Watch Listen Tell
Watch Listen Tell originally was a pilot for a music show I wanted to get commissioned. However, I got sidetracked making a film last year and WLT started to just take up a life of it’s own. I got bored of the way live music was being presented and packaged, I wanted WLT to be something different. Simply put, it’s a unique music channel, featuring new artists playing live music.
Try one:
Mysteries to Ponder
A new list of thirteen mysteries has been posted. Once again, these take us to the edge of the amazing universe all around us.
dear clusterflock
What sucks?
quote out of context
“Move the line, people. Believe it or not, someone here has worse problems than you do, if you can imagine.”
notes on the way to Hawaii
Section A Row 10
Simply famished
He went from David to their father. I’m pretty sure she still smokes.
People laughing at a movie you can’t hear is obnoxious.
Arnold
The ocean’s calling me.
quote out of context
“I’ve been told you were chosen on height criteria,” a reporter for the Belgian TV network RTBF asked a dark-haired woman in the lineup. “Is that true?”
the new old
Continuing 50 plus years of rangefinder development, Leica today introduced the M9, the world’s first full frame digital rangefinder.
With My Own Eyes
Yesterday I visited with Andrew, had a few gin and tonics and spent a good amount of time staring at the ocean. Tomorrow I’m flying out to visit Ricky and Danny, and in early October I’m visiting Miss Kelsey and Michael Smith. I feel very lucky to see ‘flockers when and where I can, and lately that’s more often than not.
Dear clusterflock
I spent the long weekend considering pride. While I know it’s a good thing to have self-respect, too often it seems ego impedes progress.
How easily do you recognize your own mistakes? What steps do you take to go about learning from them?
Tabitha, January 1998 – September 2009
um
We’re back.
Voltaire & Rousseau (Glasgow) | Wil Freeborn
Only today, working my way back through Flickr-friends’ posts, did I discover this from our own Wil. I think it’s a stunner.
And then I got thinking, Hey! There are some gifted people who hang out here. If we see or hear or read something we like when we visit them at home, let’s share.
What is this thing called Hope?
At Mount Hope Road and US Highway 20. East of Galena, Illinois.
Is it a pale and sickly thing? (“One can always hope.”) Is it specifically and exclusively Christian? Can one exercise hope as an active force, or is it merely the passive expectation that things will turn out better, thanks to something or other?
(I get all fired up, y’all, once summer is past. The onset of autumn gets me all frisky, and I commence to pester.)
At dinner
“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered,” said Mr. Erskine; “I myself would really say it had merely been detected.”
–The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Peter Rock’s New Novel–Recommended
Our friend Melinda, who lives in Portland, OR where this novel is set, gave me this book recently and I just read it this weekend. It’s splendid. As I read I found myself thinking of several other books that share aspects of its tone and approach: Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster; Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping; and Russell Banks’s Rule of the Bone. I now plan to seek out more of Peter Rock’s fine work.
444 years ago
The Great Siege of Malta was lifted on September 8 (It is now September 8 in Malta), 1565, when the Ottoman fleet abandoned its almost four-month-long assault on the island and returned to the empire.
Go Down, Moses…
Way down to Egypt land.
Dateline: Heliopolis
Today Pharaoh Pepi II signaled his support for the farmers of Egypt by naming “Scarecrow’s Love Affair” the official song of September 7.
How Doth the Little Crocodile
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
Lewis Carroll. From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Parody of the didactic “Against Idleness and Mischief” by Isaac Watts (“How doth the little busy bee/Improve each shining hour”).
Ra Addresses the Youth
Oakland, California. 1972.
From Space Is the Place (1974). Directed by John Coney. Featuring Sun Ra, Ray Johnson, Christopher Brooks, The Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra with June Tyson, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen. (Reissued in a revised edition on DVD in 2003. The edition on VHS presents the film as released in 1974. This clip appears to be from the revised DVD edition.)
Pepi II’s hit parade
Weekly Picture 163
Glitter Shoes, Children’s Museum, Austin, TX, 7.30.2009
Hummingbirds
Public Service Announcement
On Tuesday, September 8, 2204 BCE, Pharaoh Pepi II will deliver a speech to Egyptian schoolchildren urging them to learn their hieroglyphs and avoid besotting themselves on honey beer. In protest, the priests of Sekhmet have urged parents to keep their children at play on the banks of the Nile and not to worry about the occasional crocodile.
Pepi II’s recommended reading
James Moore’s take on my native state (Texas) is rather like my own. (Plus he begins with a great quote from Butch Hancock.)
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