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Gypsy
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Nov 23, 2012 - 10:19am PT
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Nov 23, 2012 - 10:22am PT
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Mouse, Annie Ebrel is one of my favorite Breton singers. I hope to travel to Brittany soon--perhaps next year. I have a friend who has a house there and another friend who has a friend who has an oyster farm. It is said to have the most wonderful light and of course, for me that is what photography is all about--the light.
I try to avoid genetically modified foods whenever possible but sometimes they are not always labeled as such. And of course as kids, we certainly ate our share of Hostess sno-balls, Wonder bread and balogna sandwiches and the like
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 23, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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Gypsy, here's a homage to the peripatetic DJ.
There are some songs on WHAT SONG are you listening to right now, you might see, and hear, which are There because You let Me know about Them. That's such a special thing about El Taco.
I visited El Taco in my sleep last night.
It was like a dream. Like that photo. Doubly exposed. A "trick shot."
The dream rows out of the sea onto a dessicated land, a sardine-less land. It resembles Carmel, but smells like Watsonville.
Two Latinos get out and start playing and singing of lost Laysen and the glory of gazpacho.
They attract the attention of a man and his dog there on the beach. It's John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, out stalking Kim Novak, whose home is further down this beach towards Malpaso Creek. Or is that Soquel Creek?No matter, for the dog lifts his leg on the tenor and they depart in rather a hurry.
Then the tide moves in and the air is filled with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Gby56kwm8 It's the Platters on la playa.
We're all playahs here in El Taco. You kind of have to respect that. Not everyone is Righteous, Brothers.
Then the sea birds come and circle around the beach. Alfred Hitchcock, accompanied by a guy named Prufrock, jog by, dressed like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. They are here strictly for the birds, they say, but the truth is that Alice from the Restaurant sent them all the way here just to collect some shellfish, because you are supposed to get anything you want at Alice's. Just ask Arlo.
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The Jolly Green Giant, wearing a gi-normous Nazi helmet and an apron with a Hang-Ten logo on it comes striding over the dunes.
HO-HO-HO! Happy Thanksgiving, my little Hodads and Surf Bunnies! The spinach crop tired me out, but then I revived by thinking, "What would Popeye do?" It kind of amazed even ME. And I'm big on amazement.
He leaves us some spinach leaves, large enough to make ourselves a cabana where we can get out of the sun, eat some tapes, and drink some Coronas. We watch the sun set slowly in the east. It does that here. The music is a soft, mellow set.
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The dawn comes, I arise, coffee up, and drive off into the sunset.
I fall asleep, you arise and go back to the moon. The tide rushes out.
I awake and find two things: I am rested, I am alone.
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Gypsy
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Nov 23, 2012 - 02:47pm PT
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When my mom was alive, my son and I would leave Santa Cruz at about 5 a.m. to drive across Pacheco Pass to the farm outside of Fresno. We would all gather there for the holiday. Usually early Christmas morning I would drive home also leaving about 5 a.m. I well remember one early Christmas morning driving through someplace like Mendota or Firebaugh and watching and entire mariachi band--instruments and costumes and those large sombreros load into a Chevy station wagon all sleepy and slightly drunk from an all night party. And to quote Randy "that warmed the cockles of my heart."
OOh Annie Ebrel and Eric Marchand--two of the greatest Breton singers. Here is another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlKSIduOsUA
Course, these old guys are what it is really all about--mouth music for dancers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0CQTFZlDkU&feature=related
and in traditional Breton dance, they move to the left because that is the way the earth turns.
and of course Alan Stivell is also a classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRpNVMjnDmY
There used to be an interview I did with Mariza on line at one time; but I do not think it is there anymore. She is an outstanding performer. She was tired and it wasn't a great interview anyway. Some of my best interviews were done with Odetta, Claudia Gomez, Aqnazar (the first Tadjik artist to perform in the U.S. AND I was the only one who did an interview with him) and Tenores de Oniferi. Also I did one of JF Bernardini many years ago and I hope to record a new one next time I see him.
