29 June 2010
28 June 2010
23 June 2010
Live from Studio 12.....
Tobi's featured here quite frequently - it's not every day that you stumble across a hammered dulcimer player who jams with Adam Green, Grizzly Beat, Lou Barlow and Akron/Family.
So he pops me a mail the other day announcing an "Unplugged from Studio 12" [click to play]program and the offer of a recorded version if I can't grab it myself.
And - addressed to Mrs jb (who's a bit sweet on Tobi, I suspect) - up pops a CD, artwork and all.
Now, he's either after some more chocolate, or he wants to be adopted....
Just listen through the infill (although he's got a really good radio voice) and enjoy the music
22 June 2010
A day in Paris with the D80, iPhone....
2 women with a fetish for monochrome leopard skin coats and sharing the sleeves of same
café
a navigationally challenged Swede
a grey silver-blond haired photographer
(quelle lovely couple they make, non?)
postcards that never got sent
looking left
looking right at..
another silver-blond haired lady in a monochrome leopardskin coat
flutes of this
flutes of that
fiddling around a bit
Swedes do smile...(especially when sandwiched by a Suthun Belle and Mary Queen of Arkansas)
could have sworn I seed a ghost
now you see her
now you don't
and a grate time was had by all
12 June 2010
11 June 2010
So that's sorted then...
So I'll have to look for something else to do, rather than being stuck in front of gogglebox, day in and day out.
They've worked all this out by algorithmising population, GDP per capita and experience and spitting out a Goal Difference factor which is supposedly decisive in deciding who wins and who takes an early shower.
So New Zealand will survive the group stage and get stuffed by the Netherlands in the first knockout match.
England will beat Slovenia and Algeria and meet Germany in the 8th finals.
"Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins." Gary Lineker
Germany will meet (and lose to) Brazil (who will previously have eliminated the Netherlands) in the semis.
There's only one fly in the ointment.
Anyone who's recently seen a Netherlands game won't believe this for a minute.....
10 June 2010
08 June 2010
06 June 2010
I'm not sure if I get this....
If I were to consistently spend more than my income, at some stage I'd have an overdraft with the bank.
And at some stage, my bank consultant would have a chat with me about fiscal responsibility, that continuing on this slippery slope will end in tears and - more importantly - had I wasted a thought about paying it back at some stage in the near future?
I have a friend who's in this predicament.
My friend's name is the Federal Republic of Germany and last year my friend overdid it a bit.
Spent €320bn against an income of €240bn, which puts my friend €80bn in the poo.
Just for the year.
My friend's banking consultant (the German Constitution) says that the maximum overdraft is capped at €70bn, so my friend has to either increase his income by €10bn or stop spending by an equivalent amount.
Or a combination of both.
And it's not the first time that this has happened, of course.
In fact, my friend's bank consultant appears to have been pretty slack in past years/decades, because my friend now owes (a mere) €1,700,000bn (that's 1.7 quadrillion or quantillion, not quite sure which) and hasn't even asked my friend about a strategy for paying it all back.
My contribution - so said the newsreader this evening on the 8 o'clock news - is €21,000.
I'm expecting a knock on the door any minute.
As I say - I don't really get this, but I'm sure one of my professor mates can explain it to me in words of less than 3 syllables.......
A day in Höhr-Grenzhausen with an iPhone
Susanne Altzweig
Kyra Spieker
Sandra Nitz
Nicki Thoss self portait
The real Sandra Nitz.
Stapelbar, unkompliziert, authentisch und ästhetisch. Her pots, that is. Although the last 3 apply to her as well.
Michael Cleff
Economics
Pom
More Economics
Monika Debus in the limelight
The real Monika Debus, also in the limelight. (Where she in fact deserves to be)
Gold standard
Nedko Solakov (or his brother) woz here...
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02 June 2010
01 June 2010
John Denver? Johnny Cash?
Musically, that is.
I recently expressed my dismay at the slim possibility that Barry Manilow might be performing in Mainz (he isn't, thank God...) and Leif came back with
"Well, tell us how you really feel! How about Johnny Cash or John Denver?"
Well, John Denver is one reason why Dick Bakker and I could never be really close friends.
How can you trust someone who TRULY LIKES John Denver?
Ditto Nana
The bastard used to make mixtapes of the 2 of them and play them constantly in the car.
But Johnny Cash is something else.
My musical brain goes something like this:
Johnny Cash married June Carter of the Carter Family who were contemporaries of the Stanley Brothers who popularised "A Man of Constant Sorrow" which Rod Stewart recorded for his first solo album and Albert Lee (who is virtually unknown but has played with everyone worthwhile in the business and who I saw again last week) covers it as well.
Johnny Cash's daughter is Rosanne Cash, to whom he gave The List - the 100 songs that he considered to be the most significant country and American songs that he knew. She trimmed them down to 18 and and got together with folks like Bruce Springsteen and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco to record them as ..."The List"
Jeff Tweedy used to be in Uncle Tupelo which also spawned Son Volt with Jay Farrar who together with Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie recorded Kerouac's lyrics from his time in Big Sur as "One Fast Move or I'm Gone"
June Carter's daughter is Carlene Carter (who famously said at a concert at the Bottom Line in New York "If this song don't put the c**t back in country, I don't know what will" - shame that Mum and Dad unbeknown to her were in the audience...) who was married to Nick Lowe who was in all sorts of good bands like Brinsley Schwarz and Dave Edmund's Rockpile and who played with Ry Cooder at the Auckland Town Hall last November and was in the studio with Dave Edmunds when Albert did a backing track for "Sweet Little Lisa"
Ry Cooder is about the only guitarist good enough to play with David Lindley who I've seen often (but not enough) and he also played on Little Feat's earlier albums AND on "Let in bleed" after which Mick and Keef (who was mates with Gram Parsons who was Emmylou Harris's bloke and Albert Lee played in her band for the longest time) put the hard word on him to join up as Brian's replacement. Which he didn't do, but Ron Wood did years later after Mick Taylor quit and of course Ron played on Rod's first solo album and on so much more.
Carlene Carter was also romantically involved with Howie Eppstein from Tom Petty's Heartbreakers who played on Johnnie Cash's "Unchained" with the rest of the band and Tom Petty wrote "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" for Stevie Nicks who together with Lindsey Buckingham kick-started Fleetwod Mac and who once wrote "Has anyone ever written anything for you?" for Joe Walsh (who kick-started the Eagles) and sang "Are you strong enough" with Sheryl Crow who sang "My favourite mistake" with Clapton and defines grace as she walks onto the stage and slips on her guitar as if it was a piece of clothing.
And Andy Fairweather-Low from Amen Corner is playing rhythm guitar which is what he was doing when we first saw him (together with Albert) in Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings who played on a "Tribute to the King" together David Gilmour from Pink Floyd (and Albert) and I almost met David Gilmour on the market in Coustellet of course and the day before I almost met him, I bought "The Million Dollar Session" with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.
Which closes the circle.
May it be unbroken, as the Carter Family would say.
Or sing.
But the song that always brings me back to Johnny Cash is "Hurt"
"You've obviously read my pamphlet on guitar playing technique.."
And yes, that's Huey Lewis in the studio.
Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy, too.
Just watch Dave Edmunds' reaction during Albert's solo at around 3:40.
Choice stuff.
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