Hey, all you amazing jammers....
I’m forwarding some information from Eileen Quinn (you know Eileen, she’s the lady with the harp, a real harp with strings and stuff....) about the ‘Open Mic’ she hosts at the curling club in Marmora on the first Friday of every month. Several of our ‘Amazing Jammers’ have played the ‘First Friday Open Mic’ – Patty, Fraser, Eileen and Bert as solo acts and Hayley, Peter and me (James) as a trio. All of us enjoyed it immensely. The venue works, the audience is great and the whole thing comes together really well.
The format is 2 or 3 songs per act in rotation, followed by a second set (time permitting) of 2 or 3 songs for those who want to play some more. Starts at 7 pm, runs until about 10.
Eileen is terrific (her sound man is getting better....) and everyone has an excellent evening of music in the company of friends and like-minded people. The range of music offered is excellent. The venue is supportive to ‘first-timers’ and experienced performers alike. Performers range from young people in their teens to proto-geezers like myself.
Those of us who’ve played this venue give it an ‘Amazing Recommendation’. It’s really worth checking out. Come to perform or be part of the audience. You’ll enjoy yourself!
Hope to see you there this Friday evening.
James
PS - Here’s the detailed blurb from Eileen:
First Fridays Marmora Open Mic
First Friday every month
All types of music welcome
Doors open 7 pm
No cover charge
2 Crawford Drive, Marmora Curling Club, Licensed Lounge
Bring your ears, your voice, your instrument, your friends.
Facebook.comfirst fridays marmora
What makes us a bit different from other events and venues in the area is that we are aiming for a broad variety of music and we are a true "open mic", meaning people play solo or as duos, etc. (however they’ve come - there's no backing band).We welcome cover tunes and original material.We've got the stage and the sound system. We've got cold beer! Our format is 2 or 3 songs at a time per performer, cycling through the list again if we've got time.
The first ‘First Friday’ was in December. To date we’ve been drawing about a dozen performers and 40 people (or more) in attendance. A great start. We’ve had everything from alternate rock through folk, grunge and country. We’ve had covers and excellent local songwriters performing their own original work.Performers come back and bring their friends with them.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
REPLY AWL
The January 16 issue of Maclean's has an article which claims there are huge outbreaks of diseases because people aren't getting vaccinated. No. As I have said before, many of these illnesses occur in people who have been inoculated.
The January 30 issue of Maclean's contains an article about small companies manufacturing pop. First there was craft beer, now there's craft pop. Way cool!
In the editorial to the February 2012 issue of Good Times, Murray Lewis contends February is the worst month of the year. Actually, I think November is the worst month because it's so dreary and there's so little daylight. January comes in a close second. After the first few days, all the festivities are over and nothing really happens after that.
The January 30 issue of Maclean's contains an article about small companies manufacturing pop. First there was craft beer, now there's craft pop. Way cool!
In the editorial to the February 2012 issue of Good Times, Murray Lewis contends February is the worst month of the year. Actually, I think November is the worst month because it's so dreary and there's so little daylight. January comes in a close second. After the first few days, all the festivities are over and nothing really happens after that.
Friday, February 24, 2012
RADIO-RELATED STUFF
It's cool that Steve Lavalli used to work for Monitor Radio. Used to listen to them on shortwave, though don't agree with there Christian Science beliefs.
Don't like that commercial WGN's Kristen Decker does for Ovation Therapy. She sounds too robotic.
Received Allen Weener Worldwide tonight on 7490. Signal good till about 8:50 Eastern. Readable till show ended at about 9:20 Eastern. A sign of spring? Maybe just because of the good weather.
Don't like that commercial WGN's Kristen Decker does for Ovation Therapy. She sounds too robotic.
Received Allen Weener Worldwide tonight on 7490. Signal good till about 8:50 Eastern. Readable till show ended at about 9:20 Eastern. A sign of spring? Maybe just because of the good weather.
