Not Quite Mickey
09/27/05- Please go to:
http://www.myspace.com/hauntingkal
08/03/05-
The Cape was good. The seafood was great. The weather was really nice. We were by the bay side which was really neat because at low tide the water would go way out and leave tidal pools. Boats were moored in the sand and would be beached at this time! The greenery at the shoreline was beautiful. I had black raspberry home made ice cream that was unbelievable. We sat about 20 ft from CSN at the show, Nash carried it pretty much and did a lot of my favorites, but he did not do the whale song. We took the vampire tour on the way back through the fog and bogs, through Chatham... cool. While walking one evening I saw a coyote, and he stared me down!
07-21-05-
What I felt, but better said by someone else:
"When I really got into Dinosaur Jr. in college I was in full agreement with those who said J Mascis was God. Now that I've seen him play live, I have to
admit J is god-like (smoking amp, awesome!). I
even wore my Dinosaur Jr. shirt to work today,
although no one around here seems to know who the hell
they are."
MC is gone on tour. I am very happy for him. His car got stolen on Wed. (CRX but they found it today locally. He is in LA however...
PS: I am Bartleby.
07/19/05-
Forgot to mention Battlestar Gallactica new season started Friday. Woooooooooooo hooooooooo!
07/19/05-
I had the best time in Philly last week. It was great hanging out with Matt, and I was pretty impressed with Dinosaur Junior. They were really good. I stayed at a historic hotel, with a jacuzzi and a fireplace in my room. ha ha I took a jacuzzi bath in the wee hours while sipping Yuengling. The next day I walked around the historic section with a coffee and bagel. Then I drove up to the Art Museum which was really cool. It was a great day! Well MC is all ready to go on tour. I didn't think it would actually happen, but it is. He got his bass flight case yesterday. He will be leaving Thursday, and I'll be leaving for the Cape Saturday...
07/01/05-
Well, while MC is on tour I will be up in Cape Cod with the sisters. We are going to see Crosby, Stills, and Nash when we are there. There will be a whole lotta lobsters, boats, lighthouses, etc. My local legend record fish catching fishing guide cousin lives there and maybe he can give us the fishing tour of the Cape. Should be wicked...
06/26/05-
MC had a gig this weekend at The Cup. I was a little under the weather, so I didn't go. Their friend said their music is "good for grinding stumps". I am really impressed with their new song. After years of having an undistinguishing sound(in my opinion)(which probably doesn't count for much ha ha) they seem to be finding it. MC said the few people left over at 1:30 AM clapped for them.
06/12/05-
Check out the new art pages and gallery!
05/16/05-
Matt got the tickets for Dinosaur Junior. Yay! Went to Navesink on Saturday and took more pictures. Will post soon.
05/12/05-
Matt is going to get me tickets to see Dinosaur Junior at the Electric Factory since he works in Philly. I am really psyched about this because I really dig J. Mascis. MC's new guitarist came over last night to learn more songs for the tour. Supposedly he got 2 more down. On schedule so far...I really hope he does it this time...
05/10/05-
MC went to see his band's new guitarist in another band on Sat. I don't think he was expecting what he heard...Well MC is supposed to be doing a short tour in June on the west coast and Mexico ...Let's see if it actually happens this time...oops
05/06/05-
Went to see my friend the reporter/dj/old bandmate Patrick last night. Met in Princeton for dinner, and then went to a WPRB radio gathering. Well it feels good to know a 45 year old like me didn't stick out like a sore thumb with a bunch of musically hip 20 year olds!! ha ha ha One of the DJ's was supposed to play with her band but didn't for some reason...
I like the old halls and feel of PU. Makes me feel at home.
05/02/05-
The art was pretty good at the festival. The exhibits at the train station, Tumultys and Zafra Vegetarian Resturant were cool. The bands were rained out and I could not make it the next day to see them. Joe Jackson was interesting...
04/27/05-
Talked to my old friend Matt who told me that the New Brunswick Arts Festival is this weekend. A band we both like is playing there, so I am going to meet up with him on Sat night and go to that. The band is a local band called Suran Song. They are radical performance artists and they rock!! I think I am also going to go see One True Thing on Thursday night at the Rutgers Livingston College student center. Oh I went on a picture taking excursion on Sunday, so there will be new pictures posted soon in the Art section.
04/25/05-
Just bought Murder One's On High. I liked the song "Helm's Deep" for a while so I finally bought the CD. They are from Lyndhurst NJ. It is kind of interesting... Going to see Todd Rundgren an Joe Jackson with my sisters Fri. Was sick with the flu (courtesy of MC) the first two weeks of April.
