http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog The Les Becker Blog: Writer (fiction, non-fiction, story-telling, memories, screenplays, radioplays, lyrics, ghost-writing, magazine articles, tourism and event promotion) and amateur photographer from Northern Ontario. Looking to escape Northern Ontario. Rescue me. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:46:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2009/04/01/the-girl-can-still-sing/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2009/04/01/the-girl-can-still-sing/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:00:35 +0000 Les acousticI don-039t Have Youkyla beckermusicsongterry becker http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=1025

]]> I always thought she could sing. This one, though…. It’s the latest new tune in development by Kyla Becker and her father, known here as The Sire of Turkey. It was recorded on-the-fly in the kitchen of a near-abandoned house (not mine)… please note the cat interruption (also not mine), followed by the [...]

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]]> Hiding…Taken March 14, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 I’m a-skeered to call the betch, for fear she’ll just tell me to shove it.Okay, so maybe it hasn’t been hiding, so much, that I’ve been doing. Maybe, it’s been more like hibernating. I’ve been working and sleeping and getting up long enough to go [...]

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]]> ….or the freaky-deaky horrorish one about the ancient witchy broad who can control the weather and turn people into sand when she’s pissed at them…?I don’t know whom to credit for this fabulousness, but I “stumbled” upon it HERE. Shame I can’t get much of anything else out of the site… I’ve been busy, [...]

]]> http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/09/30/i-need-advice/feed/ 9 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/05/31/showing-off-my-kid-again/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/05/31/showing-off-my-kid-again/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 05:01:04 +0000 Les a cappellaidiot childkyla beckerlove walks with memusicoriginalsongyoutube http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=206 An original tune, even! She wrote this a couple of years ago. I commented when she posted it, that she kind of looked like she was playing “air guitar”… she tells me that’s the only way she can stay in time without the music. This is the a cappella version. “Love Walks [...]]]> http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/05/31/showing-off-my-kid-again/feed/ 6 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/09/21/the-wedding-singer/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/09/21/the-wedding-singer/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:41:44 +0000 Les http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/09/21/the-wedding-singer/ My Un-Brother, Ken and his new wife Sylvia made the trip to visit us from Fort MacMurray to show off their new wheels – bought by the insurance company that covered the damage done from the freak hailstorm that hit ten minutes after they said “I Do.” Now, if that ain’t God talkin’, I [...]]]> http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/09/21/the-wedding-singer/feed/ 5 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/06/14/let-the-show-begin/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/06/14/let-the-show-begin/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:04:57 +0000 Les http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/06/14/let-the-show-begin/ Kyla will be singing the National Anthem for the opening ceremonies of this year’s Relay for Life, tomorrow evening at 7 pm, at the John Rhodes Centre. Last year was the first year she was invited to sing, and she was some nervous, as Ruby would say. There used to be a [...]]]> http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/06/14/let-the-show-begin/feed/ 3 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/05/12/quacks-like-the-cat-she-does/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/05/12/quacks-like-the-cat-she-does/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 01:49:05 +0000 Les blogcameraconcertkyla beckerles beckerles-tvmusicpracticeschoolvideo http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/05/12/quacks-like-the-cat-she-does/ Kyla’s Spring Concert for Thomas Walls School of Music took place on Sunday, May 6th. We woke up having forgotten all about it, believe it or not, and once I remembered, and hustled Ky into a practice, we discovered she couldn’t sing. Seriously. Panic ensued. It’s all explained in the video [...]]]> http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/05/12/quacks-like-the-cat-she-does/feed/ 10 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/03/20/music-lessons-anyone/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/03/20/music-lessons-anyone/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:05:54 +0000 Les kyla beckermusic lessonsmusicaloklahomaout of my dreamspractice http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/03/20/music-lessons-anyone/ [See post to listen to audio] ]]> http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2007/03/20/music-lessons-anyone/feed/ 3