Elmo is tall in person

Elmo and his gang on Sesame Street

Jess and Josh made their first visit to Detroit today and for good reason: Sesame Street Live's "Elmo's Coloring Book". The beautiful Fox Theatre provided the magical setting for all of the little people's favorite Sesame Street Characters to come to life. Even as an adult, I was entertained with songs, colors, flashing lights, fake snow, dancing, etc. Josh was mesmerized. I was incredibly impressed with Detroit's Fox Theatre--Atlanta has a Fox Theatre as well and I thought Detroit's version was going to pale in comparison. No way!! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL! What a gem. After the show we stopped by the med school to visit Kyle while on a brief study break and he gave us a quick tour. Now I have a mental image of where he spends his time. A lot of his time. But I guess that's the life of a med student! Here's a *hug* for you for all of the hard work you're doing!

Do you have a certain song --or several--that no matter how bad or outdated it may seem to other people, to you it is still the song that you could listen to again and again? I came across "Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs when I was looking at potential ring tones for my new phone. I haven't downloaded it (yet), but I just found it on itunes :) I love this song! I heard it on the radio in the 80's and then there it was in the (bad) 80's movie "Valley Girl" starring Nicholas Cage. When I was a hostess at Ruby Tuesday's in high school it was on the house cd that played over and over and over again. This song was probably the only one that I didn't get sick of. Wait, "Don't Dream it's Over" by Crowded House definitely had staying power, too. Oh and for those of you who are younger and weren't necessarily exposed to early 80's music "Love My Way" was also in "The Wedding Singer".

I now own "Love My Way". I'm actually listening to it as I blog and I just can't help but dance a little bit. Why? I don't know.

Other 80's songs that have the same effect: "Hold Me Now" by The Thompson Twins (there is a funny story involving a late night party thrown by my parents and me waking up in the middle of it and dancing around my room in a stupor, half-asleep), a song or two by The Alan Parsons Project, "Overkill" by Men at Work (Colin Hay--lead singer--also has a great song on the "Garden State" soundtrack). And there are many, many more. These are just the ones that came right to mind.

Regarding current music, I'm lovin' the "Emblems" cd by matt pond PA. Thanks go to Kara for the introduction to their song "Lily Two" and Mark's enthusiastic review of the entire album. And thanks should go to Kyle for showing me that there IS some country music out there that doesn't involve a dog, a truck, or anything else I consider to be "country". But that doesn't mean I'm completely OK with country music set as the alarm clock....... ;)