tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177366462011-12-19T20:30:43.617-08:00moon traveller heraldMy commercial writing is mostly about software. Blog interests are: News, Space, Poetry, Music, Science, and Technology.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.comBlogger3301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-22917546385644314322011-12-10T19:56:00.000-08:002011-12-11T06:13:45.696-08:00Tribute to Hubert SumlinThe passing of blues guitar great Hubert Sumlin has brought forward many tributes. One thing that comes across is that he was kind, sweet, and a unique player, to which I can attest. When the blues came first my way via a Boston visit by Sunnyland Slim and Paul DeMark, I soon met Hubert. When I was a kid of 16 I had a 45 of Killing Floor/Going Down Slow so I knew his playing – if not his name - Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-85987325963204757472011-12-04T07:02:00.000-08:002011-12-04T07:07:38.617-08:00MIT researchers have created a semiconductor chip that is said to imitate how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new information. With about 400 transistors, the silicon chip can simulate the activity of a single brain synapse — a connection between two neurons that allows information to flow from one to the other. The chip could also be used in neural prosthetic device research Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-3214063553209049332011-11-12T13:42:00.000-08:002011-11-12T13:50:35.159-08:00Hey, Babbage!Largely unknown outside of computer circles, the life of 19th Century British mathematician Charles Babbage has long stood as a tableau of the failed visionary. His Calculating Machines were based on the technologies of the time – hard for him to imagine any others. Steam was to power the machine, and the inner cogs and connections, bearing some resemblance to precedent Pascaline and Jaquard Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-60518898273135606782011-10-31T18:56:00.000-07:002011-10-31T18:59:43.756-07:00On media: Mass Market PaperbacksJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-69640337598202341912011-10-30T07:22:00.000-07:002011-10-30T07:25:20.069-07:00Just moved in my new house today - moving was hard but I got squared awayJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-50851545765653022722011-10-29T15:28:00.000-07:002011-10-29T15:31:28.908-07:00Now batting, number 11, Basham-al-AsudArchives When buffers overflow their psychic boundaries, rage is feared by peace lovers. In Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, the simmer and pop of ethnic churn cycles always held the threat of breakout. Jerusalem has had these qualities. In fact, Iraq post Saddham is supposed to be a model. News goes bang in the middle but it happens at the edges too.http://radio-weblogs.com/0115044/2004/04/15.htmlJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-4272606308837503262011-10-29T10:38:00.000-07:002011-10-29T10:46:11.555-07:00More apples     under the apple suckling tree oh yeah under the apple suckling tree oh yeah   underneath that tree-hee-hee there's just gonna be you and me   under the apple suckling tree oh yeah     Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-89669378380723787762011-10-20T18:52:00.000-07:002011-10-20T18:53:26.778-07:00Under the apple suckling tree oh yeahI was there...in mission hill at the apple fest 2011 with The Homestead Family Band.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-78953710521523692082011-09-01T07:44:00.000-07:002011-09-01T07:55:21.914-07:00R.I.P. Honeyboy Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Kansas City Red, Floyd Jones; 1980-81 [Earwig Records] Honeyboy’s music was so straightforward. It is amazing he carried on right up to just recently. He outlasted them all. And became pretty big. A fellow in Chicago named Michael Frank did a great job to get Honeyboy out on the road…to the Smithsonian, and everywhere… Michael formed a Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-29858528845945439542011-08-14T18:27:00.000-07:002011-08-14T18:30:21.882-07:00'Einstein: His Life and UniverseWhen he was a year old, Albert Einstein's family moved to Munich, where his father began work in his brother's gas and electrical supply company. Munich was one of the earliest European cities to switch to electric lights. The city had a very small minority of German Jews such as the Einsteins. At four or five, sick in bed, the young Einstein was given a compass, its needle controlled by the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-1268864590592991252011-07-23T13:00:00.000-07:002011-07-23T13:19:06.761-07:0034 ClaybourneYesterday would been my dad's 98th birthday! He grew up on Claybourne street in Dorchester. They took in renters so he and his brother slept in the living room. He never had his own room, leaving for the service before his brother - at about 35 - left to be married. I lived there a little while as a young child. The place is nice now, was nice then. Was not so nice when we visited during some Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-80605122399047348752011-06-09T20:08:00.000-07:002011-06-09T20:15:33.502-07:00This is a test ..only a test... who was Conelrad's dad?Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-13407115930677132352011-04-29T04:58:00.001-07:002011-04-29T06:06:20.281-07:00Diddley Bow Goes to HollywoodOn the eve of the Monarch's Marriage I watched a video. I cant recomend It Might Get Loud to any but the most in-the-wool electric guitar freak, but a few moments resonated for me. One: where Jimmy Page decribes his thrall and reacts listening to Shawnee Indian Link Wray's game changing Rumble. His eyes and movement [playing guitar on air along with Link] say most all of it. Describing Link and Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-72406479690434137132011-03-11T20:26:00.000-08:002011-03-11T20:49:29.395-08:00Guitar Weaver of the Chicago Blues: Eddie KirklandIn Keith Richards' "Life," he offers much incisive musical commentary, especially about the blues. He definitely studied it at great length, but not like many British blues buffs… his reading is from a totally practical perspective. "Life" discusses "the magic art of guitar