I am such a suave motherf**ker!

After Claude Monet's The Picnic.

This scene depicts me midway through a rendition of Gregory Corso's The Night Last Night was at its Nightest.

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Lifted once again from somebody else's blog:Good Dog.

Harry Patch RIP

The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111.

Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died.

He was raised in Combe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a care home in Wells, Somerset.

Taken from: news.bbc.co.uk

Shara Worden

I quite seriously should never have sold that second set of Decemberists tickets, as it was without a doubt one of the best concerts I have ever been to (possibly even pushing seeing the 'Weddies' in 88 into second place; and that, coming from me... is really saying something!)

One of the reasons it was so good was partly down to this lady:


The fantastic Shara Worden!

When this woman took the stage the audience just erupted! A guitar playing rock goddess with a stage presence and a voice that would have an opera singer cringing in the corner and whimpering like a fat baby; powerful with an almost ethereal quality that just forces you to sit up and pay attention.

'Nina Simone meets PJ Harvey while shoving Kate Bush outta the way to kick Tori Amos in the stomach while trying desperately to resuscitate Beth Gibbons' type of thing!

I was personally completely captivated by her.

Shara Worden is in a band called My Brightest Diamond and coincidentally enough the other guest female lead vocalist(Becky Stark)is in a band called Lavender Diamond.

Go figure...

She's the one to the far left of pic...

The Decemberists should really consider making these two part of their "permanent" line up.


Seriously Meloy...

Just do it!!

Your ABC's

Check out Neill Cameron's great blog for more alphabetic visual wonders-

Nabbed from Cal

Okay, so I sold the extra Decemberists tickets!

...and then the Cowboy Junkies decide to cancel their show!

Bleedin' 45 bucks; half shagging price I let those tickets go for! I would have quite happily gone to see the Decemberists twice... twice I tell ya!

More like: Cowboy "flunkie" Junkies!

Cowboy Merchant sells Decemberists!

I bought tickets for the Tues 21st of July concert here in Vancouver of these guys:



I later found out that the Cowboy Junkies were playing the same night!



Thankfully The Decemberists are playing two nights, so I bought another set of tickets for their 22nd of July concert.

Great...

Sorted!

The only problem now is that I need to get rid of the extra set of tickets. I have tried to sell them, but apparently no one seems to be interested- even at a drastically reduced rate.

So c'mon, I mean just take a look at Colin Meloy's little bespeckled face; look at the obvious effort, determination and passion that he, with his little plaid shirt, tries in communicating his heart felt lyrics to you: the audience.

You know you want 'em!?

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While searching for a decent Youtube clip of the Cowboy Junkies, I stumbled across this concert footage of Trinity Revisited, a concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of the recording of the album: The Trinity Sessions. Now what makes this concert footage so spectacular is the fact that Natalie Merchant is at the helm for the first two minutes...(after 1:57 I kinda lost interest)



That voice...



That face...



So yeah, bit of a tangent there bringing in the lovely Miss Merchant, but a good one I think you'll agree!?

It would be kinda remiss of me however to not post a 10,000 Maniacs song though wouldn't it:

OK, now I'm just being shamelessly self indulgent...

TREEVENGE

I have to thank Rich Johnston for this one.
Some extra info here at twitchfilm.net

Take note Mr. Night Shyamalan, this is what "The Happening" should have been...