And here it is. As if you didn’t have enough to do… I have launched a second blog, which can be found at http://www.burningluv.blogspot.com/ Why Burning Love?? Burning Wood (my original blog) is approaching its 4th year, and if there is one thing I’ve learned in four years, aside from how many of you hate …
Month: August 2012
Sharing files between computers is fairly simple. That is, it’s simple when all of the computers within that network use the same OS. Macs and PCs don’t have a good history when it comes to working together; they’re the computing equivalent of the most dysfunctional married couple someone could imagine. There are ways to make …
This year, Rosh Hashanah– the Jewish High Holidays or the Jewish New Year– will fall on September 16. For this time frame, I was hired to re-write a fundraiser letter for a Jewish Community Center in London. As I looked into it, I was a nudged from my comfortable spot of complacency. I learned something …
No matter how well things are going, unexpected problems can arise at any moment. Some of those problems can be a huge threat to someone’s financial stability. Debt is more than a number on a spread sheet, it’s a commitment. Money can’t simply be given back once it’s spent, and while bankruptcy is always an …
I’m an angry man. Not a day goes by when I don’t feel infuriated by one thing or another. A friend took me to lunch at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. We were in the middle of a stimulating conversation that lasted more than two hours. The restaurant was almost empty, with no one …
Buying a home is a rite of passage; it’s the point where someone’s hard work pays off, and he can finally settle down with his family and build wealth for the future. However, things happen, and sometimes people need to move. Sometimes it’s because they find jobs elsewhere, and sometimes it’s because they want a …
Legendary Two Tone band The English Beat played to a packed audience Saturday night August 11th. From the entrance all the way to the stage was nothing but packed bodies waiting in anticipation for Dave Wakeling and friends to emerge. Wakeling came on stage commenting about our (rare) sunny day and thanking us for it, …
Paul Ryan liked Ayn Rand in high school and now he gives her books to all his staffers. Maybe I should give all my co-workers cassettes of Black Flag’s Damaged. – NPR’s John Moe is the host of Marketplace Tech Report and Wits.
At Western Recorders in Hollywood on July 25, 1966, The Monkees recorded Mike Nesmith’s song “Mary, Mary” – meanwhile at nearly the same time, at Chess Studios on 2120 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, the Paul Butterfield band with Mike Bloomfield was recording it as well. I’ve always loved it when doped up, kick ass …
Ok, first thing, I am not too embarrassed to admit I really did not think Mitt would choose Paul. Everything thing about Romney’s style and campaign has led me to view him as a cautious, careful politician. One who tries little new, but wants to perfect the doing of what has been done before. Thus …
The legendary Joe Jackson (the musician, not the shoeless ball player) is on tour in the US in September and October. His only Northwest date will be in Seattle on October second at the Moore Theater. Jackson, who started out in the punk/new wave scene over thirty years ago, has now switched to more eclectic …
Total Victory is a band I know next to nothing about. I came across this track very randomly on the internet and was moved to share it here. The vocal starts off feeling Fall-esque but once it gets into its stride, the whole thing is quite a hypnotic sucker-inner. The lyrics are straaange …. sci-fi? …
Producer Ted Templeman remarked that he went through three engineers during the recording of the LP, due to Morrison’s “ability as a musician, arranger and producer”: “When he’s got something together, he wants to put it down right away with no overdubbing … I’ve had to change engineers who couldn’t keep up with him.” Morrison’s …
“I never saw a frown,” recalled Tom Robbins, who wasn’t yet a famous author but was writing for The Helix, Robbins also had a radio show on KRAB-FM, “Notes From the Underground.” “Everyone was happy and smiling. It was such a utopian event. There was a feeling of freedom and sharing and loving.” The germ …
[Howlin’ Hounddog & the Infamous Loosers will perform Saturday, August 11, at the East Burn (1800 E. Burnside, Portland) from 10PM to 1AM. A good time will be had by all who attend, so make certain to be there.] I met Howlin’ Hounddog at the recent Rocket party where he told me that he and …
August fifth, Saturday, was a beautiful day in the Seattle area. After a cloudy and rainy June and July, I welcomed the sunny, hot weather as I headed to The White River Amphitheater for the 2012 Warped Tour. For those of you unaware of what the Warped Tour is, allow me to briefly explain. The …
The True Spokes‘, “Back Porch” video was directed by feature film director Jeff Ferrell (Ghostlight) and produced by Soul United Productions with assistance and support from Summer Meltdown. The True Spokes recently changed their name from Flowmotion and released a self titled debut that reflects new aspects of their maturing sound and development as a …
Hello, dear readers. August 5 proved to be another hectic day for Mr. Renton. Sunday began by covering the Seafair Cup races at Lake Washington, including another mindblowing aerial display by the Blue Angels. Nighttime found yours truly catching, simultaneously, JESSE SYKES at Gainesbourg and KASEY CHAMBERS at The Triple Door. In between, Mr. Renton …
Recorded in the summer of 1969 at 1457 National Street in Memphis with Terry Manning on bass, Richard Rosebrough on drums, and Jeff Newman on steel guitar. Produced and engineered by Terry Manning (who had mixed Led Zeppelin III that summer at the same Memphis location). Manning and Chilton flew to LA with the tapes …
This lovely clip of the fabulous Lena Horne in Ziegfield Follies (1946) is a joy and a treasure: a reminder of just how talented she was. It is also a reminder that, for all her star quality, Horne would never be offered a major role in a Hollywood movie. Horne’s left-wing sympathies were a major …
Diana Darby grew up in Texas, went to film school in Los Angeles and has been living in Nashville for years – yet, if you were to sit down and talk to her for an hour, you’d swear to god that she was born and raised in Manhattan. She’s got the piss and vinegar of …
Having spent the last 8 weeks reading hundreds of documents, personal letters, note books, journals of Jerry Rubin, including correspondence between Jerry and the Weathermen, the Panthers, other YIPPIES, other Chicago 8 defendants, and close personal friends of his, I’ve reached the conclusion that the 1960’s were not just a “Hippie Dream” – but a …
A COLLECTION (2000-2012) from the Be Good Tanyas is a 16-song career retrospective. The collection features two brand new tracks, “LITTLE BLACK BEAR ” and “GOSPEL SONG,” and two new mixes of previously released tracks. The album is already available in North America and will be released around the rest of the world on the …
http://youtu.be/Ug1AS3yyWtw That’s the pre-Partridge Family Hal Blaine [playing drums in the above clip]! I have no specific memory of playing Peggy Lipton’s album, which actually came out on Ode in 1968, shortly after MOD SQUAD took the country by storm, so I’ll have to dig it out sometime. Didn’t recall that she sang such buoyant …
As a writer I consider him the greatest American stylist since at least WWII, if not since his beloved Henry James, as well as our finest essayist by quite a stretch. But I think his astonishing RANGE was most impressive of all–here was a fearless and fearsomely talented artist who conquered Television during its Golden …
Thanks to Allison Morris for this instructional graphic which shows how cheating behavior starts early and how this habit can continue into adulthood. This material was originally posted here – http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/07/23/rise-of-the-cheater.
Brilliant, unpredictable, hilarious and wholly American – I’ll miss Gore Vidal! – Jim Demetre