Ingie on CBC 204

Ingrid was interviewed by Wab Kinew on the CBC Winnipeg show 204 http://www.cbc.ca/the204/

In support of her May 2009 Riding the Rails tour with Miss Emily Brown

Beautiful Features.

So I follow the Bruce Cockburn mailing list and this guy just posted a parody of one of Cockburn's songs. The original song is Beautiful Creatures a wonderful song. I think I loaded up Beautiful Creatures in a Grooveshark Widget in the sidebar ---->

But this is fun too.

Beautiful Features

There a sag in my gut
It gets bigger each day
And what's left of my hair
Is polychrome grey
When you have reached middle age
What is there to say?
My beautiful features are going away

Like the values in my heart
My sphincter is worn
So I no longer eat bran
And avoid kernel corn
And my man-boobs are hanging
There on display
My beautiful features are going away

Why? Why?

From age spots on my wrinkles
To the shape of my ass
To the ache in my knees
From cutting the grass
I'm old and I know it
Now where's the buffet?
My beautiful features are going away

-- Glenn Eric

Twitter on Apture

Just checking this out looks very cool! An integration between Apture and Twitter.

So just put in any Twitter addy like this @ggatin and Apture will recognize it and allow you to access the Twitter stream.

Lets see if this works.

Sure enough! Highlight my Twitter name @ggatin and Apture will show you all my Tweets. Brilliant!

Even downloaded the new Apture addon for Firefox which put an Apture tool on my blog editor. Slick clicking!

My Bands newest release

Women are from Mars and men are from somewhere black
Originally uploaded by Lincoln ~

Trying this http://david.davies.name/weblog/2008/04/19/cd-cover-meme/
My Band Name: Pfullingen
My Album: Bear the best fruit
This is the album cover photo

Past, Future and Meanwhile

I heard a great quote on the CBC Radio program Words at Large radio the other day driving out to go skiing. Elenor Wachtell was interviewing Lynda Barry cartoonist. She is darkly funny. She talks about wanting a Timemachine with buttons for Past, Future and Meanwhile. (at 0:48 min mark)

Big vs Smart

One of my favorite lines from one of my all time favorite shows. Get Smart. Used Splicd to clip from YouTube.

Here we go Loopty Lou

Darling daughter Ingrid just got an arts council grant to spend a month figuring out how to incorporate a looping effects pedal into her vocal/mandolin/accordion traveling road show.

She is up at her grandparents cabin in Northern Sask at Christopher lake.

She is planning an eastern tour this spring to Ontario and Quebec and got Via rail sponsorship for the tour. Free 15 day rail pass for her and her partner as they go from gig to gig.

Talk about the great Canadian cultural meme: country connected by a song, a railroad, a dream.

I attached this video of Phil Keaggy using a looping outfit of some kind. Technically brilliant and the guy is smiling the while. I love it and passed it on to Ingie.

I don't need no doctor

Lyrics by Ray Charles (Sweet rendition by John Mayer and John Scofield.)
I don't need no doctor'Cause I know What's ailing me
I don't need no doctor No, no 'Cause I know What's ailing me

I've been too long away From my baby, ahh
I'm coming down With a misery

I don't need no doctor For my prescription To be filled
I don't need no doctor I tell ya now For my prescription To be filled
Only my baby's arms could ever take away this chill

Now the doctor Say I need rest Before I need Her tenderness
Put me on the critical list when all I need is her sweet kiss
He gave me a medicated lotion but it didn't soothe my emotion

I don't need no doctor, for my hope to live is gone
I don't need no doctor, my hope to live is gone
All I need is my baby, baby, please won't you please come on home?

I don't need no aspirins I don't need no lotion
I say, I don't need ,no vitamin pills
I don't need no lotion I say, I don't need No vitamin pills

Dangerous Chocolate Cake

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.

Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.

Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.