weaving" [p.145]. What he describes is his and Brian Jones' emersion in the Chicago Blues music of Jimmy Reed. That music inJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-15407238314863493992010-12-18T19:59:00.001-08:002010-12-19T06:31:49.954-08:00Don Van Vliet (1941-2010)He came out of the Los Angeles dessert like a Merc chopped and grueled on airplane fuel. Like Bid Daddy Roth in a refrigerator graveyard. Put an apple on the head of an insect lawn trophy. Wore and intricate Troutmask replica, and blowed the tropical hotdog night blues til dawn. Heard the news this afternoon that Don Van Vliet was dead. Where do we find words for Capt. Beefhart's passing? I don'tJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-17048658027496964122010-12-02T18:33:00.000-08:002010-12-02T18:39:48.204-08:00MoogfestAt Moogfest, a North Carolina musical event honoring the work of analog electronic musical instrument pioneer Robert "Bob" Moog, there were many Korgs, Yamahas, and laptops loaded with Moog samples, writes able NY Times' critic Jon Pareles. One purpose of the event is to raise money for a Moogseum archiving the work of Moog, who died a few years ago. Neon Indian, Omar Souleyman, Van Dyke Parks Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-1318686652214895162010-11-26T10:58:00.000-08:002010-11-26T12:16:42.445-08:00Come with us now to those exciting days of yesteryearJeff De Mark has a beautiful take on a great universal conflagarative event in our ongoing deracination. My mostly templative recollection is here .... This Wheels on Fire. They used to play it on the radio in Milwaukee. And the all of us got excited about that and wanted to go to the East...and for more Jeff DeMark...Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-31407471359453193682010-10-11T13:04:00.000-07:002010-10-11T13:25:40.882-07:00Solomon Burke 1940-2010I'm so glad to be here tonightI'm so glad to be in your wonderful cityAnd I got a little message a friend told me a few months backTalking about the Reverend Solomon Burke, you all know him dont ya?And these were the very words that he told me, children.He said Everybodyneeds somebody Everybody needssomebodyto love... also see 2005 note on passing of Wilson Picket Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-33620675082982986852010-09-06T19:09:00.000-07:002010-09-06T20:02:12.864-07:00Labor Day - Experimentation - Parch, etc.Labored this weekend on Electronic Bard System Monograph on work of Ed Sanders. Always encountering news stuff... the Ondes Marento, the Mellotone, Harry Parch.In conversation with Ed I was introduced to Parch. He is noted for a tuning system with 43 notes in an octave. Most especially, Parch created his own instruments (see Jelly fish-like glass bell example above), to get the sound he wanted. Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-57764966704844399742010-08-25T20:51:00.000-07:002010-08-25T20:58:23.238-07:00Google, listening?I may kill this blog if Google does not improve its support of basic MS commands and functions.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-10142630237896198892010-08-10T18:20:00.000-07:002010-08-10T18:23:55.308-07:00Hey Bob a RebopHey did I tell anybody the Moon Traveller is on summer sojourn? Yup, I'm working on a symphony in the Berkshires. Hope that's duly noted. Till Fall yall! When the grants run out!Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-42262003296030717142010-06-25T03:55:00.000-07:002010-06-25T04:00:13.303-07:00Fattening Frogs for SnakesThe blues line is a long line but it reached magnificent acme in the work of artistssuch as Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Chester Burnett, John Lee Hooker, McKinley Morganfield, Roosevelt Sykes and others among an initiate group that grew up (in very many cases) in Mississippi in the early 20th Century and in many other cases survived to venture north to Chicago and Detroit and be recorded. Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-57319611478753138942010-05-31T10:36:00.000-07:002010-11-26T11:14:12.589-08:00Some memory serves wellA couple of years agoe we had a discussion, trying to remember encounter with Ginsberg and Dylan. We each remembered different things in different relief. Kind of like the four gospels, which diverge somewhat. I wrote a version down around 1976 or 1977, that Jan and Val Mazelis ran in Shoreline Erosion, which I have altered since then to be more a flat out prose poem. Because it was nearer the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-60127358642040281002010-05-24T11:27:00.000-07:002010-05-24T11:29:06.318-07:00Saturday Night Fish FryBefore a bardic push, a respite. Reading on the backporch, 2010.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-11913820448199686112010-04-06T18:07:00.000-07:002010-04-06T18:55:36.408-07:00Sanders at centenary tribute to Charles Olson 2010Got to Worcester for centenary tribute to poet Charles Olson. Was late to the late show – always get lost in Worcester- but saw the last part of Ed Sanders’ reading.Good stuff. With his Strum Stick. Doing Doggtown. Loose Peach Gown. How Sweet I Roamed. Transcendeary!There is a record out now: Be Free – The Fugs Final CD (Part 2) … gasp!Get it! Not because it is the last one. Get it because Ed Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-45179125401377951912010-02-26T11:41:00.000-08:002010-09-26T10:44:24.980-07:00Note: The Stylophone [Note 2010-02-26-1] “I was carrying with me a little instrument from the ‘60s” – said Sanders in Experimenting with Sappho’s poetry. The device Sanders describes could well be a Dübreq Stylophone, an early portable electronic synthesizer. In ‘’1968: A History in Verse [p.209] he recalls buying just such an instrument in Montreal on Sept 15, 1968. He indicates this as the beginning of the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-5947478410429182162010-02-19T20:10:00.000-08:002010-04-13T12:39:21.569-07:00EBSAddendum 1Extra Extra: Ed Sanders’ Investigative Poetry available again - [EBSAddendum 1] - Edward Sanders’ Investigative Poetry has had a slowly percolating influence since its publication by City Lights in 1976. Over the years, Sanders has taught poetry, and this book was a mainstay of his method. It certainly influenced