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Dry Hopped Lager in De Ranke glass

This Tom Waits song came on the in the car sometime this week, and it seemed to match up perfectly with what was floating through our heads.  I don’t even remember what song it was, exactly, but it doesn’t matter.  I could probably insert any number of Waits songs into my memory of that moment and it wouldn’t change it.  I figure it was “Shiver Me Timbers”.  That’s been added to the life soundtrack, which will need to contain a few albums worth of Waits.  As I typed that, a memory popped into my head.  May as well indulge myself.

I was 15 years old and a freshman in high school.  I went to a party that the older brother of my best friend was having.  These folks would have all been roughly 10 years older than the 4 of us at the time.  I was drinking vodka and orange juice.  I recall somebody talking about how his car or house got broken into and his entire collection of Tom Waits was stolen.  I had no idea who Tom Waits was at the time, but it was said in such a way that it stuck, and I felt that Tom Waits was somebody I ought to know about.  The party for me ended up getting a bit out of control.  I got wasted.  Somebody made a “suicide” for me to drink…a bunch of alcohol mixed together.  I downed it.  I heard MC5 for the first time that night…and “Kick Out the Jams” seemed like one of the most amazing songs ever.  I’d later track that down too.  The night ended in a rather brutal defeat for me, though.  I was carried into my house and handed over to my parents by my buddies, despite my request for them to just leave me laying in the yard.  I couldn’t get down the stairs to my bedroom, so I slept in the guest bedroom upstairs.  I vomited all over it.  My mom made me go to church with her and my dad the next morning and I had to leave a couple of times to vomit in the church bathroom.  The older brother of another friend that was along the previous night was there and came out to talk to me.  He was laughing at me, saying he couldn’t believe I was there.  He’d heard from his brother that I had gotten shitfaced the previous night.  That was the first time I had ever gotten sick off alcohol.  It wouldn’t be the last.  Anymore, though…I don’t puke.  Nausea, but no vomiting.  I suppose that is a good thing?  It took a number of years, but I finally did start getting into Waits.  And it was that memory that prompted me to buy that first one.  Now I have a Tom Waits collection and I don’t know what I’d do if somebody stole all of it from me. Lots of those sort of memories will likely come back to me over the next days, weeks, and months as we pack up the house and move across the country.  There’s also a song called “A Soldier’s Things“, which comes to mind since we just had a garage sale.

I had intended to photograph every room of our house before we started packing everything up, so we could see what it looked like 10 years from now.  That didn’t happen, though.  We’ve already gotten packed and gotten rid of a lot of things.  There is certainly of bit of melancholy in it all.  Laura said we were going to leave the womb.  We had always talked about leaving the only place we’ve ever “lived”, which I don’t think sounds right at all.  We’ve “lived” in lots of places.  This is the only place we’ve ever had a home.  We were both born here.  Our parents were all born within a 50-mile radius.  Despite our dreaming in the few years after high school, we’ve never left for more than a long trip however.  We’ve talked about where it might be cool to live.  But all the while we were building our lives here.  Distracting ourselves from the fact that time was passing, we were growing up, getting older, and getting set in our ways.  When we bought this house, we both seemed to think that it was settled.  We decided that would probably be the last time we moved ever, more or less.

Then, I somehow stumbled onto what I had been trying to avoid since I was 15: a career.  I recall thinking back when I was starting high school that things just weren’t going to work for me.  It troubled me a more than a bit.  I knew that I couldn’t just fit in with what seemed to be the “norm”.  I couldn’t decide to be a lawyer or accountant and just do it, going to work each day wearing a suit and playing golf on the weekends.  Maybe I had been brainwashed from listening to too much John Lennon “Working Class Hero” earlier (also added to the Life Soundtrack now, though this isn’t the exact version that made it onto Plastic Ono Band–the best Lennon album).  The Life Soundtrack is taking on a new dimension.

