We're in for a heat swell. I don't like hot weather except now in late August when the sticky air is like peach fur, the cicadas hum, and you know cool air is coming soon.
This evening, I'm pulling old photos off the desktop computer I've shared with Mz for almost four years before she takes it away when she moves in two days (Sept. 1).
I'd forgotten a lot of the photos, some of which are really pretty good, and also how much Ilike love taking pictures.
(Why don't I do the things I love?)
I need a new camera! I don't need a fancy one:
the one I broke was a $200 point-and-shoot.
Below, from a couple summers ago, 2013, playing Neil Diamond's album Hot August Night, (1972)vat the David Byrne's "Play the Building" installation downtown,
and below that--the same orange record player at home.
("Hot August night" is also the opening line to Diamond's 1969 single "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show", [links to the official version] which is a GREAT song, about "tremendous yearing looking for answers, some way to ease a very hard burden, very rough lives,"
even though Diamond later slid off into ... slimy.
Hey, people change!
Compare him singing this song live in 1970, ([starts at 2:15] on the Johnny Cash show) when he's still green, almost sweet and shy, and likable, to his lounge lizard performance in 1976. * )
This evening, I'm pulling old photos off the desktop computer I've shared with Mz for almost four years before she takes it away when she moves in two days (Sept. 1).
I'd forgotten a lot of the photos, some of which are really pretty good, and also how much I
(Why don't I do the things I love?)
I need a new camera! I don't need a fancy one:
the one I broke was a $200 point-and-shoot.
Below, from a couple summers ago, 2013, playing Neil Diamond's album Hot August Night, (1972)vat the David Byrne's "Play the Building" installation downtown,
and below that--the same orange record player at home.
("Hot August night" is also the opening line to Diamond's 1969 single "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show", [links to the official version] which is a GREAT song, about "tremendous yearing looking for answers, some way to ease a very hard burden, very rough lives,"
even though Diamond later slid off into ... slimy.
Hey, people change!
Compare him singing this song live in 1970, ([starts at 2:15] on the Johnny Cash show) when he's still green, almost sweet and shy, and likable, to his lounge lizard performance in 1976. * )
My favorite of these sorts of songs (gospel Christian?) is the wonderful "Turn Your Radio On" (1940 recording), by the hillbilly Blue Sky Boys, another brother duo, a song I'm crazy about:
"Get in touch with God,
Turn your radio on...."
Their soft accents remind me of my mother's Missouri relatives.
The way they sing "listen to the music in the air [ehhhr]" makes me homesick for a whole bunch of folks who are long gone,
"the many friends gone on before..." and those who will soon be gone.
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*Credit where credit is due:
Stacia's amazing post on Neil Diamond and writing, "Matter of Fact, It's All Dark", at She Blogged By Night, in which she gives full credit to a greatest-hits album's ability to send a person into "the throes of some weird ennui-induced thing...."
Stacia's amazing post on Neil Diamond and writing, "Matter of Fact, It's All Dark", at She Blogged By Night, in which she gives full credit to a greatest-hits album's ability to send a person into "the throes of some weird ennui-induced thing...."
