Listen up! Workbench Songs and Guy Clark. I said I would be back and let you know what's playing. I probably don't qualify as a big Guy Clark fan since I have but two albums from this master of the craft. He puts a song together as good as it can be done. I was first attracted to his latest CD when I heard the song Magdalene on KGSR. Now if you're not from here, you probably don't know about KGSR. The station has been on the air for around 15 or 16 years here in Austin and plays the most diverse (and good) music that might ever hope to hear. Well Magdalene has a reference to San Miguel Mexico and of course that caught my attention.
The other new music in the house is the offering from Britisher James Blunt. Very interesting sound and sentiment from this former British soldier. Blunt is one of the most exciting new songwriters on the scene - the CD is titled Back to Bedlam, and was ranked by Rolling Stoner (yeah I know) as the number six album of 2006.
Yesterday was Tanya's birthday. Today is Katie's birthday. I promised her that it would not be a big deal like we had last year. Last year was the milestone birthday. We have a few years before another milestone so we can save up for it. Anyhow, the older you get the more you understand that every day is a gift, and when you look at life that way, well you don't have to wait for anything to celebrate.
Okay, itunes just rolled out the Streets of Love by the Rolling Stones. Gosh how I love that song. When they played it here last fall I was just stunned by the sound and the emotion. Still am. The reviewer at the Austin paper said it was boring. I don't agree but then I am in my 7th decade, so I guess maybe I am playing the age card. I bought the first Stones album in 1963 - loved em then and I love them now. Sorry for the diversion but I could talk about music all day and night.
I hooked up my Nikon electronic flash to my 51 year old Rolleiflex camera the other day. I found the instruction manual and read up on how to set the flash for manual mode. It's a little out of the norm to use an advanced flash like that in manual mode, but it worked. Well, the proof will be in the pictures and I still have the rest of the roll to shoot. I think I will take some notes while testing this process. Then I will know why something works or doesn't.
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