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HOW LONG TIL CONOR CAN START PLAYING THE PIANO

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Studies show children don't have the dexterity, patience for repetition or mental capacity to learn piano until the age of 5. Until then, they're just playing. Wait, since when do we have to study how to play? He's already playing. It just doesn't sound that good.
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HOT CHEETOS AND TAKIS


As of this writing, the Y.N. Rich Kids band camp has created a viral video that has 1,293,641 hits in two weeks. It's called Hot Cheetos and Takis. It was featured on NPR this morning and I was blown away at the talent of these inner city kids. The song is about snacks. That's it. Nothing more. And it sounds pretty powerful. No ho's, guns or any sort of violence. Just kids wanting their snacks. With all the production qualities of Lupe Fiasco, Immortal Technique or Snoop Dogg.
It's the 8th digital CD that the North Community Beats and Rhymes Program has put out. The kids come and go but the program keeps putting out good fun music. And the kids get to discover what it is to work together as a team, to write, memorize their lines, dance and get a little camera time which takes a certain amount of patience to do it until you get it right. Rock on, North Community Beats and Rhymes Program. Here's the lyrics to Hot Cheetos and Takis. Read as you watch their music video.

yo i go by the name of dame jones i'm with my crew and we gonna show yall what we be snackin' on ya dig (ok) HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS, hot cheetos & takis i can't get enough of these hot cheetos & takis got my fingers stained red and i cannot get 'em off me you can catch me & my crew eating hot cheetos & takis bow SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... CRUNCH SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... MUNCH hot cheetos & takis, hot cheetos & takis you can catch me & my crew eating HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS [dame jones] its about a quarter to a 4, rollin to the store (what you 'bout to get?) hah, you already know got like 3 or 4 dollars and a couple odd cents bout to cop me some hot cheetos and a lemonade brisk i'm ridin around on my bicycle, ridin' around on my bicycle pull up to the studio cuz you know that the kid be meltin' them microphones munchin' on my takis like i just don't care then i walked up to your girl and she asking me to share bow [nasir] yo, i'm hungry where them cheetos at? they stay bitin' like where them mosquitoes at? i'm on point like a elbow, hands red like elmo my mama said "have u had enough?" i looked and i said "no ma'am" i go ham, in the grocery store orange fanta and takis buyin' it with my allowance, so nobody can stop me all the kids wanna be him, go crazy when they see him my mom hit the ATM, cuz she know i need them [glentrell] HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS, hot cheetos & takis i can't get enough of them hot cheetos & takis got my fingers stained red and i cannot get 'em off me you can catch me & my crew eating hot cheetos & takis bow SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... CRUNCH SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... MUNCH hot cheetos & takis, hot cheetos & takis you can catch me & my crew eating HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS [g6] hot cheetos & takis, thats my favorite snack bought 'em with my own money i don't give 'em back mama said "slow down, boy u bout to blow" but i'm fi'nna get more, u should drive me to the store [frizzy free] hot cheetos & takis, no one ever stops me got an icey flow and i'm super cold, everyone knows that i'm so dope i say yes to takis, and you say no to cheetos i can have 'em then, and you can stick to fritos [ben 10] ben 10 need a snack, u better give it to him or i might snap, like what my fingers doing yeah u know whats next, u can't stop me i hit 'em with the flex, and eat some takis HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS, hot cheetos & takis i can't get enough of them hot cheetos & takis got my fingers stained red and i cannot get 'em off me you can catch me & my crew eating hot cheetos & takis bow SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... CRUNCH SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... MUNCH hot cheetos & takis, hot cheetos & takis you can catch me & my crew eating HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS [jasiona] i'm gettin snacks on snacks on snacks, yeah i'm eatin' all them by the way if u don't know, J got skills flow cold like a snow cone, boatloads of them skittles starburst fritos and doritos but nothing can compare to them H-O-T cheetos and them takis, so watch me go hammer with my snack first and i chew my food cuz u know i got the manners and then i start to dance and i dougie to the floor and now i need a snack headed to the corner store, for some HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS, hot cheetos & takis i can't get enough of them hot cheetos & takis got my fingers stained red and i cannot get 'em off me you can catch me & my crew eating hot cheetos & takis bow SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... CRUNCH SNACK, SNACK, SNACK... MUNCH hot cheetos & takis, hot cheetos & takis you can catch me & my crew eating HOT CHEETOS & TAKIS credits released 20 August 2012
- See more at: http://dadsdecoded.com/blog/index_files/archive-aug-2012.html#sthash.rj62o0m7.dpuf

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DOC WATSON DIED TODAY


Doc Watson is a great musician who plays North Carolina mountain music in a way that just seems to transcend the category. So much so that he has a global audience that may have never discovered such a music genre had he not made it accessible to the masses. He’s what they call a flat picker meaning that he holds a flat pick to create the lightening fast sound he was so well known for. Doc Watson went blind at 1 year old when he got an eye infection and it wasn’t treated. He loved music from an early age and went to great lengths to get a guitar so he could see if he could make a living at playing and writing. Indeed he succeeded. Doc Watson died at North Carolina hospital today at the age of 89 after suffering a fall earlier in the month. He died of complications while undergoing abdominal surgery. For more information on Doc Watson, visit; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Watson - See more at: http://dadsdecoded.com/blog/index_files/archive-may-2012.html#sthash.3uPirTWm.dpuf
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CONOR MEETS KAWLIGA IN AUSTIN FOR THE FIRST TIME



One of my dads's favorite songs when I was growing up was, "Kawliga" by Hank Williams, Sr. It was a song about an old wooden Indian who just stood in front of the tobacco store and never knew love. It was a song of a beautiful Indian maiden who came to the store but because Kawliga was wooden, he could do nothing about another man who came to take the Indian maiden for his own. It was a sad song that would lead a man to drinkin' like all good country songs do. As my son and I passed by the tobacco store on West 7th street in Austin, I felt compelled to take our picture. My wife didn't understand the significance but obliged us just the same.
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ONLY TIME WILL TELL

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Every morning before I go to work I give Conor is very own concert. We start out with Twinkle, Twinkle plucked on the high strings. Then we move into “Desire,” I song I wrote years ago that the Dixie Chicks picked up and recorded. This is his favorite song and his arms wave and his feet kick the guitar as I play. Then we move on to “Pearl Handled Pistols” in which is grins as if he’s an old gun slinger reincarnated. And finally, I sing a song I wrote for him when he was 3 weeks old called, “What can little boys do when they try.” This puts him in a great mood for me to leave for work and hand the boy over to his mother. I wonder if he’s taking all this in to be a guitar player one day. He watches my fingers make the chords as if he’s memorizing them at 4 months old. Only time will tell.
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