Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Photo of the Day

Subway Riders, New York City 2019

My Favorite Spirit Splash Page, Today


This Week's Playlist & Podcast

Television  

Another shelter-in-home edition of Dr. John’s Record Shelf aired this past week (thankfully, media is exempt from the state-wide stay at home order, and given that the building housing the studios is otherwise deserted on Sundays, I’m able to continue the show). Below is a list of the music I played this week, and by clicking here you can listen to a recording of the program. 

Guiding Light, Television
Traditional Village, Hold Steady
Pressure to Party, Julia Jacklin
Pot of Gold, Deer Tick

The Dog/The Body, Sleater-Kinney
The Hammer, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
The Kid, Cry Cry Cry
Goin Home, Dinosaur Jr.

This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’, Ruth Brown
Hello Operator, White Stripes
Bad Minded Woman, Laurel Aitken
Hiawatha, The Belle Stars

Are We Still There Yet, Amy Rigby
Blackwater Side, Anne Briggs
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Eric Andersen

You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC
Love Kills, Radio Birdmen
Heart of Gold, Bettye LaVette
Summer Dress, July Talk

Orphan Girl, Emmylou Harris
Telephone Road, Steve Earle
Wish I Could Fly, Mary Janes
If I Needed You, Karl Blau

There She Goes Again, Beat Farmers
Road Runner, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Last Train to Clarksville, Monkees

She’s Been Gone, H-Bomb Ferguson
Should I Ever Love Again, Wynona Carr
I Ate the Wrong Part, Little Temple & His 88
Ready Teddy, Little Richard 13 (Specialty Story 4)

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Photo of the Day

Winter Festival, Las Vegas 2013

My Favorite Painting, Today

Ben Shahn, Demonstration 1933

Mystras, Part 1

Mystras was a community built onto the slope of Mount Taygetos in south central Peloponnese, near ancient Sparta. It dates back to the Byzantine period, and consists of considerable ruins of what was once a thriving religious, scholarly, and government center.  We climbed all the way to the top of the mountain, and along the way I collected these images of some of the ancient structures, and the views down into the valley.