional, it would have added an element of common sense to his behavior to which the reader could relate. Perhaps the fact that Koontz didn't get bogged down in so many details is what made it such a quick, easy read. 
     I remember when YHBTM came out. I was working part time at Borders, before it went bankrupt. Somehow, I always felt personally responsible for that, as if I weren't selling enough books. I thought the cover of the hardcover edition was eye catching, almost lurid. I forgot about it until recently I was browsing my local used book store and found the paperback edition and remembered that I hadn't read it yet so I picked it up.
     I'm a fan of the Odd Thomas series and Odd Apocalypse is also on my summer reading list , although I think I will read something else before I dive into another Koontz novel.

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