In 1959, Marie Tharp and colleague Bruce Heezen completed their first map of the North Atlantic
Marie Tharp, oceanographic cartographer, at the drafting table
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
LIMELIGHT ~
"Limelight" ( Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom ) 1952
photo : W. Eugene Smith
photo © bob arnold
susan
BLUEBERRIES ~
(see you soon, off to pick)
(where we picked enough for the week — winter's crop is already stored away — and had enough saved from the picking to have a picnic supper in one corner of the orchard with food we brought with us, finding two cinder blocks discarded in the tall mowing grass and sat there and the rain had stopped in time to pick but the leaves were all wet. And later we visited Eleanor, in the village, and talked of time's past, which is timeless.)
(where we picked enough for the week — winter's crop is already stored away — and had enough saved from the picking to have a picnic supper in one corner of the orchard with food we brought with us, finding two cinder blocks discarded in the tall mowing grass and sat there and the rain had stopped in time to pick but the leaves were all wet. And later we visited Eleanor, in the village, and talked of time's past, which is timeless.)
susan
BIRTHDAY CHEERS, SUSAN ~
"Susan - Happy Day of Birth and a beautiful new year for you!"
Cheers, Edie and Kathy
Cheers, Edie and Kathy
chalkie art © Edith Platt
Sunday, July 28, 2013
CRISTO REDENTOR ~
( HARVEY MANDEL )
George and I have been writing back and forth about music. Again. This time it was Harvey Mandel, who blew our collective minds when we weren't yet 16 years of age. A beautiful time to have the mind blown, even if it was to last forever. For me, this is the album that did it. The LP cover art alone, in 1968, stopped me breathing.
yesterday
today
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Solo discography
1968 Cristo Redentor, (Philips Records PHS 600-281) LP
1969 Righteous (Philips PHS 600-306) LP
1970 Games Guitars Play (Philips PHS 600-325) LP
1971 Baby Batter (Janus Records JLS-3017) LP - also released as Electronic Progress on Bellaphon Records, Germany
1972 Get Off in Chicago (Ovation) LP
1972 The Snake (Janus JLS-3037) LP - with Don Sugarcane" Harris
1973 Shangrenade, (Janus JLS-3047) LP - with Don Sugarcane" Harris
1974 Feel the Sound of Harvey Mandel (Janus, JLS-3067) LP
1975 The Best of Harvey Mandel (Janus, 7014) LP
1994 Twist City (Western Front WFE 10022)
1995 Snakes & Stripes (Clarity Recordings CCD-1013) CD
1995 Harvey Mandel: The Mercury Years (PolyGram, 314 528 275-2) 2-CD anthology
1997 Planetary Warrior (ESP/Lightyear/WEA, 54215-2) CD
2000 Emerald Triangle (Electric Snake Productions, Inc., ESP-9701) CD
2000 Lick This (Electric Snake)
2003 West Coast Killaz (Electric Snake)
2003 NightFire featuring Harvey Mandel/Freddie Roulette (Electric Snake)
2006 Harvey Mandel and the Snake Crew (Electric Snake)
2009 Harvey Mandel and the Snake Crew (LIVE) (Electric Snake)
"His (Harvey Mandel's) guitar work on the legendary Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band (1967) rivaled the playing of both Mike Bloomfield and Eric Clapton and brought blues and rock and roll another step closer to one another with his relentless fuzz tone, feedback-edged solos, and unusual syncopated phrasing."
— Pete Prown; Harvey P. Newquist, Jon F. Eiche (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists (Hal Leonard Corporation)
Saturday, July 27, 2013
THE BREEZE ~
( J. J. CALE )
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Studio albums
1972 Naturally
1973 Really
1974 Okie
1976 Troubadour
1979 5
1981 Shades
1982 Grasshopper
1983 #8
1990 Travel Log
1992 Number 10
1994 Closer to You
1996 Guitar Man
2004 To Tulsa and Back
2009 Roll On
Live album
2001 Live
Collaborations
1966 A Trip Down The Sunset Strip (as part of the Leathercoated Minds)
2006 The Road to Escondido (with Eric Clapton; won 2008 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album)
2013 Old Sock - Eric Clapton - Cale plays guitar and sings on his song, 'Angel'.
Compilations
1984 Special Edition (a compilation of hits from previous albums)
1997 Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology
1998 The Very Best of J.J. Cale
2000 Universal Masters Collection
2003 After Midnight (German release)
2006 The Definitive Collection
2006 Collected (with bonus tracks) (Dutch release only)
2007 Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
2011 The Silvertone Years
(a collection chronicling JJ Cale's music released by Silvertone Records 1989-1992)
update:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/naturally-jj-cale.html?hp&rref=opinion
Recently Neil Young stated that of all the musicians he had heard or played with, Jimi Hendrix and J.J. Cale were the two best electric guitar players. Born in Oklahoma City in 1938, John Weldon Cale died of a heart attack yesterday, July 26 in La Jolla, California. The "J.J." moniker was given to Cale by Elmer Valentine the co-owner of the Sunset Strip nightclub Whisky a Go Go. It would take Eric Clapton (who appears on this recording) to lift J.J. Cale out of the doldrums and the blues when he recorded Cale's "After Midnight" in 1970 which gave the laid back songwriter and artist a hit.
Like good boys & girls we all bought his albums.
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Studio albums
1972 Naturally
1973 Really
1974 Okie
1976 Troubadour
1979 5
1981 Shades
1982 Grasshopper
1983 #8
1990 Travel Log
1992 Number 10
1994 Closer to You
1996 Guitar Man
2004 To Tulsa and Back
2009 Roll On
Live album
2001 Live
Collaborations
1966 A Trip Down The Sunset Strip (as part of the Leathercoated Minds)
2006 The Road to Escondido (with Eric Clapton; won 2008 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album)
2013 Old Sock - Eric Clapton - Cale plays guitar and sings on his song, 'Angel'.
Compilations
1984 Special Edition (a compilation of hits from previous albums)
1997 Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology
1998 The Very Best of J.J. Cale
2000 Universal Masters Collection
2003 After Midnight (German release)
2006 The Definitive Collection
2006 Collected (with bonus tracks) (Dutch release only)
2007 Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
2011 The Silvertone Years
(a collection chronicling JJ Cale's music released by Silvertone Records 1989-1992)
update:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/naturally-jj-cale.html?hp&rref=opinion
Friday, July 26, 2013
GUY DAVENPORT ~
Here's an excellent compendium of Davenport's — drawing over forty years of his fiction, essays, poetry, translations and his curious personal "journals." Not to be missed.
If you can't afford the book, find a library copy, or maybe your town is still lucky enough to have a bookstore (lucky you!) and you can take part of a rainy day and curl up with the essay "Finding" on page 255. Not only will the tremendous piece read like it was written by the son Thoreau never had, and despite all the good chatter about Indian arrowheads, it's really all about developing as a writer, thinker, searcher, son, hidden away neighbor, fine-feathered human being.
I read the essay aloud this evening traveling home the back roads with Sweetheart. It felt like GD had to be in the backseat.
The Guy Davenport Reader
edited and with an introduction by Erik Reece
Counterpoint 2013
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