“He’ll have you in a dither with his zitherlele.”
International intrigue has possessed me and my ukulele. I’m going to be happy for a while now.
Notes. Permalink. Monday, March 8th, at 9:27 PM (∞). Available in higher resolution.
Notes. Permalink. Monday, March 8th, at 9:27 PM (∞). Available in higher resolution.
A Little Miss (Went out to pi…….ck a flower)
A cappella from the documentary Homemade Hillbilly Jam. A film about my favorite local, contrarian-(George brought the Whiskey!), disaffected, all-family, southern Missouri, hillbilly band Big Smith.
3 Notes. Permalink. Sunday, March 7th, at 3:20 PM (∞).
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Big Smith - Texas Can Wait
Tagged:
#Big Smith
#Sunny Sunday Swing musics
Notes. Permalink. Sunday, March 7th, at 3:19 PM (∞).
“KP v.lucky to wring that lbw decision out of Enamul Haque: that was missing off-stump by a mile! Bangladesh 163-5 and in trouble”
A recent and favorite blog, “separated by a common language”, held a twitter competition. This above was the winner, explained.
Competition: RT to me a tweet (not by u) that is (unintentionally) so full of Americanisms or Briticisms that it would flummox a UKer/USer.
The prize: I’ll send you a packet of whatever cookies/biscuits you most miss from UK or US.
Tagged:
#obfuscation for pleasure
#george bernard shaw
1 Notes. Permalink. Sunday, March 7th, at 12:15 PM (∞).
Paul Simon and his son Harper Simon in the studio recording the song Bingo; also, video of the vinyl record making process. My life as a guitar is a series of strums and it goes a little something like this.
Notes. Permalink. Friday, March 5th, at 12:06 PM (∞).
Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia.
This album marks the period in my life that I like to think of as the greasy years. This is not where my life as a guitar started but where it was soon to go. These stories will all take place in my bedroom.
Tagged:
#my life as a guitar
1 Notes. Permalink. Friday, March 5th, at 11:04 AM (∞).
IRS tax forms do my head in. AND I even paid someone to do 99% of the form filling out work this year. The 1% is still too ponderous for my brain.
Notes. Permalink. Thursday, March 4th, at 5:55 PM (∞).
Cute overload — Panda Eyed Lamb - Lambing Live - BBC Two
Springtime in Britain brings lambing season. It’s the biggest event in the farming calendar and, this year, BBC TWO will be there for every long night in the lambing shed. From young ewes lambing for the first time, to orphans who’ve lost, or been rejected, by their mothers. From the farmer’s hard graft and determination, to the glimmer of hope as a hypothermic lamb is nursed back to health – this is Lambing Live.
Over five nights in March, Kate Humble will be following this life and death drama as it unfolds on a 900 ewe sheep farm in South Wales. She’ll be joined by Countryfile presenter and farmer, Adam Henson, and the family who’ve been running this farm for generations, the Beavans. But this story doesn’t start in Spring. Since September, Kate’s been apprenticed to the Beavan family, grappling with the fundamentals of being a shepherdess. She’s been learning how to pick the best ram, how to raddle, how to trim feet and tails – next up will be her very first lambing in February. In March Kate will have to put her newfound skills into practice but, until then, there’s still a lot to learn……
How many lambs will be born? How many will survive? Watch and find out from Sunday 7th March on BBC TWO. And check the webpage for regular updates on the Lambing Live sheep as well as Kate’s trials as a shepherdess.
My kind of reality television.
3 Notes. Permalink. Thursday, March 4th, at 9:46 AM (∞).
Restored and modernized Balbegno Castle near Aberdeen is for rent as a holiday home but I want it for my own.
Via noraleah comes the end to my happiness.
2 Notes. Permalink. Wednesday, March 3rd, at 3:35 PM (∞).
horowitz plays islamey by balakirev
I’ll let the reader choose whether to listen eyes open or closed. I suggest a 6:52 stare.
Tagged:
#horowitz
1 Notes. Permalink. Wednesday, March 3rd, at 12:05 PM (∞).
I would like to live in a world where this might actually help.
This is hilarious. It may not help in the biblical sense but it sure helped me this morning.
Found via rebeccalando. 21 Notes. Permalink. Wednesday, March 3rd, at 9:53 AM (∞).
woollypocket.com - Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and modular gardening containers. They`come in two styles: those designed to be placed on horizontal surfaces, and those designed to be hung on walls for vertical gardening. You can use Woolly Pockets both indoors and out; they have built-in moisture barriers to help protect furniture, and they’re equally at home outside in the elements. They’re perfect for creating urban gardens where you have space to garden but no land to garden in. Woolly Pockets are lightweight and can be folded flat, which makes them very easy to use, move, and store just about anywhere.
10 Notes. Permalink. Tuesday, March 2nd, at 12:13 PM (∞). Available in higher resolution.
A company is voice sampling previously recorded audio of Roger Ebert and using it with text-to-speech software that he can control himself. Sounds pretty accurate and can definitely recognize his voice in it. The clip I saw was from the upcoming Oprah interview. It is an interesting glimpse at some future human reality. So many layers to this story and one that I’m glad no damn predictively-inclined person like myself tried to predict.
1 Notes. Permalink. Tuesday, March 2nd, at 12:02 PM (∞).
