Heeeeeeere's my brother!

It's not every day that I get to feature a family member on my death blog.  And don't worry, he's not dead.  Yet.  At the moment, he's very much alive and kickin'.  My brother Robby (I refuse to excise the "by" from his name) is a composer out in Burbank, California.  He has been a musician for most of his life playing in bands, but in the past decade, he has had his music featured in movies and commercials.  Here's one right here.




Robby
He posted something on Facebook yesterday that caught the death writer's eye.  It's a song about death!  So, here I am promoting my flesh and blood on my bloggity blog.  So, grab a box of Kleenex and listen to his song.  I really like it and I hope you like it too.


A friend told me his 90-something year old father in frail health was looking forward to the afterlife to reunite with his wife...that struck me as such a sweet and poignant concept...so I sat down at the piano and this simple song kinda wrote itself.  Click here.




A video: "It Could Happen To You"

Today I am posting a video that I saw on a friend's Facebook feed because I think it's important to share this.  Yes, it is about death, but it's also about love and equality and life.  But, I'm going to be honest here.  I was too scared to post this on my Facebook feed.  Why?  Well, I guess I'm a wimp.  And I know that some of my "friends" don't feel the same way about this issue.  According to a poll I saw today, only 50% of American's support gay marriage.  Like Joe Biden, I am for it.  If someone finds another person that they love and want to commit their lives to, who cares if it is a person of the same sex? What's all the fear all about?  That there won't be enough towels or dinnerware at Target for Bridal registries? About 10% of the population is gay.  Seeing the word gay does not make you gay.  Seeing two men hold hands does not make you gay.  Watching this video does not make you gay, but it might make you more enlightened to the human condition.

So, here's the video.  I encourage you to watch it.

Tuesday Movie

I realize I'm a little late in the game on recommending this flick, but I rarely get to enjoy a movie at the theater unless it is animated or contains transformers, sparkling vampires or teens killing other teens for the viewing pleasure of the capitol.  Yes, I have kids.

So, I'm a renter.  And I watch my adult movies (get your mind out of the gutter) when my impressionable young children are tucked in for the night. My public library has a wonderful selection of dvds and best of all, they're FREE, which is my all time favorite word in the English language right next to LOVE.  Just don't combine those two words, as it tends to cheapen things.

Okay, so what's the flick?  It's The Descendants with George Clooney, or as my daughter once referred to him, "You know, that guy, George Looney.  He was in Batman."  I'm not really a huge Looney fan.  He always seems to be playing himself, right along with Julia Roberts.  But, I liked this film.  And I liked George Clooney in it.

I don't want to spoil it for you, but there's a death, there's grief and most importantly, there's an advance directive that get's followed.  

It might make you weepy, so have a box of tissue at the ready.