10th & 11th October, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
albums now available on CD! Order
now!
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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
Go forward! The alternative is boring,
wastes time and full of self-recrimination.
ARCHIVING
The past few week and the next few and the next and on and on have been
(and will be) spent archiving master tapes from mono, stereo, 3, 4,
8,16, and 24 tracks onto a series of computer hard discs.
I’m stunned at how many gigabytes only a couple of hundred overcrowded
reels of tape have eaten up so far and somewhat panicked at the bites on
my bank balance that a thousand or more reels still left to be copied
will inflict. These extravagant meals are taking place under the
watchful and talented eye of my friend John Strother at Penguin Studios
here in Southern California.
Much of this work is necessitated by the fact that I’m simultaneously
working on transforming and restoring a number of past LP’s for CD
release and recording new material. Of course, as always, this takes
place while there are so many other balls being juggled mid-air that
keeping track is mind bungling. That’s right, not just the usual boggles
are involved.
Some of it is enjoyable work; discovering songs I had committed to tape
that were never released and that I had forgotten writing; hearing for
the first time taped concerts from the past 30 years never before
reviewed. And reliving sessions from around the world that because of
comments between ‘takes’ cause a smile or frown of recognition.
So far I haven’t been sorting all of this as I go and that means another
behemoth job ahead.
Hope your week starts of well and continues on a positive note.
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Monday
10 October
Columbus Day observed (USA)
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
Yara Yell (Cuba)
Antonio Bandaras o
Bob Burnquist o
James Carvelle o
Charles Dance o
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. o
Harry "Sweets" Edison o
Brett Favre o
Johnny Green o
Helen Hayes o
Ivory Joe Hunter o
Richard Jaeckel o
Mike Malinin o
Thelonious Monk o
Myra o
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe o
Sharon Osbourne o
Harold Pinter o
John Prine o
David Lee Roth o
Bob San Souci o
Joanna Shimkus o
Dallas Smith o
Adlai E. Stevenson III o
Julia Sweeney o
Tanya Tucker o
Giuseppe Verdi o
Ben Vereen o Ed
Wood, Jr.
Tuesday
11 October
Chung Young Festival (Hong Kong)
Joseph Alsop o
Art Blakey o
Zev Bufman o
Joan Cusak o
Dawn French o
Martha Graham o
Daryl Hall o
Henry John Heinz o
Ron Leibman o
Elmore Leonard o
Franz Liszt o
Luke Perry o
Charles Revson o
Jerome Robbins o
Eleanor Roosevelt o
Michelle Trachtenberg o
Dottie West o
Steve Young |
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There is no fresh air without love.
All of us are here on borrowed time; it’s up
to each of us to make the most of it.
I have known some men to wonder though I’ve
heard one ask what the enemy believes in.
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THREE POEMS from “Sea Cycle” |
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One / With a Dutchman
With a Dutchman I went once
through Rembrandt Square
and down to Sanford, too.
I should have stayed
and lived my lifetime
on that beach
I might have been a sailor
singing songs to myself only
or to a friend in Amsterdam
who listened out of love.
Two / I Love Therefore I am
I love,
therefore I am...
It sounds so simple
yet in loving you
I’ve fast become
little more than
your extension,
hardly more than your left arm.
So it should be.
Still it tires me at times
to know I’m just the casing
of a window looking out beyond the world.
Be sure to give me fresh reports
of all the ships you see
and all the ducks that waddle beachward.
Three / Making Popcorn
Making popcorn
for the seagulls on the porch
you look up from the stove
just long enough to look away.
Some new obscurity behind your eyes
I’m not as yet at liberty to know
stays lurking there
between the popcorn and the flame.
-from “Sea Cycle,” 1968 |
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