Do You Remember This?
A little house by a church yard...
The mountain side, a Tennessee sky...
Momma's calling, it's time to come inside...
Do You Remember? Do You Remember This?
Granny Dollar, Sunday afternoons...
Bugger Hollow, Fayetteville moon, Your park table on a hot June...
Do You Remember? Do You Remember This?
Little girl, lost in the lights, but you ain't all city,
Bet I'd see it in your eyes...
Come home running, I'll be waiting at the county line for you..
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The ones that love you, the ones that cry
looking out the window, maybe tonight,
you'll come home running...
that's still your bedroom,
Do You Remember? Do You Remember This?
A life that's waiting away from where you are
hearts longing to be with you tonight...
Bus ticket home, and your dad will hold you tight...
Do You Remember? Do You Remember This?
Little girl, lost in the lights, but you ain't all city,
Bet I'd see it in your eyes...
Come home running, I'll be waiting at the county line for you...
Guitar Solo
A simple boy, who never learned to dance
Two left feet, needs another chance
to win your heart and ride into that sky
Do You Remember? Do You Remember Me?
Little girl, lost in the lights, but you ain't all city,
Bet I'd see it in your eyes...
Come home running, I'll be waiting at the county line for you...
Words and Music
Rudy Landa
BMI/ 3Little Bugs Music
Copyright 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Saturday, August 27, 2005
~Worlds Colliding!
I moved away from home in 1993 and went to Nashville TN, everyone that I had known until that point I consider my "old life", and all of the friends from 1993 after, I consider my new life...when I would go back to visit Miami from Nashville or Charlotte, it felt like "another life" with it's cultural differences and all...other than taking my ex wife and kids down there with me from time to time, my 2 worlds rarely (if ever), met or intertwined...
That was so until this summer...I introduced an ex girlfriend's sister (Miami world), to a cameraman friend of mine in Nashville (Nashville world) in the hopes that they would become friends...OH BOY DID THEY!... Now the 2 worlds have merged...so if all of a sudden, your dog starts barking backwards...or you run into your long gone great grandfather fueling up his 1947 Chevy truck at the gas station...or if president Kerry, declares a state of emergency for Louisiana in light of the imminent Hurricane Katrina...you can thank me for disturbing and meddling with parallel universes and disrupting the Time/Space continuum...if you have any questions please call information...thank you for calling, (Willie Wonka) para Espanol oprima el numerdo dos...God save the queen...
That was so until this summer...I introduced an ex girlfriend's sister (Miami world), to a cameraman friend of mine in Nashville (Nashville world) in the hopes that they would become friends...OH BOY DID THEY!... Now the 2 worlds have merged...so if all of a sudden, your dog starts barking backwards...or you run into your long gone great grandfather fueling up his 1947 Chevy truck at the gas station...or if president Kerry, declares a state of emergency for Louisiana in light of the imminent Hurricane Katrina...you can thank me for disturbing and meddling with parallel universes and disrupting the Time/Space continuum...if you have any questions please call information...thank you for calling, (Willie Wonka) para Espanol oprima el numerdo dos...God save the queen...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Cherise
There was a girl that I knew who lived in Nashville...she was very talented (had an incredible singing voice...) she was found in a hotel room last night overdosed and no longer alive...I had not seen her in about 2 years, and all that I could think about today was how full of life she was the last time that I saw her...my ex wife and her had been best friends at one point and she had promised to come to Charlotte to visit her...Now that trip will never happen...
In the last month and a half I have lost 5 people in my immediate life...a new record for my life... and as much as at 34 death is no longer something foreign to me (I have lost many friends in my life), the sting and edge of losing someone never goes away...
So to all of you out there...life is but a vapor...it is frail and fragile...it is precious, and as a friend or as family you're special to me.... here's to living, here's to life...here's to living a life with meaning...I'll miss ya Cherise...
In the last month and a half I have lost 5 people in my immediate life...a new record for my life... and as much as at 34 death is no longer something foreign to me (I have lost many friends in my life), the sting and edge of losing someone never goes away...
So to all of you out there...life is but a vapor...it is frail and fragile...it is precious, and as a friend or as family you're special to me.... here's to living, here's to life...here's to living a life with meaning...I'll miss ya Cherise...
Echoes of Andrew
Today makes 13 years to the day of one of the most amazing turning points in my life...Hurricane Andrew...it blew in from the Atlantic over my hometown of Cutler Ridge/Homestead and absolutely leveled it...what's amazing about that is that overnight the lives, the futures, the influences, plans, intentions, and destinies of entire communities were drastically and radically affected...
To anyone who lives or used to live in the area, life came to be known as Before Andrew and After Andrew...to this day, people ask me if I was there for Andrew when they find out that I am from Miami...I remember walking out after the storm subsided at 6am and feeling like a bomb had gone off...everything that we owned in this world was destroyed...there was an unnerving feeling of desperation like you truly did not know where to start or what to start with...did you clean up the mess? did you walk away? did you bother crying? or was it so big that you were just better off counting your losses and driving away?...we did not leave, we cleaned up the mess and kept going...in hindsight, that was the biggest earthly mess that I've cleaned up so far...the amazing part is that I have managed to get myself into messes since then...that make me long for the Hurricane Andrews as they would be easier to fix...
