Things posted in August, 2009
I saw Blitzen Trapper live a couple of weeks ago on a small gig at a record store and it was really nice. Their last album Furr (2008) is quite good overall but this song is really my favourite.
“It was just a little while past the Sunset Strip
They found the girl’s body in an open pit
Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still wide
Gazing through the fog to the other side
They booked me on a whim and threw me deep in jail
With no bail, sitting silent on a rusty pail
Just gazing at the marks on the opposite wall
Remembering the music of my lover’s call
So you make no mistake
I know just what it takes
To pull a man’s soul back from heaven’s gates
I’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sin
But they say it’s never too late to start again
Oh when, oh when
Will the spirit come a-callin’ for my soul to send
Oh when, oh when
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?
It was dark as the grave, it was just about three
When the warden with his key came to set me free
They gave me five dollars and a secondhand suit
A pistol and a hat and a worn out flute
So I took a bus down to the Rio Grande
And I shot a man down on the edge of town
Then I stole me a horse and I rode it around
Til the sheriff pulled me in and sat me down
He said, you make no mistake
I know just what it takes
To pull a man’s soul back from heaven’s gates
I’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sin
But they say it’s never too late to start again
Oh when, oh when
Will the spirit come a-callin’ for my soul to send
Oh when, Oh when
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?
Well the sheriff let me go with a knife and a song
So I took the first train up to Oregon
And I killed the first man that I came upon
‘Cause the devil works quick, you know it don’t take long
Then I went to the river for to take a swim
You know that black river water is as black as sin
And I washed myself clean as a newborn babe
And then I picked up a rock for to sharpen my blade
Oh when, oh when
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send
Oh when, oh when
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?
Oh when, oh when
Will that black river water wash me clean again
Oh when, oh when
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?”
If you like it, then “What Does it All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective” is my recommendation.
With all the news and comments regarding Usain Bolt 100m world record this came to my mind:
We create a small camera club in the office where every month an outsider sets a theme for our photo challenge. The selected theme for July was “from the waist down”. This seemed a good opportunity to play a bit with the theme. So I made a mental photograph and tried to make the setup according to the equipment I have available. It was fun, even in my 30m2 apartment. The setup was not complex, one digital slr with a 100mm f2.8 Macro, tlr (Minolta Autocord), white bed sheets, single flash with remote triggers, some black paper and a wireless shutter.
I had the digital slr on a tripod focusing down on the waist level viewfinder glass of the tlr which wasfocusing on my toes. Since the tlr viewfinder was dark I used a flash, 1/2 and 35mm (if I remember correctly). Since I wanted to have viewfinder brighter that everything else and avoid reflections on the camera I used some black paper. At last since I was my own model the wireless shutter was very useful. The fact that I always had to get up, check the photo, correct settings and go back under the sheets to continue was a bit annoying. Still in the end I am mostly happy because mostly was the mental photograph I took on the first place, and in this case that was the most important because the photograph is not that good.
Marco Van Basten is one of my childhood idols. He is maybe my all time favourite player who at that time played on my all time favourite team, 1990 AC Milan (Baresi, the young Maldini, Gullit, Rijkaard, … ). Unfortunately he got a serious injury which finished his career too soon. Actually Ibrahimovic has a similar style, maybe thats why currently he is my favourite player. Van Basten “impossible” goal:
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