My son Will turned me on to Lee Dorsey last week, can’t believe I never heard of him. Born in New Orleans in 1924, was buddies with Fats Domino, many of his songs produced by Alan Toussaint, backed by The Meters.
https://grooveshark.com/s/Holy+Cow/4CPgsG?src=5
I can only get a fraction of what’s going on in my life right now on this blog. I’ve never had so many things going on. I run from one thing to another. As I’m walking to my shop to get a tool, I spy something in the garden that needs doing, and I do it, forgetting the original task. It’s great!
In no special order, in addition to the publishing stuff, I’ve been making knives, that is, putting handles on Russell made-in-USA carbon steel blades, the last one with brass rivets and wood from a manzanita burl; making neck pendants out of abalone shell; getting my 12′ aluminum Klamath boat with 15 HP Evinrude back into the water after 20 years of hardly using it; skinning road kill animals, and treating (cleaning, bleaching) various animal skulls: foxes, skunks, bobcats…; doing homestead maintenance, which is endless, but of late, gratifying; listening to a ton of good music—boy between Grooveshark and YouTube, it’s a listener’s paradise; been digging clams, catching the occasional eel; making sauerkraut, pickled onions, smoking salmon and eels when available; trying out marijuana tinctures, other ways to get cannabinoids without smoke (or even vapor); hiking and paddling (not often enough); hanging out with my friend Louie when I can, going up to stay with him in the Mendocino woods in a few weeks…that’s just a small part of it all…hey, here’s what just came on, “Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)” by Lee Dorsey: https://grooveshark.com/s/Everything+I+Do+Gonh+Be+Funky+From+Now+On/4CPbfd?src=5
I spotted this nice looking 17 foot Whaler for sale yesterday at Eagle Marine in Martinez. It’s $8500. The 50 horse Tohatsu (Nissan) motor is 2-stroke oil-injected.
https://www.eaglemarineonline.com/
925-229-4881.
Click here to see 3 other boats in their yard:
All alone here, and helped by caffeine and mota, I’m cruising YouTube. What set me off was hearing Little Richard singing “The Girl Can’t Help It,” and the line “She’s got a lot of what you call the most…”*
The other night, Sirius DJ Michael Des Barres had said to check out the YouTube video of Little Richard performing the song in the movie (
), which I did, then spotted Richard and his crack band doing Lucille. He was so beautiful! Whatta voice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMoikK3ct8
*Another of Richard’s great lines: “It ain’t what you eat, it’s the way how you chew it.”
If you want to waste even more time on my musical journey this morning, click here:
There seems to be a rush of interest in active older people these days. I think a lot of this has to do with the work of Russian photo-journalist Vladimir Jakovlev, who is photographing lively older people all over the world. Someone sent me this link yesterday to an interview I did recently with the online magazine Growing Bolder: https://www.facebook.com/theageofhappiness
Yuichi Takeuchi is coming to visit us in a few weeks. Check out his unique creations at treeheads.com: https://www.treeheads.com/
“Janet Delaney was a 26-year-old photography student when she arrived in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood in 1978. Then, SoMa was still home to working-class immigrant families, small-business owners, artists, and a vibrant gay/leather community. With relatively low rents, ‘it had a long history of being a port of entry to the city,’ says Delaney. ‘There’s a quote from one of my neighbors that I love: ‘South of Market was a place where you could get yourself together.’
But SoMa was already changing, as the city moved forward with decades-long plans to redevelop the area.…as Delaney thought about the thousands of homes demolished…, she soon focused her lens on her neighbors. Their existences in SoMa were in peril, too.…
In spite of the fact that she’s witnessed the city transform again and again—or perhaps because of it—Delaney doesn’t completely mourn for the future of San Francisco. She went walking around SoMa just yesterday, she says, and enjoyed the energy and bustle of people on bikes and in cafes and at work. The city’s dramatic changes remind her, a little bit, of New York City.…”
Photo: Janet Delaney
Sent us by Kevin Kelly