Down the Rabbit Hole

What's up people? I'm back. Did you miss me? I've been a busy little man. My daddy and I have been working on our website, adding our favorite movies and books, and our latest addition is our favorite 201 musical artists and top 100 albums. It was hard narrowing it down, because there are so many great musicians and songwriters that we admire.

Here's the link: BUBBY MAC'S KEWL STUFF

One of the bands that definitely made both lists is The Beatles. My daddy says he remembers buying a Beatles album when he was eight years old. It had the songs, Revolution, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna and Paperback Writer on it. He listened to it over and over again, singing along at the top of his voice, driving my Mee-maw and Paw-Paw crazy.

A few years later, he got a guitar for Christmas and began strumming away as he listened to the Fab Four and the Stones and The Monkees. It was the late Sixties and the news was filled with graphic pictures of the war in Viet Nam and the college students protesting, and my daddy just escaped from it all by listening to rock and roll - chasing the rabbit down the rabbit hole, he calls it.

These days, we are bombarded by the images of the earthquake destruction in Haiti and the landslides in California and the war in Afghanistan. My daddy watches the news and gets all depressed for an hour or so, then he turns on the stereo and blasts some songs out from the Pixies and the Strokes and Wilco and it helps him to forget the horrible things going on in the world for a few blissful minutes.

Thought for the day - what rabbit hole do you run down when you need to escape?

If you are desperate for some vehicle for escape, here are a few links to lighten up your day.

Capt Kirk singing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

The James Bond Theme like you've never heard it before



The Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody

Adios amigos,

Bubby Mac (aka the Mad Hatter)