Wildlife: I saw yesterday's skunk climb into my neighbor's back yard -- there is are hundreds of square feet of decking and a swimming pool there. I know because my cat Jasmine used to hide in/around/under that place.
I fancy I can hear the neighbor calling: Here kitty kitty kitty!
Charity Alert: The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free
Weather: Rain rain rain, beautiful rain; as Ladysmith Black Mambazo sings.
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO
Media Watch: No Kingdom Hospital THIS week either. I suspect that it's going to wrap up very soon, once it returns from pre-emption (if that ever happens).
Here's synopses of the 10 shows so far: ABC.com: Kingdom Hospital
I watched most of a Bollywood action/comedy instead -- wonderfully absurd!
In the Community: Tom English's exhibit at the Hockaday Museum is UP! There's a few fine-tunings to be made before the opening on June 3, but we've had one heck of a week tearing-down and putting-up artworks.
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
It could always be worse -- London and Paris have seen artwork DESTROYED by a warehouse fire, and a major building collapse, where people died too.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Hope wanes as art fire list grows
USATODAY.com - New cracking sounds heard in Paris airport terminal
I've got to start editing the college's Current Events videotape for the cable channel now! Flathead Valley Community College
Friday, May 28, 2004
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Wildlife: A skunk found our tray feeder on the deck. We need to find a slightly different location so he can't mooch on it so easy.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Weather: It rained overnight, and a little this morning. I have to videotape outside, and the clouds are running fast & low!
Media Watch: Ellen DeGeneres had a "Yes You Can" contest winner singing backup (with Ellen) alongside Dolly Parton. The credits started rolling immediately. I didn't see or hear anything embarrassing, except the concept's execution.
In the Community: We got the Smithsonian's Graceful Envelope exhibit hung on time at the Hockaday Museum of Art. There's one more show to hang, but the opening reception isn't until June 3, and the artist hasn't brought in his paintings as of yesterday. (Hurry!)
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Weather: It rained overnight, and a little this morning. I have to videotape outside, and the clouds are running fast & low!
Media Watch: Ellen DeGeneres had a "Yes You Can" contest winner singing backup (with Ellen) alongside Dolly Parton. The credits started rolling immediately. I didn't see or hear anything embarrassing, except the concept's execution.
In the Community: We got the Smithsonian's Graceful Envelope exhibit hung on time at the Hockaday Museum of Art. There's one more show to hang, but the opening reception isn't until June 3, and the artist hasn't brought in his paintings as of yesterday. (Hurry!)
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Wildlife: A small group of what appeared to be hawks or eagles were sailing on the winds over my neighborhood. We got out the bird-identification book, and it seems like they were vultures.
Weather: Rain overnight, still blustery and cloudy today -- GOOD!
Charity Alert: Do SOMETHING -- even if it's just a click -- The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests
Media Watch: The book Metal to Mozart is almost done. There were two movies on the satellite about The Who -- Ken Russell's Tommy, and The Kids Are Alright. I remember reading Paul William's magazine Crawdaddy, about 1967, where he said that all Peter Townshend needed was one good album to turn The Who into the stars they deserved to be. About a year and a half later, Tommy came out, and The Who started to get bigger, and bigger, and bigger -- well you get the point. I remember a Royal Albert Hall performance with guest stars like Rod Stewart singing Pinball Wizard around 1972, and at least two more quality Who albums -- Live At Leeds, and Who's Next.
I will also mention some solo albums by Townshend, Daltrey, and Entwhistle that got scathing reviews, although some hits came out of them -- Smash Your Head Against The Wall by Entwhistle did alright, I was fond of Whistle Rhymes, even though nobody else seemed to like it. These two albums featured Peter Frampton on guitar, with Humble Pie's rhythm section.
Daltrey's first solo album was all songs by Leo Sayer, who did very well in the late 70's. I never heard his second, Ride A Rock Horse, with production, songs, and arrangements by one of my favorite musicians, Russ Ballard. Townshend had some real success on his own at the dawn of the 80's, but heroin addiction, and other problems, almost killed him.
