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Saturday, November 02, 2002
 Ha ha haha... "Fire In The Middle" is a very cool mellow song. It couldn't be more different that "Fire Down Below." Another link, this CD, to some great rock steady. I think I have another selection.. Glorious Life P.C.'s can be so flipping cool. I'm sitting here, having just uploaded 19 images taken today, listening to "Carib Beat" (actually, oddly, "Cariboot Soul"), thinking of the article I was reading about the U.S. Senate elections, before my P.C. had enough and froze up, thinking maybe I'll read the rest. Thinking I might email my Mom and tell her how great a Mom she is, now that I've gotten their email hooked up again.. It's a glorious life, sometimes. I have a million more things I want to listen to, the coolest CDRs waiting to be made, fantastic photos waiting to be taken. (Of course, Glory be to God.....Life! :-)) Speaking Of... Which reminds me... I found one neat Christmas book at a library I don't like that much (which is unusual, because I love libraries, mostly.) Right next to the Christmas books, was one called, "The Pagan Book Of Halloween - A Complete Guide To Magick Incantations, Recipes, Spells, and Lore." Yeah, Happy Halloween. Pure Joy  I just can't get over it.. Damm I like the tenth and final track on "Carboot Soul," the one called "Capumcap." Capricorn? :-) I think I was more favorably disposed to this album from the start. The album title is almost like "Carib Soul", which is a classic soulful rock steady LP from the Coxsone label... Oooo, I wonder where that LP is around here. I'd love to post a picture.. It's a beautiful sleeve, to a very cool album... Well, this "Carboot Soul" fits into that groove in a 'now' way, very nicely. Except that this one is all instrumental/dub, and "Carib Soul" is only partly instrumental (the most essential part.) This is the sort of music, and the sort of day, the sort of weekend, which make one glad to be alive. It's fantastic. (If I may say so myself, a little like yours truly... I can be awful, given the mood, or on the other hand.. pure joy. ;-)) It's a joy now. The best album I've heard for days, at least... This calls for lighting a candle. (Which reminds me.. My ex-father-in-law, a very square, devout, retired engineer, questioned me about my love for candles. As if I was carrying on some evil seance or something here! Ha haha... I really liked him though. A man with a good mind, and a good heart.) Milk Thistle I can't get over how much more I like Nightmares on Wax's "Carboot Soul" than that awful "Science" album of theirs... This one is cool. Had a nice talk with one of my neighbors this afternoon, both of us enjoying this milder, calmer, sunny day today - before the rains come, early next week. I took some photos along the way on a couple outings.. If I should get ambitious soon, maybe I'll upload them and post one if anything turned out.. After the park minutes ago, we stopped so I could take a photo of an old Mercedes which has sat, dead, for many years, in front of the neat old house which sits across that piece of Gabriel Park. Aka Little Gabe.... It was just about dark, so I'm not sure how it will turn out. A funny old lady was walking around her yard then, slowly. She seemed to be just sort of surveying her property, musing to herself. I think she must have wondered what I was doing taking a flash picture, there, in the corner of her place. I waved. Then as we pulled off, I slowed and we smiled and waved again.. The old woman smiled warmly, and waved her cane at us. :-) Oh yes, milk thistle! I think I'll have some tonight. It's supposed to be very good for one's liver. Antiseptic Music & aka Carboot Heart  So far I haven't developed any love for Nightmares In Wax. I could see partying with them maybe, if I was really drunk. Of course, I'm listening to A Word Of Science. Maybe the album is intentionally cold, kind of like science. Can't love the cold. The girl moaning on "Playtime" does sound sensual, not necessarily warm though. So far, they just sound disjointed. Machine music without the heart. It sounds like a machine trying to communicate with a machine. I can see some space clearing up on my hard drive, soon! OK, well, I'm giving another album of theirs a chance though, "Carboot Soul." Let's see if it actually has any soul. Yes, this one sounds possibly more promising. "Les Nuits" is better.. {About that now deleted album, "A Word Of Science"...Ugh, science and music, just mix! ;-)} "Les Nuits" is a different story, however.. This is more what I had in mind, when I sought them. "Morse" too.. This doesn't even sound like the same group, it is though - still Nightmares in Wax, this time with some actual "Carboot Soul." Aka heart. Wrestling The Octopus "You've got to give me two days, and woman, I'll make you a girl." I love that (from the title track.. ) I'm just the guy to do it, too. Just giving Badly Drawn Boy's new album "Have You Fed The Fish" a first listen, this morning. OK, what does this song, or this album, have to do with feeding the fish? ""I wrestled the octopus. I came out with extra arms", he sings." Trippy. "Born Again" is cool. I still think he sounds vaguely like John Lennon. Without Yoko! Cool Things To Find The Avalanches have about a million songs which drive me crazy, and three or four I just love...I need to go through some other things I have barely listened to.. This might be the weekend