While Busy Making Other Plans …

Right after my previous post, I jumped over to Laura Gibson’s website to see what was new, and discovered an announcement that she would be performing at the Old Library in La Grande on March 1. Next stop was to visit the Old Library’s site, which turns out to still be under construction, but I immediately called Charlie, the exec director of what is formally known as the Art Center: At The Old Library to ask him for details. Charlie confirms that it is happening on Friday, March 1 but will call me back soon with ticket pricing, etc. So stay tuned.

P.S. If you visit the Old Library site, see if you recognize the header image photo.  As snapped by yours truly.

Just picked up Laura Gibson’s new album, La Grande, and heard it last night.  You might be interested in the backstory — yes, it does have to do with the very La Grande we all know — and watch this music video:

Read the story behind La Grande here

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And you can learn more about Laura Gibson here and elsewhere, such as here.  This album is a bit of departure from her earlier stuff, which have been among my favorites, btw.

 

We were warned in the Sixties that everything we knew was wrong: http://news.yahoo.com/did-leonardo-da-vinci-copy-famous-vitruvian-man-145205550.html

In solidarity with Wikipedia, Fark and many others, I at least offer this link:

http://www.stopthewall.us/?gclid=CP_9xvub2q0CFYUZQgod3xGInw

For just the present 24-hour period, you can see the special messages at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.fark.com/

https://www.google.com/

… for example …

A bit more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/sopa-blackout-internet-censorship_n_1211905.html

This (you may have the dismiss an ad with a click of the x) was brought to my attention today, a day that a number of co-workers are calling in, snowbound:

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And I recalled my old photography partner, Bill, who was lead photographer for International Surfing Magazine when I first met him in L.A., years ago.

Taking off for work this morning in the semi-darkness, I leave Kim (look closely) behind and trudge through falling snow which is adding to the six or eight inches that came upon us overnight.

During the Seattlites’ recent visit, I was introducing Jared to some of my basement music servers. They are certainly nothing to look at — in fact, one is held together with duct tape — mostly resurrected from obsolete but still working pedestrian Windows and Linux machines. But I have been inspired to consider something with some aesthetic quality to inject directly into the array of upstairs audio equipment by one Jeffrey Stephenson. whose stunning computer enclosures can be at  http://slipperyskip.com,  One example, his Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Unisonian computer case, is shown here.  Now if only I had some woodworking skills …

Sunday we head for the Mt. Emily area to select a tree at one of the rural purveyors. After the requisite struggle to actually saw, haul and stash the thing, we discover that the battery of our conveyance has died, and refuses a charge. The tree farmer invites us to relax by the fire in his shop while we await an AAA rescue.