Russell's Tommy had to be a strange "top of the mountain" for the members of The Who. They had been performing these particular songs for almost six years, and were often doing them as a quickly-paced medly in an encore set. While the Tommy movie re-kindled Ann Margaret's star, Russell's follow-up, Liztomania, sank Daltrey's newly-launched movie career -- that WAS an awful film, and I hesitate to blame anybody but the producer(s).
The Kid Are Alright shows a lot of unresolved tension within the band. Townshend makes a very canny statement about The Who potentially becoming a "circus act," meaning "doing what we already know we can do." He goes on saying, "Nothing wrong with that, as long as that's what we really want."
Well, that's what The Who became, but I'm very unsure if that's what the individual members really wanted. As a teenager, I was impressed with The Who's originality as they kept making single after single. I thought that "getting big" was a just reward for their good work, even though it may have ended up as a curse of sorts.
I would call them a "Power Ensemble," eveybody played their part with outstanding ability. Moon was a uniquely talented drummer. Bassist Entwhistle was a sophisticated musician and sound engineer, in a field that underemphasized, but needed, those skills badly. Daltrey was a indefatigatible front man who was able to sing over the loudest (measured) trio in the world.
Townshend not only wrote hit songs, but they got better over the years, and his guitar playing got progressively stronger as his audience demanded more. His first solo album's jacket (circa 1971) shows him standing on eggs -- methinks he was under absurdly intense pressure.
Entwhistle and Moon both died from substance abuse that was, in my opinion, triggered from the pressures of being part of The Who. I'm glad that Townshend and Daltrey are still around. I've also enjoyed Daltrey's acting on Rude Awakening, with Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, and Tim Curry.
Weather: Rain overnight, still blustery and cloudy today -- GOOD!
Charity Alert: Do SOMETHING -- even if it's just a click -- The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests
Media Watch: The book Metal to Mozart is almost done. There were two movies on the satellite about The Who -- Ken Russell's Tommy, and The Kids Are Alright. I remember reading Paul William's magazine Crawdaddy, about 1967, where he said that all Peter Townshend needed was one good album to turn The Who into the stars they deserved to be. About a year and a half later, Tommy came out, and The Who started to get bigger, and bigger, and bigger -- well you get the point. I remember a Royal Albert Hall performance with guest stars like Rod Stewart singing Pinball Wizard around 1972, and at least two more quality Who albums -- Live At Leeds, and Who's Next.
I will also mention some solo albums by Townshend, Daltrey, and Entwhistle that got scathing reviews, although some hits came out of them -- Smash Your Head Against The Wall by Entwhistle did alright, I was fond of Whistle Rhymes, even though nobody else seemed to like it. These two albums featured Peter Frampton on guitar, with Humble Pie's rhythm section.
Daltrey's first solo album was all songs by Leo Sayer, who did very well in the late 70's. I never heard his second, Ride A Rock Horse, with production, songs, and arrangements by one of my favorite musicians, Russ Ballard. Townshend had some real success on his own at the dawn of the 80's, but heroin addiction, and other problems, almost killed him.
Russell's Tommy had to be a strange "top of the mountain" for the members of The Who. They had been performing these particular songs for almost six years, and were often doing them as a quickly-paced medly in an encore set. While the Tommy movie re-kindled Ann Margaret's star, Russell's follow-up, Liztomania, sank Daltrey's newly-launched movie career -- that WAS an awful film, and I hesitate to blame anybody but the producer(s).
The Kid Are Alright shows a lot of unresolved tension within the band. Townshend makes a very canny statement about The Who potentially becoming a "circus act," meaning "doing what we already know we can do." He goes on saying, "Nothing wrong with that, as long as that's what we really want."
Well, that's what The Who became, but I'm very unsure if that's what the individual members really wanted. As a teenager, I was impressed with The Who's originality as they kept making single after single. I thought that "getting big" was a just reward for their good work, even though it may have ended up as a curse of sorts.
I would call them a "Power Ensemble," eveybody played their part with outstanding ability. Moon was a uniquely talented drummer. Bassist Entwhistle was a sophisticated musician and sound engineer, in a field that underemphasized, but needed, those skills badly. Daltrey was a indefatigatible front man who was able to sing over the loudest (measured) trio in the world.