Beautiful Supermachines > Shut Up

Birdman > Pricele$

Susan Boyle > I Dreamed a Dream

Lady GaGa > Fame Monster

Adam Lambert > For Your Entertainment

Memphis Bleek > The Process E2

Ike Reilly > Hard Luck Stories

Rihanna > Rated R

Shakira > She Wolf

Timbaland > Shock Wave 2

Tom Waits > Glitter and Doom (Live)

The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 339 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, his highest placing. The album cover is based on In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra.[12] Cal Schenkel was the art director and the cover art was by Lyn Lascaro aka Napolean.

Track Listing

Side one

1. “New Coat of Paint”
2. “San Diego Serenade”
3. “Semi Suite”
4. “Shiver Me Timbers”
5. “Diamonds on My Windshield”
6. “(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night”

Side two

1. “Fumblin’ with the Blues”
2. “Please Call Me, Baby”
3. “Depot, Depot”
4. “Drunk on the Moon”
5. “The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)”

Genre: folk, jazz, blues

More @ Wikipedia

Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 on Asylum Records, produced and arranged by former Lovin’ Spoonful member Jerry Yester.

Tracks

Side One

1. “Ol’ ‘55″
2. “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You”
3. “Virginia Avenue”
4. “Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)”
5. “Midnight Lullaby”
6. “Martha”

Side Two

1. “Rosie”
2. “Lonely”
3. “Ice Cream Man”
4. “Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)”
5. “Grapefruit Moon”
6. “Closing Time” (instrumental)

Genre: Rock, Folk

More @ Wikipedia

Yeah, I don’t know who they are. But everything with Andrew Bird is fine to me So this is straight copied from pitchfork.

The Preservation Hall is a 48-year-old French Quarter mainstay known for its deep New Orleans jazz legacy. In honor of the venue and its music outreach program, an impressive group of artists recorded tracks with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a benefit album called Preservation (what an original title!), due February 16 via RED.

Performers on the record include Tom Waits (who does a version of the Mardi Gras song “Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing”), Andrew Bird, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Pete Seeger, Dr. John, Steve Earle, Blind Boys of Alabama, Merle Haggard, Richie Havens, Jason Isbell, and more.

Below are some of my favourite guitars to play.

I really like the tones and feel of the Danelectro and Rickenbacker models.

Also featured below the links are some pics of great guitarists and musicians that play Danelectro and Rickenbacker.

You may find what you’re looking for at these sites as well. I have found them to be very helpful and fun.
The Recordist

Aztechmusic.com

Guitarchordfinder

Playbetterbluegrass.com

Guitarmasterclass.net

Audacity

AX84.com

cheapguitarsreport

gettuned guitar tuner

haramps guitar shielding

harmonycentral guitar instruction

americanmusical.com

logue.net chords

Guitar Wheel instruction tool

Guitarnuts.com technical

guitarnoise.com

projectguitar.com intonation

mwcamerica.com

Tortoiseguitar.com

Mandolincafe.com tuning

fret2fret.com instruction tool

RogerMcGuinn.blogspot.com

rocknrollvintage.com

gonegator.com Tom Petty stuff

Enjoy.

What are your favourite guitars?

What type of music do you play?

Self taught? Lessons?

Play at home, with friends, family, live in public?

Record your playing at home onto a PC?

First guitar you owned/played?
Please leave Comments.

This Cort Effector model has built in effects circuits and sounds good for a low priced guitar. I have one like this, but all black. They were sold at Sears stores back in the 80’s. It was my first guitar.

east meets west

Miss Sixty

From October 12th 2009, the main windows of Miss Sixty’s stores in Rome and Milan will be transformed in Doctor Parnassus’ Magic Mirror. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is an upcoming fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam …and Charles McKeown. The film follows the leader of a travelling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.
Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger’s death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended.Ledger’s role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger’s character Tony as he travels through a dream world.

http://www.misssixty.com/home.asp

In vier delen blik ik de komende week vooruit op de laatste maanden van het filmjaar 2009. In dit eerste deel aandacht voor 3D-brilletjes en surrealistische werelden…