to make a dent in that. I'm taking a glorious 2 and a half days to myself.. My Mom actually did "can" lots of things, too. I especially liked her pickles and jams. My Mom is such a nice lady. So am I am mama's boy if I think I'd like to find someone like her to grow old with? If so, fine. I wish I'd grabbed a couple jars, now! Although, she gave me plenty of things. I didn't want to be too greedy. I have a number of old photos here, which I will likely start scanning in at some point.. They moved from a large country home, to a much smaller place.. After giving us kids a number of things, the house still had lots more in it. They were going to have an estate sale... Instead, they ended up selling everything that was left there to the home buyer. Lucky guy. When we were walking through one last time, and I was helping move a couple antiques they had excluded, I did manage to talk my Mom out of a couple more little things. I found two little bottles of holy water... I'd been wanting some. We left those canned goods though, and the cool jar I kind of wanted.. I told her, "we have to leave some cool things for the next guy to find.." Eden NW If not for the wind, this week was almost like a veritable fall garden of eden at times. This Halloween Eve photo shows that windy paradise. The colours fade one into another. Last weekend, we paid a final visit to my parents old country home, where they had lived for the past 30 years... I went around taking photos inside this time. I'm posting a closeup from in the "fruit room." Fairly common in old country homes here...  Friday, November 01, 2002
Trusty Oven We have funny state employees here... From an article in the capital city's paper, about our recent record-setting cold streak.. "�It certainly is freeze-your-buns-off weather,� said state climatologist George Taylor..." I just had a good scare, undone.. Earlier this evening, I was warming some corn in the microwave, while the rest was cooking on the stove. Suddenly, the microwave stopped! Dead! I was thinking, I'd just bought that microwave a little over a year ago, after my very old one died, before. Ugh! So, I look at the warranty, and of course, my Panasonic had a one year warranty! Hmm.. So, I switch the corn over to the oven (trusty oven ;-)) and finish up dinner. I head back up here thinking, "That's strange, Panasonics have always been reliable before.. (at least I know someone who has had really good luck with them, and I have too, I *thought*..) Oh well, I'll just go out and buy another one, a different brand, tommorrow - it won't be all that expensive.." A couple hours later, I'm laying up here looking at the ceiling, in the gentle light of a candle and severely dimmed lamp. I'm thinking how I've never really layed there and looked up at the ceiling like that, and really enjoying it. (There was actually more to it, more thoughts - but I don't think I can explain it well, here, now....) So, I thought, hmmm, maybe some ice cream would be good (before my extra-strength toothpaste, which I've quickly grown pretty fond of..) Strange, because I haven't had an ice cream craving for months (which is good!) I bought a pint on a whim, back at Thriftway, this afternoon, however. So, I headed down to the cold lower level. I took out the ice cream, and took a couple bites, slowly tasting it. Hmmm, this ice cream seems a little soft, I was thinking. (I keep my freezer extra-cold. I like it hard!) It wasn't *that* soft, but still... So, I replace the pint, after three or four bites.. Then, I figure, I'll get a little water from the fridge while I'm down there. I open up the door, and what?! It's dark in there! Come on! I'd just replaced that bulb a couple months back! Wait, wait... Hmmmmmmmm. Just maybe... Maybe I threw a local circuit-breaker?? I come upstairs to check.. Yes!!! I turn it back on, and walla!! The microwave came back to life, and the refrigerator was churning away! Oh, sprung back to life was the little heater, pushing out the hot air. I'd just hooked that up in there earlier, to warm the kitchen extra-fast, while it's frigid outside. (I'm too cheap to heat an area I am not in very much ;-) - except maybe while I'm there.) Cool, it was only the circuit.. {Urgh... My PC fell asleep and I lost the original post, so I just tried to reconstruct it - so if it sounds reconstructed, that's because it is! ;-)} Control The Wind I like old ladies. Just caught a story on a woman who lives near here.. She was on her way to mass, this morning, when gusty winds downed a big tree, on her car! It crushed the car thoroughly. However, it landed just behind her on the back seat, and she came away unscathed. They interviewed her, and she described herself as "blessed." She seemed blessed.... This afternoon, I was getting some cheese and a few things over at Thriftway. An old woman came in the line behind me, and caught someone to explain, she couldn't find the tobasco sauce.. The clerk took off to find some for her. For some reason, I just noticed her. She had a nice manner. Maybe a little forlorn, but she seemed like a nice lady. After the clerk guy rung me up, he tried sending me on my way, with a "Have a wonderful day.." I was still standing near, checking my receipt and things, when I overheard the old woman say to him, "Can you control the wind?" He responded a little surprised, "Control the wind??" Then she added, "Well, if you could control the wind, then it would be a wonderful day."  Thursday, October 31, 2002
