Sam Smith is totally my newest favorite male artist!!

I was soooo happy that Sam Smith won the Grammy for Song of the Year! (Not to mention all of the others.)

If you have not heard this young man sing, or if you have not seen one of his gorgeous videos or performances live (he did a stint with the SNL crew - blew my socks off. I recorded it, luckily, and played the live performances over and over and over), well, if you've not listened to this angel sing, you MUST!!!

YOU MUST!!



He is, for me, a young incarnation of Boy George. I loved me some Karma Chameleon back in the day, but Sam's music (I refer to him like I know him personally - that's how GOOD his writing is) is a new level of lovely.

Harmonically and lyrically speaking, this kid is just DA BOMB, to use a very old and worn-out phrase.

I watched the Grammy's of course, because I love love love music and musicians and lyricists and producers, BUT!!! Mostly, this year? I wanted to see Sam Smith do another of his magical performances and I was NOT disappointed.

All of my favorite people were there!!!!!

Prince! Beyonce! Mary J Blige!! Rihanna! Sam Smith! Jessie J (who, by the by, looked incredible), Pharrell Williams! Katy Perry!!! MADONNA!! Sia! Kristen Wiig!!  (WOW!)

And Ed Sheeran. Could he possibly be any more adorable?

Beck!!

Even back up bands were filled with amazing talent like Quest Love, Herbie Hancock.

ELO performed. Do you know how much I loved Electric Light Orchestra in my highschool days? That band was the background music to my entire teen life!

Hozier and Annie Lennox. Absolutely stunning song. Adam Levine and Gwen Stefani? Holy schniekies! I do believe that Adam and Gwen have been drinking from the fountain of youth. Just flawless the both of them.

John Legend, LL Cool J!

Jimmy Carter for Spoken Word. Really powerful if you've not read it or heard it - "A Call to Action." Our Congress would be wiser for even having this pumped into the building.

Jeez with the food stamps now under attack? Heaven forBID we feed hungry homeless poor people.

We don't want kids actually eating FOOD, right?

They should go live off the land like the rich, fat, white bloated assh*les running our country right now.

Oh. Right. These assh*les have free lunch and free haircuts and free health care and free-DOM. More like FREE-DUM.

I cannot believe that these idiots were VOTED into office by the very people they are enjoying screwing out of their hard-earned dollars and now food? Read about it. It's a thing.

Ok. Back to the Grammys. You know how I get on a rant and can't let it go. I just hate that everytime I turn my computer on first thing that pops up is another horrid act by our GOP leadership. I seriously don't know what happened to these entitled people as kids, but they are forgetting basics like free speech and the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to our Constitution. I wonder if they could even sing our National Anthem? Or say the Lord's Prayer?

These are basic things that our original leaders cherished above all other things. Common Decency. I come from the COMMONWEALTH of Massachusetts. Most people don't know the difference between a State (like Alaska) and what it really, truly means to be a Common Wealth.

It means we take CARE of each other. When I'm up, I'll help you if you're down. And Vice Versa.

The pay-it-forward culture is alive and well and it resides firmly where I grew up in Michigan and then for almost 30 years in Massachusetts. My friends and family over there on the East Coast are fiercely smart, fiercely independent thinkers, fiercely challenging at times (which I appreciate) and FIERCELY LOYAL.

If you knew about the outpouring of love and offers of help I received from my buddies and friends and even acquaintances when I just had my identity stolen here in Alaska? You'd be shocked! And maybe jealous! I had people wanting to fly me back, I had 10 young men who call themselves my little brothers all ready to hop on a plane to take shifts protecting me and my home!

Luckily, it didn't come to that because the police (God Bless) came to my aid and took my reports very seriously. Crime is pervasive in Alaska due to the transient nature of the work force in the oil fields called "The Slope." With oil prices plummeting, the funding is drying up here, so we've got a huge homeless problem and a BIG drug and alcohol problem which fuels the domestic violence problem.

Big Oil has retreated elsewhere, leaving a lot of people without hope. Plus the return of many vets from Iraq and Afghanistan is also creating some really sad situations. PTSD left untreated? Now we've got suicide rates going through the roof and leaving behind wives and husbands and children that are lost without benefits...I've helped a load of lovely young families just to feed their children. I'm part of a couple groups here that make sure the kids and families are being aided. Clothes, boots, food, bedding. Basic stuff.

So, when Congress decides to cut funding to the VA and now for food stamps?  Yet the kickbacks of BILLIONS of dollars to Wall Street? Corporations that operate tax free?

I pay 35% tax on my income. THIRTY FIVE PERCENT. And I'm a tiny tiny tiny business.

So, I get to earn 65 cents on the dollar.

Great. Thanks, Congress.

Oh, well. I digressed again. See? You get me going and I just explode!! But it's all true.

