What we didn't see at the Grammy's from Adele (on Newt)

God love her...

More great--and now timely--things from the Kauffman Center

Hot on the heels of last evening's Grammy Awards, The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has, rather conveniently, announced The GRAMMY Museum To Launch Music Education Initiative In Kansas City Scheduled to debut as a pilot program in Kansas City, Mo. in June 2012, The GRAMMY Museum’s Music Revolution Project will offer talented youth the opportunity to engage in musical discourse and performance with other peers from across the country, spurring innovative ideas within the realm of American music. As I said, yet more great things for and from the Kauffman Center and the city, area and even region. Link: http://www.kauffmancenter.org/2012/02/13/the-grammy-museum-to-launch-music-education-initiative-in-kansas-city/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GrammyAnnouncement&sourceNumber=11156

Kansas City's own Joyce DiDonato wins a Grammy!

Kansas City's (actually, technically Prairie Village's) own Joyce DiDonato was awarded a Grammy this afternoon for her Divo/Diva album. She won in the category of Best Opera Recording, Best Classical Vocal Solo. Finally, she was also, according to her website (link below) the first Classical music vocalist to perform for the Grammy Award ceremony. Kudos and many warm congratulations to Ms. DiDonato, for sure. Links: www.joycedidonato.com/

What television has come to

Did you see the TV Tuesday night?

Did you also scroll past the "Victoria Secret Fashion Show"?

Holy cow.

It was just shameful.

Talk about base.

Late teens and early twenties young women, parading around like it was a Las Vegas show from the 60's.

And all this for our sacred "Christmas", don't kid yourself. They want to do all they can, of course, to get the neanderthal husbands and boyfriends of the world to schlep into their stores in the next 22 days and pick some of that over-priced stuff up.

But, really, let's get back to reality. Look around. Look at your office. Look on the streets of any city in the world. How many women REALLY look like those girls? (and I mean girls. they were EXTREMELY young).

They looked fantastic, of course, and they barely had clothes on.

It brings up questions.

First, do you know how few people can wear these things and look good?

Second, who would buy this stuff and while we're at it, where do they live? Florida? California?

Third, do you know how few of the people who can wear this stuff and AFFORD it?

And finally, why isn't the extreme far-right and why aren't all the "Christian Conservatives" raising bloody hell about that nearly obscene show last evening?
(One possible answer is that they're hoping their sons see it and decide they don't want to be gay).

I'm reminded of the quote by Abraham Lincoln: "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

It puts things in perspective, brings me back to reality and gives me some comfort from all the media insanity and worship of the temporarily young and rare beautiful.

The other thing TV has come to: We have the Grammy Awards Nomination Show tonight.

We apparently didn't have enough awards shows (didn't we?); now we have to have shows announcing the awards shows.

The world just keeps getting a little bit dumber, virtually non-stop.

Links: http://www.cbs.com/specials/victorias_secret/
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln78.html
http://www.cbs.com/specials/grammys/video/?pid=xO6f180vfgx6N7O_ytmpa0C5Z0gqLDWI
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/12/03/the-grammy-nomination-show-live-blog-foo-fighters-john-mayer-taylor-swift-and-a-bunch-of-names/