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Seattle Waterfront (Puget Sound), 2013

Sorry for the dearth of posts recently-- I got a bit lazy over the holidays.  I should be back on a more or less regular schedule soon.

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Helen, Summer 2013

Peter O'Toole, RIP

I was sad to hear of the passing of Peter O'Toole.  Here's the trailer for my favorite of all the great movies he made:

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Busts of Great Men, Art Gallery of Ontario 2013

Playlist & Podcast 131215

Below you find a list of the songs played on Dr. John's Record Shelf last night, and if you click here, you can here a podcast of the entire broadcast. 

Empty Vase, Promised Land Sound

Young Men Dead, Black Angels

Teenage Prayer, Silos

Luckiest Man, King Khan & the Shrines

Acapulco Gold, Johnathan Rice

Girls Talk, Sid & Susie

Cinematic, Erin McKeown

Shimmy Baby, Otis Spann

Love Me or Leave Me, Anita O'Day

B-A-B-Y, Carla Thomas

Walking the Dog, Sandie Shaw

It's Just a Matter of Time, Brook Benton

I Ain't Worried, Rancid

Got Away With It, Lonesome Bob

Never Ending Song of Love, Delaney & Bonnie

Get Over You, Undertones

Hummingbird, Tim Easton

Drifter's Escape, Patti Smith

Every Breath You Take, Sir Douglas Quintet

Something in the Air, Thunderclap Newman

Under the Ladder, Crippled Pilgrims

Sittin' in the Balcony, Eddie Cochran

Slow Dog, Belly

A Million Miles Away, Plimsouls

Leave the Capitol, The Fall

Dirty Old Town, Pogues

Partners in Crime, Lucinda Williams

Something to Look Forward To, Steve Almaas

Hard Times, The Century's

Little Girl, The Jynx

Impressin' The Kreeg

So Long, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs

On the Street 13

Here's another set of shots taken on the streets of Toronto last summer.

 

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Layah Jane & Oliver Johnson, Toronto 2013

This Makes Me Smile

I have a feeling this video will become a Christmas season perennial on this blog...

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Bill in Berlin, 2010

This Week's Top Five List

For those of you who haven't the time or inclination to listen to Dr. John's Record Shelf in its entirety, here's a little snippet of one of the program's highlights from last Sunday:

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Delaware Park, 2013

Toonerville Thursday

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Flowers in a Vase, Boldt Castle, Thousand Islands 2013

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Calamari Bar, Madrid, 2013

Playlist and Podcast 131208

Below you can find a list of the songs played last night on Dr. John's Record Shelf.  To hear the program, in its entirety, just click here.  I had a pleasant surprise in that Art Vandalay braved the elements with a broken toe to join me for the show. 

The Medicine Show, Dream Syndicate 
The Unbreakable Chain, Daniel Lanois

Free Nelson Mandela, The Specials

Lou Rider, Johnathan Rice

Won't Be Long, Mother Earth

Baby Du Jour, Roy Loney & the Longshots

Open My Eyes, The Nazz

Sun Song, Laura Veirs

What a Man, Linda Lyndell

If You Know Time, Robyn Hitchcock

Rock Me (In the Cradle of Love), Deborah Allen

Cruisin' Part 1, Houndog

Tension, Vivian Girls

Yall'd Think She'd Be Good to Me, C.C. Adcock

Slipping Into Something, The Feelies

Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen

Evelyn is Not Real, My Morning Jacket

Highway 61 Revisited, Karen O and the Million Dollar Bashers

Comanche! The Len Price 3

Save It For Later, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs

Throw Your Hands Up, So So Glos

California Stars, Billy Bragg & Wilco

The Train From Kansas City, Neko Case

She Moves Me, Boss Martians

Him Or Me What's It Gonna Be, Paul Revere & the Raiders

Ain't That Peculiar, Marvin Gaye

So Long, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs

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Thomas & Sara, c2000

On the Street 12

I took these six pictures while wandering around downtown Toronto last July.  It was a beautiful day, and there was lots of activity in the streets.

