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8813. judithathome - 1/12/2010 4:16:20 PM test 8814. judithathome - 1/12/2010 4:16:28 PM test 8815. judithathome - 1/12/2010 4:16:36 PM test 8816. judithathome - 1/12/2010 4:17:57 PM Sorry...my screen was all wonky and I hate having to move the screen from side to side.
And yes, I know I could change the number of posts per page but I'm lazy that way.... 8817. alistairConnor - 1/12/2010 9:23:36 PM and you just gave a huge boost to the daily post rate! 8818. vonKreedon - 1/12/2010 10:44:32 PM I'm so sorry to hear about Tim Hart's death. Steeleye Span is the only group that I ever followed around the country, well, around the northeast on their 1976 tour. Danced, very briefly, twice with Maddy as she danced through the audience in Boston and in NYC. The NYC show was on Halloween, IIRC.
Hell of a band. 8819. vonKreedon - 1/12/2010 11:09:10 PM The Blacksmith, from Steeleye Span's first album 8820. Ms. No - 1/18/2010 9:50:11 PM No, I do know what you mean, Judith. Also, I saw it here in Sacramento about ten blocks from my apartment so it was no big trip AND I got the ticket for free! Although, I would have paid to see it if I'd known how much I'd enjoy it. ;-> 8821. judithathome - 1/19/2010 10:54:32 PM MsNo, what I meant was, most people in Fort Worth don't like to drive in Dallas.
And for some bizarre reason, I thought you were addressing that post to me and that you'd seen this in DALLAS! Since most touring musicals go to Fair PArk in Dallas, I was assuming waaaaay too much about your post! Sorry...
But still glad you enjoyed it! 8822. vonKreedon - 1/19/2010 11:57:30 PM And we lose another indy folk singer; Kate McGarrigle died Monday night at age 63.
Kate and Anna McGarrigle 8823. Ms. No - 1/23/2010 5:55:31 PM I remember listening to their album "Dancer with Bruised Knees" at my uncle's place in Nashville about a zillion years ago. It's got a song on it about the chemical bonds of salt that they make into a love story......if I recall correctly. I was only about 10 or 11.
8824. Ms. No - 1/23/2010 5:57:40 PM I so loved going to Fair Park as a kid --- whether it was the State Fair, the ballet or musicals. It was pretty close to my grandmother's house. She lived just off Ferguson Rd off I-30. 8825. arkymalarky - 1/24/2010 8:39:48 AM Oooh, I did too. 8826. judithathome - 1/26/2010 6:54:05 PM I saw a short film on the history of Fair Park and it was amazing...very impressive complex.
Do y'all know if many people were displaced when they built it? (Like so many were when that egomaniac recently built that shrine to his professional football in Arlington, TX...but retains the right to call them DALLAS Cowboys?)
One thing I already knew about the place was that a muralist named Eugene Savage did the walls in the Hall Of State...I was familiar with his work because I look at four examples of it every day...Arky and MsNo have seen them above my desk: the Hwaiian history pictures.
Eugene Savage 8827. wabbit - 1/26/2010 11:34:11 PM Got back from San Fran a few days ago and squeezed in time to see the SFMOMA 75th Anniversary show. Sadly, I didn't have a notebook, so didn't notes. Some very interesting art, some what you'd see in the movie WoW has recommended (and looks like a *must see* imho) in the Movie thread. There was one video piece that I found true, well-conceived and funny. It was a three-panel b/w video essentially about commercialism and how sex sells. As background music, they had Ray Charles' recording of "What I'd Say". When the video was over, the room went completely black for about a minute. You could not see your hand in front of your face. I waited expectantly, and sure enough, a voice came from the darkness, softly saying, "I can't see anything." I replied, "That's the point." LOL!
Pearl Paint in SF is closing and selling their large 5-drawer flat files for $200! I was wishing I had a truck to drive home... 8828. wabbit - 1/26/2010 11:39:07 PM From the NYTimes: ...On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the museum accidentally fell into “The Actor,” causing the tear. Officials at the museum said that since the damage did not occur “in the focal point of the composition,” they expected that the repair would be “unobtrusive,” according to a statement released on Sunday... I'm a wee bit surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often, especially when small children are left to tear through sculpture galleries.8829. judithathome - 1/27/2010 5:15:09 PM No kidding...
Yesterday I knocked down a complete row of Land'o'Lakes butter...reaching for a carton I wanted, it nudged the one next to it and bam...six cartons hit the floor.
Needless to say, I was more careful when I got my eggs.
This is not the same thing as ART unless you call up visions of butter sculpture and tempra-egg paint. ;-)
But seriously, it's a wonder more pieces don't suffer the same fate as the butter...imagine little kids tipping over one of those pedestals that hold a glass-encased drinking cup of Nefertiti? 8830. arkymalarky - 1/28/2010 3:27:00 AM What was the museum where that guy fell down the stairs and broke all the ancient vases lining the stairway? 8831. judithathome - 1/28/2010 8:52:26 PM JD Salinger, RIP
"Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it. His body is gone but the family hopes that he is still with those he loves, whether they are religious or historical figures, personal friends or fictional characters," the statement said.
8832. vonKreedon - 1/30/2010 12:30:57 AM Holden Caulfield writes Salinger's obituary:
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.
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