03/29/05-
One thing I haven't talked about on here is my interest in sci fi. Right now my latest thing is watching the new TV show Battlestar Gallactica. I used to watch the original, and although I liked it, I always thought it was sort of a "B" sci fi show. The new show rocks! I was totally floored by last weeks episode. Can't wait till Fri.!!
PS: I bought an old Battlestar Galactica iron-on on e-bay last month! ha ha
03/12/05-
Went to see MC's friend's blues band "The Hammers" last night. MC's friend Ira is really cool, and he is a good guitar player. MC sat in on 2 songs. It was fun.
03/10/05-
Motorhead rocked last night. The place doesn't have the best sound system though. COC was pretty good too. I liked the last three songs they did. MC ran into his old friend Dave from Ween there, so we talked to him for awhile after the show.
02/24/05-
Jury Duty this week. Got on case. It was pretty cool. Yay Motorhead next week!
02/14/05-
Happy V day everybody! Yay the Motorhead show was rescheduled for March, so I am going! I am now working on a project to submit to NPR which is fun.
01/18/05-
MC's playing The Knitting Factory Tap Bar on Friday Jan. 21st. Me, I almost bought another guitar this Saturday. Epiphone. Restrung the Ibanez. Sounds better.
12/21/04-
Happy Solstice!
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12/20/04-
Me and MC went to see Chuck Lambert http://chucklambert.com/on Friday night. The band was tight, and they sounded ok, but it was like one of those bands that is on the circuit, where they get up there and play everything they know by heart, and well, that's it, they know it by heart, so there is no heart. Except for the harmonica player, he was smokin. Maybe it was because, as I learned today, he has only been playing for 3 years. He was the only thing worth seeing in this band of up to 40 year veteran blues musicians.
12/13/04-
Ok I am embarrassed to admit there are 2 movies I never saw which are Nightmare Before Christmas and Spinal Tap. I have been going on and on about it, and missed Spinal Tap on TV last week. Well MC surprised me with an early gift of both of them on DVD this week! I love both of them, and especially wonder how I missed Spinal Tap all these years. It had me rolling. I am still deciding but I think my favorite song is Hell Hole.
12/9/04-
I got an award on garageband.com.
Awards! Best Female Vocals in Indie Rock, week of 6Dec2004
Here is a yuletide poem:
Wine Still on the Wall
Wine still on the wall.
Wine still on the wall.
Into the mind like a fire rocket…
buried so deeply under the oak.
Wine still on the wall.
Wine still on the wall.
Juul time for all who wander these darkened halls…
bridge holds weakly over the moat.
Sun rising brightly, sweetly the note…
11/28/04-
Nice long weekend. Enjoyed the Ghost Hunters marathon on Wed. Cool! I cooked a turkey, and it came out really good! MC had a gaming campaign going on, and I unpacked more of my stuff. I also got back to working on songs: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/garneteelectronmusic.htm
I finally was able to upload again on garageband.com. I wasn't able to for awhile, so I gave up. I like it because I get contructive feedback, and meet like minded musicians. I am still friends with people I met on there 2 years ago. Check it out: http://www.garageband.com/artist/garneteelectron/songs
10/31/04-
Yay Halloween! I made jack-o-lanterns. MC roasted the seeds from the pumpkins, and he also made caramel apples. We watched a Dario Argente marathon. We also got a lot of tricker treaters. Never so great a time.
10/26/04-
Me and MC watched the Tina Turner Story a few weeks ago which started us on a downloading spree of 60's and 70's R+B and Rock. This weekend I downloaded "Brighton Rock" by Queen. Kick ass guitar in that one. Last night I was finally able to get "Songs from the Wood" by Jethro Tull downloaded.
MC is going to be in a Darkthrone tribute band with his friend, and I told him I think I am going to start a band doing 60's rock.
10/07/04-
Last month was brutal. I moved from my apartment to a house. Six years of accumulated stuff of which I threw out a quarter of it, and packed the rest. Took me three weeks to do it all. I forgot what it was like to move. Still settling in. My guitars are all over the place, and my computer is set up on boxes, so I haven't been doing any music lately. However, I am getting a few e-mails from people to start a band with. Also my friend Natalie surprised me by saying she wants to learn to play guitar, so I am helping her buy a starter guitar.
09/11/04-
Watched Stevie Ray at Montreux last night on the TV. Talk about inspiration! Wanted to go to the Motorhead show, but I heard Lemmy broke his foot, so the show has been cancelled. :( My friend Patrick interviews Yoko Ono...unreal.
Trenton Times
Imagine there's an art show
Friday, September 10, 2004
By PATRICK O'SHEA
Staff Writer
Some 35 years after she and John Lennon orchestrated a "bed-in" and asked the world to "Give Peace a Chance," Yoko Ono recently reiterated the couple's plea - taking a full-page ad out in the New York Times that read, simply: "Imagine peace."
