Eames stamps

I will be heading to my local post office to pick up a few sheets of the Eames stamps. Finally-they have been released and boy are they beautiful. Check out these photos from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eamesd/sets/72157605688694653/?page=2

http://dasfilmfest.com/

Eames Demetrios posted the photos on flicker....he is a grandson and here is a short bio:

Eames Demetrios is a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles who has just written the book "An Eames Primer" about the life and work of Charles and Ray Eames. The Eameses are best known for their furniture but one of the real contributions of the book is that it helps people see what Demetrios calls the "seamless connection" between all their work from their chairs to the landmark Eames House, from exhibitions (like Mathematica currently at the Exploratorium in San Francisco) to films like Powers of Ten.

Eames Demetrios is their grandson as well as being the director of the Eames Office for the past 8 years and he brings both perspectives to this book. The book is ultimately a kind of a thematic biography and the first overview of their philosophy and design process to hit the bookstands. The Eames Office is dedicated to communicating, preserving, and extending the work of Charles and Ray Eames. At the Eames Office site (www.eamesoffice.com) you can see examples of their work including a chapter from the Primer. Check it out and mail some snail mail with the great eames stamps!

X Files

Spent some time on Sunday viewing the darkness. We saw a double feature of THE DARK KNIGHT and then THE X FILES. I enjoyed both of them especially the X Files. It was great to watch the credits roll and be treated to a little surprise at the end. I want to Believe- there will be another X files film out before 2012. Love that Chris Carter, who has recently taken DJ'ing lessons-DJ c-Cubed for Chris C Carter. Please, surf some waves, spin some tunes and get working on another script.

L Word News

Showtime does want to keep things going with THE L WORD-as the lesbian drama enters its final season, creator Ilene Chaiken is developing a spin-off for one of its main characters. Please let it be ALICE.

In other news on the final season-Showgirl herself Elizabeth Berkley will join the show for a multi-episode arc as the straight girl that got away from Bette in college.

Showtime brass announced that TLW will live on in spirit after Season 6 as an online crossover show centered around a yet-to-be-named cast member that could, if the executives like it, turn into a full-fledged televised spin-off for the cable channel.

Spring House brewing... up and runnng..once again

From Spring House's Brewing's Myspace page...

We’ve got some celebrating to do, STAT!!
Great news...
The new hand rails have been installed, the portapotty has arrived, and our inspector has inspected. We passed inspection this morning, just in time for the weekend!! Come out and celebrate with us. We are open Friday (tomorrow) from 6-9pm and Saturday from noon-5pm.
Thanks again for your patience during our thankfully brief setback!
Matt & Co.
Business Hours:
Wednesday and Friday, 6-9pm
Saturday=Spring House Brewing Co. is releasing the Summer Wheat Ale this Friday, 6-9pm, noon-5pm!!!

Iron Hill Brewery Lancaster PA

Iron Hill Brewery held their first Mug Club event at it's Lancaster, PA location. I was able to meet Head Brewer Paul Rutherford and received a tour of the brewery. They promised more mug club events in the near future. I was also able to try some of Paul's Belgian style Tripel aged in a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel-Delicious and very smooth tasting. I am going to try and post some pictures I took with my new phone.
Also attending was Mark Edelson, director of brewing operations along with being a Founder and Operating Partner.
It was a wondeful way to end a work week plus we met a lot of other cool mug club members.

BUMBERSHOOT 2008 8/30-9/1

I wanna go so so bad but can't get off work, maybe next year....doesn't it sound FUN...
Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Ingrid Michaelson,
Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Jakob Dylan, !!!, Lee “Scratch” Perry,
Saul Williams, Joe Bonamassa, M. Ward, The Walkmen, Asylum St. Spankers,
Dan Deacon and many more!

The 38th Annual Festival will also feature three comedy stages,
1 Reel Film Festival, Seattle-Tehran Poster Show, literary giants,
dance, indie crafts, Flatstock and more!!!

Seattle, WA - The 38th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, Presented by Samsung Mobile announces the partial 2008 lineup. The 3-day urban event takes place Labor Day Weekend (August 30 – September 1). The Festival stretches across the 74-acre Seattle Center, located beneath the city’s iconic Space Needle, and programs 20 indoor and unique outdoor venues. This progressive Festival features a diverse array of arts including live music, comedy, theatre, dance, film, urban crafts, and literary and visual arts. Complete Festival details are located at bumbershoot.org so check it out!!

From Mao to WOW!!!

From Mao to Wow!
Just as many of New York City’s most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ago, Beijing has been re-inventing itself since 2001 with a rush of showstopping buildings by internationally renowned architects: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron’s National Stadium, Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid complex, Rem Koolhaas’s China Central Television headquarters, and Norman Foster’s Terminal 3. On the eve of a controversial Olympics, Kurt Andersen sees China’s true promise in a more enduring spectacle of daring commissions, bravura engineering, and creatively humanistic design. Read this article by Kurt Andersen, August 2008 in VANITY FAIR=

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/08/chinese_architecture200808

I was thinking about boycotting watching and paying any attention to the Olympics due to China failure on HUMAN RIGHTS but since we the USA now has such a bad record on Human Rights, I give up and maybe watching for my Bob Costas tear jerking bio's along with being on the look out for architecture.

