54 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. jack, thanks. beautiful

    and BTW that was the 3rd in your list submitted during your moving days between online hook-ups. very wise of you to think so far ahead. 

  2. okay, the most stressful for the stressed-out season is upon us.  here’s an idea worthy of importing:

    South Koreans seek places to ‘space out’ and shed stress – The Washington Post

    SEOUL — Tucked away in a side street near an urban park named Seoul Forest is a tea shop that barely seats 10. Here, you can’t talk. Your phone must be on silent. No shoes allowed.
    The rules have one aim. Relax. Just space out.
    As South Koreans enter the living-with-corona phase of the pandemic, some are easing back into social life by visiting public spaces where they can be alone and do very little. Nothing is the new something in South Korea as people desperately seek refuge from the pressures of living as functioning adults in a global pandemic in a high-stress and fast-paced society with soaring real estate prices and often-grueling work schedules.
    At a Space Out Competition this year, competitors sought to achieve the lowest heart rate possible while sitting in a “healing forest” on the southern island of Jeju. The contest has spread internationally since it began in 2014, including to Hong Kong and the Netherlands.
    And the concept is seeping out into a handful of public spaces in South Korea. This month, theaters throughout the country premiered a movie simulating a 40-minute plane ride above and through clouds. Tickets for “Flight,” a project backed by Megabox, a major movie theater company, are just under $6. A tagline reads: “Take a brief rest through the fluffy clouds.”
    It’s a sequel to a movie released this spring, “Fire Mung”: 31 minutes of footage of a burning campfire.
    […]
    Spacing out is known in Korean as “hitting mung,” a slang usage of the word “mung” to describe a state of being totally zoned out. (In this case, “mung” describes a state of blankness.) With the weather change this fall, now popular are the terms “forest mung” and “foliage mung,” meaning spacing out while looking at trees or foliage. There’s “fire mung,” or spacing out while watching logs burn, and “water mung,” being meditative near bodies of water.
    […]
    “ ‘Hitting mung’ is a concept of emptying your heart and your brain so that you can fill them with new ideas and thoughts. We opened because we wanted to create a space for people to do just that,” Ji said.
    “It’s a place where people can heal themselves. It’s something only you can do for yourself, not something someone else can do for you, and we wanted to facilitate that for everyone exhausted by the demands of modern life,” she said.
    [continues]

  3. Book of the Month:
    POLAND
    by James Michener, wherein he talks about Mr. Chopin quite a bit, who led a very interesting life.  

  4. The NY Times has the review of Beatles “Get Back” that was my impression.  

    It was long.  There were places where it got boring, but I was constantly entranced by the creative process.  It was particularly noticeable when they did riffs of the songs of others and then would get return to whatever they were working on.  The back and forth, the changing of instruments, the constant replays and altering of rhythms made me truly feel the loss of when they were no longer creating together even though all went on to other successful creations. 

  5. I’d been playing guitar and copying the 50’s rockers since Elvis came on the tv from the waist up, I figure ’56.  When the Beatles hit Sullivan I was 16 and in a band playing dives and honky-tonks and they single-bandedly kicked EVERYTHING into overdrive.   It became a whole new world, wide open and rarin’ to rock.

    If I had the show i would watch it until the cows come home and are all in bed watching their relatives on Gunsmoke; each dreading to hear that mournful morning rooster crow.

    Now, at this point, at this juncture in time……it’s totally historical. How DID they come up with the completely astounding story of their development from bar band copying american music to making some of the damnedest recordings ever made.

    Probably a case of “I guess you hadda be there”.

  8. sturge, in the meantime here’s another brit team’s version of song-writing.  inspiration, mood, guitar and all … even includes a nod to george harrison.

    Eric talks with “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” producer, John Goldstone, about the inspiration behind his hit song “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” which is also the name of his new memoir, now available everywhere books are sold. Read more at http://prh.com/brightside Eric will be on tour in the US, U.K. and Australia from 3 October 2018 to promote the book. For more information visit https://tinyurl.com/y7ebz6pa In “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography”, Eric takes us on a remarkable journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theatre, and film. With equal parts hilarity and heart, Eric shares the highlights of his life and work with the kind of offbeat humour that has delighted audiences for five decades, chock full of behind-the-scenes stories from a high-flying life featuring everyone from Princess Leia to Queen Elizabeth.

  9. Queen is/are my Beatles.  In either case, I’m not sure I want to know exactly how the musical sausage is made, lest I end up with negative associations of music I love.

    Jamie – Does watching the Beatles doc change your interpretation of any of their songs?

    My first classical album was Chopin, obtained at a grocery store.
    Jack – Thanks. Hope you are settling into your new place.

  11. Blue

    My ideas only changed for the better.  The absolute genius required to meld together all the aspects of a creation and the tools they drew upon to create.  Throughout the show they sing lullabies, folk songs, rock songs created by others.  You start to realize that their childhoods must have had them practically drowning in music.  

    Paul was bossy as all get out and you can see the others getting irritated with him until one of them says, “I could watch him do that all day” as Paul just noodles around on the piano keys going from one melody to another while searching for a song.  Then they all get hysterical coming up with dirty lyrics for songs while trying to write the ones we all know.

    Of course, I’ve been absolutely besotted with music this whole weekend jumping from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Larson, Tick Tick Boom , Rent, Hamilton, Beatles and the hours and hours of Sondheim.  I’ll probably end up with falling asleep to Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music”.

