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Ryan Adams is in the spotlight today on youtube

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25/Oct/11, 10:00 pm

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I like the new album lots, especially that Dirty Rain song. Good for RA and good luck getting to a show.

"Dirty Rain" seems to be everyone's favorite.

I need the good luck to get to the show. I bought the tickets and booked a place to stay but Keith and I always seem to get hopelessly lost when we go to Toronto. We got so lost the last time we went there to see Ryan that I missed the entire show with the exception of the last song. emoticon

It should be easier to find my way around now that I have Naggy Aggie. I named my GPS unit after my great-grandmother and a cat I had when I was a kid.

Thanks for the sweet card, Kelly. We need to chat soon. Let me know when you are not off hiking in the wilderness. You know I worry like hell when you do that.

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26/Oct/11, 4:38 am

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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
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Neil Finn, Janis Ian, Ryan Adams
Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes

The final concert in this series of the songwriters' show sees Kiwi favourite Neil Finn joined on stage by American legend Janis Ian and alt-country poster boy Ryan Adams.

Finn genially guides proceedings, with songs that sound like old friends pulled from different phases in his career - Crowded House favourites Distant Sun and Don't Dream It's Over are mixed with Split Enz's She Will Have Her Way and Golden Child, a new song written with his wife Sharon about their kids flying the nest.

Janis Ian has been writing songs since she was 12 years old and on this evidence she is still at the top of her game. Her intelligent lyrics, by turns introspective and socially-engaged, are couched in lovely melodies and her guitar playing is a delight, from the jazzy Bright Lights and Promises to her evergreen classic At Seventeen.

Ryan Adams crouches over his distinctive striped guitar and delivers a series of exquisitely mournful songs, from debut solo album Heartbreaker's Oh My Sweet Carolina (helped by gorgeous harmonies from his compadres) to Invisible Riverside from his album Ashes and Fire.

Quickly-rehearsed collaborative moments bring new textures to familiar tunes, and there is banter aplenty between the three artists, resulting in some hugely enjoyable digressions, with surreal spontaneously created 'songs', the whole thing rounded off with an ensemble version of Finn's Weather with You.
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seen a most if not all of this series it's been good if not great,maybe one of our more technically minded poster's could record it for you if you wanted ....

Thanks for posting that Kirk. I wouldn't have known about if you had not. I had to wait a couple of days for the songs to show up on you-tube. It would be great to have the entire show but I no longer know anyone who is technically gifted. Maybe they will make a DVD of the show.

I guess there was some fuss or rumour that Ryan pissed off Janis and Neil because he did not join in on one of their songs. Ryan said that was bs and he had never rehearsed the song and they all knew he wasn't going to join in on it.

They don't look pissed in this video. Janis and Neil look like they are enjoying Ryan's music. It looks a bit weird because they are mouthing the words to the song but they are not actually singing them.

This song is still one of my favorites.

Ryan is going to be 40 in a couple of years but he still looks like a kid. He ages like Bruce does which is hardly at all. Rather amazing considering how badly Ryan used to abuse himself.

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26/Oct/11, 5:03 am

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Kirk, we are watching that right now and it made me come here as I am thinking of lovely Di!
Ryan is soooo funny, btw... he was making up songs on the spot and had me in stitches.
It's a great show...miss you Di. xxxx

Ryan can be really funny when you see him live even though half of his references fly right over my head. I am glad you enjoyed the show.

I miss you too Jill! How is your nutty Charlie doing? You posted a photo of him with a flower pot on his head on facebook and I couldn't stop laughing over it.

Reece and Hershey are doing fine but they spend a lot of time fussing over who has the best rawhide bone. Hershey is a super pansy and he will come in here to whine at me over the bone situation and that drives me crazy. There is no doubt about which dog is the more dominant one. Reece rules with an iron fist and she loves to play mind games with Hershey over food, bones and affection.