****photograph by Stephen Wilkes- The anti-skyscraper at a mere 49 stories, the new CCTV Headquarters, designed by Rem Koolhaas, will contain almost as much floor space as the Empire State Building and Ground Zero’s forthcoming Freedom Tower combined. Once completed, it will be the world’s second-largest office building, after the Pentagon.

Poet Laureate Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan was selected to become the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States in Autumn 2008 succeeding Charles Simic. The wit and the compression of Ryan's art are illustrated in the poem "Outsider Art":

Their purpose wraps
around the backs of things
and under arms;
they gouge and hatch
and glue on charms
till likable materials –
apple crates and canning funnels –
lose their rural ease. We are not
pleased the way we thought
we would be pleased.
— excerpt from "Outsider Art" [7]

http://www.marinij.com/ci_6975060

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352?gclid=CPjJwO7-zpQCFQVfFQodVSGYkA

Homemade Jamz Blues Band

I loved this story from All Things Considered, July 10, 2008 - When you picture someone playing the blues, you imagine someone who's been through the school of hard knocks. The lead singer for the Homemade Jamz Blues Band has been to school, all right — high school.

I could not get over their guitars....

Their homemade muffler guitars — literally, the guitar bodies are made from car mufflers — are slung around their waists with seatbelt straps.

"Basically, what we did was bolted on a neck, took the electronics from a regular guitar, and just shoved them in the body of this muffler," Ryan says. "On the back of it is a license plate, covering the giant hole that we cut in it. And then we have exhaust tips that we put at the end of the guitars."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92423408&sc=nl&cc=es-20080720

Check it out>

New Lucinda Williams CD

I am a little late about posting this but....In Spring of 2008, it was announced that the next album from Lucinda Williams wrapped recording in March and will be scheduled for an August/Sept. 2008 release.

In Summer of 2008, Lost Highway Records announced that 10 live CDs from Lucinda's Los Angeles and New York performances in 2007 will be made available to fans. Fans can currently purchase these at her shows. Each CD features a different album played live each night. These albums include the self titled Lucinda Williams, Sweet Old World, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essense and World Without Tears. Some of the many special guests on these live CDs include Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Mike Campbell, Ann Wilson, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale and Shelby Lynne.

Praise You - Fatboy Slim

When is an improv group coming to lancaster, PA? Can you imagine this at Regal?

Feist on Sesame Street

I love to count. The season premiere of the long-running PBS children’s series “Sesame Street” will be shown Aug. 11. But, as this leaked clip shows, kiddies aren't the only ones who will love learning to count.

Awaiting "The New Yorker" to arrive in the Mail

It is almost Tuesday, which means my copy of the current issue of Newsweek and The New Yorker should be delivered with the rest of my mail. There seems to be such a controversy growing about THE NEW YORKER'S cover. It is sarcastic. It is The New Yorker! DUH!!!

The cover is called “The Politics of Fear” and it is by Barry Blitt.

Hopefully more people will now read The New Yorker. It is the best!

Ansbach, Germany

I used to live in Ansbach, West Germany from 1986-1987, when I was serving in the US Army in the 630th Military Police Company-3rd platoon. I was thinking about Ansbach recently and the European lifestyle. I have also been listening to a lot of the music that I listen to then, so I am having a few flashbacks....from the WWW, I wanted to post some info. about Ansbach in case anyone is interested....

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=ansbach+germany&z=12

Ansbach is located in the northern part of Bavaria, approximately 117 miles southeast of Frankfurt and 26 miles southwest of Nuernberg. Ansbach Military Community consists of three separate US installations. Shipton Kaserne, home to 6th Bn., 52nd Air Defense Artillery; Katterbach Kaserne, where the 1st Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade resides, is associated with Bismarck Kaserne, where the post exchange, theater, and community club are located, and Barton Barracks, home to the 235th BSB. The BSB has a fishing/camping area, Soldiers Lake, in Ansbach.
Ansbach is a small town and is the seat of Government for Middle Franconia, located in the southern part of Germany. Approximately 40,000 people live in Ansbach and 90,000 in the greater Ansbach area. Ansbach is a beautiful city with a rich history. Margrave's Palace, the Orangerie and Park, and the Kasper-Hauser-Memorial are just a few of the many historical sights located here. Ansbach has a population of about 40,000 and is the capital of Middle Franconia. There are many opportunities to travel and experience the unique German culture. Community life is excellent. The military community offers many programs geared toward families, as well as single soldiers, with many of the facilities and programs you would find on installations in the United States. These include medical and dental facilities, recreational activities and facilities, commissaries, post exchanges, movie theaters, restaurants, and more.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/ansbach.htm

This is where I lived: Barton Barracks, which was built between 1936 and 1938. During World War II, a German heavy motorized battery was billeted there. The post was named in the honor of Lt. Colonel David Barton who was killed in action June 3, 1944, in Velletri, Italy. Present occupants include the 235th BSB headquarters, military police, military intelligence, and personnel and finance units. I wish I had digital pictures to post but hey this was the mid-80's. I do not have a scanner yet but when I get one I will try to post some photos of my life in the US Army.