     

     

  12. They (Broadway performers) sang “Sunday” on the red steps in TS as a tribute to Sondheim today. I really need to live there more than one or two weeks at a time.

  18. GOP becoming a cult of know-nothings
     
     

    What’s happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, “The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970.” Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump’s MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

     
    https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/583256-gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings

  19. Paul being a jack-ass –
    He recently called the Stones a “Blues cover band” .
    He forgets the summer of 65′ when they dropped ” Satisfaction” , and showed everyone what “Hard Rock” was going to sound like. And 90 days later they followed with “Get Of my Cloud”.  
    One thing I remember about  that winter in 64′ was that Coke introduced  “Pomac”, a fizzy soda made to look like  champagne , I loved that stuff.

  21. …musta been the chatter, here, because i plunked down some Beatles tunes on the guitar the other night, for old times’ sake.
     
    Then, i switched over to some Sabbath, which unlike the Beatles, but similarly to Queen, are produced so well.  Sabbath songs are extremely simple in composition, but sound incredible because of the production, and i’ve always hated the production values on Beatles records- especially Harrison’s guitar

  22. Paul being a jack-ass –He recently called the Stones a “Blues cover band” .

    i would imagine that when everyone you ever meet tells you you are the greatest [musical] genius that ever lived, you start to believe it.
     
     
    if it makes you feel any better, Paul tried to get into some rapper’s after-party a few years, ago, and was denied entry.   They didn’t want his vibe ruining the scene.

  24. “Forbes at 100” or something like that produced a picture book. a photo and a paragraph or two from 100 notable people.   Paul was one of the 100 and he used his paragraph to bitch about how Lennon screwed it up when they had a chance to buy back their stuff from Michael Jackson. lol 

  27. I’m in awe of McCartney,” said Dylan. “He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up… He’s just so damn effortless.” 

  28. Yeah, back then we didn’t know about one or the other of them being a bit of a jerk, all we had was the music.    

  30. The British Invasion was more than the Beatles, I preferred the Kinks and the Stones. 
     edit add the Bryds 
    While searching for my missing disabled person parking placquard I found several items which have been missing a few years.  Next I will move from the bread box in the kitchen to perhaps the butcher block table.  I really need to hire someone, other than myself (who I fired for a bad attitude and drinking on the job).

  31. OM – It’s supposed to be 80 next Friday. The leaves are trying to change color, but there’s a lot of green left. Last year, the trees were getting small buds before the ice storm at the end of February.

    The CW has seen fit to redo the original, Christmas episode of “The Waltons.” The casting is quite off for many characters, the house/set is too nice and, well, it’s something you’d expect from the CW. It’s definitely not Patricia Neal caliber.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/world/coronavirus-omicron-variant-spreading-intl/index.html

    “Canadian health officials also confirmed the country’s first two Omicron cases in Ottawa on Sunday. Both individuals carrying the variant had recently traveled from Nigeria…”

    My Christmas cacti are budding out and will be in full bloom in a few days.

  33. More hat stuff , this one was a real work of art , all from scraps ,  found some more hippy artifacts , after working hours on the invertor on my old “Way Back Mashine”. 

  35. An animated, white buck.  God, the CW just ruins everything. The view outside of the car window is in slo-mo. Ha!

  36. I bring all this up because this is Ellen’s birthday  probably the best woman I ever “drank-up”.  This was our place on the Arkansas River , I rented for $ 5 a month.  I have 2 more images  the door I made , and Ellen coming out of it. 
    Those are the highest mountains in Colorado in the back ground. 

  37. The place didn’t have a door , so I made this out of a real old door with a long skinny piece of glass, and a really old oak barrel.  You can see my legs reflected in the glass. 

  39. Ellen was from Spillville , Iowa .  Our first Christmas together , we rode the Bus home .  I had no idea that sitting on a 5 gallon bucket on a frozen backwater of the Mississippi River  in December ,  around a hole in the ice could be so much fun.  The answer turned out to be Schnapps

  41. A 5×3 foot 3/4 in. plywood panel with elk hide . You can’t see it, but the edges were bound with 1 in. hemp rope covered with mule deer ,  a leather rope. 
    Elk does not take to pyrography  like mule deer,  so this one was always pale .  And my old pictures , like all of yours are losing their colors . 
    The dog is “Lassie” ,  Wayne made 2 movies with one of the many “Lassies” . The other was “Big Jake” .
    In “Hondo” ,  Lassie’s  make-up was shoe polish, this thing is based on the movie poster. 
     

  42. The front of the Annie Hat I started with .
    Taken at the Sheep Shack , note the mule deer drying on the shed behind her.  I learned how to do this from a Veit. Vet  at Grand Lake  in 70′, he was fresh out of “Nam”, and I was fresh outta Lubbock.  6 vets , all from Aurora Colorado.
    All brown , riding brand new Harley’s.  I had made a forest green cape , with a great hood long with a brass bell , and black and white beads.  I showed it to them , we were fast friends.  The cape was stolen  shortly after that.

  43. Blink –
    They can’t do this  ……………. 
     
    “it don’t matter who’s in Nashville , Bob Wills is still the king” 
     
     

    Mule deer over plywood.

  45. Damn nice work.  And I went broke doing it. 
    Now it’s all a lot of fading prints that escaped a broken toilet line. 
    “Life is a funny ole’ dog”

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