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moments of indecision

Was read­ing Rolling­Stone this morn­ing and took a look at 50 artists choos­ing playlists. I’m always inter­ested in lis­ten­ing to music that other musi­cians find essen­tial or impor­tant. I’ve often found the selec­tions that Patti Smith has made for her cov­ers very inter­est­ing. So when she selected love songs by Bob Dylan I had to check them out and see if I feel the same way about her selec­tions. Sev­eral topped my list at the start Boots of Span­ish Leather, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Low­lands, and Visions of Johanna. So now I’m on my way to redis­cover these other songs in her list and share them.

I’m also look­ing for videos to share. Strangely almost all of the ver­sions I could find of this song were in China. Piracy maybe?

You can also lis­ten at Dylans site. Just click on the song title below.

I have a new found affec­tion for:

One Too Many Morn­ings 1964

Down the street the dogs are barkin’
And the day is a-gettin’ dark
As the night comes in a-fallin’
The dogs’ll lose their bark
An’ the silent night will shat­ter
From the sounds inside my mind
For I’m one too many morn­ings
And a thou­sand miles behind

From the cross­roads of my doorstep
My eyes they start to fade
As I turn my head back to the room
Where my love and I have laid
An’ I gaze back to the street
The side­walk and the sign
And I’m one too many morn­ings
An’ a thou­sand miles behind

It’s a rest­less hun­gry feel­ing
That don’t mean no one no good
When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’
You can say it just as good.
You’re right from your side
I’m right from mine
We’re both just one too many morn­ings
An’ a thou­sand miles behind

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Finally after many an effort the twins have been reunited.

I looked for replace­ment glass for ages. No one seemed to carry the two cup carafe. Every­time I went on the Bodum web­site it was out of stock. Sur­pris­ingly, last Sat­ur­day I walked over to Old City Cof­fee to pick up my weekly 1/2 pound of Balzac beans. While the nice fel­low in the red cap filled my reusable bag with beans; the replace­ment carafe stared at me from a nearby shelf.

It hadn’t been there before.

I picked out a box and added it to my pur­chase, put it in my pocket, and took it home. Joy! I washed it out and put it into my orig­i­nal Bodum French Press — one before plas­tic was added. Now the twins are reunited.

But, a moment of indecision.

Which one do I love best?

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blue door in desert

There is some­thing about this photo that asked me to write about it. Yes, it’s the blue wall or door. Of course it is the blueness.

I’m imag­in­ing dri­ving across the the sub­tle hues of dry lands and being star­tled by this rich hue, this utter cool­ness in the midst of dust. It’s a pleas­ant thing after all, the blueness.

Should I stop and oblit­er­ate my imag­in­ings with real­ity? No, I’ll drive on and I let the blue remain in my mind just as it was the moment I saw it.

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gen­der pol­i­tics. Woah. via www.biancatschaikner.com

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The more I lis­ten the more I miss him. A beau­ti­ful song and a mag­i­cal gui­tar. Jimi Hen­drix — a dis­tinc­tive sound so many years later.

What would have changed if I had never heard his music?

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pink trees

I was work­ing on an ad for the segd con­fer­ence + expo which will be in Mon­tréal in 2011. It made me think of this won­der­ful pub­lic art. On our visit there a few years back we dis­cov­ered the lip­stick for­est. Both Mar­garet and I wan­dered through the trees and played a bit of hide and seek. It is brilliant!

more about the lip­stick for­est >

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What is the dif­fer­ence between a mate­ri­al­ist, an ide­al­ist, and an exis­ten­tial­ist umpire?

A mate­ri­al­ist says: I calls them as I seems them.

An ide­al­ist says: I calls them as they are.

An exis­ten­tial­ist says: They ain’t noth­ing, ’til I calls them.


Instant replay dimin­ishes the game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/sports/baseball/04tigers.html?hp

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Ice­land, Eyjaf­jal­la­jökull — May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiege­meier on Vimeo.

Saw this and had to share it. A won­der­ous time-lapse view of the vocanic errup­tion in Ice­land, Eyjaf­jal­la­jökull — May 1st and 2nd, 2010. The beauty and power of nature.

Enjoy.

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It seems as though we are seek­ing slower ways to enjoy our­selves. Most of this is illus­trated in the rit­u­als around food that have come to pass, a need to find slow food.

Just when I thought that espresso style cof­fees had com­pletely taken over the planet — I found the move­ment for pour over cof­fee. I know this bet­ter as Melitta style… or drip coffee.

This is a Japan­ese video of the process.

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A sad day for Gumby and Pokey. Art Clokey, the ani­ma­tor who cre­ated the lov­able, bend­able clay cre­ation Gumby over a half-century ago, died. Many a sat­ur­day morn­ing was spent cereal bowl in hand watch­ing the green guy and his orange pony pal.

It was Eddie Murphy’s SNL Gumby sketch 40 years after the birth of Gumby that finally cre­ated some finan­cial reward to Art. The cul­tural icon is still pop­u­lar today and has even moved into the new world of social media — Gumby has over 134,000 fans on Facebook.

hulu.com cur­rently has some Gumby avail­able for viewing.

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