Monday, February 20, 2012
REPLY AWL
The "Life's Like That" section of the January issue of Readers Digest contains an anecdote about a woman who ate a man's other doughnut while he was getting a coffee refill. The woman had sat down at the same table with the man's consent because that was the only seat available in the restaurant. When he'd left the second doughnut behind, she thought he was leaving the establishment. Well, bitch, what gave you the right to assume he wouldn't be coming back? Maybe you could have made a case for being justified in eating the doughnut if you'd seen him leave the place, but even then, you wouldn't have had his permission.
In the editorial of the January 2-9 issue of Maclean's, the editor talks about books that have been made into movies and compares the two media with reference to specific titles. He has the bucking nerve to say the movie "Forrest Gump" was better than Winston Groom's novel of the same name. The editor doesn't like how Gump in the novel is "abrasive, cynical and swears like a marine." Groom's 1986 classic is one of the most underrated books of the period. Groom used Gump to saterize the events of the past two decades, as, draft board equals daft board, meaning "even an idiot could see the draft and the Vietnam War were wrong." Groom made Gump the way the editor of Maclean's describes because that was the way he was supposed to be. Gump swears like a turkey (uses fowl language) because he is constantly around people who swear and he's not intelligent enough to know any better. He's cynical and abrasive because that's the way a lot of mentally retarded people are. Hollywood (read Jews) and Tom Hanks made Gump's character into the steriotypical sweet and sunny image of the mentally retarded too often portrayed in movies and even more often thought by society to be the norm.
The same issue contains an article saying it is better to be a working mom because working mothers learn skills such as problem solving and working with a diverse group of people, skills which can help them be better parents. Yeah sure, for the small amount of time they get to spend with their kids every night. I think a lot of problems faced by stay-at-home moms these days are due to isolation caused by lack of an adequate community of stay-at-home mothers in the local area. This is one of the problems with a post-Christian age. Churches used to provide that sense of community. Mothers would connect with other mothers they met at church. Now everyone's isolated, interacting mainly through Facebook and Twitter.
In the editorial of the January 2-9 issue of Maclean's, the editor talks about books that have been made into movies and compares the two media with reference to specific titles. He has the bucking nerve to say the movie "Forrest Gump" was better than Winston Groom's novel of the same name. The editor doesn't like how Gump in the novel is "abrasive, cynical and swears like a marine." Groom's 1986 classic is one of the most underrated books of the period. Groom used Gump to saterize the events of the past two decades, as, draft board equals daft board, meaning "even an idiot could see the draft and the Vietnam War were wrong." Groom made Gump the way the editor of Maclean's describes because that was the way he was supposed to be. Gump swears like a turkey (uses fowl language) because he is constantly around people who swear and he's not intelligent enough to know any better. He's cynical and abrasive because that's the way a lot of mentally retarded people are. Hollywood (read Jews) and Tom Hanks made Gump's character into the steriotypical sweet and sunny image of the mentally retarded too often portrayed in movies and even more often thought by society to be the norm.
The same issue contains an article saying it is better to be a working mom because working mothers learn skills such as problem solving and working with a diverse group of people, skills which can help them be better parents. Yeah sure, for the small amount of time they get to spend with their kids every night. I think a lot of problems faced by stay-at-home moms these days are due to isolation caused by lack of an adequate community of stay-at-home mothers in the local area. This is one of the problems with a post-Christian age. Churches used to provide that sense of community. Mothers would connect with other mothers they met at church. Now everyone's isolated, interacting mainly through Facebook and Twitter.
Friday, February 17, 2012
APPARENTLY, HOPE HAS BEEN DEAD FOR A WHILE
Yesterday it was revealed Niel Hope, who played Derek "Wheels" Wheeler on Degrassi Junior High, died November 25, 2007.
Wheels certainly had one of the crummiest lives of anyone on Degrassi.
His parents die and he has to go live with his grandparents. He gets no sympathy. Even in the late eighties schools would have had grief counsellors or at least referred a kid like Wheels to someone who could have helped them.