These days I stand facing north with a sense of anticipation and excitement...this last year has been the most trying that I have ever faced...I have been the happiest, the saddest...felt the proudest one moment and the most disappointed the next...I have been on an emotional roller coaster that would rival anything on Islands of Adventure...and after a while you'd be willing to give up the highs of the ride to take away the lows...no sob story here though...Love saves the day...I have experienced the love of friends and family in such a real, strong, and special way, that I can honestly say that I am excited about the future again, more excited about certain things than other but those are for a different post on a different day...this entry I dedicate as a "Thank You" to those in my life who have redefined the word "Friendship" to me, and to the ones who have made me feel like dreaming again, to quote a song from the Judds..."Love can build a bridge, between your heart and mine, love can build a bridge, don't you think it's time? don't you think it's time..." Love is a mighty thing...mightier than any 160MPH Hurricane....
To anyone who lives or used to live in the area, life came to be known as Before Andrew and After Andrew...to this day, people ask me if I was there for Andrew when they find out that I am from Miami...I remember walking out after the storm subsided at 6am and feeling like a bomb had gone off...everything that we owned in this world was destroyed...there was an unnerving feeling of desperation like you truly did not know where to start or what to start with...did you clean up the mess? did you walk away? did you bother crying? or was it so big that you were just better off counting your losses and driving away?...we did not leave, we cleaned up the mess and kept going...in hindsight, that was the biggest earthly mess that I've cleaned up so far...the amazing part is that I have managed to get myself into messes since then...that make me long for the Hurricane Andrews as they would be easier to fix...
These days I stand facing north with a sense of anticipation and excitement...this last year has been the most trying that I have ever faced...I have been the happiest, the saddest...felt the proudest one moment and the most disappointed the next...I have been on an emotional roller coaster that would rival anything on Islands of Adventure...and after a while you'd be willing to give up the highs of the ride to take away the lows...no sob story here though...Love saves the day...I have experienced the love of friends and family in such a real, strong, and special way, that I can honestly say that I am excited about the future again, more excited about certain things than other but those are for a different post on a different day...this entry I dedicate as a "Thank You" to those in my life who have redefined the word "Friendship" to me, and to the ones who have made me feel like dreaming again, to quote a song from the Judds..."Love can build a bridge, between your heart and mine, love can build a bridge, don't you think it's time? don't you think it's time..." Love is a mighty thing...mightier than any 160MPH Hurricane....
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Fall 2005 Update- Improvement to a miserable year.
Yesterday, for the first time, I reaped the benefits of UM moving to the ACC conference...my fellow UM fans here in Charlotte and I drove for 2 hours to Clemson SC to support our Canes...the game was great...we won in triple overtime!! I will have pics up soon on my website... www.rudylanda.com which I will launch next Tuesday....if you visit it...please remember it is a temporary work in progress...I have a lot of plans for it down the line...
On other news, I have shared with some of you that I will be doing a record this year...I will be recording it here in Charlotte with my good friend Bill Pickup...This Tueday I will begin pre-production on it...this will be a very special project for me as I intend to pull a bunch of my friends in it to appear...I wrote approximately 30 songs for this project and will narrow it down to about 10 or 11 by the time we start to record the tracks in October...Bill and I are starting to demo this coming Tuesday...other plans for this record...a distribution deal with an indie label...still in the hunt for the right one...a music video for internet play only at this time...and possibly a small scale tour in the Spring of 06 with a band...I have all of this to juggle on top of my ongoing projects...it is going to be a busy fall!!! I love it.
On other news, I have shared with some of you that I will be doing a record this year...I will be recording it here in Charlotte with my good friend Bill Pickup...This Tueday I will begin pre-production on it...this will be a very special project for me as I intend to pull a bunch of my friends in it to appear...I wrote approximately 30 songs for this project and will narrow it down to about 10 or 11 by the time we start to record the tracks in October...Bill and I are starting to demo this coming Tuesday...other plans for this record...a distribution deal with an indie label...still in the hunt for the right one...a music video for internet play only at this time...and possibly a small scale tour in the Spring of 06 with a band...I have all of this to juggle on top of my ongoing projects...it is going to be a busy fall!!! I love it.
Monday, August 1, 2005
Assignment: Hurricane Katrina
I am on my way to New Orleans to cover the Hurricane Katrina relief effort by INSP and Convoy of Hope...hopefully in the days to come I will post some pics of what I encounter down there...I survived Hurricane Andrew and I expect that I will get flashbacks even though I covered Ivan and Charlie, but they did not cause nearly what Katrina and Andrew did...stay tuned for an update...
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