Category: Everyday Stories
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Idyllopus scans "Roy Smeck’s Modern Method for Hawaiian Guitar"
Idyllopus scans “Roy Smeck’s Modern Method for Hawaiian Guitar”. Why? Because I can and I’ve a long-abiding love for Hawaiian guitar back to when I was about eight years of age at least, and god only knows where I got the door through which the interested entered, but the interest entered, as best I can…
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Lotsa Poppa
I noted yesterday that Marty played for years with singer Lotsa Poppa. Mostly at Blind Willie’s but also at such clubs as the venerated Royal Peacock, and the Libra Ballroom, on the same bill as people lilke Bobby “Blue” Bland. I used to have the greatest rainbow-colored posters of those dates but one day had…
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Wild Women Sing the Blues at the Atlanta History Center
Marty Kearns is on keys backing up Heaven Davis last night and tonight at the Atlanta History Center. The program is called Wild Women Sing the Blues. In the band are Marty’s old friends Kenny Kilgore on guitar and Roger Gregory on bass. Roger just moved back to Atlanta after his house was demolished in…
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Fury of the artist
H.o.p. is furious at me. He believes I lost a drawing of his. I probably did. I probably threw it away. He draws ten thousand pictures a day and it’s impossible to keep them all, which he would do if he could. We haven’t the room so I sort them out occasionally and throw away…
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The oak tree revisited
In the summer we helped host a couple of benefits for the tree that’s the subject of the below article, the first benefit rained out by hurricane Dennis. I’d like to note first that the AJC reports that Atlanta is still the city of trees with a canopy that spreads “forever”. What they don’t state…
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In case you hadn't noticed
It looks different around here, doesn’t it? But I’ve got some tweaking to do. A fair bit of it. Am not settled on the shades of white to gray thing. I’m doing the web equivalent of This Old House while I am trailing tissue paper all over the place. And so has been H.o.p. When…
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How to buy modern furniture
If you don’t know how to buy modern furniture, this 1952 Dupont ad will tell you how. I’m curious, but not curious enough to purchase it. Our source for modern furniture is now Ikea, which finally arrived in Atlanta. All our old lamps, collected from various attics, basements and closets of places we’d lived in…
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Koto! and other studio news
I never post studio news and I ought to. Marty’s going to be recording jazz pianist Takana Miyamoto and koto legend Junko Takeo. And that’s exciting. From elsewhere on the web: Junko Takeo is one of the most appreciated and talented Koto (Japanese traditional instrument) players in the world. She has been playing this magnificent…
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Big truck people demoralized by people with Hummers
Obviously, big truck people have been demoralized by people with Hummers, which is the only excuse for this. Which I came across at I Blame the Patriarchy, and have previously observed but forgotten about and observed and forgotten about but after being reminded again of their presence I decided to comment because it occured to…
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Insane people say and do insane things
So South Dakota’s senate makes it the first state to pass an all out abortion ban. And Governor Rounds says he would look favorably on it if it would “save lives”. An argument which doesn’t begin to hold up when one considers the costs of life-sustaining therapies that take them out of reach of the…
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The woman washing cars with a hamburger is funny stuff
H.o.p. right now is excited about any movie that comes out, as long as it’s not frightening. He wants to see that movie “…about mermaids! There’s going to be a movie about a mermaid! I’ve never seen a mermaid!” Then when there was the commercial for the horror film about mutants from the Manhattan Project…
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For people who love fractals and art
Terry Wright at Blog with a view does art based on fractals, and comes up with the most incredible names for the pieces. It would be impossible for me to select a work that I liked best. There are too many. But here are some favorites (links to the galleries because Terry’s too damned prolific…