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[29 Apr 2009|05:09pm] |
While out doing errands yesterday, I saw a solar powered car on Nashville Avenue, Uptown New Orleans.
It's "XOF1". The driver/chief builder Marcelo da Luz gave a little talk about it in front of one of the magnet schools. He drove it up to the Arctic Circle and is on his way down to Key West Florida.
I have a few more photos and a short video on Flickr.
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| Season's Greetings |
[12 Apr 2009|11:29am] |
Anthropomorphic poultry wearing spats and smoking tobacco bring you Easter greetings!
The Easter Cock has come! (Via finsbry)
The Easter Duck brings the traditional seasonal gift of the Easter Toothpick!
(A tip o' the duckhat to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) twindowlicker)
Happy Holidays, all!
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| Escape from pirates |
[04 Apr 2009|02:02pm] |
Hollie and I went down to the Marigny just after 5pm, got a good parking place, and enjoyed a meal at Tomatillos. Then over to the ARRR Barr for the "Pyrate Parade". There were 2 bands. I was playing in the Pirate Band brass band mostly recruited from the Pair-O-Dice Tumblers and BEAR/MOMs Band. The other was The Noisician Coalition with wacky noise making "instruments". There were lots of folks dressed as pirates, of course, in addition to bead cannons and wacky decorated vehicles.
Photo set on Flickr
We had a good time. Some fellow bandmembers were surprised the parade didn't stop when we passed Laffitte's Blacksmith Shop to have drinks and toast the city's historic favorite local pirate. No bar break? The Tumblers can teach the Pirates something about parading around the French Quarter.
This evening we're going to a krewe party.
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| Bunny Music |
[01 Apr 2009|09:57pm] |
The other day I got together with some musicians to rehearse a couple numbers for the Easter parade. Between us. we remembered the tunes of "Easter Parade" and "Here Comes Peter Cotton Tale". When we tried playing "Peter Cotton Tail", the lead trumpet counted it off too slow, but we kept going, playing it as a funeral dirge, then kicking it off as a second line. It worked. We wondered if we should do it that way at the parade. Isn't Easter supposed to have a death and resurection theme anyway?
Some of us are also playing for the Pyrate Parade this Friday. Any good pirate brass band numbers? Or maybe pirates don't have their own tunes, they just pillage other people's music.
May as well get good use out of songs we've run through. "Here Comes Pirate Cotton Tail"? "In Your Pirate Bonnet, With the Black Flag on it..."
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| MeTuber |
[12 Mar 2009|02:21pm] |
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I've started messing around with uploading a few short video snippets taken with my pocket camera to YouTube here. (Hm, I wish I'd got more than a couple seconds of video of the St. Anne band, but I was too busy playing. Maybe Ms. Hollie can take video next time.)
Better than anything I've uploaded, check out "Battle of Jackson Square, Mardi Gras 2009". Christian Fundamentalists picketing Mardi Gras encounter a second line group and pirates armed with bead cannon.
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| Curious Button |
[27 Dec 2008|08:52pm] |
mshollie and I saw the film version of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" yesterday. We enjoyed it-- a well done work of cinema.
We went to a matinee at the Prytania-- unusually for a weekday matinee, the theater was filled up. Of course it was the day after Christmas, and 2nd day of a film with lots of local content.
Very good and extensive use of New Orleans settings. I recognized many New Orleans locations-- and was amazed at one shot of a 1920s street scene that use part of one corner and a couple buildings elsewhere in town cut & pasted together with period auto traffic going by to make a new seemless cityscape. The special effects were impressive without deliberately calling attention to themselves, and the cinematography just beautiful. Hey, any film that has Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and a 1932 Packard limousine is going be damn good looking :-)
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