As for imagining what Lennon might have come up with if he were alive now and sat down to write a song or draw a picture in light of today's state of world affairs, Ono has some idea.
"He would do something funny," she suggests, noting that the onetime Beatle learned early on in life how to coerce positive colors from even the most negative of palettes.
"John had kind of a depressing childhood, not having his mother and father around, et cetera, et cetera, and he always wanted to get out of Liverpool . . . " says the 71-year-old Ono. "Part of having a childhood like that is that he had to learn to make himself laugh. . . . He's always had a sense of humor."
Nowhere is Lennon's whimsical side more apparent than in his artwork, which will be on display this weekend at Occasions at Union Square in New Hope, Pa. The exhibition is titled "When I'm Sixty Four." (Lennon, who was killed in 1980, would have turned 64 next month.)
Ono guarantees that those who go to the exhibition will walk away "feeling good, feeling warmth and love and a little giggle as well."
She also hopes the event will serve to advance their lifelong campaign for world harmony.
"John's work is always something that reminds me of peace, and we have to work for world peace and love, so it's really great to have these exhibitions going around," Ono says.
The three-day exhibit will feature more than 100 pieces of art created by Lennon from between 1968, when he was with The Beatles, to 1980, including drawings from his tender "Real Love" series that he did for - and with - his son, Sean. Song-lyric manuscripts from Lennon's Beatles and solo years also will be on display.
Ono said Lennon approached his sketching the same way he did his songwriting - spontaneously and instinctively.
"He was very quick when he was inspired with something," says Ono, who exchanged wedding vows with Lennon on Gilbraltar on March 20, 1969. "That's how it was. It was not a labor; he'd just come out with it."
When inspiration struck, the setting didn't matter. Ono recalls Lennon "doing some beautiful drawings" on planes or in the middle of meetings with Apple Record lawyers. "When it was just talking and just so boring, you know, John would pick up a pen and start drawing."
Ono hand-picked the works in the "When I'm Sixty Four" exhibit - many of which will be offered for sale - but insists she has no favorites.
"I love them all," she says, adding that she has no idea of the scope of Lennon's artistic output since she's still likely to come across his drawings tucked "in between the pages of a book or somewhere." She said Lennon also gave away a lot of his drawings to just about anyone who'd ask.
-- -- -- Art brought Lennon and Ono together on Nov. 9, 1966, when he attended her one-woman show titled "Unfinished Paintings and Objects" at the Indica Gallery on Mason Square in London. As Ono recalls it, Lennon seemed amused by her conceptual works, and she was certainly not awestruck by a member of the Fab Four's presence.
"I didn't know anything about him at all," she confesses.
That soon changed, as Ono quickly discovered what a major talent Lennon was - as an artist.
"I noticed when I went to a bookshop in London, I pulled out a couple of books that had Lennon's name on them (`In His Own Write' and `A Spaniard in the Works')," she says. "I opened them up and there were these incredible drawings that he had done to sort of complement or illustrate the poems or whatever.
"They gave me the chills. . . . I knew that he was going to be important as an artist."
That was not the general consensus. Ono pointed out that despite - or, perhaps, because of - his fame, Lennon had trouble getting galleries to take his artwork seriously. It was her clout among the avant-garde circles that opened doors.
"It's very interesting that in an age when he was so famous, he shouldn't have had such a difficult time (mounting exhibits), but there's a kind of snobbery in the art world, an attitude of `we're not going to do that,' " says Ono. "It was kind of embarrassing, demeaning for John in the beginning, to get shows only on the condition that I would come there, too."
Lennon's first London show in 1970 did attract a lot of attention: Police raided the exhibition and confiscated eight lithographs depicting Lennon's and Ono's love life under the Obscene Publication Act. The charges were later dismissed.
Ono also boosted Lennon's art by contributing directly to it. She added color to many of his works to make them more appealing to gallery owners.
"When someone first showed me this kind of trick, I said, `How dare you do that?' That's how I felt," she remembers. "Then I saw how I could add a touch of color but not really interfere with John's drawings."
-- -- -- Ono said her husband would be "very surprised and very, very pleased" by how well his traveling art shows are received today.
Lennon once described Ono as "the most famous unknown artist in the world." Ono suggested that the same could have been said about Lennon. "John and I both had van Gogh complexes, you know," she quips.
Ironically, while Ono was encouraging Lennon to share his artwork with the world, he was urging her to pursue her music, boldly predicting that she'd one day have hit records. Indeed, a remix of Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" reached No. 1 on the dance-club music charts last year and her once-scorned-by-some musical career is at its peak, highlighted by acclaimed collaborations with the couple's son, Sean.
Ono said Sean, who is working on his own second album, apparently has inherited his father's musical and artistic skills.
