[FairfieldLife] For Curtis
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis
Remember I mentioned the fellow in Paris who books comedy and music acts (including some blues players)? I just received a mailing from him, so here's his address: karel @ anythingmatters . com with the spaces removed, of course. Karel is a Dutch guy who's lived in Paris for years, and produces concerts under the cute name 'Beer Necessities' (funnier if you pronounce his name as it would be said in Dutch). He's a nice guy. I don't know that he'll be able to give you any useful information, but then again, he might. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis
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[FairfieldLife] For curtis
learn to play the guitar ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ebcx-mTns&feature=related
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis & Others
A friend sent me this. Not exactly your kind of music, but you may enjoy it. i highly recommend viewing this episode of austin city limits starring allen toussaint, an american icon of the new orleans music sound. he is a big big favorite of mine! some months ago i was lucky enough to catch this show--every minute of it is pure high quality musical entertainment. it runs about an hour--for those of you who don't have that kind of time i strongly urge you to forward to the 38:38 mark and relax and let allen tell you a "little story". this intro has got to be one of my all time favorites--along with bruce springteen's phenomenal story telling days! this is a little gentler and nostalgic, this TRANSPORTED me to a time in my life when i ALWAYS felt safe, back when i was little jerry. while it was the south side of chicago and not the country of louisiana that allen reminisces about, it was the same kind of "feeling"--"mother is at home". this is beautiful, his voice is so calming to listen to, along with the accompanying piano which is SO in sync with his words. i got so lost in the intro i that i was surprised when i realize what the song he was going into was... it forever changed the way i hear this song. this intro "for me" was like a masterpiece painting, so vivid that i felt as if i were there back in time with him. i hope this is as beautiful for you as it is for me. http://video.klru.tv/video/1378867539/
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis and Barry
Not really my topic, but I came across it in my searches, I thought you might like it. [cult-poster.jpg (251×299)]
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis: Mutant Harmonica
I just saw the DVD "Love" which featured a "mutant harmonica" player (not sure what a mutant harmonica is) named Sxip Shirey who plays a piece called "Moon in her belly". Very Gypsy-like. Anyway, if you're interested, it's the youtube selection on the left: http://www.sxipshirey.com/multimedia.html
[FairfieldLife] for Curtis just in case
Hi Curtis, funnily enough they're talking about publishing over on Buddha At the Gas Pump aka Batgap aka Bat. Great info just in case you start moving in that direction. PS By any chance are you the Curtis who hopped a freighter with Mermer the poet downhill racer and Jack the genius scientist during MIU 1975-76 school year? Only asking because that Curtis has a good friend living in northern Virginia. And there you are. Share neurons connecting, etc. Let the tech do most it: A free blog (selling page and more) courtesy of WordPress or Blogger, a free PayPal account, do your own layout or get someone to help. Save as .PDF (and if you can/get someone to do the books in HTML (chapters navigable as links/web pages) you can convert to MOBI (Kindle) and EPUB (Nook and others) with free conversion software. Automate the selling via self publishing sites and/or electronic file distribution sites (some 'free' [taking a small cut), some cheap [setup fees, etc.], some not). If you want physical books many of the self-pub sites specialize in that - help with ISBN, etc. All of this can be done incrementally, testing and adjusting as you go. MANY web sites about this stuff to offer ideas/resources. If any of it works - THEN you might be able to interest a publisher. They're not interested in writers, only in product they can move. Right now you don't have that. If any of this works reasonably well, you may not want a publisher. Point being, others have already done this in countless ways, and many are willing to share how. Standard eMarketing tip - offer a free ebook (PDF of something smaller. Another piece, or a sample chapter). This has come to be expected to some degree. Related blog articles serve a similar function. This may seem redundant... - but that's Marketing 101. Everything can be re-spun, never produce anything that can't be sold a dozen ways (both venues and form of offerings). Blog articles become book chapters and vice versa. Titles, chapter heads, and salient points become Tweets, slightly longer bits become Facebook postings and such. All cross linked/shared. Interactions with people on those site generate ideas for new content, etc., etc...
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis and other Elizabeth Kucinich Droolers
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[FairfieldLife] For Curtis and Judy-- was Guitarist's Dream
Thought you might have missed this reply when I posted it originally, so I've copied it below--didn't want you to think I was unappreciative! message #157849 Re: Guitarist's Dream Thanks for the tip Curtis. I finally watched the video (still had to use Real Player as the Quicktime version wouldn't work for me)and have a listen. Great stuff. It's interesting how you get those little pockets of style, from folks being from the same location and relatively isolated. I watched the Peg Leg Sam video too. Talk about trying to gain some perspective on others' Points of View--the origin of that music and the lives they led is close to incomprehensible to me. And their experiences came out of not just what they were born into, but the centuries of slavery and poverty before that, backed by songs and culture from Africa. It's bizarre to think that that tiny region produced such powerful music that it has influenced all of popular music throughout the western world. We're lucky to have films like that and works like Honeyboy Edwards' autobiography to give us that history and make it more real. What a trip it must be for him to be touring in Europe at his age, playing the blues music of his sharecropping youth in Mississippi! And for all of those guys who got "rediscovered" with the folk revival, to find themselves playing that music to white middle class audiences. It's a strange world. As is FFL. I haven't posted here much for various reasons, time being one of them, but reading the posts has definitely helped me to become less judgmental--about people--and more tolerant of differing POVs (or is it (PsOV?), which I really appreciate. Probably good for me to listen more than I talk too. ;) As you say about some of the music, food , and people, some of it takes a few looks before the taste is appreciated. :) Since you and Judy are the two main interlocutors in this part of the thread, while I'm at it, Ill say thanks to both of you for your willingness to engage with each other and keep talking through your differences. It's been a positive thing for the whole list to have two such interesting people willing to engage on the level you do even if there may be things on which you will (probably) never agree. IMO you both rock, and deserve big kudos. Cheers > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > Have > > > you ever heard Jack Owens who plays in this Bentonia style? He > > > doesn't have the falsetto style but uses the minor tuned guitar. I > > > think Judy would like him better than Skip because he has more > > > warmth both in vocals and feeling. http://tinyurl.com/28hfnc > > > > You're right. At least, he appeals to me more > > immediately. Sometimes it takes me awhile to > > appreciate music that isn't emotionally "juicy" > > up front. But if I spend the time to sort of > > internalize it, often I end up finding "drier" > > music much more moving. > > >
Re: [FairfieldLife] For Curtis and Sal - Best Nude Beaches
On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:38 PM, tartbrain wrote: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/best-nude-beaches-in-the_n_652087.html#s117115 Merci, monsieur! I can see, with Barry, our usual guide to nudity and other vices, falling down a bit on the job here, that you, tart, have him covered (so to speak, of course). Sal
[FairfieldLife] For Curtis -- VF article "Searching for Robert Johnson"
I haven't read it all yet, but it appears good: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/11/johnson200811 Enjoy...
