Abandoned Japanese Farmhouse Tour….

Posted on by November 27, 2019

In our country, the house would be trashed…vandalized…torn up just because it could be…torn up.

Cool place…big job.

Bringing a place back is exciting.

We have a place that needs to be “brought back”….that I’ve “sat on” for 5 years.

So….when I rave about how rewarding and exciting it is to revive an old place, I really don’t know what I’m talking about.

It’s easy to talk.

What do the call that? “All hat”?

The house we live in was this kind of project, though.

Brought back from dereliction.

It looks cooler to bring back the Japanese house.

The Work-Around…Build the New Around the Old…

Posted on by November 27, 2019

Hah!

This is pretty ingenious….build the new around the old when told that you couldn’t build on the property unless you preserved the 300 year old cabin that was already on the property.

Rules are funny, though.

How much would it have been to revive the old structure?

It was pretty far gone.

History is a fluid thing…new replaces old all the time.

I guess that this accomplishes what they needed to do…in an unexpected way.

Another great Kirsten Dirksen video.

(When I watch this video, I’m reminded of what I find when I repair things in our old house. The only difference is that we covered up a lot of the old stuff when we fixed our place up. Maybe we should have just left it all exposed and built a new shell around the whole thing?)

this side of your face….

Posted on by November 25, 2019

I don’t have a really well developed fantasy life.

Maybe I should say that I don’t pursue a lot of violent fantasies.

I don’t think about getting even very often.

But….if I did…I think that when the fan is getting hit hard at work I’d ponder how it would feel to put my right foot on “this side of your face”.

That would be satisfying to state my reaction with such quiet and definitive power.

I’d like that.

POW.

P.

O.

W.

Right in the kisser…or slightly offset.

Man.

Canon Rock….Jerry C cover by Laura

Posted on by November 24, 2019

Isaac and Nate and I went to Guitar Center so that Isaac could screw around on some keyboards and I could look at all the used guitars.

I didn’t hear anybody this good playing yesterday.

I did hear a lot of folks screwing around with their amps turned up….noisy as heck and hard to be around.

It would be hard to work at a Guitar Center.

I don’t know if I could stand the noise.

Maybe it’s just an “old man” talking?

I don’t know who Laura is…but I do know she wasn’t at Guitar Center yesterday.

If she was, though, some kid would have been blasting Smoke on the Water at 7 or 8.

I probably couldn’t have been able to tell if a good player was around.

Guitar Center is kind of obnoxious.

Rory Gallagher…

Posted on by November 23, 2019

I’ve read a lot of articles about Rory Gallagher….but never listened to his music.

I wonder why?

He definitely deserved some attention….

Excellent.

It’s interesting to see players who just “play”….and play well.

I don’t know what music to trust sometimes in these days of autotune and digital manipulation.

Saw this book today at the book store…don’t know much about it at this point….

Image result for neil young book

I have a feeling that Neil has something to say about “digital manipulation” in this book.

We need real music made by real humans.

 

Resoling a Pair of Redwing 877 Boots….

Posted on by November 22, 2019

I’m not sure if I appreciate the style….but I do appreciate the skill.

This is a short video about a resole job on an old pair of Red Wing boots…replacing the worn out wedge sole with a stacked heel (stacked heel? Is that what they call that style?) sole.

People get paid to do so many things that don’t require any skill or craft.

It’s good to see something like this every once and a while.

Good job….

 

Leland Sklar

Posted on by November 21, 2019

I wonder how many of the albums that I loved in the 70’s and 80’s featured this guy playing bass?

Probably a lot of them did.

Leland Sklar!

What a great bassist.

Of course, it might have just been the beard.

You always knew when he shared the stage….not many had a beard like that.

I saw him play with James Taylor once.

Good stuff….

Good interview.

Cam Cole…Picadilly Circus…London

Posted on by November 18, 2019

Man.

Rock and Roll is really all about attitude, isn’t it?

Of course, you have to be able to play pretty well, too.

Here’s a busker named Cam Cole…rocking out on the streets of London.

Cool.

Check out the guy behind him in the second video.

You need eyes in the back of your head.