The other one that thinks she runs the house and everyone in it is my cat, Stank. Stank doesn't care about seniority and she smacks Stash in the head and face all of the time. Stash just turned 17 years old and he shows very few signs of age. I don't know if he is losing his hearing but he has really ramped up the volume with his bitching. "MAAAAH! MAAAAH!" I don't know if he forgets that I just fed him or if he is just being a crabby old man; he would be 84 in human years so I guess he is entitled to be crabby. I go through a lot of canned cat food here just to shut him up. That bitching drives me insane.

Keith refuses to even entertain the thought that Stash will die someday. He says "Stash will live for forever." I looked up the record for how long a cat can live and it was 38 years (that cat was from England or Ireland, I think). I don't know if I can take 21 more years of this! That cat will probably outlive me.

I am so done with having cats. I don't care how cute kittens are; I am not going to ever get another one. They don't bring much to the table and I would like not having cat food bowls on top of my kitchen island someday. Speaking of kitchens...I am still very envious over your awesome cooker.

Keith has gotten so soft as the years have passed. He has been a bit heartless in the past over some of our cats and Frankie especially but he's completely changed now that Hershey has stolen his heart. He chokes up when he sees photos or videos of dogs being heroic. I sent him this video via e-mail and he told me he opened it when he was at work and he just about started crying. It is an amazing video but I just told Keith "That is how most dogs are. They are the most selfless creatures on the planet. I've known this all of my life and it's good to know that you finally understand it as well."

I don't want to be around when Hershey goes. Keith has fits over any little thing with that dog. If Hersh has a slightly sore paw or one episode of diarrhea Keith wants me to rush him to the vet. I have to tell him to settle down and that he should trust my judgement over whether or not a dog needs to go to the vet. I am bad (being a nurse) and I tend to freak out a bit when our animals are ill but I pale in comparison to Keith.

Yak, yak, yak. I am not done yet either. I don't post that often anymore but when I do they are still long winded.

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26/Oct/11, 6:14 am

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Keith has gotten so soft as the years have passed.

Give him these:

But watch out:

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26/Oct/11, 7:26 am

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Ryan Adams is in the spotlight today on youtube

I saw that, Fred. Ryan is such a nerd.

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29/Oct/11, 5:48 am

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Keith has gotten so soft as the years have passed.

Give him these:

But watch out:

Cute cartoon, PB. That does kind of look like my house only it is short a dog and there are one too many cats. Also I am rarely ever in bed when Keith is and he does not sport a comb-over. He has a head full of thick hair that he will never lose according to genetics.

The dog drama continued around here today. Keith actually took time off of work to take Hershey into the vets office for a haircut. I normally do my own grooming but my elbows were shot the last time the dogs needed haircuts. I consented to let Keith take the dogs to the groomer at the vets office for their haircuts that time. I'd never seen her work before but I figured that if she really screwed up and cut off a slice of skin (it happens with bad groomers) then at least the vet would be right there to stitch the dogs up and the vet would be responsible for the cost etc.

I cried when Keith brought the dogs home after their first haircut there. That woman had completely butched the hell out of Reece and Reece is an angel on the grooming table. No excuse for that. Hershey looked better than Reece did which was a surprise because he is a bit of a nightmare to groom. He doesn't even like to be brushed and he will try to bite you. Frankie (my angel) was the same way and I had to muzzle him to brush him; that was his only fault.

So when Keith started nagging about the dog's haircuts I told him I didn't want the dogs to be groomed by that woman anymore. I told Keith that my elbows were OK now and if he could just wait until I got over my sinus infection then I would groom the dogs myself. He didn't want to wait so he phoned to make an appointment for Hershey (I refused to let him take Reece) with Edwina Scissorhands. This is amazing in itself because Keith will not even use the phone to order a pizza. He has an allergy to the phone.

Keith phoned me after he picked Hershey up and I could tell he was upset about the haircut. I told him I would look at Hershey when he got home to see if there was anything I could do to make him look better.

