[Vision2020] music and books

[Kai Eiselein, editor]

I don't have a lot of time to settle down with a book anymore, but I did 
manage to work my way through Melanie Rae Thon's "Sweet Hearts", a rather 
dark read.
Mel sent me a signed copy after I contacted her about some Christmas 
portraits of her family that my grandfather took in the late 50's , which I 
found while archiving my family's photos.
It was kind of weird to see such a dark side of someone I had always seen as 
happy and bright. The Thons had a lake cabin near ours and Mel was one of my 
babysitters when I was young. They also had the best pie-apple tree in 
Kalispell...mmmmm.
Music:
My tastes range from big band swing, Gregorian chants and classical 
(especially Ravel) to April Wine, The Cars, Boston and Kiss, with some 
Disney show tunes tossed in. All depending on mood, of course.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] music and books


> Just for giggles:
>
> Music:
>
> 1.  Wolfmother.  From Australia. They just plain ROCK.  Just queue up
> "Woman" or "The Joker and the Theif", crank it up, and rip the knob off.
> 2.  You always gotta put Steve Miller into the rotation.  "Swingtown" is
> just plain fun.
> 3.  Never forget ZZ Top.  The little ol' band from Texas is still on the
> radar, and I'll sing along to "Somebody Else Been Shakin' Your Tree"
> from the First Album at the top of my lungs.
> 4.  I'm with Bruce on Sly and the Family Stone, but when you really need
> the funk, you gotta go Parliament/Funkadelic.
> 5.  If I'm gonna spend eighteen and a half minutes with Arlo and the
> "Alice's Restaurant Masacree", I gotta put in fourteen and a quarter
> with Peter Frampton and "Do You Feel Like We Do?"
>
> Books:
>
> 1.  Yeah, I read the Harry Potter too.  The ending worked for me.
> 2.  Spending a lot of time going back through my personal library:
> Larry Niven's "Ringworld" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", plus
> Stephen King's "Black House" right at the moment.
>
> Recent discoveries:
>
> 1.  Miller Chill.  Pretty dang nice on a hot day, don't know if I'd call
> it "bliss in a bottle" yet, though.
> 2.  The Latah County Historical Society's Ice Cream Social.  I did
> standby with the ambulance, but we had plenty of time to get our ice
> cream and watermelon, and the kids had a blast.  I'm kicking myself for
> not going all these years!
> 3.  Dr. Rush's "Thunderclappers".  It's fun when your kids take an
> interest in history, and you learn a little more about the things you
> thought you knew about from school.  I'm not sure what everyone else
> knows about the Corps of Discovery, but Dr. Rush's pills are one of the
> things that always makes me chuckle.  From wikipedia, describing the
> pills: "Though their efficacy is questionable, their high mercury
> content [50%] provided an excellent tracer by which archaeologists have
> been able to track the corps' actual route to the Pacific"
>
> On a side note, at the Ice Cream Social, there was a fellow from
> Lewiston who played the part of a pharmacist from the Corps' period.  He
> said that someone took it upon themselves to actually test out a
> Thunderclapper.
>
> It was effective within ten minutes!
>
> DC
>
>
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