It’s OK

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My friend Franzi[ska]

Franzi[ska] Hasse is a photographer based in Munich.

I know her parents moderately well and like them more than moderately – he’s a nuclear physicist with an element named after him and she’s a closet ceramicist with a gallery in their home in Darmstadt.

Lovely girl.

She defends the formality of her given name fiercely and it appears to be an honour to be asked to call her by the abbreviated form that the family uses.

I still can’t really get used to it so when I see her, it’s always “Hey, Franziopenbracketsskaclosebrackets”

She has a new website.

It’s an absolute cracker.

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 11 October 2011

Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago – Skinny Love [Listen]
Joe Ely – Satisfied at Last – You Can’t Bet I’m Gone [Listen]
Levon Helm – Ramble At The Ryman – Rag Mama Rag [Listen]
Levon Helm – The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams – You’ll Never Again Be Mine [Listen]
Lou Reed – Rave On Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue [Listen]
Nanci Griffith – The Complete MCA Studio Recordings – Ford Econoline [Listen]
Rick Danko – Times Like These – Change Is Good [Listen]
Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive – The Gulf Of Mexico [Listen]
Wilco – The Whole Love – Open Mind [Listen]
Woody Guthrie – Howdy Little Newlycome -Rare Family Songs Of Woody Guthrie [Listen]

Now something really cool

Mary at Pitchfork Music in Concord NH (where all this music comes from) was born in 1990.

14 years after The Band split up.

Yet when I look at liner notes of  “The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams”, she says “Track 8’s the best – I just LOVE Levon Helm”

She must have had some good influences along the line….

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There once was a choleric colonel….

There once was a choleric colonel
Whose oaths were obscene and infolonel,
And the chaplain, aghast,
Gave up protest at last,
But wrote them all down in his jolonel.

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A day at True Brew Barista, Concord, NH

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Spot. On.

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Good thing we only have 52 channels…

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 4 October 2011

Bob Dylan – When The Deal Goes Down [Listen]
Chief – Night & Day [Listen]
Dada Trash Collage – Two Eyes [Listen]
Eddie Hodges – I’m Gonna Knock on Your Door [Listen]
Foamo – Movin It Over Here (Hey Now Remix) [Listen]
Ivor Cutler – I Believe in Bugs [Listen]
Mc Guinn, Hillman & Clark – Chestnut Mare [Listen]
Peter Wolf Crier – Right Away [Listen]
School Of Seven Bells – I L U [Listen]
The Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice (A Cappella) [Listen]

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Rick Danko reincarnated….

Rick Danko is alive, well and reincarnated as TJ at the Apple Store in Salem, NH.

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A day on LH422



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