blues poet John Sinclair, as he began to versify on the lives of the blues saints inJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-40339754370371141212010-02-07T18:17:00.000-08:002010-02-07T18:28:30.757-08:00Experimenting with Sappho’s poetrySanders: I had broken up the first version of the Fugs in 1969 - I did a couple of solo records for Warners – Sanders Truckstop and Beer Cans on the Moon - then I decided I was going to fade from music - and didn’t really pay any attention to anything musical for five years.I was at Naropa Institute in 1977 - and I was teaching a course in Investigative Poetry. I had been experimenting with Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-6270498667467471672010-01-31T07:20:00.000-08:002010-01-31T07:22:33.180-08:00Note on Electronics and Empowerment of PoeticsIn the day, Ed Sanders’ notes on futurist performance modes of investigative poets were a resonant signal – Achilles meets RoboCop! He presented the picture of a modern troubadour wired for total full-metal cyberpoet attack. There was some useful irony after all in the idea that the work of the technology infused artist Jimi Hendrix could be used to dissemble or baffle at least the technology Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-81299991987850747832010-01-24T08:37:00.000-08:002010-01-24T08:51:54.113-08:00Note on "Investigative Poetry" and ‘the public performances of investigative poets’Around 1975 Ed Sanders included some observations on ‘the public performances of investigative poets’ as part of a lecture prepared for sessions at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The lecture, which called on poets to “again assume responsibility for the description of history,” became the basis for Investigative Poetry, City Lights, 1976, and a signpost for Sanders’ subsequent work –Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-25623914880702537422010-01-17T13:54:00.000-08:002010-01-17T14:03:12.462-08:00Note on The Pelican History of Music Volume 1 – Ancient Forms to PolyphonyAmong the formative influences in the development of western music are some that arise out of the world of the Ancient Greeks, the myth and the epic. Western literature also springs from this same font. Bards sang or talk-chanted the national epic poems describing the gods as they strummed lyres – and ‘poetry and music [were] one in execution.’ It is thought that preludes and interludes played onJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-28591830981794697652009-12-19T06:19:00.000-08:002009-12-19T06:26:31.769-08:00Happy Christmas 2009!When I was a managing editor on a monthly in the 1980s I had folders for every month. I embellished this one for Christmas. It shows the advent month coming full speed from off stage and emblematic train going round the tree [or tries to show said]. That train is coming! Happy Christmas, happy world! - J.V.Just a panthering traincross the swells of the carpetThrough oriental valleysand their Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-4719378403619292102009-12-13T16:54:00.000-08:002009-12-13T17:08:31.963-08:00Top music 2009I think of music I heard this year..and its like film...bird and strings...desmond drops in..also the king of slow soul.. praying, I take it, at wedding..but who knows..at least it is church. Percy Sledge...is set to wait, like old Milwaukee poet Bob Watt, for the answer...buncho'stuff here..if you want to click..ten for me ..ones I listened as motorin over Chestnut Hill and past its Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-91271854647260489802009-12-09T19:12:00.000-08:002009-12-09T19:17:09.219-08:00World in a jugWhistler's Jug Band was a real jug band.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-27634303152576113482009-11-28T18:52:00.000-08:002009-11-28T18:57:17.936-08:00Team of Rivalsi.Putzd about with books this year. A bio of Joe McCarthy. A thing about the Gospels by Gary Willis. John Wooden book on how to be a good basketball player. Mailer’s Fire on the Moon in honor of the Lunar Commemoration. One thing I actually finished was Team of Rivals. This Lincoln book didn’t quite hit the mark compared to some of my other history ‘books of the year’ - on Eisenhower, on McArthurJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-26680313069230438992009-11-21T23:40:00.000-08:002009-11-21T23:43:06.418-08:00Goodbye At&T and all the ships asea!Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-85204815073020530452009-11-13T10:30:00.000-08:002009-11-13T10:34:38.706-08:00Remember this piece about cityCityCITY?Let's start the cavalcade of year in review...remember this piece about cityCityCITY? ...Last year saw release of the beat manuscript legend known as “And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks,” a book about Lucien Carr’s killing of David Kammerer composed by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in their early writing days [circa 1945]. But that is not what I came here to talk about - Boston Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-90571221080269014092009-10-22T11:52:00.000-07:002009-10-22T11:56:56.896-07:00Poem: Charles River Newton Reporter TranscriptFalling leavesupon mottled yellowed green red reflectionsailing leaveson river meanderglassine down streamto the bridge pontoonsI am holding onletting goI'm telling you?I am telling everyone! -Jack Vaughan, 2009Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-49466311324068428612009-10-11T11:49:00.000-07:002009-10-11T11:54:57.120-07:00Joe McCarthyi.Preparing the brown bagsAt the Manawaw CashwaySmiling Irish toThe old Wisconsin ladiesJoe McCarthy in 1929Put on his charm and fanfaronadeTo wangle out of hereTo college to get awayForget that he had to doHigh school at night –well he was a dairy farmboypullin the tits – milkin’This is after the hens2000 of themOn the McCarthy farmThe hens that made himA big egg manAlmostThe hens that would Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-61443101696531438702009-10-09T10:00:00.001-07:002009-10-09T10:00:40.755-07:00Obama sings Jackie WilsonJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-78893187810709306262009-09-05T08:26:00.000-07:002009-10-23T10:33:53.732-07:00Experiment in Abstraction MP3 Experiment in Abstraction 1I think America has the greatest music because it is such a hodge podge. So much in music is about dialectic, whether it is erudite Chopin encountering folk tunes, or Fats Waller goofing on a Bing Crosby tune ["the jingle bells done got him!]