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ah, who amongst us of a certain age doesn’t have find spot in their heart for the muppets?

and so odin and us went to the theater to see the new muppet movie which has great reviews on rotten tomatoes ( trivia: this is only the second movie odin has ever seen in a theater ).

it ended up being a very cute, goofy movie. not perfect, but recommended.

although there were lots of meta, insidery jokes odin really enjoyed the movie even though he hasn’t watched much of the original tv show or any of the other movies. i heard loads of laughter from folks of all ages through the whole movie.

side note, whenever i hear rowlf the dog i always think he’s channeling tom waits. i mean, it’s totally obvious, right?

except for the fact that rowlf first made his appearance as a muppet in 1963 when tom was still in high school and well before he recorded his first demo album. so it’s entirely possible that tom waits is actually channeling rolf!

here’s rowlf covering “warm beer and cold women” off of nighthawks at the diner.

we’re in the “sampling” phase of odin’s musical journey. he plays a bit of guitar, piano, violin, xylophone, flute etc. we’ve done nothing by way of formal training at this point. i “teach by example” and show him little things here and there and he picks up on it all really quickly. he has a really good “ear”, especially on the piano, for picking out pretty little melodies and improvising riffs. we’ll definitely get him lessons for at least one instrument in the near future, but the tough part is deciding what to invest time and energy in because he enjoys them all.

we walked into a local music shop recently and he sat down for the first time at a drum kit, paused, and clicked the drum sticks together four times like he was setting time for the band before launching into a drum solo.

“wow! why did you click the sticks together four times?”

“oh, i don’t know. it just seemed like the right thing to do.”

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