Are you ready for the summer....Vacation all I ever wanted...holiday!...celebrate!...Hot time summer in the city...
Welcome
to summer and Tuesday's Musical Notes!!! We realize that last week was
the beginning of the summer season, but it really seems that summer
doesn't really get cranking until the 4th of July weekend. Then the
celebration of everything fun in the sun has begun...who says we
couldn't write song lyrics...As you go on the road again this summer we
make it easy for you take The Notes with you. You can bookmark tuesdaysmusicalnotes.blogspot.com
in your favorite browser or receive the email version straight to your
inbox each week. Read it from your mobile device...yep, beam us up
Scotty... or luxuriate in front of your favorite computer monitor and
enjoy the memories and the melodies as your mind is expanded and your
heart encouraged. Send your self addressed non stamped email address to
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if you want Tuesday's Musical Notes each week and we will add you to
the list. Otherwise, come back and come often, visit the archives, in
short take a musical vacation with The Notes anytime you want at the
above web address. Now we bid a fond adieu to our home base as we
venture out onto roads unexplored...you can't tell who we might run in
to...
Some
of our most memorable vacations have been to familiar locations. Those
favorite spots that we frequent when we want to get away from it all.
While we enjoy the new experience occasionally, we fast find ourselves
returning to that favorite campsite at the lake, or perhaps a vacation
city which we adopt as a home away from home.
For
years, film makers all over the world have taken this recipe of the
recognizable and turned it into enjoyable and money making franchises.
In fact, Star Wars Episode VII is currently in production, the 13th Star
Trek movie has just been announced and who knows how far Marvel will
carry its X-Men and Avengers universes. We expect to see another Jason
Bourne as well as Mission Impossible movie and the last (at least for
now) of the movies based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies,
will be released December of this year. Batman vs. Superman will be
the 6th Superman movie and the 8th movie (unless you count 1966's Batman
with Adam West and Burt Ward...Holy Sequels Batman!!!) in the Batman
franchise. There has even been the reports of another Rocky movie...and
in the fall of 2015, the 24th movie in the James Bond series will debut
making it the longest running of all of the franchise movies.
The 30's and 40's would see movie sequels gain in popularity. One of the most popular was the Road to...
series featuring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. There are 7
movies in this comedic series that parodied the popular movie themes of
the day. There was an 8th movie planned, but Bing died the year
production was to have started. These movies were by no means
considered to be vacation movies, yet they featured some of the most
exotic destinations and adventures for the intrepid trio. The movies
stood on their commonplace themes of "who gets the girl" and the gags
that get the viewer to the next serious plot point. Some of the
highlights are when the protagonist (usually Bob Hope) of the scene
breaks the "fourth wall", the boundary between the actors and the
audience, by having conversations or asides to "assist" the viewer in
comprehending the scene...or for a basic laugh.
Today's feature song comes from one of the most popular of the series, The Road To Morocco.
The 2000 AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs edition lists this movie at #78
and the 2004 AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs ranks the title theme at #95.
While each of the films were box office successes, none have received
such high critical acclaim as The Road To Morocco.
We
don't know of may folks who decide to take their vacation in the dead
of winter. Perhaps some time off to be with friends and family during
the holidays, but summer usually gets the nod when it comes to traveling
away from home and letting our hair down. We must realize that
everywhere we go, we are given opportunities to demonstrate the life
change that has occurred because of our relationship with Jesus. As we
discussed recently, the only bounds to our abilities to promote the
gospel is our own imaginations. We can be overt by preaching on a
street corner, or silently demonstrate our faith by praying over our
meal in a crowded theme park restaurant. Regardless of where we may be,
we have the promise that God will go with us. The 121st chapter of
Psalms is dedicated to us as we experience our "going out and our coming
in". Let's give that chapter a look:
As
we rise up in the morning, whether on vacation or preparing for work,
we have the calming assurance that as God's children, we have a
companion that is stronger than any adversary or difficulty we may
face. The sin that so easily besets us has no hold on us as we boldly
depart knowing that God has our back now, knows our future, has plans of
good things for us, and eternity with Him prepared for us, IF we accept
Jesus gift of freedom from condemnation. That freedom knows no
geographical boundaries. We might even be known to break into song.... We certainly do get around...like the promises of Psalm 121 that you can find in the Bible at your local bookstore...We're Morocco....you get the idea...
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving you,
Randy
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