My Father’s Darkroom Door
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Hello,
Awhile back I received a voice message that was not meant for me. The message was from an older woman, maybe 75 years old or so, it began, “Hi Bobby, this is Gene and I wanted to let you know that I fell down yesterday and I’d really like to talk to you or see you, please call me”. It was a downright sad message, her voice sounded frail and I couldn’t stand the thought of this woman never reaching Bobby, waiting for Bobby to call, and all due to her dialing the wrong number. I decided to call her back and let her know she had dialed the wrong number and that bobby never received her message. The phone rang and she picked up and I began to explain the mix-up but she interrupted me “it’s so nice of you to call me back, bobby, I have had hard times these last two days”. She went on to tell me how she fell down while in the kitchen and had broken her collar bone and crawled to the phone in order to get some help. Now there was help at the house and they had her taking all sorts of pain medications. I empathized with her for a moment and then began to reiterate that I was not Bobby and that she still needed to call him. She listened for a second and responded, “thank you so much for calling me Bobby and I hope you can come out and visit with your father one day soon, I had better go, the nurse is here”. I thought about telling her I wasn’t Bobby one more time, but instead I let her know that maybe we could visit one day soon and that I hoped her pain was tolerable and that she could call me anytime.
I haven’t been in a movie watching mood for quite awhile now, I’m not sure why. These days I watch The Office once a week, a Chaplin film here and there, and maybe a documentary every now and again. A couple of weeks back I started watching The Planet Earth nature documentaries and I have been totally in awe of what I have seen. I’m totally enthralled with them and I plan on making my way through all 4 discs (are there more?). Here is a clip from the Snow Leopard section of the series.
Here are a couple short stories that I read recently and liked:
“Days of Heaven” by Rick Bass (Montana author with a story about a man house sitting a mansion in MT)
“Night They Missed the Horror Show” by Joe Lansdale (this is disturbing, shocking, and offensive…A real horror story, I genuinely warn you)
Lately I’ve been losing interest in the internet and I’ve let mix after mix fall through the cracks never to be posted on this site, but I have a renewed will at the moment and I promise not to let ink math go stale and dead like so many other blogs out there. And it’s hard to update the blog when the sun is shining outdoors. I suspect this winter will turn me into a shut-in and I will do nothing except drink coffee and concoct hot fresh mixes for you. Oh, and on top of all the new mixes you’ll be getting here, KBGA will begin streaming over the internet soon and you can listen to all your favorite KBGA programs from any computer station in the world.
Well, this Joe Meek mix is something special if you ask me…I think it might be one of my favorites ink math mixes so far. I offer it up to you as a sacrifice for my lack of new content over the last few months. The binding theme of this mix is that each of these songs was produced by the amazing English producer Joe Meek. Joe did the production on about 245 songs from 1959-1967 and I have about 130 of those songs and I went through and picked out some of my favorites for this mix. I came across Joe Meek while I was deep within my Buddy Holly obsession last year this time. I was reading an article about Buddy and it mentioned english producer Joe Meek as someone who was not only influenced heavily by Buddy and produced many holly-esque tunes, but also idolized him and was convinced that Buddy communicated to him through dreams. Aside from liking Buddy, Joe was also an incredibly creative and imaginative producer who invented groundbreaking recording techniques that made his particular production style standout as one far ahead of its time. If you’re interested in Joe there is a great book out there that will really give you the juice on the man. Unfortunately the hits started drying up for Joe, and he was already a tortured soul, so on the 8th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death in 1967 Joe took a shotgun and killed his landlady before turning it on himself. Long story short.
Oh, and the link section has been updated…know of anything that is missing in there? bye, Collin
Artist / Song
Side A
Emile Ford & The Checkmates / What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?
