1946. Montrose Beach.
Hi tumblies. I haven’t been around here much lately. But: hello from Chicago.
"The 5 Point Cafe, a Seattle dive bar, was apparently the first to explicitly ban Glass. In part it was a publicity stunt — extremely successful, too, as it garnered worldwide attention — but the bar’s owner, Dave Meinert, said there was a serious side. The bar, he said, was “kind of a private place."
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Google Glass Picks Up Early Signal - Keep Out - NYTimes.com
Man, I miss the 5 Point.
(via emergencyreports)Best place.
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I wrote a little bit about Kendra Smith’s very obscure Guild of Temporal Adventurers mini LP for Aquarium Drunkard this week — go check it out and then go check out Smith’s best work, this amazing (and amazingly out of print) collection. Someone’s gotta figure out how to reissue this stuff!
Way overdue for reissue.
Chicago folks: last couple of times I checked there was a copy of this over at Logan Hardware. Get ittt.
The blisters may come…
I am learning to play guitar.
I have blisters on the tips of three fingers on my left hand. This makes me feel totally badass.
What it actually means is that I am still wimpy… but on my way to being badass.
This picture sums up at least one of my dissertation chapters.
Howe Gelb - KXCI Studios, Tucson, AZ, August 19, 2000
Essential listening — Gelb and host Jim Blackwood comb through the Giant Sand archives for a bunch of choice rarities from over the years. There are also some splendid, off-the-cuff Howe performances in the studio. Really, though, everything is off-the-cuff for Gelb, isn’t it?
#1 rockstar crush.
Happy springtime, y’all.
For some reason, this song made me think of this picture (which was much more flattering of both of us in my memory, sorry):
Ladies and gentlemen, downthewires and emergencyreports six years ago.