Antichrist

Regie: Lars von Trier (Dogville, Manderlay)

Met: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Ziek, gestoord, pornografisch, gewelddadig, bizar. Slechts een kleine selectie van de woorden die zijn gebruikt door critici om hun afkeer voor Lars von Trier’s magnus opus Antichrist te laten merken. Eigenlijk is het niet eens zinvol om te beginnen aan een voorbeschouwing van de nieuwste film van -naar eigen zeggen- wereld’s beste cineast. Antichrist werd met de grond gelijk gemaakt door pers en publiek bij de eerste screening in Cannes eerder dit jaar. Toch ben ik benieuwd, zeer benieuwd…

Avatar

Regie: James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens)

Met: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi

Nooit eerder zijn de verwachtingen voor een nieuwe blockbuster zo hoog geweest als voor James Cameron’s Avatar. Een revolutionair 3D-spektakelstuk, als we de geluksvogels mogen geloven die de 20 minuten durende preview zagen eerder dit jaar. Mijn voorspelling? Een recordopbrengst aan ouderwetse dollars en historische cinema.

Brothers

Regie: Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, In America)

Met: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman

Een Amerikaanse soldaat gaat naar Afghanistan en komt om het leven. Zijn broer ontfermt zich over de vrouw van de soldaat en krijgt zelfs een relatie met haar. De soldaat blijkt toch te leven en komt weer thuis. Intens drama van Jim Sheridan, de Ierse straatvechter die bekend staat om zijn rauwe en realistische aanpak, maar flink de bocht uitvloog met het misbaksel Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (50 Cent!). Nu met goede acteurs.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Regie: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys)

Met: Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits

Toen Heath Ledger afgelopen februari overleed, was hij net bezig met de opnames voor dit surrealistische epos. Het script werd vervolgens aangepast, Depp, Law en Farrell vervingen hem en Terry Gilliam ging vrolijk verder met filmen. Ledger gaat zichzelf definitief bij de groten der aarde voegen ook al is hij er zelf niet meer. Doctor Parnassus wordt een klassieker, dat staat vast.

The Limits of Control

Regie: Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law, Mystery Train)

Met: Isaach de Bankole, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Gael Garcia Bernal, John Hurt

Met een van de meest originele moderne filmmakers aan het roer lijkt The Limits of Control weer een ware lust voor het oog te worden. Cinematografisch fantastisch met altijd een lichte twist van het bizarre. Niemand die dat zo goed kan als Jarmusch. Hoofdrol is verrassend genoeg voor de Ivoriaanse veteraan Isaach de Bankole. Bill Murray is ook weer van de partij, zoals het hoort in een Jarmusch.

De sa voix caverneuse et lointaine, Tom Waits, nous plonge dans des univers de nuits blanches et de sorties de bar, d’alcoolisme et de solitude amère et hargneuse.  Multi-instrumentiste prolifique, il évolue dans les differents domaines du jazz en imprimant sa patte rêche. Grand collaborateur de Jarmush, on retrouve leur influence mutuelle dans la musique de Waits comme dans les films de son ami.  Promenade dans les bas-fonds d’une autre époque.

L’univers.

Soy un gran cinéfilo, y como a la mayoria, me gusta el buen cine. Pero tras esa mayoría, nos encontramos aquellos que nos gusta pasarlo bien con películas malas, y aunque suene contradictorio, si, lo pasas muy bien viendo películas de serie-b o incluso de serie-z (zero presupuesto) y mas, si visionas dichas cintas con unos amigotes gamberros de esos que todos tenemos.

Tras haberme tragado grandísimas mierdas como Braindead: Tu madre se ha comido a mi perro (1991) o Jesucristo Vampire Hunted (2001), anoche le llegó el turno a Troll 2, película, que noseporqué no viera antes, es más desconocía su existencia, y fue gracias a que el telediario de Tele5, sacára la noticia de que está considerada la peor película de la historia la cual cuenta con un documental propio rodado recientemente y titulado ‘Best worst movie!’.

