From the monthly archives:
I know that Renewable Music and Loose Poodle have blogged on this topic, but I find myself in a funny quandry if I think too hard about the success of YouTube. I have had a blessed life in having had many, many wonderful premieres and performances of my music, many of which were recorded. However, [...]
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On Monday I had a nasty onslaught of flu. My muscles were sore and my skin ached all over. Seemed like flu. But I had a busy week. I canceled my appointments on Monday, but decided to just live on Tylenol Severe Flu medication all week — which worked, until about Friday. I had [...]
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For the sake of anyone trying to find “Roger Bourland” I know that there are at least four of them.
My father’s father was a Roger but died some years back, so I’ll exclude him. My father, James Roger Bourland, Jr., is a retired Methodist/UCC minister who lives with my mother in Sun City West, Arizona. [...]
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Here is an image from a new collection by artist/designer Mate Steinforth. His website, beautifully made, is called Mate Universe and shows off his brilliant eye for color, design, and proportion.
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Here is a marvlously raw and gritty video of Elvis singing “Hound Dog.” His moves titillated a generation of hormone popping teens, and younger. I remember this song so well as a little boy. I remember slicking my hair back and doing an Elvis impersonation for one of my baby sitters. As far as I [...]
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A famous Gram Parsons/Chris Ethridge song from the Flying Burrito Brothers first album, “Juanita” sung here by Gram’s champion, Emmy Lou Harris and the fabulous Sheryl Crow.
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Here is one of the most popular videos that bloggers post. Some bossy queen trapped in a Filipino prison convinced the prison warden to turn the prison into a movement class. So much fun!
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I went to a party for our good friend Steve, just back from 6 months away, doing special effects for an upcoming movie about John Adams (the president, not the composer). During the party, he kept a looping slide show in the living room of candid snapshots of various places they worked around the world. [...]
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I include this video as a kind of blog bookmark in my Rufus Wainwright research. It was captured by someone watching TV in a hotel room and filming it with a video camera. On the TV is Loudon Wainwright III on NBC, show not identified, playing with an unidentified duo (a black man on bass [...]
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A fascinating find is Ian Andrews’ video “A Million Angels.” The various comments from the people on YouTube talk about it in warm and fuzzy way (”those ‘old’ clips” and “a classic”) so I guess I missed this one when it first came out. I found the music annoying on first listen, but “got it” [...]
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