New Art, Reading, Listening, getting ready for Christmas

 

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And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present:

New Art:

 I just painted Jemez Pueblo from a photo I took years ago; oil on 20 x 16” canvas board.

 Again, from an old photo, oil on 20 x 16” canvas board, near Phoenix, AZ.

Finished, 9 x 11” oil on canvas pad from a photo taken during my son’s flight over 10,000 Islands Florida.

Current view of my gallery wall in the great room. You should be able to pinch open to get a better view of the paintings.

Not my work, I just want to share it with you, saw it on Instagram. Love it.

Florida:
(Very) early walk in the neighborhood.

  Not a bad view from our gym...

Photos I Like:

Remembering Eastern Airlines and The DC3. Exciting travel after the war.

A “herd of Mustags” I viewed on Instagram. 

And, then, a “stack”

We usually see the top figure, the side view...when viewed from the top, notice how thin the fuselage is...not much there. These pilots have an awful lot of courage, in my opinion.

 You have probably not seen a cargo ship from 12,000 feet up...

Runnin’ Hot

I just like the photography of this magazine ad. The colors, the shapes, the item. 

This is almost unbelievable...

Reading:

Fascinating read with so much overlap. I’ll try to cover this in the next blog. 

 

Listening:

 Cell next to Manson??”

Watching:

Re-view this one: 2003; Tim Burton should have received more than a nomination for Best Director. This movie was set in the current Millbrook, AL, with a theme of reconciliation between a dying father (Albert Finney and his son ( Billy Crudup adult son) in a series of fairy tale vignettes evoking the tone of a Southern Gothic fantasy. I thought of my earlier review of Millions, and Forest Gump. Very inventive, You, as in all good movies, get lost in the story and forget where you are while viewing. Jessica Lange, so touching as a loving mother and wife. Helena Bonham Carter, Ewan McGregor, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi and Danny DeVito - maybe you've heard of these cast members. The final credit roll to an original for the Movie - Man of the Hour by Pearl Jam. In the next blog you will read about Crudup's interaction with Peter Frampton, and of course, PF and two of Pearl Jam's musicians later played in PF's touring band.Reading that and reference to the song in PF's bio is what spurred me to check this out 17 years later. I can't believe I did not recall most of this film until I watched last week, but came to really appreciate it. 

Then What a job... work on a film in Nice and Monte Carlo, full fashion, opposite Grace Kelly.

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I didn’t know he was from Saint Louis...Just completed a pretty good editing/producing of a famous editing/producer.

Read this and then the article on FZ and how he was working on the film.   

Humor:

Here we go... 

   and 

   I feel sooooooooo bad for the Jayhawks: NOT

  

You remember the 80’s, right?    

Of Interest:

Some of my earliest Cardinal memories are from Lindy

Below The Fold---------------------------------------Or, as I have learned from your input, Preaching To The Choir vs Unbelievers

Enter at your own risk:

 One of the lowest points in FBI history...

 Resulting in

Not sure who For America is but they have a sense of humor, or maybe not so funny. Gonna take advantage of our clueless, demented president-elect. Wait, is that Hunter in the hot tub also? Yikes.

 So, we have the Russian ambassador with whom President Trump was falsely accused of colluding, Biden’s new press secretary (in the pink commie hat), and our new climate czar, John (living on his wife’s millions) Kerry. Aka loser. 

Remember, 

 Remember how the “press” got all over President Trump for lack of social distancing? What a bunch of phoneys. Let’s include California politicians while we are at it. 

Speaking of phoneys, remember how the president-elect went weeks without talking to the press? Where were the headlines then? Oh, yea, I forgot, the phoneys wanted Biden to win, rather than cover the news...did I mention phoneys?

Remember you can see all of the prior blogs, also in archive