Science! Psuedo-science! Nature! Art! Nonsense!
August 2, 2025
art, concert, music Call it Dreaming, Flightless Bird, God Made the Automobile, I Give a Little Bit of Myself, i'm with her, iron and wine, live music, Robin's Egg, video, worlf trap Leave a comment
Iron and Wine put on a very good show. Great band. Tasty drums. And tight.
Things got even better when I’m With Her joined in. Outstanding.
And as Ben said. It was hot as the Dickens.
May 31, 2025
art, dance, humor, wedding 5.25.25, caroline, leuven, video, video art, wedding, yo 1 Comment
May 31, 2025
art, film, wedding 5.25.25, cinema, film, walt, wedding 1 Comment
April 18, 2025
art art, barns of rose hill, BORH, opening, pottery, rode hill, Winton and Rosa Eugene Leave a comment
Pottery is not usually our thing. But great people are.
What?!
Self portrait a bit younger.
Would WE goof off?
March 23, 2025
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Honestly it is way more fun to see art with Romey. While she was slaving away in class, I went to see art. Please don’t tell.
I am still super pleased by the lift the Hirshhorn has experienced under its new leadership. Yes please. Keep it up.
From the permanent collection.
Kandinsky
Detail
Before Basquiat
Three dimensions
Our old pal Laurie in permanence.
And then a special treat in the basement…
March 23, 2025
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About the only thing to do with these ancient plastic films in 8mm and super8 is to digitize them for posterity. This project will take a few months. And it’s fun.
February 27, 2025
art, music, photography cathedral, notre dame, Paris 2 Comments
When I was 16, I played a concert in Notre Dame Cathedral. After the fire, it is very very clean inside. Work is still in progress on the outside. The speed of the reconstruction is very impressive.
Security to get in is rather intense. Martin Luther would have loved this.
The new clean interior is breathtaking.
And the organ is being put through its paces. We heard some Greig, including In the Hall of the Mountain King. Here is the bombastic ending of that piece. What a special treat!
February 27, 2025
art, travel art, art museum, caroline, gem, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, rhinoceros, romey, yo 1 Comment
Yo could have sworn that we had a kilometer yet to go. He did not open himself up to the rhinoceros.
Romey and I sprinted up to 4 as soon as we arrived to take in the impressionists before they were mobbed.
Is this a Renoir or a Manet?
Lunch was actually delicious.
And now you too can channel your inner rhinoceros.
February 27, 2025
art, travel art show, banksy, bowie, jobs, Paris, pop up, queen, romey, the walled off hotel, warhol 1 Comment
Sometimes when you are walking down the street in Paris taking in the sights, you just take a quick left into an art show. We probably could have stayed at the hotel (copy) too.
Who did it better?
Steve is taking all our shit!
Just who is the real queen?
February 27, 2025
art, music, travel jazz, karl Jannuska, live music, original music, Paris, record, sunset-sunside, suset-sunside, the pull 2 Comments
Well it’s not Caveau de la Huchette, but Sunset-Sunside is a great place to see a jazz show, especially if you want to sit close enough to the stage to read the music off the guitar player’s stand! We were lucky to catch the album release show for The Pull by Karl Jannuska (of Manitoba Canadian-fame now living in Paris). The show was very good.
Just how close to the stage?
A complete version of Unsung (track 11 on The Pull).
Karl is an absolutely outstanding drummer.
This guitarist is also astoundingly good. Revel in his finger work and tasty, subtle melody stitches (partial).
A jam (partial) from Picture Perfect, track 6 from The Pull.
The piano player (who also worked on the recording in an important capacity) held down the bass. This was by far the trickiest part of the gig and mostly worked. Seeing Karl preside over the rhythm section with a real bass player would be a dream.
I know the challenge of having recorded tracks that you perfected in the studio in your head that are nigh on impossible to redo live due to the two instruments problem. Sometimes I switch back and forth inside of one song when performing. At least piano players get two hands.
So What’s Next?, track 2 on The Pull, featured an outstanding release jam reminiscent of Miles’ Bitches Brew tracks. Watching this happen live really makes me want to grab my fiddle and hop in.
The sound guy spent a bit too much time recording and not enough watching what was going on. But I’m sure those were his marching orders.
Track 13 from The Pull, Unfiltered Life (complete) features some excellent guitar work from the other guitarist (whose back we watched). In this track he channels Andy Summers. I like this live version better than the recorded track, mostly because there were points when things got iffy and the band persisted).
For the third set, we moved out front.
For a last minute, “lets just pop the TGV to Paris early” plan, attending this show was absolutely lucky as hell. Thanks Karl for a very memorable evening. May we cross paths again.
Get a copy of The Pull from Bandcamp here. You won’t regret it.