. So I look at a country tune from a few angles in this podcast including a riff on Sun record- era cowboy hipsters I met Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-28508752269741554862009-08-30T11:15:00.000-07:002009-08-31T10:19:51.321-07:00Sketch Standing at the Great Democrat’s Funeral MotorcadeThe first time I found Mission Hill it was because I got lost. The portal my car flew by was the bodega ‘Casa Cris’ - owner Cris was later killed by robbers - that day I skedaddled. Why are the signs in Spanish? But I returned. First to Eldora, later Calumet. And it’s been home. And church bells are always ringing.Quite a day for Mission Hill – ‘the biggest day ever.’ Rain picking up Hurricane Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-71339983946070827882009-08-02T15:03:00.001-07:002009-08-02T15:03:53.979-07:00The Web must be an afterthoughtInvolved with the Web since the very early days and credit it has been a magical extension of the mind, of the universal mind, even. But, while it breaks down established media – a pointed example for me is the way it obliterated the computer trade press, the Web must be an afterthought. There is a lot of talk about this of late, and I find Gladwell’s critique of Anderson’s Free manifesto the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-8894727868694715542009-07-03T09:29:00.000-07:002009-07-03T10:47:11.217-07:00Quadroon on the Half Shell Drinking 7upHey, Jack, what are you doing? It’s almost Independence Day? Wildly digging a day off. Playing Iggy, Roy Head, Dylan’s new one (Jolene), the Shadows of Night, Little Brother Montgomery. Let see, taking a look at my blog to see what was good since last July..Last July I just flew back from Cape Canaveral where I was in the Rocket Garden. Arms were tired. Took a picture of a family taking a pictureJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-22757807912589032942009-06-25T10:12:00.000-07:002009-07-27T09:58:34.449-07:00Lazing on this sunny afternoonAbout ready to take a summer vacation. Will post a 'greatest hits' of the last 12 months. [Geez, just had a durn podcast blow up in my face [wouldn’t move from one machine to another - it was cool; it was called Experiment in Abstraction - it discussed hillbilly hipsters, the King, and the Kinks.In the meanwhile, I will travel a bit, hike. Will fool around with Facebook. At work asked to ratchet Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-84742823927651329582009-06-25T09:49:00.000-07:002009-06-25T10:11:21.808-07:00When Bob Moog met Raymond ScottThis week MoonTraveller Herald marks the orbit of the Moon of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which got there, what, aboutentered orbit around the moon the morning of June 23 after a four-and-a-half day journ 40 years after the first humanoids? In honor we run this YouTube clip ''Dedicatory Piece to the Crew and Passengers of the first Experimental Rocket Express to the Moon'' by Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-86631878164691801022009-05-23T21:19:00.000-07:002009-05-23T21:34:41.452-07:00Cadillac Records - Picks to Click and Picks to Nit To make a good movie requires some simplification, I suppose. If it is the kind of simplification that distills things to the essential - it improves on what is real but possible to overlook; so I won’t quibble with the fact that Phil Chess never exists in “Cadillac Records.” But other quibbling will this way come.The movie tells a good story and gets at many of the critical elements of the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-69345805658928784762009-05-18T13:22:00.000-07:002009-05-18T13:29:35.182-07:00Mystery Ice Squadron Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-23729183786627866732009-05-09T20:11:00.000-07:002009-05-09T20:13:43.781-07:00Dalai Lama Foxboro May 2009: Warm Heart-Calm MindThe Dalai Lama spent a few days in Boston, and Cecelia and I were able to go to see him in Foxboro at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots. Thought I would try and herald his Holiness’s message. Call us the Modern Day Quicksilver Messenger Service.You should, he said:“Keep a warm heart – and a calm mind.”That is the basics. Yes, pretty basic. But you got to go back to basics, rightJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-12243152670166395822009-05-01T22:28:00.000-07:002009-05-01T19:29:34.979-07:00Move on Up a Little Higher This is a failure. I think with blogs that wasn’t ever meant to be much of an issue..as a result, we have oceans of gunk in our information bitstream! Mea culpado!I was always impressed by Mahalia’s “Move on up A Little Higher” – the words are amazing, I’ve heard a couple of versions. But the enchantment is mostly about her singing of this song.But, like, say, the Staples’ “Last Month of theJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-71897195339008261482009-04-27T10:27:00.000-07:002009-04-27T18:19:41.750-07:00Roll Cadillac Roll, For LeonardLeonard Cohen is out of the stupa, out and about again. Thought about seeing him yknow. BUt the freight was heavy and it wasnt in the cards. So there I was. Yknow. And I saw a DVD at the Video Underground in Jamaica Plain. This DVD was a serious dissappointment. If I had time to rag on it I would. But suffice it to say that I liked Leonard's brief intermediary commentary. And I liked his one Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-74339728334638562172009-04-18T18:45:00.000-07:002009-04-27T17:59:46.457-07:00Charles Simic on Blues Poetry Recently looking at some writing by Charles Simic on the poetry of the blues.Simic is a very lyrical, imagistic and accomplished poet, who also writes criticism. His steady stream of work has always impressed me, especially the reimaging work on the life of artist Joseph Cornell that he produced in 1992 [“Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell [NYR Book].The pieces recently read were Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-6934634803867466432009-04-04T19:42:00.000-07:002009-04-04T20:01:37.752-07:00Hail