So one of the books that checked out of the library last week , yes, in addition to the books I bought, was Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory By Dr. Neal Bernard. I started reading it the other night and this may be [...]
There are several mystery characters in mystery series that make me laugh, but two stand out first there’s Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum and secondly there’s Parnell Hall’s Stanley Hastings. Stanley’s latest caper Stakeout is Book 16 of 2013.. Stakeout is the 18th book in the series that I started reading in 1991! Like all the others this [...]
In 1965 two young film students at the University of California in Los Angeles. In the summer after their graduation, the pianist talked the poet into forming a band and The Doors were formed. The pianist was Ray Manzarek and the vocalist was Jim Morrison. Ray and Jim quickly added drummer John Densmore and guitarist [...]
Today is the 69th birthday of Joe Cocker a rocker whose voice and mannerisms we all came to know and love in the Sixties, particularly John Belushi, who did a wicked impersonation of Joe. Wathc it here. Anyway, there are a couple of Joe’s albums in my collection and he introduced me to Leon Russell. Here’s [...]
So yesterday I listened to a blues band, whose name caught my eye on the Roots Music Report Blues Chart, the Ten Foot Polecats Their latest release Undertow debuted on the Chart at 49.I think it should have a bullet next to it!! I’ll write more later, but here’s what they say about their music on [...]
So some days I look over the music events that happened on that day and the birthdays and thoughts and music just pop into my head and the writing just flows. Today is not one of them! Today’s birthdays include: Mickey Newbury (1940) I have a couple of his albums in my collection and he was [...]
When I was thinking this morning about last Thursday night’s visit to the library, where the spring book sale was in progress, my thoughts went to the old Dorothy Parker quote. When asked by Franklin P Adams to use horticulture in a sentence, she responded “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her [...]
So over the last few days I have been listening to the album Mosaic from the guitar duo of Dan Young and Lawson Rollins. The album is a fantastic collection of their own compositions, which come from different styles including: salsa music, Latin jazz, blues, samba, bossa nova, flamenco, and classical styles. Resulting in a [...]
So I had to go today for a follow-up visit for my new hearing aids. While the trip is longer than the trip to the old place I got a hearing aid from the trip does give me time to listen to some music! The trip there was Prog Rock from Glasgow, UK and the [...]
In 1906 my wife’s grandmother, Helen Fowler Coombs and 9 of her friends vacationed on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. They called themselves the “Ten Timid Travelers.” These are a few of the photographs that record that vacation, and provide a glimpse into life on Long Beech Island that year! Here are the scantily [...]
