Taken with the handheld... the lens definitely needs a cleaning...
It helped that they (Sloan) played mostly old stuff, stuff from their new album, and only one from their double, which admittedly was great. Will Currie & the Country French were meh... not enough dynamics in their songs; expected more.
Tomorrow, off to NYC and AC for a friend's 30th. Will come back with a ton of pictures and a good experience, hopefully.
Will try to kick it back up another night, without the computer getting all wacky. Here are the songs I listened to while away from here. Upcoming: More Skaggs, but with Rice. And will revisit the Flatt and Scruggs, Wreck of old 97.. move from there wherever it leads...
Meaning: posted by someone on that site: a bit of Britain's military involvements post WW2 - "we could be in Palestine" - Britain was involved in a conflict in Palestine in 1947/1948, between Israelis and Arabs. "Overrun by the Chinese line" refers to the Korean war, when China intervened on behalf of North Korea - the Gloster regiment was "overrun" at the battle of Imjin River. The Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne... well, Liverpool is on the Mersey, London on the Thames, Newcastle on the Tyne. These cities were all big industrial cities, so with the decline of British industry post warits easy to see how these would be fertile grounds for army recruitment. "Checkpoint Charlie" was on the Berlin wall - It was of key importance during the Berlin Airlift (late 40s/early 50s? not sure of specific date). Though the "Johannesburg" reference could apply to the Boer war, I thought it could just as easily apply to places such as Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) that border on South Africa, and which had their independence struggles in the 1960s and 1970s, in which a great many mercenaries from European countries were involved (hence the out of work... so having to become a mercenary or something). Then again, Churchill was involved in British military history in both the Boer and First World wars, as well as the Second World War, so it could be a reference to the Boer War. Just my interpretation... hope that helps. Oh - and "White Nigger" refers to the Irish... they used to be treated in Britain almost as badly as black people were treated in the U.S.
Wanna hear it butchered? Actually, please don't listen to/watch this... such a downer. The song isn't automatically great, Elvis made that song. Need more proof? Gawd aweful. If you do listen to these versions, do yourself a favour, relisten to the Costello version and get that good feeling back again.
New keyboard (I'm still convinced it's a usb driver issue, but for now I'll live with the new keyboard... love having extra legacy keyboards around for just this reason.. ), but back. Keyboard certainly not as great, and I'll get to work on getting the better one back.
So, where were we.. oh yeah, also found out that I have a problem with the desktop computer speaker system. Great 4.4 PDS MASH Panasonic, but I've had this since 1992. UCC gift. Wow, roughly 17 year old technology. The speakers are a bit tweaky, and starting to notice the headphone jack going exclusively on right without telling me... apparently it's had enough... and I can't fix that; time for something new. Suggestions?
Anyway, back to the music in a second... taking out the garbage between reboots.
Rick Skaggs at 7!; backed by the Foggy Mountain boys (alright, more Flatt and Scruggs in a bit, but need to find out more about this Skaggs (just horrible name) dude:
btw.. Toronto's own tribute-ish band, I just found out, Foggy Hogtown Boys (other than the "Soggy 'Bottom' boys", of O Brother, Where Art Thou. umm.. not from Toronto)...
Great youtube story below (with Pete Seeger, Hedy West, and Paul Cadwell!) + Goodnight Irene. Gorgeous. Spend 6 minutes and watch it.
According to personal biography of his life John Hurt learn to love and appreciate music and guitar playing from William H Carson, a man infatuated with his teacher at the St. James School, located in Avalon, Mississippi. John Hurt stated, " I wasn't allowed to bother Mr. Carson's guitar. I would wait until he feel asleep at my house, then I would slip his guitar into my room and try to play. There I learned to play the guitar at the age of nine years old. After that, my mother bought me a second hand guitar at the price of $1.50! 1 can tell you there was no beautiful sound than my own guitar music. I was playing for country dances at the same time working very hard on a farm new Avalon Mississippi."
You got to walk that lonesome valley. Well, you got to walk it for yourself. Ain’t nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk that valley for yourself.
My mother had to walk that lonesome valley. Well, she had to walk it for herself. Yes, nobody else could walk it for her. Yeah, she had to walk that valley for herself.
Oh yes, you got to walk that lonesome valley. Well, you got to walk it for yourself. Yes, nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk.
My father had to walk that lonesome valley. He had to walk it for his self. Yes, nobody else can walk it for him. Now he had to walk.
Oh, Jesus had to walk that lonesome valley He had to walk it for his self. Yes, nobody else could walk it for him. He had to walk that valley for his self.
Oh yes, you got to walk that lonesome valley. Well, you got to walk it for yourself. Yes, nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk that valley for yourself.
It gets into how the design of the bike affects its handling, stability and performance. Originally printed in 1970, 'Physics Today' reprinted it in 2006.
... that the faster a bicycle moves the easier it is to ride (because a smaller steering adjustment is necessary to create a centrifugal correction)... Nevertheless this theory can not be true, or at least can not be the whole truth.
From ibiketo.ca: Jones discovered that a bicycle that has had its front forks reversed so that the rake (curve of the fork) points inward ends up being a very stable bike that will self-correct when pushed and released riderless.
As it turns out this bike is too stable to be a good bicycle. Most modern bikes are built on the edge of instability to provide greater responsiveness.
The article is good, and if you're not that into the numbers, the theory is described on the first page or two, so definitely worth while at least reading that..
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