Ya viera hace tiempo la primera entrega de Troll y he de decir, que no tiene nada que ver con su continuadora. Troll 2, se sale bastante de la línea argumental y nos hace muestra de cómo una pelicula decente de terror juvenil de la época, puede ser destrozada en cero coma.

Troll 2

La película empieza con el pequeño Elliot acostado en su cama y escuchando un cuento que su difunto abuelo le esta contando, si si, habeis leído bien, su difunto abuelo, y es que Elliot puede ver a su abuelo, o tambien podría decirse, que el abuelo, da el coñazo al nieto y lo atosiga a cada momento agobiandolo hasta escalas extremas.

Destacar casi obligatoriamente el cómo se imagina el dichoso cuento el pequeño Elliot. Que creo, que deberían de hacer un spin-off para que todos podamos terminar de partirnos la caja. Una especie de leñador gay que dando un paseo por el bosque, se encuentra con una dama a la cual él cree que se follará, pero acaba siendo deborado por ésta. La escena imaginativa de Elliot a parte de absurda, recuerda a esas películas porno suecas de la década de los setenta.

Pero volviendo a la película y sin enrollarme más, nos muestra a una familia americana que esta a punto de vivir una experiencia bucólica. Sofocados por la rutina urbana, deciden hacer intercambio con una familia granjera proveniente de un desconocido pueblo llamado Nilbog (¡atención!, ¡abrumador el trabajo de los guionistas!, ¡Nilbog es Goblin escrito del revés!)

Los habitantes de dicho pueblo, que suman la friolera cantidad de 28, son muy vegetarianos, pero unos vegetarianos muy peculiares, ya que son goblins que convierten a los humanos en plantas para poder devorarlos. De esta manera, la familia Waits, deberá arreglárselas como pueda y sobrevivir a los malvados trolls.

¿Por qué esta considerada la peor película de la historia? Veréis, no soy crítico de cine profesional ni es mi intención serlo, pero no hay que ser nada de eso, es más, no hay que ser ni tan siquiera listo, para darse cuenta de lo mala que es.

Actuaciónes lastimosas y penosas se dan en toda la película, donde los actores (si se les puede llamar así) recuerdan a esas obras teatrales de instituto o peor aún, en esos teatrillos que realizan los miembros de una asociaión de vecinos en sus fiestas anuales.

La familia Waits no estará sola. En la acción les acompaña el novio de la hija de los Waits y sus inseparables amigos a cada cual más friki, que deciden ir tambien de vacaciónes al pueblo para conocer a féminas dispuestas a fornicar libremente con ellos. Ilusos…

Aquí hay que volver a hacer un pequeño parón y destacar a un personaje grandísimo de esta película. Es el caso de Arnold (Darren Ewing), uno de los inseparables amigos, que en una de sus escenas, nos deleitó a todos con sus asombrosas dotes de la interpretación y con el paso de los tiempos, se ha convertido en un personaje de culto:

Dejando de lado el tema de las interpretaciónes. Nos centramos ahora en la producción de la afamada y enaltecida película.

Los efectos especiales son irrisorios, pobres, detestables. Los trolls, no son más que niños disfrazados con arapos y con caretas adquiridas en cualquier todo a cien norteamericano de mala muerte.

¡Hijos míos! ¡Menudo disfraz de Halloween teneis! Enseñadselo a mamá

Pese a lo mala que es, es cierto que tiene grandes momentos de diversión, momentos que te harán reir bastante. A parte de la mítica escena de Arnold, no es menos mítica la escena en la que Elliot se saca la churra y mea en la cena, para evitar que los padres y su hermana se comieran la cena envenenada con ese liquido verde que hace que te conviertas en planta y seas devorado por los trolls.

Po cómete ésta!!!

Otra escena bastante graciosa, es cuando el espiritu del abuelo se equivoca de habitación y en vez de entrar en la de Elliot entra en la de su hermana, (que por cierto esta bastante buena, tipica hot teen) y le da un susto de muerte.