Dark Hero Norbert Norbert Weiner [1894? -1964?] is definitely the father of cybernetics – and an influential thinker on the phenomenon of feedback. He was a brilliant mathematician, and, just like a movie math genius in his day and others, he was a little batty. A diminutive Belmont, Mass. Jew with a prince nez, Harvard grad and M.I.T. prof - he was absent of social artifice - as he would creatively and readily Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-62292577482537289222009-03-21T21:10:00.000-07:002009-04-11T18:58:34.879-07:00Obama Ball!ART: JAKE VAUGHANIf the Southside of Chicago were to suffer a catastrophe like Katrina, news organizations would deploy and the wider nation would soon learn more about its art and spirit, its sense of decor, and the Southside’s many frames of reference. But without such catastrophe, the nation is now finding the ways of the Southside. And this includes the ways of pickup basketball.It is game Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-5911106286320257832009-03-14T07:54:00.000-07:002009-03-14T07:58:52.157-07:00Missing WesRemembering last March, a year ago ... Cecelia’s mother Westein Boston Estrada died March 14 in Pasadena.Of course, my great debt to Wes is that she brought Cecelia into the world. She also let me into her world, which was a hard working positive place. Thought we'd post to last year's site eulogy for Wes's marvellous spirit. You can Read the story.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-5782785674928527122009-03-02T12:59:00.000-08:002009-03-02T13:08:33.106-08:00Estrada Vaughan Family Pictures held with with clotespins on a string and Gould playing Bach We put a bunch of family fotos up in the Hall.I filmed them. So we had a motion picture aswell as snapshots.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-37488919400792517362009-03-01T18:35:00.000-08:002009-03-01T18:43:39.672-08:00Box of glass eyes “Some truththing has burst fake and cold upon me” - Gregory Corso, Mutation of the SpiritA box of glass eyesAt the Harvard museumGlass eyes look at me with all the tenderness ofThe glass Sea anemoneOr the violent topor of the glass squidOr the hissing imperativeOf the nitrous spew scorpionThe dusty whimsyOf the visible golden rodAs well I see the eyesThinking about meLike the pacingDingos cagedJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-65895495529841260172009-02-21T19:39:00.000-08:002009-02-21T19:44:37.025-08:00Rich Mack on the Obama Hoop Question..Rich and I had some days together. I can remember when we usta car pool in the early ‘80s. We would drive for two hours a day, a coupla days a week, and we would talk through that time. He is a basketballer from his heart.. he is down in Rhode Island now..not far from where Craig Robinson coached at Brown.. here’s his answer to the Obama BasketBall Ethics PickUp Question…… I thought about your Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-39287408932729800362009-02-01T19:19:00.000-08:002009-02-03T17:45:30.836-08:00Hoop, Obama, and character - Jim Haas says ...During the inauguration hoopla, I read that Michelle Robinson Obama, back in Chicago in the day and before she had been too very long originally dating Barak, asked her brother to play basketball with him and give a report. The thinking was that if Obama had genuine character flaws of any kind they would probably surface in a pick up game. I think that is a sort of street smarts; I like the idea.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-4594625686347837242009-02-01T19:06:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:16:30.831-08:00Hoop, Obama, and character - Jake Widman says ...During the inauguration hoopla, I read that Michelle Robinson Obama, back in Chicago in the day and before she had been too very long originally dating Barak, asked her brother to play basketball with him and give a report. The thinking was that if Obama had genuine character flaws of any kind they would probably surface in a pick up game. I think that is a sort of street smarts; I like the idea.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-6896576692216532422009-02-01T18:29:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:16:57.245-08:00Hoop, Obama, and character - Jeff DeMark says ..During the inauguration hoopla, I read that Michelle Robinson Obama, back in Chicago in the day and before she had been too very long originally dating Barak, asked her brother to play basketball with him and give a report. The thinking was that if Obama had genuine character flaws of any kind they would probably surface in a pick up game. I think that is a sort of street smarts; I like the idea.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-55591295338604831262009-01-29T19:56:00.000-08:002009-07-03T08:32:55.691-07:00Late John Updike on Google and the feel of booksJohn Updike who could turn a sentence like very few died Tuesday north of Boston. I was not a big Updike head - never got through one of his novels - but like many literate micks in this neck of the woods-o in the late 20th century I read and admired his poetry, short stories and literary criticism, especially in the New Yorker and New York Review of Books.He was not like more favorite fellow Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-14231490979662766232009-01-23T20:22:00.000-08:002009-07-03T08:43:00.282-07:00torrent of suffering"This world we have .. is a torrent of suffering. You can see it streaming across the newspapers in a blur of print." - Jack Kerouac, Kerouac's Letters V1, p. 479Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-91127470033047650962009-01-17T19:52:00.000-08:002009-01-18T18:48:45.045-08:00CityCityCity: Kerouac's message to Burroughs?Last year saw release of the beat manuscript legend known as “And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks,” a book about Lucien Carr’s killing of David Kammerer composed by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in their early writing days [circa 1945]. But that is not what I came here to talk about - Boston sports writer George Kimball does a real good job on the h'ippo' book in the Nov 8 issue of theJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-84684244597918655382009-01-01T17:21:00.000-08:002009-01-02T17:28:36.935-08:00New Year Cheer 2009"Keep them dim lights burning,and let the music carry on..." -J.B. HuttoJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-88141770952414473352008-12-31T06:36:00.000-08:002009-01-23T19:07:50.655-08:002008 in review Why not blues in the basement on a New Years Eve? It's getting aulde sometimes, but hey, just saw Bob Stroger on CBS! [Kennedy Center tribute to Morgan Freeman].I thought I'd seen it all. Famous last words. What hubris! Here comes a year and it’s a roller coaster on steroids. Knock down. Pick up. Knock down. Pickup. Repeat.Hadn’t seen it all. Despite new lows, year had a good few moments andJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-6908162662053905352008-12-20T21:10:00.002-08:002008-12-20T21:18:59.950-08:00Peace on All Us! Xmas meat mince upon a tyme!