Sending Your Kids to the Lions Den

Posted on 05 Nov 2011

Sending Your Kids to the Lions Den

My last post was about my son being robbed and assaulted on his way home from school.  Since that post the kid who assaulted him has plead guilty to felony robbery and will be sentenced next week.  In the mean time he was placed in an alternative school but is still out running around doing [...]


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My New Favorite Song – Leonard Cohens’ Hallelujah

Posted on22 Jan 2010

You know, it happens maybe once every 10-15 years that I hear a singer and fall immediately in love.  Well, it happened tonight.  I was watching the special that was on for Haiti.  Someone came on and sang this song and it gave me cold chills.  I looked it up on youtube because I couldn’t remember who had written it or where I had heard it before.  I realized that I had heard it on the movie Shrek and that it was written by Leonard Cohen.  I clicked on a link to play a version that had been listened to millions of times on youtube and fell in love with this group of guys – Espen Lind(on guitar), Askil Holm, Alejandro Fuentes, Kurt Nilsen(World Idol) 4 norwegian singers.

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  • http://blog.winesworld.com Morten Pedersen

    YES, we do love them here in Norway and I do like it that them are getting known abroad too!

  • http://www.donechute.blogspot.com/ Don E. Chute

    Wow! I knew of the song but, not this version. These guys are da bomb! I will add to my playlist, on http://www.playlist.com I think this is a firstimer on your site, that I’m reading…anyway. Good stuff, I will follow.

    Peace.

  • http://www.aftercancernowwhat.com Aftercancer

    Nice version of the song. You may also enjoy kd Lang’s version, check it out.

  • http://www.spicybugz.com spicybugz

    I watched the Hope For Haiti Now Telethon also and watched Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris sing Hallelujah. It floored me it was so beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOWHu6Oyt8

  • http://www.redheadranting.com/ Jen

    I loved this in Shrek but had never heard this version before. Beautiful.

  • http://twitter.com/questlove Amir Thompson

    That song reminds me of another track which I very much enjoyed hearing … I can not remember which :-/ does anybody happens to know what artist I’m talking about?

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