9. GuilCo

6. Sitting here in my safe European home...

Watched Anton Corbijn's "Control" over the last couple of late nights & was very impressed. Never caught the Joy Division flame during my 80s musical expansion, but found them early 90s/end of college through my buddy Christian. Imagine the scenes from the trailer below, but stretched out & laced with cold space & poetry to reach 2hrs of stark, still Northern England in the black+white 70s. Then add a brilliant performance by Sam Riley captured by Corbijn's intuitive filming and you've got one helluva compelling picture about music, tension and release. (see also: 1, 2, 3)

5. Vom Gehen im Eis

4. I'm in the mood for 'Schach'

Played chess w/ Mia yesterday during our "snow & ice day" (letting her win this time), then later we went sledding into the sunset...

3. Back to school

 

...(and hopefully snow) tomorrow. 

Glad we put up all our Xmas stuff last week...

1. Happy Hair Monster!!

So I decided to do a "daily dose" of photos here for the New Year, but of course in true JOLLYTIME fashion, it's already Jan. 5 before I get around to the first one....Anyway, here is the beautifully scary "hair monster" that I pulled up from our shower drain a couple days ago. It's probably hard to tell from the crappy phone shot & web-scale, but I think that at least some of those hairs are red!! And to think that my wife wants us to put in a new bathroom....

last night

yesterday morning

went running on the bypass & saw this (ball peen?) hammer for the second time, so picked it up on the rewind. then noticed the screwdriver handle (actually to a paint roller) and finally the brush. Vesta told me later that she saw me running back to the house & thought i had relay batons in my hands...

listening Captain Beefheart alum. band Fast 'n' Bulbous from their NYC gig earlier this year: like Dixieland Dada in the Desert! all instrumental multi-horn takes on the Captain's inimitable hookish melodies.
poking through the web for more, i found a recording of one other gig (fm. Barcelona later in the week) and this comment that made me imagine & laugh:

#3142429 by tianlai at 2009-03-18 23:49:10 GMT

very cool--i just pulled and shared trout mask with HS sophomores today after state testing. didnt fare well, happy to see this "new" project...

sure glad we don't have to deal w/ standardized tests @ our school, or who knows what my poor students would be subjected to...