"Sean's probably better than John or me," says the proud mother of the 28-year-old. "He has this incredible, meticulous way of doing things. That's very different than John or me, of course, but I'm always amazed by it."
Ono briefly mused over the suggestion of developing an Ono-Lennon family art show, but then discounted it. "Maybe one day that will be a good idea, but Sean's very private about his art."
In the meantime, Ono has been busy promoting her dance-club music, and with her own art exhibitions in Europe.
Then, of course, there are her ongoing pursuits to help make the world a better place. Proceeds from this weekend's exhibition will benefit the Fox Chase Cancer Center, while proceeds from the sale of Lennon's works are earmarked for a variety of causes.
And when it comes to promoting world harmony, Ono vows she'll never give up.
"Some people ask me if I feel it's a waste of time," she admits. "But I believe there's now awareness of wanting a better world and how important it is to have peace as opposed to war, love as opposed to hate.
"I think 99 percent of the world is thinking that way."
"When I'm Sixty Four" - will be on exhibit at Occasions at Union Square, 560 Union Square Drive, New Hope, Pa., 5-9 p.m. today, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. tomorrow and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Admission free, but donations accepted to benefit the Fox Chase Cancer Center. (215) 674-1047 or www.unionsquarepa.com
08/22/04-
Me and MC watched "Master and Commander- Far Side of the World" last night. The captain and the doc playing their instruments together on board ship probably originated the term windjammer. We were hanging by Farrington Dam today, and it was funny...this older guy about our age had a boom box tied on the back of his bicycle, and it was blaring Led Zep across the lake. Previously I was telling MC how we used to party there as teenagers. When we came across this guy, I said to MC that given his age and the music he was listening to, he was probably someone from the old days out there reminiscing, or... Ghost of Christmas Past whoooo uooooooo.
08-10-04-
I had this weird episode of dreaming the other night. One of the dreams was that there was an ocean on top of my bedroom. Whales were calling me, so I went out the window and swam up to them. Then they carried me away, and I woke up to the song "To the Last Whale" by Crosby and Nash. I thought that was pretty strange, so that is the song I am learning on guitar now.
TO THE LAST WHALE TAB
To The Last Whale (Graham Nash)
D#m B D#m B D#m G# C#
B D#m
B D#m B D#m
Over the years you have been hunted by the men who threw harpoons
B D#m G# C# B D#m
And in the long run we will kill you just to feed the pets we raise
G# C# B D#m G# C# B D#m
Put the flowers in your vase and make the lipstick for your face
B D#m B D#m G# C# B D#m
B D#m B D#m
Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own
B D#m G# C# B D#m
Now you are washed up on the shoreline I can see your body lie
G# C# B D#m G# C# B D#m
It's a shame you have to die to put the shadow on our eye
B
Maybe we'll go, maybe we'll disappear
D#m B
It's not that we don't know, it's just that we don't want to care
D#m B D#m B D#m
Under the bridges, over the foam, wind on the water, carry me home
B D#m B D#m G# C# B D#m
G# C# B D#m G# C# B D#m
B D#m B D#m
Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own
B D#m G# C# B D#m
Now you are washed up on the shoreline I can see your body lie
G# C# B D#m G# C# B D#m
It's a shame you have to die to put the shadow on our eye
D#m B D#m B D#(add F)
Under the bridges, over the foam, wind on the water, carry me home
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------ Play G# at 4th fret
|||||| Play C# at 4th fret
oo--oo 6th fret Play B at 7th fret
|||||| Play D#m at 6th fret
||oo|| D#(add F)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Put your problems out with the cat -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Written by: Mick Anderson micka@jolt.mpx.com.au
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Must be lamb today cause beef was last week =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
08-07-04-
Went to see Sonny Rhodes a blues man with MC in Princeton Thursday night. He was really great. It made us sad to think that all these great blues guitarists are getting old and may be gone soon, and there is no one to take their places. The next day we watched the video "Ghost Dog", a movie that incorporates the book "The Way of the Samurai" into it. There is a quote in it about the spirit, and how it dies out over time, and is lost with each generation. We thought about that relating to Sonny and blues, and maybe that's the way it will be, blues will die out...
07-24-04-
Welcome to the official site of Garnet E Electron! There will be plenty of new things to see, hear, and enjoy on this site in the coming days! I am currently working on a new CD and trying to get a band together. If anyone is interested please e-mail me at hauntingkal@yahoo.com. Also if you would like a free CD of my music please e-mail. I had an awesome guitar lesson today. Matty is the coolest. Matty is a metal head gone blues eclectic jazz guitarist, and now he wants to do speed Indian rhythmic guitar!! Wild!! Check out Haleocene Trio in NYC http://www.myspace.com/haleoscene.