Townshend not only wrote hit songs, but they got better over the years, and his guitar playing got progressively stronger as his audience demanded more. His first solo album's jacket (circa 1971) shows him standing on eggs -- methinks he was under absurdly intense pressure.
Entwhistle and Moon both died from substance abuse that was, in my opinion, triggered from the pressures of being part of The Who. I'm glad that Townshend and Daltrey are still around. I've also enjoyed Daltrey's acting on Rude Awakening, with Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, and Tim Curry.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Charity Alert: Ya' gotta visit this site and click! The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Wildlife: Golden Eye Ducks are swimming with their broods! They are so small, you could fit six ducklings in each hand.
Weather: A fairly wet weekend, with lots of snow in the mountains. The local news is obsessed with the opening of Going-To-The-Sun Road over Logan Pass in Glacier National Park this time of year. The drought made it look like there would be an early opening, but two weeks of regular snowfall has delayed things.
In the Community: I had to tape The Elephant Man (play) twice. Nobody's gonna regret Thursday's show being consigned to digital oblivion -- Saturday was alright.
The Hockaday's Benefit Auction of Miniatures was a fine ol' time! Check out the archives: Hockaday Museum of Art Web Archive
New material on the Historical Society web site, especially in the Gift Shop and on the Links Page: The M -- Your Museum and More! NW Montana Historical Society Museum at Central School
Media Watch: Generals serving in Iraq answering questions about their behavior, and that of their troops. A congressmen complaining that they should be back at their "commands," while the generals claim ignorance of what's going on in their own army. I doubt they'll be missed if they're as out-of-touch as they say they are, Congressman Creep!
I haven't sat down with CSpan's Book TV much lately, but here's a link: Book TV.org
Johnathan Creek on BBC America's Mystery Monday was rather TOO fast-paced and cliche'd to be a compelling mystery this week -- I hope the rest of the coming season's shows aren't this bad.
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy -- Thom Fillicia had one 'Hail' of a job to do making a tiny NYC apartment livable. It was a sitting room, hall, tiny kitchen, and tinier half-bath. 'Butch,' the tenant, had to sleep on a platform above his computer desk in the hall, it was so cramped for space. The rest of the Fab Five got him to cut his hair, and wear clean clothes, but Thom had the hardest job, as usual.
Wildlife: Golden Eye Ducks are swimming with their broods! They are so small, you could fit six ducklings in each hand.
Weather: A fairly wet weekend, with lots of snow in the mountains. The local news is obsessed with the opening of Going-To-The-Sun Road over Logan Pass in Glacier National Park this time of year. The drought made it look like there would be an early opening, but two weeks of regular snowfall has delayed things.
In the Community: I had to tape The Elephant Man (play) twice. Nobody's gonna regret Thursday's show being consigned to digital oblivion -- Saturday was alright.
The Hockaday's Benefit Auction of Miniatures was a fine ol' time! Check out the archives: Hockaday Museum of Art Web Archive
New material on the Historical Society web site, especially in the Gift Shop and on the Links Page: The M -- Your Museum and More! NW Montana Historical Society Museum at Central School
Media Watch: Generals serving in Iraq answering questions about their behavior, and that of their troops. A congressmen complaining that they should be back at their "commands," while the generals claim ignorance of what's going on in their own army. I doubt they'll be missed if they're as out-of-touch as they say they are, Congressman Creep!
I haven't sat down with CSpan's Book TV much lately, but here's a link: Book TV.org
Johnathan Creek on BBC America's Mystery Monday was rather TOO fast-paced and cliche'd to be a compelling mystery this week -- I hope the rest of the coming season's shows aren't this bad.
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy -- Thom Fillicia had one 'Hail' of a job to do making a tiny NYC apartment livable. It was a sitting room, hall, tiny kitchen, and tinier half-bath. 'Butch,' the tenant, had to sleep on a platform above his computer desk in the hall, it was so cramped for space. The rest of the Fab Five got him to cut his hair, and wear clean clothes, but Thom had the hardest job, as usual.
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