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Wright Park, Tacoma 2013

Pictures of Musicians 2

Here's another set of pictures taken of people making music.  Some of these are from the street, but a couple were performing onstage.

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Tom, Ben & Natalie, 2010

Toonerville Thursday

On the Street 11

 

A few more pictures taken while wandering around Buffalo and Toronto last summer.

 

 

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Lafayette Square, Buffalo 2013

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Puerto del Sol, Madrid 2013

Playlist & Podcast 131201

This week was the annual Guilty Pleasures Show on Dr. John's Record Shelf, which always comes on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  For more explanation, you can listen to the podcast of the episode here.  Below is a list of the songs played.

Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001), Deodato
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight, Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart

An Old Fashioned Love Song, Three Dog Night

Things I Should Have Said, Grass Roots

Dominique, The Singing Nun

Baby Now That I've Found You, Foundations

Diane, The Bachelors

Little Woman, Bobby Sherman

Winchester Cathedral, New Vaudeville Band

The More I See You, Chris Montez

My Cup Runneth Over, Ed Ames

Tiny Bubbles, Don Ho

Joy, Apollo 100

Stormy, Classics IV

You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry, Caravelles

Fool on the Hill, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Dionne Warwick

I Just Can't Help Believing, B.J. Thomas

Jean, Oliver

If Not For You, Olivia Newton John

Operator, Jim Croce

Bang Bang, Cher

A Simple Man, Lobo

Snoopy vs the Red Baron , Royal Guardsmen

Don't Just Stand There, Patty Duke

Sweet Pea, Tommy Roe

Midnight Mary, Joey Powers

More Than I Can Say, Bobby Vee

A Fifth of Beethoven, Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band

Snowbird, Anne Murray

WOLD, Harry Chapin

Make It With You, Bread

Ticket to Ride, Carpenters

You're So Vain, Carly Simon

Popcorn, Hot Butter

Pictures of Musicians

 

Some of my favorite pictures taken of people making music of one type or another, all out amongst the people .  Needless to say this combines two of my favorite things: music and street photography.

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Seattle, 2013 (after Saul Leiter, again)

Dear Santa

I know this won't apply to everyone reading this, but if you were thinking of getting something for me this Christmas, I thought I'd supply a few recommendations.  These are mostly books that I'd like to read, and a couple of DVDs I'd like to watch.  If you are expecting a gift from me, feel free to post your own wish list in the comments.

Books:
A People's Art History of the United States by Nicolas Lampert (Art)
Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld (History)
My Lunches With Orson by Peter Biskind (Movies)
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley (Music)
The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture by Michael J. Kramer (History/Music)
The Window in Photographs by Karen Hellmen (Photography)
Moments That Made the Movies by David Thomson (Movies)
Architecture in Photographs by Gordon Baldwin (Photography)
The Beatles: All These Years Volume 1: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn (Music)
Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz by Ben Cawthra (Music/Photography)
Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 by Joanna Levin (History)
Ready for a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky (History/Music)
The Story of America by Jill Lepore (History)
The Democratic Surround by Fred Turner (History)

DVDs:
The Best of Fridays (TV)
The Monkees, Season 1 or 2 (TV)

This Made Me Laugh

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Connecticut St., Buffalo 2013

Saul Leiter, RIP

Though I only discovered his work in the last year, Saul Leiter became one of my favorite photographers, and one who inspired me to try some things with my own shots.  Unfortunately, he passed  passed away this week.  You can read the New York Times obituary here, and see a nice slide show of some of his best work here.  I love the Leiter quote in the Times: "Seeing is a neglected enterprise."  Here's another: "Photographs are often treated as important moments, but really they are just fragments and souvenirs of an unfinished world."  Definitely one of the greats.

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Tom & Sara (But Not the Usual Sara), 2008