I interviewed Curley Neal at his clinic in Menlo Park, winter 1984.
I just noticed Normani “Motivation” video after buying Rolling Stone #1337
I was gonna compare her to Dr Hook until I noticed her ball handling.
I think all five of her fence climbing colleagues deserve record deals. 360, even.
I noticed her manager is named Silverstein. Brandon Silverstein.
RS cover on my 56th birthday by Campbell Addy
(Ida sent out a two minute vine of birds singing in her yard, then I stepped out and did 30 seconds very similarly….a couple days later, I found this poem by Al Young, the poet laureate who has a birthday next month, end of May…)
Stay beautiful
but don’t stay down underground too long
Dont turn into a mole
or a worm
or a root
or a stone
Come on out into the sunlight
Breathe in trees
Knock out mountains
Commune with snakes
& be the very hero of birds
Don’t forget to poke your head up
& blink
Think
Walk all around
Swim upstream
Dont forget to fly
(I presume the punctuation is proprietary…)
If you read this blog serially or from top down and not just follow a link, you might notice a Japanese theme recently. yes, I was impacted by my work with Akira Tana. But there was also a movie festival with Kurosawa films at Stanford Theatre.
I just saw a cite of a Japanese folk song, Terubozu and now comparing a couple versions I notice a reference to a gold bell, carried by a Monk. (Not Thelonious, obviously). But in other versions, it is a ball. Bell, ball, what’s the difference.
Oh, that this too solid flesh would melt, because it is too sullied.
Also, by Terry, formerly known as TMT and now TMW, maybe I should call her Terry Terry Boozoo.
Terry bought be a Japanese referencing t-shirt from uniqlo and it took me a while just now to guess its Sharaku. Bub sent me something about Robert Whiting You Gotta Have Wa and I noticed on the cover — paperback 2006 not original 1989 that i recall excerpted page 76 on Sports Illustrated — what looks like a fake Sharaku. Not sure.
I also have a pocket tee with Hokusai, which she just last night thought was a Hiroshige. (If i got that wrong uniqlo had a correction that accepted that and corrected and directed).
The thing about 36 Views of Mt Fuji is the mountain, even though the wave is what people notice. (which is wa I was going for when I slyly posted a photo of local musician from Ana and The MRI but she’s not in focus and you can read the marquee from same Stanford 27 Uni Top Hat The Thin Man.).
There is Method Man in my Madness. (that could be a band name or mash up)
There’s also, back to where I came in, Edgar Allen Poe “The Gold Bug”.
This illustration from an early Poe reminds me of Miho’s Cover…
I saw two women making music at Lytton Plaza on July 14, 2018 and thought they were great. I call them Top Hat and The Thin Man because I was on my way to watch some Fred Astaire movies at Stanford Theatre. Neither of them wore a top hat and although I did not scrutinize their bodies they seemed of normal and not thin build.
I’m not sure if their songs were original — maybe I heard a couple songs and then chatted them up a bit. I am sensing they played a mix of covers and originals. One of them sat on the bench, sang and strummed a guitar but not a banjo. The other sang and tapped a rhythm on tamborine. I’ll say “top hat” was the guitarist and “thin man” was the percussionist.
Their lyrics were something like
……seventeen hours/
rock me like a wagon wheel/
rock me mama any way you feel/
Hey, mama, rock me.
Maybe the internet will tell me who wrote this, if not these two rising stars of street music.
addendumri:
If it was never new and never gets old its a folk song
and1:
Ladies and gentlemen, or anything in between, via the magic of the mediation of technology and Marianne Chowning’s father and his FM stuff, here they are, in 2008, yet still timely, the Rebecca Riots (briefly known as Final Girl)
edit to add, meta-note: I don’t know why first you see the video (or rr) and then you only see the link,but I will try and try, and try and try, again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrh6Xy9WsQ
edit to add, a day or two later (during the lucid dreaming collective stage known as social distancing): also, Bob Dylan at his concert at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheatre about six months ago used “Ballad of A Thin Man” as his encore — so there’s another connection between the movie marquee, by catch of Ana and The MRI, Bob Dylan and the apocalypse.
Something’s happening but we don’t know what it is. If not the answer, live music is a pretty good guess.
I caught about 30 minutes of Billie Jean King and Boomer Esiason talking about the launch of equity and equality for women athletes.
The original nine played for one dollar each to launch the professional circuit.
Billie Jean King, Rosie Casals, Nancy Richey, Judy Dalton, Kerry Melville Reid, Julie Heldman, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kristy Pigeon and Valerie Ziegenfuss.
(I have to admit it took me a minute to realize this is a reunion shot — then Stanford greatest product and Palo Alto education activist — responding to my prompt — Kathy Jordan texted back the original photo link
https://www.wtatennis.com/news/1558684/original-9-a-legacy-of-independence-and-empowerment
in a related story I realize that Jill of Palo Alto is the daughter of the first agent who launched professionalism in men’s tennis back in 1940.
Also since today is Chabot I will tie in the fact that a friend of mine said is DNA test reveals that he is 13 percent Jewish. I said claim you’re 18 percent Jewish
Or as Phil silvers says to Jonathan Winters 1963 mad mad mad: try me I’m pretty gullible
Kerry Melville Reid
Nancy Richey
Peaches Bartkowicz
Kristy Pigeon
Kristy Pigeon
I forgot to write the rest of this. Briefly:
Terry texted me a link to some citation on the Internet about her and when I clicked on it, it’s a used book seller selling a file from the archive of the recently deceased and very esteemed critic and curator Peter Selz (Berkeley Art Museum —I think we actually bodies by auger fee er bought his autobiography.
So I’m querying the guy and suggest that we might be interested at roughly 60 percent of what he’s advertising it for. Likely we have all the ephemeral —postcards, announcements maybe a clipping or whatever. And the compliment is already taken that there was a file in Peter’s archive.
Or it’s fun to imagine his notes: I’ve met the most amazing female artist and nurse if I weren’t so happily married I would drop everything to help her full-time —maybe someday some nice concert promoter guy will do so.
spokesman for Alan Wofsy says that they are selling piecemeal the files of Peter Selz which they claim were donated to Academy of Art college who then sold it to a bookstore upon which Alan and his team found it and they’re trying to unlock it’s true value. at Donkey Mill Art Center 2013:
Maki is a choreographer, dancer, coffee farmer and mom in Kona Hawaii by way of Purchase, NYC and Seattle.
I don’t believe I’ve met her but Terry and I visited her family’s art studio in 2011.
I am wondering if she could improvise on a cold reed, like a sun-e painting, A combination recollection of this dance she made from nine years ago and her reaction to Dave Douglas moonshine title track for three minutes and 24 seconds in honor of Dave’s birthday or I guess it could be 57 seconds recorded on a smart phone with there without any other morinuyes participation
edit to add:
I forgot that this was composed to accompany a fat arbuckle short about a bootlegger — are we certain it was not meant to be about a thin coffee growers daughter on a hill on an island?
this is a dif knit cap than in the video — I actually thought jazz guys wearing knit caps was invented by Danton Boller, John Ellis in winter 2003
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