Ron Hamilton (Hupquatchew), Nuu-chah-nulth, Hoopulth
Frank Charlie, Nuu-chah-nulth, Moon
Art Thompson, Nuu-chah-nulth, Moon
Tim Paul, Nuu-chah-nulth, Herring Moon
Dean Heron, Tlingit, Stealing the Moon
Manuel Salazar, Salish, Eagle Within Moon
Burton Amos, Haisla, First Quarter Moon
When I lived in SD the local PBS station played the Rick Steves: Europe through the Back Door tv show. He's a really nerdy looking guy, but his show was great. Here, on KCLU, I get Rick Steves' radio show. A recent one was about Beer in Europe. There was lots of great info, but I found the bit about saying 'cheers' and clinking glasses fascinating. It's kinda like how people from different countries have different handshaking styles. In Ireland while clinking they say 'slainte,' but don't do eye contact. For Scandinavia it's 'skol', look at eachother "quick and meaningfully," but no clinking. The story from Germany is if you don't do eye contact, you will have seven years of bad sex. This bit is about 24 minutes in and is awfully funny.
I admired this movie more than I loved it, but it's still well worth seeing. It is a biopic of Woody Guthrie, although it only covers a couple of years of his life -- the late 30s, the dust bowl/great depression era. He is revealed as a womanizer, honest worker, fortune teller, musician, songwriter, activist, wanderer. The train hopping scenes were pretty impressive as it was clear that the lead actor, David Carradine, did all of his own stunts. Also, this was the first use of the steadicam, and to great effect, as those train hopping scenes looked great. Seemed like Carradine did his own singing, too, a fine performance. The songs are great. Seeing the context in which the songs were created was interesting. There are quite a few character actors in this that you'll recognize, which is fun. The trailer is on the dry side, but gives a decent feeling for the look of the picture.
I'm watching 'Bound for Glory' right now, it is a biopic about a couple of years in the life of Woody Guthrie. I noticed a few character actors in it, but Brion James really caught my eye. I knew I recognized him, so looked him up on allmovie & imdb. Turns out he's been in a ton of movies/tv shows -- he had a personal policy of never turning down a role. A couple of notable movies: In God's Hands (hollywood surf movie with great surfers, and a weak script), the Player, Tango&Cash, Red Heat, Steel Dawn, 48 Hrs., Blade Runner. Pretty impressive, eh? The tv credits are nuts: Rockford Files, Incredible Hulk, Mork & Mindy, the Jeffersons, CHiPS, Little House on the Prairie, Dukes of Hazzard, the Fall Guy, the A-Team, Matlock, Sledge Hammer!, Miami Vice. The tv shows of my youth...
More coverage of the show Treme on Fresh Air. They dedicated the whole hour to it.
His work is integral to the history of photography, and this is a good/interesting story, highly recommended. 'Lemon' by U2 at the end was a nice touch.
Great article today by Harold McGee about the cilantro-tasting-like-soap phenomena. He recommends cilantro pesto as a way to learn to tolerate it as the crushing of the leaves causes the soap-y flavour compound to disperse. I didn't know the science of it, but that's about the only way I happily tolerate it.
moon set
ants/sycamore
fire grate
interesting shapes, sycamores
see the face?
oak bark
pea?
My uncle is a professional photographer, for his nature photos he often places a leaf in the foreground to add interest. I always thought that was cheating. One of these is legit, I flipped the other...
I really like rack-focus photo pairs #1
the happy kind of poppy
I really like rack-focus photo pairs #2
I love the thin skin of polenta starch that forms on the side of the pan. It's tasty, and it looks cool.
New Orleans intrigues me. Not the drunken tourist version. The food culture. The music culture. Paul Prudhomme's cooking style is huge to me. Just now I heard an NPR piece about a new show on HBO called 'Treme.' It sounds pretty awesome.
Harry Shearer does a show on NPR called 'Le Show' and he often talks about New Orleans. His shows around when Katrina hit are heartbreaking parts of I, all of II. {Alas, streaming from the KCRW website stinks, they are also available from his website, search for the 25 Aug and 4 Sep 2005 shows}. The 25 Aug was one day before Katrina hit. He plays the song Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman, and discusses evacuating New Orleans. The 4 Sep show is stunning. I've learned a ton about New Orleans listening to him, the history and tradition associated with the non-touristy part of Mardi Gras is fascinating (e.g., 3 Feb 2008 is about Mardi Gras Indians, 31 Jan 2010 has a bit with pianist John Cleary, 3 Sep 2009 is about the Army Corps of Engineers/levees). This American Life also did a couple of great post-Katrina shows I,II. Float On by Modest Mouse featured prominently in one of them.
Update: this morning Morning Edition also had a piece on 'Treme.' It wasn't as interesting as the All things Considered last night, but it was still quite listenable.
Clearly the best article ever to appear on OnionAV. Way more info than wikipedia could ever dream of.... history of the show, discussion of each doctor, pics, video. Love.
I've watched this twice now, and just love it. The movie is executed well, but the underlying source material is truly fascinating -- This American Life did a full show about Mark Whitacre in 2000. Basically it's about Archer Daniels Midland (industrial farming) and price fixing and the FBI. With those plot points you'd think it would be a thriller, but it's not, it's a comedy, with cartoon-ish music and semi-cartoon-ish acting. And it really works. The trailer gives a good representation of the movie.
I'm blatantly ripping off the post title from a npr music blog. Stole the pic, too. The post is about Justin Vernon from Bon Iver playing with his high school jazz band in a benefit concert, which I mentioned a while back, but the npr post about it is much better. A recording of the concert is available in mp3 form at Amazon; I got the last song yesterday (Satisfied Mind) and it's great. That song also appears on the sixth Johnny Cash American Recordings album. Great song, and this is a nice version.
Didn't know about this project till NPR covered it this weekend. They also recorded a 'tiny desk concert' of 3 songs in the NPR studios. The interview was great and I really liked the songs they played. The album is coming in the mail....
Didn't take any pics last night, it's kinda lame to interrupt the flow of a party with a camera. This is this morning. Pasta trays piled up, otherwise not a very exciting pic...
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