Understandably, Wheels finds it hard living with his grandparents and decides to run away to far-off exciting Port Hope to be with his real dad. The rule on Degrassi is always" the worst case scenario will happen", so naturally Wheels gets picked up by a pedophile while trying to hitchhike. He finally gets to the hotel in Port Hope and his dad doesn't really even seem interested. His father's reaction when Wheels says, "I play for a band, too, Dad, called The Zit Remedy" is priceless.
After having to go back to living with his grandparents, Wheels eventually steals money to buy booze. He gets kicked out of his grandparents' house and nobody will take him in.
In the finale, Wheels gets behind the wheel while drunk (though why he would do this after his parents were killed by a drunk driver I don't know) and ends up permanently blinding Lucy in a car accident. He returns to the opening of Degrassi Community School and apologizes.
After "School's Out", Niel Hope walked away from it all. No wonder. The show was a bucking embarrassment.
Cause of death is believed to have resulted from alcoholism. Hope died at a hospital in Hamilton. He was 35 at the time.
Wheels certainly had one of the crummiest lives of anyone on Degrassi.
His parents die and he has to go live with his grandparents. He gets no sympathy. Even in the late eighties schools would have had grief counsellors or at least referred a kid like Wheels to someone who could have helped them.
Understandably, Wheels finds it hard living with his grandparents and decides to run away to far-off exciting Port Hope to be with his real dad. The rule on Degrassi is always" the worst case scenario will happen", so naturally Wheels gets picked up by a pedophile while trying to hitchhike. He finally gets to the hotel in Port Hope and his dad doesn't really even seem interested. His father's reaction when Wheels says, "I play for a band, too, Dad, called The Zit Remedy" is priceless.
After having to go back to living with his grandparents, Wheels eventually steals money to buy booze. He gets kicked out of his grandparents' house and nobody will take him in.
In the finale, Wheels gets behind the wheel while drunk (though why he would do this after his parents were killed by a drunk driver I don't know) and ends up permanently blinding Lucy in a car accident. He returns to the opening of Degrassi Community School and apologizes.
After "School's Out", Niel Hope walked away from it all. No wonder. The show was a bucking embarrassment.
Cause of death is believed to have resulted from alcoholism. Hope died at a hospital in Hamilton. He was 35 at the time.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
REPLY AWL
So Readers Digest has this section of books, movies, websites, etc. it is recommending now. Looks like all the other magazines just pushing the same stufff, the same trends and the same celebrities.
An item in the "That's Outrageous" section of the January issue of Readers Digest talks about the Harper government holding back scientific information it doesn't like. This sounds like what Bush did a few years ago when he was in power.
In the Fall 2011 Anchor Of Hope newsletter, it mentions an abortion recovery conference where participants lit candles for aborted and miscarried children. This looks like another attempt to Catholicize the church, lighting candles for the dead. It's like how there were these people from this Christian farmers association who came to our church last summer who had a string with three beads on it that was supposed to represent the Gospel. Sounds like a rosery to me. Wake up, people!
An item in the "That's Outrageous" section of the January issue of Readers Digest talks about the Harper government holding back scientific information it doesn't like. This sounds like what Bush did a few years ago when he was in power.
In the Fall 2011 Anchor Of Hope newsletter, it mentions an abortion recovery conference where participants lit candles for aborted and miscarried children. This looks like another attempt to Catholicize the church, lighting candles for the dead. It's like how there were these people from this Christian farmers association who came to our church last summer who had a string with three beads on it that was supposed to represent the Gospel. Sounds like a rosery to me. Wake up, people!
Monday, February 13, 2012
OUT ON A LIMB QUOTES
"I need a beer."
Hands him open can of beer that is on the seat beside him.
"Here you go."
"We play the guitar. We got a tape. Would you like to hear us?"
Puts tape in cassette player. Plucking of guitar string for a few seconds.
"Would you like a beer?"
"Sure. This the last one?"
"Yup."
"We come back on in about twenty minutes."
"Jose needs a drink bad. You wanna kill him or something?"
"Jim? Jim?"