Halloween is the witches new year, one of the "holiest" days of their year. I was asked why "we" celebrate Halloween. I don't. (Although, I used to like it, as a boy...I do enjoy the few trick or treaters who come by, too.) Strike that.. It was a record last night! 20 degrees near here broke the old record low for all of October, which had been 25, back in 1961... No wonder I woke up from cold this morning.. It was such a sunny, warm October not long ago. So much for global warming. It was nice to feel a change, and get some really cold, near record-breaking weather. That cold wears you down though, and with it, came constant dry wind. OK, it was good for a change. Now, I'm tired of it! Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Like Walter Mondale! I feel like Walter Mondale! They've just now asked me to recall everything I can, about a project I used to head up, over six years ago. Timing, training, hiring, etc... And fast! I only *thought* I was done with that. The trouble with me is, I fall madly in love... Or not at all. And I end up with ones, I am not in love with. How could I be with someone I love? Maybe a radically different approach.. Oh man! It happened again! I was just thinking to myself, "fine, I had my lunch date, (finally) but the girl here I'd really like to take for lunch is...." Seconds later, in passing, she said "hi" to me again! :-) Not just a polite greeting, I think. Stupid horoscopes! Mine for days and days is, "watch out for money flowing out too fast." Well, it hasn't. In fact, I just found a five dollar bill in my wallet, when I thought it was empty of cash. As if by magic! Plus, a rebate check just came in the mail yesterday. And, I *haven't* been spending like crazy either.... I'm finally listening to the rest of UB40's "Fathers of Reggae." Pretty nice. Should help the work flow....It's so strange to actually be able to understand the words, to songs like "The Earth Dies Screaming." Are they singing the *right* words? In 'Don't Slow Down", I always thought it was, "An old grey man, in tattered clothes." However, Winston Groovey is singing, "That old grey man, in tattered cloak." Really? So who is doing the DJ business in the background on *this* "Don't Slow Down"? U Brown maybe? I need to find out....Or is that UB's Astro? It feels so much better to finally have found a good dentist. I'd stayed away from dentists for years, as I really don't like them - despite having the coverage all the while. I enjoyed the freedom not to go. So, last December, one of my teeth cried out for some attention! That was the first of it, and this last year, it's seemed like my mouth was falling apart! Hmmm, well, yesterday afternoon my new dentist quickly accessed the situation, and things don't seem nearly as bad as I thought! Just some neglect (a few years - although I brushed!) He fixed half of what needed to be done already, gave me some extra strong toothpaste, and all seems a lot better! This is supposed to be for Friday, seems like now though: "Laziness and the desire to dream away your afternoons are most on your mind now." True! I can see a long lunch in my future, and a Friday afternoon spent wandering... I hope this is already done, I don't want to alienate my friends!: "As dark moods come and go now, you may alienate friends by overreacting to something they've said." No, no... better to make a friend feel just a little bit happier. :-) Tuesday, October 29, 2002
One of the staffer's brother is giving a heck of a speech about his brother, William.. These people I didn't know at all, including the senator, I find myself caring about. That's one good thing about being "famous", I guess. Wow, what a rousing memorial! Senator Harkin really got the crowd going, for Sen. Wellstone (R.I.P.)... Fox News Alert! Senator Kennedy stands up! The Clintons, Mondale, Gore, Leiberman, the distinguished Senator Byrd & a jillion others.. You'd think the entire Democratic Party was gathered there tonight. OK, well, the music doesn't stand up to the oratory spectacle... Still, a nice tribute. (Lips read in the audience... 'Who chose the music?' ... 'Are they ever going to stop?' 'OK fine, let's get on with the memorial.') Oh Lord.... I was *not* refering to Dylan's "Forever Young" behind a film on Wellstone.. Very cool. A soulful live Bob version... {From Sunday afternoon, out driving the countryside, helping deliver a couple things:} Everything is bathed in pale grey today. Now, it's completely different. Sunny and chilly this evening, the late light shining on the remaining leaves, as I drove home from a late afternoon dentist appointment. Looks like I've finally found a good new dentist. Sunday, October 27, 2002
Kitty Dub This always happens. I had decided that the second Kitty Craft album, Catskills, wasn't as strong as the first. So, of course, now that I am sitting down, choosing some of her songs for a next V/A CD, so far I have more from that CD than from the first. Figures. I am looking forward to some Hawaiian, as soon as that can be arranged, on a weekend night. For now, I'm enjoying the Series, Game 7 on mute, and just tooling through various things, choosing possibles.. My legs are still sore. The weekend seems to have redeemed itself somewhat though. Sometimes, it's great that others make me do things...Oh, yes.. one of those Kittys I like is her dub, the title track to Catskills. She must be quite a girl. |
