Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need

Wildlife: Five bears have died on the east end of the Flathead Valley from gunfire and car collisions in the last few weeks -- we are crowding these animals to death with our lifestyle -- taking their natural food and encroaching on their foraging grounds.

Weather: Low clouds all day, but no rain in the valley. No house painters though -- I think they're chicken!

Media Watch: Line of Control, a Bollywood film about warfare in the mountains above Kashmir. The well-known faces are all in it, plus the sentimental songs and dancing. It's pretty good, as far as acting goes, but it's a brutal, intense subject, and a basically true story.
One understandable movie compromise was the actors wearing camouflage uniforms in colors making them stand out against the stark mountainous terrain, unlike actual soldiers who would need to blend into the background to survive.

From the intense to the ridiculous -- Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog was on CNN's coverage of the GOP convention, and had plenty of material to keep him busy.

Wildlife: We only see Goldfinches in the Spring and Autumn -- during the migration seasons. We are seeing them now!

Weather: Cooler, cloudy, but drier than last week -- a couple of short thunder-squalls yesterday, with a nice rainbow following the second.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World

In the Community: Gotta change the Hockaday's kiosk display at the Kalipell Mall this afternoon. We have the Members Only salon show coming up too.
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Here's another site from Eureka, Montana -- seven miles from the Canadian border:
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Media Watch: I'm reading Before Lewis and Clark: The French Dynasty that Ruled America's Frontier by Shirley Christian, a book about an originally-French, mixed-nationality, fur-trapping clan named Chouteau whose progeny founded a number of important cities and towns in western North America. There's a town called "Choteau" in Montana, and I just might find myself reading about it before long.
The Guru was re-re-run on the satellite last night -- funny movie, and a light-hearted exploitation of a few cliches of Bollywood films. It stars Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, and a London-born actor of Indian descent named Jimi Mistry.
The Guru - Movie Site
Chloroform bacteria in the waters of communication -- I'm trying to be informed about the GOP convention without anger poisoning my life.

Wildlife: Migrating ducks -- mostly Mallards, but there's far fewer males than I've ever seen before. That Bald Eagle is still soaring over Middle Foy's Lake.

Charity Alert: The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free

Weather: Still nice -- sunny, but not hot, with pleasant temperatures at night. This full-moon cycle has been spectacular too. We smelled smoke just after dark last night, but I suspect it might have been somebody's ill-advised campfire at the west end of the lake.

Media Watch: ANOTHER book about J.R.R. Tolkien -- Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez. This one's about his long friendship with C.S. Lewis and "The Inklings," their small literary circle. I have read better books, but it's short, and tells a little more about Lewis' move to Cambridge than others.
David Byrne's movie True Stories on TRIO Network last night. It introduced me to the awesome talent of John Goodman almost twenty years ago, even though he'd done some other films at the time. The late "Pops" Staples had a small, but important role, and Spaulding Gray (RIP) played a powerful businessman with a tenuous perception of reality. The great Tejano accordianist Flaco Jimenez played a song too.
Other highlights -- Wild Wild Life done a a lip-synch in a nightclub. Love For Sale as a step-removed cable TV ad among many TV ads. (These segments had the other Talking Heads - Jerry Harrison, Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth, in them.)
From Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth's website Tom Tom Club :

For three years Chris and Tina took time off from Tom Tom Club to concentrate their efforts on their Talking Heads career. In March 1984 they performed what would be the Talking Heads' last concerts, headlining summer festivals in Australia and New Zealand with The Eurythmics, Simple Minds, INXS and The Pretenders. While waiting for Talking Heads to regroup after the tour, Chris and Tina took an invitation from the B-52's to guest with them on a tour of New England in December 1984. In early 1985 they flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to perform with the B-52s for the first "Rock In Rio," a national ten-day televised concert series with a live audience of 360,000. Chris and Tina returned from Rio to join Jerry and David in New York to make Talking Heads' Little Creatures (1985) and True Stories (1985 -1986). True Stories the album was finished in spring of 1986 in Los Angeles where David was making his True Stories the film, which also featured videos and music of the band. Between projects in September of 1985 and unable to bear any longer the heatless nights of winter in their commercially-zoned Long Island City loft, Chris and Tina had moved with their small son, Robin, to a fully-heated barn of a home, Cock Island, in nearby Connecticut. Their second son, Egan, joined them there in August of 1986. Their loft had been Talking Headquarters since 1976, and it was there that Chris, Tina, Jerry and David once again sat down to write for Naked (1988) in the spring of 1987. In June the band flew to Paris to record what was to be their last studio album. When they returned to New York in September, Chris and Tina were asked to produce Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers' Conscious Party album, an offer that would be repeated for One Bright Day (Virgin) in early 1989.
A pretty good fan page -- Jerry Harrison Page
Another page from the same energetic fan, it's about the original quartet and the ubiquitous David Byrne -- Francey's TALKING-HEADS.NET
The best (and FUNKIEST) version of the Talking Heads included Adrian Bellew, Steve Scales, Nona Hendryx, original Bride of Funkenstein Lynn Mabry, and my friend Bernie Worrell: .: BernieWorrell.com :.

Wildlife: A Bald Eagle was perched in a pine tree across the lake yesterday, taking a few soaring flights on occasion.

Weather: A beautiful moonlit night, followed by a sunny day -- house painting anyone?

Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!

In the Community: The Discovery Auction could have been better attended, but they're rebuilding Highway 93 outside of the site where we held it. Sure was interesting negotiating my way through the reflector-posts while driving back in the dark -- couldn't see a damn thing except red-orange stripes!
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.

Media Watch: A Bollywood version of Witness. It was fairly sensuous for an Indian movie, and the hook of the plot made sense in an Indian context. (Reincarnated Buddhist Lama vs. Amish child.) They are both pretty lame dramas, but the handsome cop gets the gorgeous heroine at the end of the Bollywood flick.
NYC protests against Bush and the GOP, plus skeptic Michael Shermer in another ill-advised non-debate with a snake-oil salesman on CSPAN. Is it really discourse when nobody's listening?
Frank Frazetta; Painting With Fire -- a movie about one of my favorite artists on IFC. It kisses ass almost as much as it informs, but the influence of this man's work makes him deserve at least ONE film in his lifetime.
Frank Frazetta Art Gallery/Paintings

Theater Update: More from the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus --
September 3-5. 2004
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at
3rd Annual Sideshow Gathering
at Inkin' The Valley
Ramada Plaza Hotel in Public Square
Wilkes Barre, PA

for more info go to The Sideshow Gathering at The Inkin' The Valley Tattoo Convention
Bindlestiff co-founders Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu will perform at
8:40 Friday night.

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Saturday Oct 9
East Falls Fall Festival
Philadelphia, PA

Oct.9, Buckaroo Bindlestiff Wild West Show, 11am, for Kids and families.
Brought to you by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
A Wild West Show with Cirkus pizzazz.

Oct. 9, "Bindlestiff Cabaret," Evening. A"conflagration of circus and
burlesque" presented by Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
Must be 18+ to attend.

Further information coming soon.

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January 13, 14 and 15
CSPS
Cedar Rapids, IA
Details coming soon.

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February and March 2005
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents
NYC season
Details coming soon.

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Need to see a bit of Bindlestiff?
Photographer Gregory Costanzo has captured many a Bindle
Visit: Gregory Costanzo.com

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