Heinz / Questions I Can’t Answer
Shade Joey and The Night Owls / Bluebirds Over The Mountain
The Impac / Too Far Out
Jason Eddie and The Centremen / Come On Baby
Heinz / Just Like Eddie
Mike Berry and The Outlaws / My Baby Doll
The Honeycombs / Have I the Right? / Video
The Blue Rondos / Little Baby
Ray Dexter / Just Like You
The Buzz / I Gotta Buzz
The Birds of Prey / Love Gone Again
Jason Eddie and The Centremen / Singing the Blues
Side B
Glenda Collins / Something I’ve got to Tell you
Michael Cox / Angela Jones
Mike Berry and The Outlaws / Just A Matter of Time
Michael Cox / I Can’t Make up my Mind
Heinz / I’m not a Bad Guy
Alexander Combo / Can’t you Hear my Heart?
Mike Berry and The Outlaws / Tribute to Buddy Holly
The Cryin’ Shames / Please Stay / Video
Joe Meek / I Hear a New World
Glenda Collins / It’s Hard to Believe It
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good to hear the site is staying alive because its a good day when a new posting appears. hats off to you mister
downloading now. Listening later. Ink 53 came up on my shuffle this morning, and was awesome. Thanks for all you do, Bobby. LH
PS – Need a book recommendation, to keep you offline? Try “A Soldier of the Great War,” by Mark Helprin. A great, long novel that will last much longer than the few weeks it’ll take you to get through it. Profound.
Today I heard the world twice:
At noon I offered to donate some 600 CDs (Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Animals, Kinks, Simon & Garfunkel, EL&P, King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, ELO, Eric Clapton, Leo Kottke, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Miriam Makeba, Mahotella Queens, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, doowop, gospel, …) to the local public library. They didn´t wanted them: “There´s only space for really popular music”.
Some hours later I tried to loan a book in another agency of the same public library, because the computer catalog said, that it would be available there. After not finding it I turned to the desk, where after some head scratching it was fumbled out of the garbage can: Books that are not asked for over a period of 6 months are thrown away. My request now has prolonged the library life of this particular book for another half year.
Hey, ink-mathematicians, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ??
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Thanks for all the comments! There are people out there on the inter-webs looking at ink math! Who knew? Thiersel, what was the book you saved? And you are from The Netherlands, is that right? I did a semester of University in Utrecht.
P.S.: In the previous comment I erroneously wrote “loan” where I meant “borrow”.
It was Henning Mankell: Vor dem Frost (literal translation: (“Before The Frost”), a detective story encompassing the 1978 Jonestown massaker, 9-11 of 2001 and religious madness. It was chosen by my girl friend out of a list of recommendations given in a popular TV literature magazine. I haven´t read a word yet, so cannot comment on it further. It is intended for reading it together – I read it to her, and she to me. (There seems to be no English word for the German “vorlesen” – to read something to someone!. On the other hand “borrow” and “loan” is the same word in German, both “leihen”.)
I haven´t read anything by Mankell before. His figure “Wallander” is very popular over here, providing the basis for several TV movies or a TV series – I don´t know. It´s not the kind of stuff I watch on TV.
My father is a big Henning Mankell fan and has recommended his books to me for quite awhile, but I have yet to actually read one….let me know how it is
Hey Collin. Finally got to sit down and listen to and read this post. I love how this site has a personal journal-like feel on top of the great mixes you offer. That story about the old lady who fell down, is that for real?! Great story…
I dig these no-name artists that nobody ever hears about, yet groove just as well as any of the mainstreamers. The Beatles stole all the thunder from people like this. My favorite is the Joe Meek tune itself. Interesting history there, too bad it had to end like that, for Buddy, and Joe.
One more observation before I go: Almost, if not all of these tunes – no, I take that back – almost every song ever written is about wussing out over lost love, or putting some woman on a pedestal. I’m making it a point to try to find some tunes that buck-up and retain some masculine dignity, ie. Dion’s the Wanderer or better yet, Hank Williams’ You’re Gonna Change or I’m Gonna Leave. It’s few and far between, but let me know if you dig any up.
Keep it up brother. -Day
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