- I remember a Special Ed Christmas party long ago -...taking it inHolding it a long time tilIt tastes of drowning tearsthe mothers clatter and humin my camera eye mindat the Special ed party in a lobein an alternate Charlie brown universejust seven daysbefore Christmaswatching the ceil while snow is fallingKitchen band clangorous carrying abundant joygreat jubilee in this nebula life akimbo...Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-85644876171467572632008-12-13T19:57:00.000-08:002008-12-13T20:24:50.631-08:00U.S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs: Literary warrior from Ill.Have been reading U.S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs this year. Finally: Big job, won’t finish soon. But here is my book report.This book has a reputation as one of the best autobiographies by a president or general and it fully lives up to that status. Grant wrote it, in need of money, as he battled cancer. He composed it at the behest of Mark Twain, and the writing at times reaches a level like Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-10750481917986544452008-12-13T19:34:00.000-08:002008-12-13T19:54:17.304-08:00Oppy, we hardly knew yeIt is coming, a book on the Bomb that discloses all A-bombs can be traced from Oppenheimer's Abomb... But that is not the reason I am rehosting a bit of a homage or review [it focuses on his Cambridge life] of a great book on Oppenheimer and the bomb...Reposted from RJ 11 - It is weird to think that the leader of the U.S. teams that created the first A-bomb was a delicate mesh of scientist and Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-62907522459648335552008-12-05T19:54:00.000-08:002008-12-05T20:05:55.871-08:00Blue skiesI am ready to quick now get out of the Depression journalism business. It's funny, I was reading Galbraith's book Halloween and it was near fun - now my endowment is down as much [percentage wise] as Harvard's ... and it aint funny. Pop a top! Do you like the blues?So one more depression post for now to make the triad. What we have here is a comment I put on Floyd Norris' blog - before the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-62399931277400255512008-11-29T18:15:00.000-08:002008-11-29T18:21:50.152-08:00Dragging heels at TreasuryAt some point the process became apparent. The sky is falling, so if you are in the know and have the pull, you help yourself and your friends. Don’t plan too far ahead. Keep the green churning.People were getting thrown out of work left and right at a significant rate on all strata. The folks reading the Times knew this. But capital - that was the animal that had to be fed.The Treasury Dept now Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-36366933860513869492008-11-28T18:10:00.000-08:002008-11-29T09:33:36.299-08:00WHO THE GREAT CREDIT RISK CRISIS KNEW? No one, wise or unwise, knew or now knows when depressions are due or overdue.–JKG, The Great Crash 1929 September 2008 – Who knew? Not the masters of the Economic Universe who lord it over the consumers. When the early waters of economic tsunami began to rise, the Secretary of Treasury proved no more prescient than the telemarketing mortgage hucksterer. And why should it be otherwise? Tweak Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-22702764188947176622008-11-10T17:20:00.000-08:002008-11-10T18:02:10.209-08:00Maxwell Street RadioIt was a Sunday open air market of music and flea bit items. Caught a good film [DVD] about Maxwell Street in the '60s. It is called "Chicago's Legendary Maxwell Street ... And This Is Free." Very vivid depiction of the Chicago Blues. Of course, now, piano players wasnt on Maxwell Street. Didnt no piano players play in the street. But Robert Nighthawk, Johnnie Young and J.B Hutto [his hand anywayJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-1695433206147019712008-11-06T15:27:00.000-08:002008-11-10T16:51:56.685-08:00The Indian in the groupBad news that Jimmy Carl Black [second from right, above] of Mothers of Invention died. He was 70. Will always remember him as "Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian of the group." Heard him on the radio this summer, and he seemed like a nice guy. Here's a link to the Zappa write up of a year ago. The Shroud of Zappa. Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black - Washington PostJimmy Carl Black at 70 - Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-71824830447683368332008-10-25T19:47:00.000-07:002008-10-31T18:40:25.870-07:00Mools of woostaMools* of woostaFull with gold watchesMools of woostaFull with gold watchesEpigrammatists marchingThrough the blue land of milled cottonCry me back motherI’ll pay the black piperCry me back motherI’ll pay the black piperAnd tip the bearded ladyDreaming of my sweet cake shorteningMy sweet dumb crumbly cakeIn Woosta in the wakeOf the parade.- Jack VaughanA mool is a grave. This poem is loosely Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-6728829268536500482008-10-21T09:20:00.000-07:002008-10-25T20:18:18.542-07:00All Yankee Stadiums Go To HeavenI have had three dreams of heaven in my life.One was about 1957 inside the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin; it was night; there were shepherds and clouds.Two was around 1975 not so much heaven but the afterlife. I was getting a personal check okay'd at Calumet Market , a small old-style food supermarket in Brigham Circle; Max, who pased the judgment on checks, was Jehovah. IT was very Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-14253817125761941142008-10-20T17:50:00.000-07:002008-10-20T17:53:31.747-07:00Baseball over in Boston this year.Ok. They took it to the 7th game, then the odds, and the Bays, got to them. The manager could have made some diffferent moves - the hitters could have made some more hits. Close but no cigar. Just for the record. Tampa wins ALC series 4-3.Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-80381751055096934622008-10-16T09:41:00.000-07:002008-10-16T09:51:59.151-07:00Boston's Red Sox are against the wall againBoston's Red Sox are against the wall again. I tend not to devote energy to teams' down 3-1, as history has shown that is an absurd position to place oneself in in a 7 game series.Yet .. at this time, I recall last year, and three years ago. So I will post link to last year's writeup on this topic. The Sox won the fifth game, and did not lose again for the rest of the championship post season. Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-6991560875543428142008-10-03T19:07:00.000-07:002008-10-03T19:14:10.923-07:00Pow Wow Trail Episode 1: The DrumWas watching a DVD of Cecelia's. Pow Wow Trail Episode 1: The Drum. Was impressed by some words by Eddie Benton Benai, of the Ojibwa nation.More or less he said:Computer storage is going to obviate the need for [human] memory somewhere in the future. But you cannot program the Creation Song. The computer cannot sing the song that will bring the voice of the drum alive.I think he strikes a chord Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-72167004026367634622008-09-27T21:18:00.000-07:002008-09-27T21:34:43.157-07:00The Delta Nationals All over the Map and The Blues Audition ExcerptPaul DeMark was in touch recently with much musical news. His group’s second CD came out, and he is at work in spare time writing about his experiences in music. And the group recently opened for Willie Nelson.The new Delta Nationals’ CD takes a big step beyond the first CD. It is still a compendium of American music but it is all original material this time and it is called “All over the Map” – Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-89301718939766809222008-09-17T20:04:00.000-07:002009-07-03T08:22:50.381-07:00Dancing with the News I am in a dance forever with the news. I try to slow down or give it up. Conflagraton brings it to fever. The stock markets are unpredictable now and sectors are melting. And there I am at the news counter. Gotta have it.And here on page A22 are the Rosenberg boys - then and now - in one of those stories that plays on and on - this is a very sad picture, the folks are about to be executed - one Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-71074330522154622982008-09-07T10:31:00.000-07:002008-12-27T09:50:38.120-08:00Chronicles, 45-60Who are the extras? I have to askthe odd intoxicant morning of trains.The crowd streams forward - the Sparrow auto-mo-nautsin a Greek chorus blood questbetween me and the local to Greenbush.They are filming a movie in Boston’s South Station.With Robert DeNiro and Jesus Mel Gibson.The extras are overdressed. It gradually occurs to us.They are wearing trench coats. Soldiering in steps.For them it’sJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-16464831630042979952008-08-31T20:13:00.000-07:002008-09-01T11:38:14.089-07:00Ladish Works doing new Alvin submersible Reading NY Science Times this week and there was an interesting article about the replacement submersible for Alvin, the long-chugging oceanaut that discovered among many things Titanic.It has been 40 years since this counrty forged Alvin. We are only talking $50 M or $150 M here, but undersea diving bells sort of peaked back then. But they are trying again.Cause Alvin, like the old carnival Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-65362783958622034252008-08-17T15:00:00.000-07:002008-11-29T09:36:22.881-08:00Sinclair’s Sunnyland TrainPicked up on John Sinclair and his travels site where he recently posted his version of the Sunnyland Blues. It’s largely based on parts of the one Slim and I did. It appeared first in Fattening Frogs for Snakes, his blues poetry opus published in 2002 by the Surregional Press.John talked to me before he appropriated vast quantities of my piece. We discussed it, and jointly decided it was in the Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-31076092601443959752008-08-17T14:57:00.000-07:002008-08-17T14:59:19.054-07:00The Doctor is in TimeFor Edward Albee.The doctor is the receptacleof the myth.The doctor found his week-dead wifeIn the jarred coffinOn his lawn after the flood.The apples are getting heavyHe said.And they are tearing downThe limb.The doctor slit his wristWith an electric knifeCutting Thanksgiving turkey.In the old pylon pole SouthHe’d let Bessie SmithTo bleed on the highwayBack when it rainedFive days.The doctor is Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-37199087897072453972008-07-19T18:38:00.000-07:002008-07-19T18:54:12.558-07:00In the Rocket GardenThere I am in the Rocket Garden. Take a picture of a family taking a picture in front of a Saturn. Mailer was here 29 years ago to cover the launch to the Moon, Jules - blinded by the Sun, entranced by the alligators, stymied some as he tried to get the story from the Waspy Nasa of the day - another big anniversary is a year away, and here I am too. Mailer is dead in the last year. Here I am. Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-35451202277945990302008-07-05T14:44:00.000-07:002008-11-29T09:38:52.652-08:00Bring it to the RootJeff DeMark saw fit to provide a view on his recent performance in old Racine. He provided a link to an excellent Journal-Times article...and there is a link you should see above to Jeff on YouTube. Thought you might like to see this article from the Journal-Times if you haven’t seen it. It was an absolutely remarkable experience on both nights. The first night John Landaal organized bunch of Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-46085262968726228582008-06-19T07:48:00.000-07:002008-06-22T11:45:45.340-07:00Dark shadow on Boston Celtics lifts There was no Seventh and Deciding Game tonight. The Celtics pulverized the Lakers Tuesday, 131-92, and won the NBA championship for the first time since 1986. During that 22-year drought, the Lakers won five championships. L.A. Coach Phil Jackson now remains tied with the late Celtics Coach Red Auerbach for most championships. Both have nine.Both bad and good, Auerbach is a god around here. LikeJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-29117430383629654882008-06-14T19:01:00.000-07:002008-06-16T11:41:45.162-07:00Kerouac’s Home in Orlando WorkingWrites to William S. Burroughs, February, 1958 …. “…writing every night by candlelight, with windows open to moony yards & trees of Muckland Central Florida in Febiary…..”Little known but Kerouack had a home in Orlando.On hard ground under a dome of cypress treesAfter On the Road. Before the Deluge. About the time He’d hit some money.Of late the historically & literary minded people in the area Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-58925475166013118732008-06-08T09:18:00.000-07:002008-06-10T08:57:03.099-07:00Greatest Rhythm Guitar Player Bo Diddley died MondayBo Diddley died Monday. There are probably some competitive flamenco cats that I am not aware of - but I would rate him greatest rhythm guitar player of all time. The guitar as percussive motivator in his hands was total banshee force, but full of invention. He also had a lyrical approach that was in its turn incredibly rhythmic and original and also humorous.Mona, Who Do You Love, You Cant JudgeJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-81171262414024458702008-05-25T11:25:00.000-07:002008-05-25T11:47:35.090-07:00I Will Be Back In The Spring. I discovered this in the basement. It bears resemblance to I Will See You In The Spring done by The Memphis Jug Band although it appears to be from another planet. It also bears resemblance to Fare The Well which I knew from Paul Rishell [or one of the other members of a one-time aggregation known as The J Band] which I have just learned was done by Bluesman Joe Callicott, but which I have Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-81093683715582160562008-05-22T11:00:00.000-07:002008-05-22T11:11:05.986-07:00Titanic Transmission Clothesline Saga Our Memorial Day Special: When we were working on the Titanic Transmissions Monograph, spent some time in Jeff Hull's studio, where he had all these great drawings hanging on clothesline. Jacob took pics, I put them in a slide show, filmed that, put music too it, and posted via Blogger. If you can guess the names of the duo playing the music to accompany the video, you can go into a Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-1444822656212314502008-05-16T12:18:00.000-07:002008-11-29T09:40:58.814-08:00DeMark Hits 6th StreetJack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-70147427817584722432008-05-04T18:48:00.000-07:002008-12-27T17:31:51.235-08:00Jaki Byard SaidJaki Byard was a significant player among many in the new music movement of jazz in the 1960s. Born in Worcester, a good-sized industrial town in the mid section of Massachusetts, he played for a number of years in Boston before he went on to New York. His work with Charles Mingus is most notable, but he created his own body of work that mixed strains from traditional jazz and avant garde Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-64538159507686390712008-04-20T08:29:00.000-07:002008-04-20T10:59:34.507-07:00Jeff Hull: Titanic TransmissionsGot to hang out with Jeff Hull this winter as it turned into spring. He was preparing for a show at the Hall Space and we sort of took the piece I wrote a couple of years ago as a starting point, broke down the staging and started again, talking about what his art was, and iterating through til we came up with this piece. April always brings Titanic memories. Now, Titanic Transmissions as well. Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-42661572442181362352008-04-05T18:17:00.000-07:002008-04-08T10:33:26.147-07:00Music That Matters To ZimThis site hasn’t written about Bob Dylan for awhile. Here goes. He has a new mix out, 2008. His fave raves. Artists Choice: Bob Dylan – Music That Matters To Him.Came into some Starbucks, which is another story, but I said why buy a lot of coffee? So I go in there and buy a CD off the rack. From the Artists Choice series. Bob Dylan – Music That Matters To Zim.And unlike Theme Time Radio show, Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-62393543032414534852008-04-04T11:36:00.001-07:002008-04-04T11:37:08.443-07:00Sunnyland Blues BookBuy Sunnyland Blues on Amazon Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-11362967886854601112008-03-27T07:02:00.000-07:002008-04-02T10:56:16.232-07:00Westein Boston EstradaA very sad month this March. Cecelia’s mother Westein Boston Estrada died March 14 in Pasadena. Of course, my great debt to Wes is that she brought Cecelia into the world. She also let me into her world, which was a hard working positive place. She brought her children up much by herself, working long hours, to keep the house bill met, and keep the kids on the path. Very remarkable. Very Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-26286554551130544092008-03-24T09:28:00.000-07:002008-03-24T09:33:17.958-07:00John Sinclair on Blues & PoetryThis is the third site for this thing... Needed some fixing... it is an excerpt.I came to know Sunnyland Slim through Harry Duncan and Paul DeMark. It was through Harry as well that I came to know John Sinclair. John was doing a radio show in New Orleans, and writing and performing what I called ‘Blues Poetry.’ He heard of my book, ‘Sunnyland Blues’ through Harry, and was very generous in Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17736646.post-37821757862753855172008-03-09T00:06:00.000-08:002008-03-08T21:05:17.449-08:00Tiny Lund in EgyptWhen Tiny Lundwent to Egypt landIt was as it waswith him - as it was with TinyBig! That was the joke!Barely fitting as he crawledin the driver’s windowof the Number 21 FordDwarfed it if he stoodAstride it. RedAnd whiteNumber 21 ENGLISH MOTORSHe’d go throughflamesandIn and among the pyramidsIn his serial dayhigh sweeping spraysof sandfollowedIn the Fordlate model stockerRaging through papyri tree Jack Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08260762984352254451noreply@blogger.com0