Pero con la que te reirás a más no poder, es con una de las escenas finales, en dónde Elliot, para derrotar a la malvada bruja líder de los trolls, y patológicamente vegetariana, decide comerse un bocadillo doble de mortadela.

Tras estas sensacionales escenas, viene el final. Un final cargado de dramatismo, un final que estoy seguro, destrozó la felizidad de muchísimos niños que veían la película. Un final que deja ver, que la historia sigue, y lo peor de todo, un final que nos deja ver, que probablemente, haya una tercera parte de TROLL.

NOOOO, otra nooo!!!

En fin, ya puedo decir que la he visto y mi opinión es que es mala, mala con ganas pero creo que las hay peores.

Recomendada para ser vista en uno de esos agradables momentos en los que estas en casa con los amigos cenando, viendo pelis, etc.

Un abrazo.

Álvaro R.

Reason WAITS was my great great great grandfather James G WAITS’ brother, and the source of the letters that I quoted a couple of weeks ago in this post.

For some reason, Reason has been on my radar a lot this week so I thought it would be fitting to post these photos of his very unusual and cool headstone that a www.findagrave.com volunteer posted.  She said that someone before her chalked the monument, which can damage the headstone and make it deteriorate faster.  Not a good idea, in my book.

Actually, doing anything to a headstone is frowned upon in the genealogy and cemetery world.  There’s an ongoing debate over what’s acceptable and what’s not.  For more on that, check out this blog post from Dick Eastman.

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/05/tombstones_and_.html

And the follow up post:

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/05/how_not_to_read.html

But for now, let’s get back to today’s Tombstone!

Reason Waits

b: 19 Nov 1819 in Brown County, Ohio

m: 19 Nov 1844 to Susan SIPES (1825-1855) in Ray, Missouri

m: 31 Oct 1858 to Melissa Jane CLEMMONS (1839-1927) in Atchinson, Missouri

d: 23 Feb 1892 in Fairfax, Atchinson County, Missouri

He had 4 children with Susan, and 7 children with Melissa.

I really don’t know a lot about him at this point, but I get the feeling this will change sometime in the very near future.  I found a cousin on Ancestry.com that is one of his descendants, and she just emailed me this morning to say that she found a ton of WAITS photos and documents in a family scrapbook that she hasn’t looked at in a while.  So I scanned the copies of Reason’s letters and she is going to copy what she has and send it to me.  So this story will break wide open  in the next few weeks!

Inscription:
“The pains of death are past
Labor and sorrow cease
And life’s long warfare closed at last
His soul is found in peace”

O OCEANO ME REJEITA

Hoje o oceano me rejeita
Mas amanhã voltarei para brincar
E os estranjos me levarão para as profundezas de suas águas
Os danados imaginanjos
Abaixo pelo infinito vinho azul
Abrirei minha mente e deixarei tudo fora do meu tempo
Adoraria estar me afogando
E permanecer e permanecer
Mas hoje o oceano me rejeita
Emergirei para cá
Isso pode até doer
Tudo o que encontrarão é minha cerveja e minha camisa
A maré violenta está quebrando, o salva-vidas está longe
Mas hoje o oceano me rejeita
Hoje o oceano me rejeita.

Notas de tradução: Strangels (estranjos) e braingels (cerebranjos, em tradução literal, imaginanjos numa adaptação) são trocadilhos com “estranhos anjos” e “anjos cerebrais” (da imaginação).

Palavras de Tom: Um jornal publicou duas fotos. A primeira, de uma mulher segurando uma garrafa de cerveja e um cigarro, olhando para o mar. A segunda, tirada no mesmo dia, algumas horas depois, era a do rosto dela flutuando na água, a garrafa ainda em sua mão. O fotógrafo diz ter passado por ela e a ouvido murmurar “hoje o oceano me rejeita”. E ele apenas fotografou o momento. Ele deu uma caminhada até o final do píer, e quando voltou se deparou com o corpo dela na água. É um bilhete de suicídio.