"Jim? Jim?"
"Jim? Is that you or is that me?"
"We gotta spend another night in here?"
"We don't never go no place we ain't already been. That way we don't get lost."
"Well, except sometimes."
"Yeah, sometimes."
"I called every Jose Rodriguez in northern Mexico."
Hands him open can of beer that is on the seat beside him.
"Here you go."
"We play the guitar. We got a tape. Would you like to hear us?"
Puts tape in cassette player. Plucking of guitar string for a few seconds.
"Would you like a beer?"
"Sure. This the last one?"
"Yup."
"We come back on in about twenty minutes."
"Jose needs a drink bad. You wanna kill him or something?"
"Jim? Jim?"
"Jim? Jim?"
"Jim? Is that you or is that me?"
"We gotta spend another night in here?"
"We don't never go no place we ain't already been. That way we don't get lost."
"Well, except sometimes."
"Yeah, sometimes."
"I called every Jose Rodriguez in northern Mexico."
KIDS IN THE HALL QUOTES
"Where are you going to go, Bob? To the ocean, Bob? You don't know anyone in the ocean, Bob."
"It made me feel like taking a nice, warm bubble bath."
"I raised you from an embryo to a fetus to a baby."
"There is this thing women have had since the mid-1970s called equal rights."
"Sir, I saw you drinking from a puddle outside."
"I like to play racist bingo. Under the N..."
"Castor's a vegetarian. He only eats Lucky Charms and beer."
Pours bottle of beer over bowl of Lucky Charms.
"Castor, go to your dam!"
"Imagine, a guy goes to a bar, sees some guys playing poker, goes home, and draws a picture of dogs playing poker."
"Well I've learned that some people who appear to be happy are really unhappy."
"It is just a box of glass ... but that is what the ugly woman deserves to wear on her foot."
"No, Death, take me with you."
"Don't let Chinaman screw you like he screwed me."
"All this time we never told you that Horsey is actually your father."
"I'm just hanging out here because my town burned down."
"What are you laughing at, moon? Would you like to share it with the class, moon?"
"I'm going to go drive drunk to get you off my mind."
"I claim this chest in the name of Spain."
"Shoes! Why did you think I'd want shoes for Christmas!?"
"Son, I got you a puppy, ... but on the way home I got hungry and I ate him."
"The doctor said he'd come as soon as "All Creatures Great And Small" was over."
...
"Ma'am, do you have any pie?"
"But Daddy couldn't quit drinking. Daddy drank for the government."
"I was too scared to answer the phone in Vietnam, but maybe I can answer it now."
"Screw you, taxpayers."
"One, two, three, Night Day!"
"Always wait an hour after you drop acid before you go swimming."
"It made me feel like taking a nice, warm bubble bath."
"I raised you from an embryo to a fetus to a baby."
"There is this thing women have had since the mid-1970s called equal rights."
"Sir, I saw you drinking from a puddle outside."
"I like to play racist bingo. Under the N..."
"Castor's a vegetarian. He only eats Lucky Charms and beer."
Pours bottle of beer over bowl of Lucky Charms.
"Castor, go to your dam!"
"Imagine, a guy goes to a bar, sees some guys playing poker, goes home, and draws a picture of dogs playing poker."
"Well I've learned that some people who appear to be happy are really unhappy."
"It is just a box of glass ... but that is what the ugly woman deserves to wear on her foot."
"No, Death, take me with you."
"Don't let Chinaman screw you like he screwed me."
"All this time we never told you that Horsey is actually your father."
"I'm just hanging out here because my town burned down."
"What are you laughing at, moon? Would you like to share it with the class, moon?"
"I'm going to go drive drunk to get you off my mind."
"I claim this chest in the name of Spain."
"Shoes! Why did you think I'd want shoes for Christmas!?"
"Son, I got you a puppy, ... but on the way home I got hungry and I ate him."
"The doctor said he'd come as soon as "All Creatures Great And Small" was over."
...
"Ma'am, do you have any pie?"