I'll continue my Grammy post tomorrow. So many more artists to talk about! Really a great show this year, I thought.

Ciao for now. And think about how and for whom you'll vote coming up. Please.

Eeek!! I love this man!! Machio Kaku! He rocks my world as much as Carl Sagan did back in the day...

http://mkaku.org/

That is all.

Carry on.

Ciao for now.

Short one today.

Much else going on.

xoxo

Thanks for reading.

Be smarter. Always. xoxo

Happy early birthday to Alisha!! Thinking about you, honey! xooxxooxxox

Sia. My newest muse.

If you listen really closely to the words of this song? It will rock your entire world.

I have listened to this song about 4000 times in the last three days.

I LOVE Sam Smith, but this should have gotten Best Song for 2014 in my humble opinion.

Grammy's got it wrong. Sam Smith is a FIERCE FORCE, do NOT get me wrong. I'm one of his biggest fans, but this song? The video? The meaning? The gorgeousness? The production value? The simplicity AND complexity?

This. This, for me. For me, was the song of the year for 2014.

Incredible.

Amazing.

Complex and gorgeous and strange and wonderful.

Ciao for now.

Am listening to it AGAIN!!

Aiming for 50,000 page views!!! WOO HOOO

Almost there. I cannot believe that many pages of my silly blog have been looked at since I started blogging! I know for some people that's not a lot, but for little ol' me over here in Anchorage Alaska? I'm outta my mind so proud and thankful.

Thank you my peeps that I love and who support me. Even during my dark days. Much love and gratitude.

So, I was getting ready to log on here and do my usual blah de bloo de yadda yadda yadda.

Well, I get this alert from my Dropcam that I've got "movement" detected in my back yard. I turned that on because we had that problem with the person with the sticky fingers and my credit cards sprouting legs in the night.

SOOOO, I got this little beauty for half price for a new promotion they were doing (Thank YOU Dropcam) and what movement did my little sweet camera find for MOI?

https://www.dropcam.com/c/d23f73d2c3d54b3889202fe976c3af00.…

I KNOW, right?

HOLY HOLY MOOOOOOSSSIIIIEEEEEE girl. She's only about 7 or 8 months old.

A Baaaayyybeeee mmoooosssieeee to go with my baby dog, baby squirrel (living in my garden shed) and my baby mowse that will NOT stop eating the butter. It's on TOP of the fridge and this little fart will not leave it alone. Finally had to store everything in a cupboard above my microwave and in the other cupboards up high that he can't reach. Little shit.

Anywho, yeah.

That's Alaska. They stop traffic, they wander into yards (even ones like mine that are fenced-in!), they wander onto porches and even stick their heads into open windows! One friend of mine had his front door propped open in the summer as he was working in the yard, well, this young moose just helped himself and went right on into the house!! Steve had to open his back door to entice the moose out of the house and into his vegetable and flower garden!

Oh, these stories are sooooo damn cool. Amaze-balls, as my friend Kristen would say!

Anyway, enjoy the Moose Cam - I've got it in my kitchen window looking out over the back yard.

From helping to thwart crime to recording the critters of Alaska. Yeesh.

Mom, You'll HATE This! My Dad probably will too!

This is an explicitly sexual video (no nudity) that Beyonce and her HUSBAND Jay Z did together. A love song to their marriage and their obviously very hot sex life!

More power to them!

If you don't have a good marriage and you don't have a hot sex life, why you be hatin'?

Jeez!

I've lucked out in my marriage with a kind, loving, wonderful man who treats me like a Queen.

Not quite @QueenB or @MrsJayZ, but close enough for this particular lady!  : )

If you're jealous, then just admit it. Beyonce works for the gorgeous body of hers. She's amazing, talented, sexy and young and has it all. But, guess what? She's also a person with feelings, hopes, desires and probably some disappointments along the way.

Same with Brian Williams. Don't be hatin' on him because his memory is a big foggy due to some (I'd imagine) pretty serious PTSD just seeing the war in Iraq and the devastation after hurricane Katrina.

How many times have YOU reported from a live war with shells being thrown at helicopters? How many times have you seen piles of dead bodies, bloated from levees broken?

Right.

So just leave these people alone and let them do their jobs of reporting or singing or whatever.

THEY ARE PEOPLE.

As are we? Sometimes I gotta question the motives of the bad people out there. I just don't get why making someone else feel BAD makes you feel BETTER.

It makes you small and bitter and very, very insignificant in my book.

SO, here's the video - don't watch it if you don't want to! Nobody makes you get on your computer, log onto MY private Idaho and then BASH me for it. Jeez.

Again, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything AT ALL.

The end. (Oh, and I CANNOT WAIT for the Grammy's tonight!! FUN!)

Ciao for now.