The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

Your Tweetin' Heart

Your Tweeting heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But slee-eep won't come the whole night through
Your Tweetin' heart will tell on you

When Twitter's down and the fail whale glows
You'll do the dishes and go outdoors,
You'll wash the floor, the way I do
Your Tweetin' heart will tell on you

Your Tweetin' heart will pine some day
And crave the time you threw away
The day will come when you'll be blue
Your Tweetin' heart will tell on you

When Twitter's down and there's work to do
You'll toss around and and do a job or two
You'll wash the floor, the way I do
Your Tweetin' heart will tell on you

Splicd 02:14 to 02:18 � Bugs Bunny , Ali Baba

Using new tool that lets you take a segment of a YouTube vid.
Splicd.

Splicd 02:14 to 02:18 � Bugs Bunny , Ali Baba

Paul Newman

Some quotes attributed to Paul Newman on the occasion of his demise. Not necessarily a big fan but some of these were pithy. I got them from from a post on Humans and passed them on to my buddy Dave M.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

Some of my old favs

My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
YouTube - Blazing Saddles

Oh Lord, Do we have the strength to carry out this mighty task in just one night?... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0lZVXM2ExY&feature=related

Tulips in the Snow

Took these pics April 24, 2008 in Brandon. Tulips in the snow always make me think of the Steve Goodman song, the Dutchman. .....He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow. He's mad as he can be but Margret only sees that sometimes, most times she see her unborn children in his eyes.

Came across some great clips of Goodman on YouTube. The Dutchman.

The Ballad of Penny Evans still is an all time great song.

Conservatory Chorale

Anya graduates this year so this is her final appearance with this group Apr. 2008.

MP3 File

Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

The Circus Animals’ Desertion
William Butler Yeats

I

I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
Maybe at last, being but a broken man,
I must be satisfied with my heart, although
Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.

II

What can I but enumerate old themes?
First that sea-rider Oisin led by the nose
Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams,
Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose,
Themes of the embittered heart, or so it seems,
That might adorn old songs or courtly shows;
But what cared I that set him on to ride,
I, starved for the bosom of his faery bride?

And then a counter-truth filled out its play,
‘The Countess Cathleen’ was the name I gave it;
She, pity-crazed, had given her soul away,
But masterful Heaven had intetvened to save it.
I thought my dear must her own soul destroy,
So did fanaticism and hate enslave it,
And this brought forth a dream and soon enough
This dream itself had all my thought and love.

And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread
Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea;
Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.

III

Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder’s gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

Amelia

My gorgeous daughter Ingrid Amelia was named in part for the Joni Mitchell song Amelia.
Ingie is now recording her own music and her manager says she should use her second name professionally. I agree.
Here is a link to her Spring Tour.
Ingie on MySpace



I love Joni's crazy open tuning on this. CGCEGC

I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens
It was the strings of my guitar
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and blue
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue
Of picture-post-card-charms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

People will tell you where theyve gone
Theyll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Others just come to harm
Oh amelia, it was just a false alarm

I wish that he was here tonight
Its so hard to obey
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
So this is how I hide the hurt
As the road leads cursed and charmed
I tell amelia, it was just a false alarm

A ghost of aviation
She was swallowed by the sky
Or by the sea, like me she had a dream to fly
Like icarus ascending
On beautiful foolish arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

Maybe Ive never really loved
I guess that is the truth
Ive spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude
And looking down on everything
I crashed into his arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm

I pulled into the cactus tree motel
To shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s
Over geometric farms
Dreams, amelia, dreams and false alarms

It was born at the junction of form and function...

..it's the hammer of the honky tonk gods.

This line is from the Bill Kirchen tribute to the Fender Telecaster, on the album Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods.
He lists all the musical greats that play a Tele.

RandyB~&uitar Lesson

Bruce, Soul of a Man

Soul of a Man, Blind Willie Johnson

Open tuning CGCGCE played around the 3 and 5 frets.

Won't somebody tell me, answer if you can!

Is there anybodies children can tell me, what is the soul of a man?

I'm going to ask the question, answer if you can

If anybody here can tell me, what is the soul of a man?

I've traveled in different countries, I've traveled foreign lands
I've found nobody to tell me, what is the soul of a man

I saw a crowd stand talking, I just came up in time
Were hearing the doctor and the lawyer, say a man ain't nothing but his mind

I read the bible often, I try to read it right
As far as I can understand, it is nothing but a burning light.


When Christ stood in the temple, the people stood amazed
Was showing the doctors and the lawyers, how to raise a body from the grave