"But Daddy couldn't quit drinking. Daddy drank for the government."
"I was too scared to answer the phone in Vietnam, but maybe I can answer it now."
"Screw you, taxpayers."
"One, two, three, Night Day!"
"Always wait an hour after you drop acid before you go swimming."
MORE BOOK REVIEWS
Tale Of Two Cities: A bunch of propaganda. There were only three people in the Bastile.
However this book does showcase what a good sense of humour Dickens had.
Last Of The Mohicans: Also a bunch of propaganda. Created the myth of the noble savage.
Of Mice And Men: You know what's going to happen from the very beginning.
The Grapes Of Wrath: A great book with lots of evocative scenes and poignant dialogue.
Cannery Row: Also a great book. You can just picture these guys that live together and sit on the porch aftrnoons drinking a mixture of the dregs of whatever was left over after the bar closed the previous night.
Wuthering Heights: Could have been a good book but was ruined by assignments I had to do on it in school.
Man I hated that bitch for throwing the book Heathcliff was using to try to teach himself to read into the fire.
Hitching Rides With Buddha: Funny, with lots of good information about Japan and a few really touching incidents.
To purchase books, go here.http://www.marketamerica.com/index.cfm?action=shopping.wpSearch
However this book does showcase what a good sense of humour Dickens had.
Last Of The Mohicans: Also a bunch of propaganda. Created the myth of the noble savage.
Of Mice And Men: You know what's going to happen from the very beginning.
The Grapes Of Wrath: A great book with lots of evocative scenes and poignant dialogue.
Cannery Row: Also a great book. You can just picture these guys that live together and sit on the porch aftrnoons drinking a mixture of the dregs of whatever was left over after the bar closed the previous night.
Wuthering Heights: Could have been a good book but was ruined by assignments I had to do on it in school.
Man I hated that bitch for throwing the book Heathcliff was using to try to teach himself to read into the fire.
Hitching Rides With Buddha: Funny, with lots of good information about Japan and a few really touching incidents.
To purchase books, go here.http://www.marketamerica.com/index.cfm?action=shopping.wpSearch
RADIO-RELATED STUFF
Heard Allen Thick doing a commercial for an insurance company yesterday.
CBC Radio Two has been coming in really well since last night. I didn't even have to turn up the radio. It is still coming in really well but there is beginning to be a bit of static.
Why doesn't WBZ make a bumper saying "Filling in for Steve Lavally, Morgan White, Jr?"
CBC Radio Two has been coming in really well since last night. I didn't even have to turn up the radio. It is still coming in really well but there is beginning to be a bit of static.
Why doesn't WBZ make a bumper saying "Filling in for Steve Lavally, Morgan White, Jr?"
Friday, February 10, 2012
RADIO-RELATED STUFF
Heard Coleen Jones on "Here And Now" this afternoon. Man, she's gotten older.
Heard E.C. Fulcher, Jr. on WWCR a few nights ago. He is so bucking vulgar.
Last week my computer speakers were picking up Pastor Melissa Scott.
Heard E.C. Fulcher, Jr. on WWCR a few nights ago. He is so bucking vulgar.
Last week my computer speakers were picking up Pastor Melissa Scott.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
BAILEY'S CAFE
In Marmora, Ontario, this pleasant little restaurant has a good atmosphere and really good food.
When I was there yesterday, there were a lot of people who seemed like regulars having lunch and chatting with each other and the staff.
I had the hamburger special, which came with fries and coleslaw. The patty was made from real hamburger and was delicious, as was the rest of the meal.
By the way, if you like strong coffee, go to Bailey's Cafe. I had two cups of coffee with cream and was still plenty wired seven hours later.
When I was there yesterday, there were a lot of people who seemed like regulars having lunch and chatting with each other and the staff.
I had the hamburger special, which came with fries and coleslaw. The patty was made from real hamburger and was delicious, as was the rest of the meal.
By the way, if you like strong coffee, go to Bailey's Cafe. I had two cups of coffee with cream and was still plenty wired seven hours later.
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