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special guest artist, Carol Channing...

The Pink Martini concert last night was excellent.  They are always such a pleasure to listen to.  They started out with an interesting and incredibly exciting Ravel's Bolero.   

But they have a disturbing habit of having guest artists in their program.  And they always choose someone really old.  Why is that? 

We went to a Zoo Concert a year ago and they had some really old lady (who I believe was local) onstage, but it was only for one number.

Last night, they were supposed to have Kitty Carlisle Hart, but she was in the hospital.  Lord, she's 97...what could she possibly have done onstage?

Instead, they had Carol Channing.  I remember her from various 60's and 70's variety shows on TV...which my parents liked to watch.  Last night, she did some singing and a little dancing and shimmy-ing (which disturbed Adam and Bonnie as being just so wrong...lol).  And it lasted way too long.  Unfortunately, her voice is not what it was and her duet with China Forbes really reminded us of that fact.

I had to look Carol Channing up on Wikipedia and found these interesting facts:

She is turning 86 in January.

When she left for college, her mother told her that her father was half-African-American and passing for white. 

She fell in love in junior high, but lost touch with the boy.  She finally was reunited with him and married him when she was was 82.  He is her 4th husband. 

my new fave singer...

I found this wonderful new (to America) talent...somehow...I can't recall how...but she has the most beautiful voice!  She is only 20 and is from Australia.  I had to buy her album in the UK but she is supposed to have on come out in the US sometime this winter.  

If you'd like to see her music video and get an idea of how wonderful she is, just click here and you will be linked to her site, where you can see her Lost Without You video.

In the meantime, I am working on Christmas...and my blue Illo Friday piece...

iPod love...

I have an iPod that my husband gave me the Christmas of 2003.  It was something that I really wanted and I use it nearly every day.  Trouble is, it keeps breaking. 

In March 2004, only 3 months later, it had some problems and I had to send it in for repair.  Right after that, they started offering extended warrenties (another year) and I bought one.  Good thing, too. 

In September 2004, it had more hard drive problems and when I sent it in for work, they replaced it.  In Feb 2005, that one had hard drive problems and when I sent it in, again it was replaced with another.  Okay, so now I am on iPod #3 and my warrenty expires in December this year.  Guess what?  Correct, it's broken again.

When I called their Service Dept today to get it into repair again, I had to talk to 3 different levels of technician and was put on hold over and over again.  I told them all the things that were wrong with it, but also kept expressing my concern that my iPod had been totally replaced several times and machine #3 was now broken.  I said that I had a concern that if I got another one like the one I had, it would break within 6 months, it would be out of warrenty and I would be stuck.  It took an hour in total.  But the 'product specialist', who I spoke with last, finally said that he was going to replace the unit with a brand-new 20 Gig Color iPod...the new model, not a replacement of the old B&W 10 Gig model I had.  Yay! 

This one will have a regular warrenty of one year, plus I can invest in a new extended warrenty, if I wanted to.  I am so glad that they are standing behind their product and that I will get a nifty new model.