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Friday, September 18, 2009

Have a great weekend

Posted at 2:41 PM | Permalink

Comments (14)

I used to sit cross-legged, with my guitar, and sing this song for hours. Oh, for the romance and innocence of youth.

Posted by Molly | September 18, 2009 4:50 PM

I once saw Peter Paul and Mary at Wolftrap near Washington, DC. A lovely picnic on the grass with wine and a beautiful girl I was in love with when I was 21. Alas, the girl wasn't in love with me, but I didn't know that until later.

I could never listen to this song without thinking of her, even today.

Posted by nonE | September 18, 2009 5:24 PM

A superlative version of the Lightfoot tune by PPM..

This is why my first son will be named Gordon.

Posted by isbp | September 18, 2009 8:10 PM

I hit your link to "Early Morning Rain" - I always loved that song. The line, "You can't jump a jet plane
Like you can a freight train" just knocked me out as a kid.
I looked it up and what followed was another minor shock along the order of finding out, "The First Cut Is the Deepest" was an old Cat Stevens song.
Apparently from the comment above isbp knew, but I didn't realize Gordon Lightfoot wrote "Early Morning Rain." I think of him as from a completely different era.
As far as Peter, Paul and Mary, my people in Arabia LOVED "Leaving on a Jet Plane." We were living it. Incidentally, that's a song by a then undiscovered Bob Denver.

In the last years of my Mom's life she lived very near Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary. His wife was the school chaplain at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prep school that was founded by Dwight L. Moody. Not to go family tree here, but I'm a descendent of Dwight and my Mom's middle name was Moody. Wait, that didn't sound right. Darn, why didn't I think of that joke all those years? "Moody? My Mom's middle name is Moody." I can't believe I missed that.

Anyway Paul would see my Mom at events and was an absolute sweetheart to her. He'd put his arm around her and chat with her like she was the coolest elderly woman around, which she was. So my family loves Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary. Rest in peace, Mary Travers. Thanks for the music.

One last thing:

Was their ever a better tribute/spoof than "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"?

Posted by Bill McDonald | September 18, 2009 8:21 PM

I had to explain to a friend once that "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" was by Peter, Paul & Mary. The takeoff on the Mamas & the Papas in that song is so good, that's who he thought recorded it.

Posted by Jack Bog | September 18, 2009 9:13 PM

Responding to Bill. Honestly, not that much of a student of Mary Travers but early Gordon Lightfoot is great. Canadian Railroad Trilogy is a masterpiece and Sunday Concert (a hard to find live recording from London) is fantastic.

Posted by Gannicott | September 18, 2009 11:05 PM

My only Gordon Lightfoot "trivia": Cathy Smith, the woman that "Sundown" is about, is the same woman who was with John Belushi when he died and served time for manslaughter for injecting the drugs.

Posted by Bill McDonald | September 19, 2009 12:13 AM

Oops! Sweet performance, but the song was by some Jewish kid from Duluth.

Posted by Concordbridge | September 19, 2009 10:25 AM

...and the writer of Jet Plane was JOHN, not Bob (Work! Gilligan!) Denver.

Posted by Tom | September 19, 2009 10:33 AM

Looking back that was when everyone agreed that Bill had really begun to lose it.

Posted by Bill McDonald | September 19, 2009 7:06 PM

Oops! Sweet performance, but the song was by some Jewish kid from Duluth.

Bob (Dylan, not Denver) was originally from Hibbing.

The reference to Lightfoot is for the linked video to Peter Paul and Mary's version of his Early Morning Rain in my comment above. ;)

Posted by none | September 19, 2009 9:00 PM

I forgot to link the video to Lightfoot's version. (Not the best version, I am sure, but the intro tells the important part.)

Posted by none | September 19, 2009 9:13 PM

Redemption! Bob Dylan was born in Duluth and moved to Hibbing.
I went to Hibbing and filmed a scene for my movie outside his old high school. The town itself moved a couple of miles as the iron ore was mined. Quite a history even without Bob.

And I didn't say John Dylan to go along with Bob Denver.

Posted by Bill McDonald | September 20, 2009 12:04 AM

John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis.

Posted by none | September 20, 2009 8:14 AM

In Vino Veritas

Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
Stevenot, Cabernet, Sierra Foothills, "Stanford" 2000
Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
Taylor Fladgate, First Estate Reserve Porto
Franciscan, Cabernet, Napa 2006
Chaparral de Vega Sindoa, Garnacha 2008
Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
David Hill, Oregon Sparkling Wine, Brut
Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs

The Occasional Book

Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 54
At this date last year: 50
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269