Some good, some bad, some ugly?

From album covers to guitar solo feature songs, enjoy these lists and see if your opinions match up. I predict there will be extremely strong reactions and additions to both of these collections! Have fun, and feedback a little or a lot if the mood strikes you...

jordoncooper.com: Worst Album Covers of All Time#links

rollingstone.com: 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time

KALEIDOSCOPE the song--Bridge

Bridge:
Can you hear the vision, can you see the song,
Can you walk in faith to the place where we belong
It's a road of sacrifice on an uphill climb
But it'll be so worth it when we get it right this time

Here's where it starts to get hard, and good! No pain, no gain (or as I prefer to say: pain, GAIN!). The turbulence after the takeoff, the home morning after the honeymoon, the reality after the fantasy. In business, pleasure, art, relationships, you name it, the principle applies across the board of gut-wrenching sacrifice preceding the golden pot at the rainbow's end.

In a recent vocal coaching session, one of my students sang the first part of "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston from "The Bodyguard" movie (which by the way, was written by Dolly Parton, whose own version, complete with her famous talking part in the middle, will always be the I Will Always Love You that I will always love the most!). Anyway, we talked about how some non-perceptive people mistake that song as a lovey-dovey gooey love song, when in reality, it is about the angst of making sacrificial choices for the sake of the greater long-term good.

At KALEIDOSCOPE, we regularly face plenty of situations; artistically, managerially, and otherwise, that call upon us to make those extra-tough kinds of decisions. But reminding ourselves of what this lyric represents makes it a little easier, and helps us keep the faith perspective ever-present as we work, play, struggle, and succeed!

If you can relate, tell us all about it now...

Innovation and Inspiration

Enjoy these 2 blurbs for innovation and inspiration, one each for the hats of business building and art creating (and when it's all said and done, we all need both anyway--inspiration for our innovations, and innovation for our inspirations):

INNOVATION:
gigaom.com/2008/04/17/pixars-brad-bird-on-fostering-innovation/

INSPIRATION:
www.bookofjoe.com/2008/05/kristian-zimerm.html

Whatdja think--two cents worth pleez...

Goodbye, Michelle, my little one...

Our friend, KCCI Channel 8 reporter Michelle Parker, died this past Sunday, and here is my full tribute entry from my personal blog:

spaghettifb.blogspot.com/2008/05/goodbye-michelle-my-little-one.html

peace, tina