There wasn't anything I could do. She had butched the crap out of Hershey. I don't think she knows how to trim this breed and I will be the first one to say it is a difficult breed to trim. Not due to the temperament of the breed; it's just the cut that is difficult. You don't have a lot of anatomical points to reference and you have to eyeball a lot of things. Plus their hair is so silky that if you make a mistake it will always show.

That woman is just a horrible groomer. She does a slip-shod, choppy job of things. I don't think she even attempts to make the hair look even. I wonder where she learned her craft and why the vet (whom I regard rather highly) allows the dogs to leave his office in the condition she leaves them in. I know the woman that taught me how to groom dogs would have never allowed me to let a dog leave her kennels like that. She was very stern but she trained me very, very well.

Keith asked me "Is this haircut worth paying 50 bucks for?" I told him "No. This haircut is not worth 5 bucks. If you cringe when you see your dog the job is not worth a penny. You should have waited to let me groom him."

I should put a dog washing tub in my 2nd bathroom when I finally get around to remodeling it (I was supposed to pick out fixtures and find a contractor to do that this summer but I never felt well enough to do it) and then I should hang out my shingle as a professional dog groomer. Finding a good dog groomer is like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

But I wouldn't enjoy that job very much. I would have to get a hundred bucks per dog to make it worth my trouble and people around here are never going to pay that.

I'd be better off going into baking medical mj confections and selling them to compassion centers. It is a really difficult ingredient to work with but I seem to have a talent for it. emoticon

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29/Oct/11, 6:47 am

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More dog drama when Keith was watching the news on the television tonight. He hollered "Come here quick! Hurry up! There is a new disease that dogs are being infected with in the Detroit area!"

Turns out they were talking about Leptospirosis. Keith said "What do you know about it?!" I don't know why he asked because he generally does not accept my medical opinions in man or beast.

I told Keith "Lepto has been around for forever. I know enough about it to refuse to ever have my dogs vaccinated for it. Dogs have dropped dead in the parking lot of a vets office after receiving that vaccine. Don't you remember when Frankie had an anaphylactic response to that vaccine?!" Of course he didn't remember that.

Told him there are about 87 strains of lepto and the vaccine only covers a few of them and the immunity does not even last 6 months. It's just not worth the risk to vaccinate your dog for it. Keep Hershey out of standing water and he should be fine. Keith said "Now I am going to worry about him all of the time."

Welcome to my world. I worry about everything. I worry about all of us getting cancer because we live in an area that has an extremely high rate of digestive system CAs, urinary tract CAs and lymphomas. I am so glad we never had children because the both of us would just freak right out if something went wrong with a child. We are bad enough with the cats and dogs.

Just a side note because I don't want to start another thread. I went grocery shopping this evening. I truly detest going grocery shopping and I think I might even prefer having another colonoscopy over having to go grocery shopping.

The place I shop at does everything they can do to make grocery shopping less of a pain in the arse. They alternate the muzak every day. One day it will be country, another day it will be rock etc. I lucked out today because I heard Bruce's "I'm On Fire" when I was still in the first aisle. I thought "Well, at least I came on a decent music day. That makes this easier." They played a Chris Isaak song after Bruce and later I got to hear Ryan's "Dear John". It is weird how I am able to name a Bruce song within one to three notes.

I had an episode of what I would refer to as 'extreme couponing' there a couple of months ago. Can't remember if I told this before or not. My cart had been loaded to the gills but when the clerk finished ringing it up she said "Your total is $126 something." I looked at her and said "Uh...that can't be right. This is a lot of groceries for that amount of money." She gave me a look like "Just STFU lady. Take your groceries and leave." There was a line behind me and it was clear that she did not want to have to un-bag all of my groceries and ring them all up again.

I didn't feel right about doing that as I knew I had about $400 worth of groceries but she really did not leave me any choice. If I had complained about her not charging me enough she would most likely have lost her job. I didn't know what to do so I just paid her and left. I still don't feel right about the whole thing.

