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Feef #041

by Geoff on May 30, 2013 at 0154

Recently I had a working tape deck and box full of all the music I listened to in the 90s. I am more than a little surprised by my taste. I was a lot more into tango music than I thought I was.

Looking back on it, I can really see why ska did not get big. I like my Moon Ska compilations though.

If there is one band I truly regret listening to, it is the Pet Shop Boys.

It’s weird how much stuff I have on tapes that the internet will never provide. I cannot find Marc Blitzstein’s version of the Threepenny Opera anywhere but on this cassette tape that I made of a CD that I checked out of the Teaneck NJ public library in 1995. It’s the best version of it I ever heard.

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Pictures from recent trip around America, part 1.

by Geoff on August 27, 2013 at 1345

Posted In: Amelia, photography

Gewel and her grandmother.

Dawn in Hamshire, Texas.

Amelia attempts to eat the tie of her great-grandmother’s pastor. We took Amelia to church for the first time, at a very enthusiastic little place in Hamshire. It was actually mad fun.

Gewel about seven or eight years ago, from a picture her grandma had.

A photograph of a photograph of Gewel’s grandmother in elementary school. It was the 1930s in Dust Bowl Kansas, near a town by the name of Hutchinson.

Florida. Amelia and the ducks regard each other with interest.

Amelia over Sarasota Bay.

Sarasota Bay.

Ca d’Zan, a Venetian palace transported to Sarasota for John Ringling about a hundred years ago.

A weird little statue at the Ringling Museum. Knowing what I know about John Ringling I find this statue very interesting.

Gewel and Amelia at Big E’s. I never got this lady’s name, but she was cool.

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Pictures from recent trip around America, part 2

by Geoff on August 28, 2013 at 1145

Posted In: Amelia, photography

Amelia sleeping on the floor in Sarasota.

Amelia and me.

Amelia meets her uncle Charles.

Charles and Gewel and Amelia and I go to visit Gewel’s aunt Tomara and her boyfriend Mike.

Charles and the baby like each other.

Rock star Mom.

Amelia meets her grandma.

A painting I found amusing at the Ringling Museum. I bet if you knew who those two guys on either side of the banner were this would be a very witty commentary.

Fascinating image, all the more so when you know some history of John Ringling. I really like the reflected EXIT sign, the artist should have included that.

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Pictures from recent trip around America, part 3

by Geoff on August 28, 2013 at 2343

Posted In: Amelia, photography

One of Mia’s friends (I’m sorry, I forgot your name!) at Ringling. We were trying to do one of those photo trickery things but were undone when we realized wings come out the back, not the front.