Estranjos. Anjos estranhos. Kellesimone (filha de Tom) me disse isso. Então, se existem estranjos, podem existir imaginanjos. São os anjos que vivem na sua cabeça.   

[do material de divulgação do Bone Machine, 1992]

I thought it would be fitting today to show you Edwin William Waits’ tombstone, since he was a major part of my day yesterday.

Edwin was born in Milford, Seward, Nebraska, USA and died in Marion, Oregon, USA.  It’s my understanding that he was married with kids.  Was it common back then to take someone’s body across country and not bury them with their spouse?  That seemed to happen a lot in my family.

I took this photo at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Ruby, Seward, Nebraska, USA on Memorial Day, 2009 and noticed that a few of my family’s graves had flowers on them.  Same thing in the Seward Cemetery.  Assuming that the visitors are cousins, I’d really like to talk to them and let them know about my research and blog and see if they want to compare notes.  Does anyone have any ideas on how I would get in touch with them?  I’ve thought about leaving a note in a ziploc next Memorial Day, but that’s nine months away.  Seems a shame to let it go that long if we live in the same area.

William Henry Waits

Have you seen this man?  This is my great great grandfather William Henry WAITS and I am looking for additional photos of him for a family project that I’m working on.  If you’ve been reading along and thinking that maybe you think that I’d like to see some of the photos that you have of this family, you’re right!  Now’s your chance!  Scan them and send them in! 

I’ve set up a special email account for photo submissions: GeneaKathyPhotos@gmail.com

• If possible, try to scan the photos with a resolution of at least 300 ppi.  The bigger, the better.  My email can handle it.
• If you inherited photos of William or anyone else related to his family and want to give them to another family member, I would gladly take them.  I am archiving all of my photos and would be thrilled to add yours to my collection so I can protect them as well as share them with other family members.

Here’s the nitty gritty to help you find him in your photos!

VITALS:

b. 29 Sep 1845 – Miami, Clermont, Ohio, USA

m. 24 Jul 1877 – Elve Sonoria LONG PITT – Seward, Seward, Nebraska, USA

d. 30 Jan 1927 – Ruby, Seward, Nebraska, USA

FAMILY

James G Waits, William's father

Father:

• James G WAITS (1816-1880) – son of Charles Waits (1790-1868) and Mary GOBLE (1799-1839)

Mother:

• Susannah ARTHUR (1816-1901) – dau of William ARTHUR (1788-1865) AND Mary Polly REED

Siblings:

• Rachel Waits (1840-1868)
• Mary Lucinda Waits HULEN (1841-1902)
• Sarah E Waits (1845-1869)
• Rhoda C Waits (1848-?)
• Charles Richmond “Dick” Waits (1850-1917)
• James Turner Waits (1852-1929)
• Moses Woodruff Waits (1855-1921)
• Thomas Boyd Waits (1858-1927)
• Ada May Waits PALMER(1861-1951)

Spouse:

• Elve Sonoria LONG PITT – dau of Samuel LONG (1811-1887) and Permelia Ann ROGERS (1824-1916)

Children:

• Samuel Melvin PITT (1869-)
• Frederick Hiram WAIT (1876-1955)
• Lavina Lenora Waits LUNNEY (1878-1966)
• Simeon Andboy Waits (1881-1941)
• Rhoda L Waits DAVIS (1884-1973)
• Thomas Grover Waits (1886-1962)
• Elizabeth Myrtle Waits DAAKE (1889-1974)

MILITARY

• Civil War Veteran – Fought for Union
• Co H, 54th Ohio Volunteers
• Co F, 195th Ohio Volunteers
• Battles: Harper’s Ferry, Winchester, and Old Town

RESIDENCES

• Sterling, Brown County, Ohio, USA
• Harrison County, Nebraska, USA
• Ruby, Seward County, Nebraska, USA
• Seward, Seward County, Nebraska, USA

OCCUPATIONS

• Stonemason
• Farmer
• Laborer