Tonight a young man (around 18 years old) bagged up my groceries and followed me to my car to help me load them up. It is useless to try to tip them for doing that becuase they always refuse any tips.

We got everything into the back of my car and when I removed my purse from the cart I saw that there was a carton of eggs that had been beneath my purse and I knew I had not paid for them. I handed the eggs to the young man and said "I know I didn't pay for these. Can you please take them back?" He was a bit flustered and he said "We can go back in and ring them up for you...." I said I just wanted to go home and I was willing to give up the eggs.

Then he said something that I did not catch. I said "I am sorry. I didn't hear what you said." He repeated it and said "Is there anyone or anything that you would like me to include in my prayers tonight?"

He was a really nice and sweet kid. He had a face full of innocence. I did not want to slap him with what I considered to be facts and science against his beliefs. I just said "You could include my mother in your prayers. Thank you."

I kind of wish I still held those beliefs and that I was still innocent. But I am not.

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29/Oct/11, 7:48 am

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I got tickets this morning to see Ryan in Ann Arbor in January. I wasn't very fussed about it and I just went on-line to see if I could get tickets when the dogs woke me up instead of setting my alarm etc.

Keith was the one that told me about the show so I assumed he wanted to go. Grrr, now he says he doesn't want to go. Ryan is head-lining a folk festival and it's not like he will be playing a full show. I wouldn't have bothered to get the tickets if I knew Keith didn't want to go.

I am looking forward to seeing Ryan in Toronto next weekend though. Today I e-mailed the woman who is letting us rent her house to finalize the details. She asked me what time we would be leaving on Monday and said she had to work that day. When she told me that she wrote "(TV news anchor)". I just thought that was odd.

I didn't really know how to respond to that. I don't know who she is and I don't care. I wound up just writing "You have a very interesting and exciting job. We'll try to catch one of your broadcasts on our visit."

When Keith got home I told him about it. I said "I don't have a job/identity anymore. I wouldn't know how to introduce myself."

Then I remembered back when I used to give health talks and offer HIV testing at the treatment centers and the jail. We asked the clients to fill out demographical informational forms after the talks and if they wanted to be tested they had to give us their name.

There was no shortage of smart-asses and some of the forms were 'creatively' filled out. We used to get a lot of people that filled in O.J. Simpson or Michael Jackson for their names.

My very favorite one (by far) was someone that wrote "Dick Nibbler" down for his name. My co-worker (and dear friend) Winnie and I had a laugh over that one. The next day I showed up to work, saluted Winnie and said "Dick Nibbler reporting for duty."

Adolescent humor still makes me laugh. When I remembered that incident tonight I saluted Keith and repeated "Dick Nibbler reporting for duty." He didn't think it was as funny as I did. I think I wore it out the first time.

Then I did some Kung Fu/karate/dance moves in the family room for Keith and the dogs (I was feeling good today). They all just stared at me.

I figured out the biggest difference between Reece and Hershey and Frankie. Frankie thought that everything I did was 'bust a gut' hilarious. Frankie would have a twinkle in his eyes and he could only watch me for a moment or two before he had to crash into me in a huge mass of unbridled golden enthusiasm.

What a dog! He had more personality, intuition and good humor than most of the people I have met. I miss my boy and his never ending practical jokes. I was really, really, really lucky to have a dog like that.

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2/Dec/11, 11:27 am

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Ryan was on David Letterman last night. He played after the show for a bit (70 minutes!). Lucky buggers in the audience! Here is the link to the whole thing.Awesome!

I thought he sounded great. He was funny with his random and weird references (the show "Moonlighting" of all things!). He sent me to heaven with "Jacksonville Skyline". I've never seen that song live and it's a favorite of mine.

Now I am really excited to see him in Toronto on Saturday! I love solo acoustic shows anyways.

I hope Ryan wears that Iron Maiden jacket on Saturday. That might be the only thing Keith winds up liking from the show.

Keith has seen Ryan before. One show was a total train wreck and the other one was great but it rocked pretty hard and that is what Keith likes.

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