One of my very favorite tunes that Mariza sings is Chuva (Rain) by Jorge Fernando.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzrUs08-SWs
And JF Bernardini and his brother Alain and their band I Muvrini (and one of the major reasons why I travel to Corsica)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBBcDY0li4
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Gypsy
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Nov 23, 2012 - 04:30pm PT
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Nov 23, 2012 - 04:39pm PT
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Nov 23, 2012 - 07:42pm PT
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Nov 23, 2012 - 07:48pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 23, 2012 - 09:59pm PT
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Never, never. Land o' Goshen, child! Junction, that is.
I recall fly fishing in Soquel for the daintiest wannabe steelies. We had to move...real...slow...dappling...the midgetest flies we had...and I got a Leviathan of six inches! Just the one, immediate release from the barbless fly.
The only other spot I've gone where it's like that is on the Clark Fork of Illillouette Creek. Karen Daly, we gotta go check that out next Facelift. I'll even buy a license...it's only fair--you bought the out-of-state license, then got an extra day added on for HOW MUCH?!?!
I recall that Tim, my brother the fishing guide, was guilty of some angling infraction years ago. He was driving through Sonora or Twain Harte, got stopped, taken in for the warrant the officer found on him, and had to call Mom to come to bail him out. This was her Mothers' Day adventure that year!
Oh, but all fly fishermen smoke weed. Or drink like a fish. Or lie like there's no telling. When Randy talked fishing, it was no brag, just plain and simple fascination, like with climbing and his doodling.
I hope you had as much fun on Thanksgiving as I did, Gypsy. I saw the haps on Facebook. As for my day, I got hold of the Simon brothers who once lived down the hall in Middle Earth and we played Scrabble, watched Cowboys and Indians, drank a good Cab, had the stuffing, turkey, and Waldorf salad and a pie and some schwag. I was so glad to be able to share all that food the Key Club left, and my neighbors even gave us another half of an apple pie!
Thanks, God of food, mirth, music, and companionship.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 23, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
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Liz.
She met Merry and Werner that afternoon, along with my rock brothers surrounding El Cap Meadow. And we visited the Yosemite graveyard, just because we were a little serious that day, our first as man and wife, until death.
Food, mirth, music, and companionship.
Shade in the summer, warmth in the winter, and her tattoos promise moving pictures all year long.
"Why do climbing women all look like boys?"--Elizabeth Ann Freeman Ruffalo Bermingham on her honeymoon
"Hey, here's another photograph in this book of Mt. Lyell, babe!"--Mouse at the cabin in Wawona on the honeymoon
"Really?"--sexy babe in the bunk
"Yeah, that's what, nine or ten of them. This is a great library."--MFM
"Wanna do some rock climbing, some real 5.10?"--SBIB
"On belay, sweetie!"--her belay slave
Is that Chris Perry, Cowboy's lady, and yourself in the faded Camp 6 shot? Or your sister, maybe?
When Dolores looked at the shot of Cowboy Larry? My gosh, she didn't know who he was. He was our Best Man in 1971...What a slam, now I think of that. Oh, well. She is the PhD.
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Gypsy
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Nov 24, 2012 - 06:50am PT
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Is that Dolores in the photo above?
No, I am not in the photo you refer to. Those are "The Karens" Well, at least that is what I wrote on the back. I know for sure the woman in the red scarf was "Red Karen" not because she always wore a red scarf but because she was very leftist political and was a union organizer. The ranger woman I believe is also Karen and she lived in Camp 6.
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Nov 24, 2012 - 06:51am PT
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In what subject did Dolores receive her PHD? That is impressive. Tell her congratulations (rather belatedly I am sure). Randy got his BA from UC Santa Cruz in art; but myself I have only had a formal education up to high school. The rest of my education was in the schools of Hard Rocks and Thin Ice.
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Nov 24, 2012 - 07:54am PT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 07:58am PT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 08:00am PT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 08:07am PT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 08:10am PT
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Nov 24, 2012 - 08:12am PT
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Randy said that when he was in Viet Nam, if the soldiers were given an order they didn't really want to follow they would say "What are you going to do to me? Cut my hair off and send me to Viet Nam?
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Gypsy
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Nov 24, 2012 - 08:14am PT
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