I can't get enough of the website Found Magazine, which posts submitted scraps of things that are found - love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. It's the ultimate voyeur smoregusboard of appetizers.
Here is a note found three days after the Boston Marathon. Of all the emotional bits on the site, this one really hit me.
On a more pedestrian level, I also liked the note Bring porn for Ron and this note stuck in a book on serial killer Ted Bundy.
found inspiration
My gym
Moving into the new space. Next steps are building lifting platform and getting rubber flooring.
Painted Hills
Awesome pictures of one of my favorite places. Central Oregon. Photos by Ray Hendricks - his blog is full of his excellent photography of the PNW plus Photoshop tips.
Portland today
Great photo by Rob Finch, for The Oregonian.
Winning isn't everything...What really matters, what changes your life, is the passionate pursuit of something that matters.
- from the poignant essay a big ballgame for a small town by John Ydstie, NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, Jan. 21
Fabiola makes skating history today
Fabiola Da Silva - this inline skating hero from Brazil really shook up her corner of the sports world Sunday on the LG Action Sports Championships when she successfully executed and landed a double backflip. This makes her one of the few athletes who have mastered this move, and the first female to even attempt it in competition. What a rush to witness this moment in history. She was in the zone, and what awesome shoulders.
From her profile on ASA Sport:
Brazil, which is one of the smaller skate markets in the world, boasts fifteen professional skaters including seven women. That accounts for almost a third of all of the women competing worldwide.
Golden Age music
I love music from the 1920s, '30s, and around there. Here are names of particular artists I enjoy.
Helen Kane (a favorite!), Deanna Durbin, Ruth Etting, Annette Hanshaw, Frances Langford, Al Bowlly, Lew Stone, Billy Merrin, Georgia Gibbs, Greta Keller, Phyllis Robins, Patsy Montana.
Then into WWII there's Flanagan & Allen (description & 20 tracks free for the QT listening).
As for the hillbilly and blues coming out of the Appalacian Mountains at the time, I especially run to black blues - Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bessie Smith. Dear Johnny Cash was in his formulation stages.
I'm forever searching for a certain mystery voice that remains in my head, a female soprano along the lines of Gertrude Lawrence. I can imagine her on Lover Come Back to Me and Always. The voice is immediately striking in its surreal timbre of a child or fairy (and don't ask me how I know what a fairy sounds like. I just do.) The voice could well be that of Adriana Caselotti (Snow White). Altho Walt Disney effectively owned her, with her family's musical background, I can't believe there aren't any earlier recordings of her languishing in someone's cellar or attic. Anyway, her voice is phenomenal, and it's a damn shame Disney restricted the world from hearing more of her.
David Garrick's website is an amazing labor of love. An approachable fellow via email, he's put his knowledge to good organization here at the Jazz Age, a great resource.
Here's a series of radio shows by "Jimmy Jazz" Jim Baldwin He broadcasts out of Vermont. He has an Annette Hanshaw show. He's linked from David's site, above.
Here's an internet radio station with music from 1925 - 1935 A Live 365 show that's free but annoys you with commercials to join for commercialfree access.
Left Cindy Ball as Helen Kane from helenkane.com
Below Bee Palmer, from David Garrick's great Jazz Age website.
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