Wanda Sykes on Marriage

She is so funny!!! I'm thirsty!!

Spring House Brewing News= Lancaster Pa-Conestoga

From a bulletin posted on myspace from Spring House Brewing
Date: Jul 12, 2008... 7:03 AM
Subject: Unfortunate news...
Body: We will be closed to retail sales until further notice due to some zoning issues that need to be resolved. Once we plow through the red tape, we will let you know.

http://www.myspace.com/springhousebeer

Jason Hurst Photography photo credit

UPDATE...from SPRING HOUSE...

We regret to inform you that we will not be open for tastings and public sales until further notice. Sorry for the last minute notice, but we just received some documents late yesterday stating that there are some permiting issues that need to be resolved. We have a meeting with the code administrator on Monday, July 14. We will update you when we have a better idea of what happens next. Don't worry... we'll work out the kinks as quickly as possible, and be back up and running in no time. In the meantime, we will still be distributing Seven Gates Pale Ale via our wholesaler, so our tap accounts and beer distributors will be happy to quench your thirst. Thanks for your patience!

Yazoo - Don't Go

I've been waiting for this...The YAZ or Yazoo box set will be released this week in the US=3cd's and a DVD including a 35 minute doc detailing the clash of ego's that broke apart this duo after only 2 years!

Lancaster Art Hotel makes Gay Traveler Mag

Imagine my surprise while reading an article on hip hotels in Gay Traveler Magazine...listed was Lancaster Arts Hotel. It starts out stating that PA Dutch country might not top most queer must do lists but it is important to think outside the box....as Lancaster is the oldest inland US city that boasts more than 70 galleries, theaters and art studios amid its 18th century brick architecture, but also a museum dedicated to CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935).

CHECK OUT THESE LINKS:

http://www.lancasterartshotel.com/

http://www.demuth.org/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Demuth

Louise Bourgeois's Guggenhiem show

I saw some of Louise Bourgeois's work last year at Storm King and the DIA Beacon Museum. I became enthralled. I was excited the Guggenhiem Museum in New York is having a retrospective. Check out these links....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/bourgeois/index.html

and don't miss this show!

photo from www.kelua.com/louise_bourgeois_sculpture.gif

Victory Brewery

http://www.victorybeer.com/home.html

Visited the newly renovated Victory Brewery restaurant over the 4th of July weekend. Had a casked conditioned pint of Uncle Teddy's, yummmmy just loved it, as I loved the renovations. Can't wait to go back again. They are now also open for lunch!!

Buy Fresh Buy Local Kick OFF Celebration

It's not too late to make reservations for the BFBL kick-off celebration in historic Central Market Square, but don't delay!

The date is Friday July 11, from 6-9 p.m. Festivities include local foods prepared by Carr's Restaurant, local beer from Stoudt's Brewery, and live music performed by the Vinegar Creek Constituency.

$50 per person (includes beer). Local wines and other beverages also available.

For reservations and information call 717-291-4293 or email linda.aleci@fandm.edu.

Rain date Saturday July 12.

More Info. on Lancaster, PA Buy Fresh Buy Local week

Lancaster's BFBL Week!

Calendar of Events July 12 - 19
Saturday July 12
9 am - 1 pm. Cooking demonstrations at Lancaster Central MArket. FREE.

Sunday July 13
2-3 pm. Farm tour: Fukuoka Farming at Chicques Creek Farm.
2995 Schenck Road, Manheim. FREE. Contact Ben Weiss at bazzrad@yahoo.com
Wednesday July 16
6 pm. Celebrate Local Flavors at the George Street Cafe, 304 North George St., Millersville. 872-0800. RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED. Food sourced from Promised Land Farm, Millersville.
6-9 pm. Locavore Delight: Hot Summer Nights Cooking Class with Essen. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: 391-8270.

Friday July 18
8 pm. Food on Film at the Eastern Market, 308 East King St. (corner of King and Shippen Streets) $5. Bring your lawn chair!
Features "King Corn" and a special premier of a new movie short on the local food movement in Lancaster. With an Extra-special guest, Tim Schlitzer, Executive Director or FoodRoutes Conservancy, and his fabulous Buy Fresh Buy Local Mobile!

Saturday July 19
10 am - 1 pm. Cookin' with Kids at Lancaster Central Market. FREE.
3 pm. Guided walk through of DigIt!, Lancaster's only urban farm. FREE. Contact Ben Weiss at bazzrad@yahoo.com.
Lancaster's Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign Partners
The Friends of Central Market
The Local Economy Center, F&M College
The Library System of Lancaster County
Susquehanna Sustainable Business Network
Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture
FoodRoutes