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Saturday, 16 December 2006 |
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 December 16—Happy Birthday My Dear Ludwig van Beethoven.
I do not have anything to say about Beethoven, the man who freed music, that has not already been said.
I did discover a very interesting site while looking for an image for this post.
Beethoven's Hair
I was introduced to Beethoven in my early twenties by two
newspapermen, Ed Frisbie and Fran Ortiz, both of whom worked at the SF
Examiner where I was a copyboy. We would sit around the M&M Tavern
at 5th & Howard and talk about the late quartets, the Grosse Fugue
... and I would try to soak it up and I'd go buy pieces they
recommended ... and I'd listen to them when I tired of Bowie, Roxy
Music, and Captain Beefheart.
I am forever grateful to the two of them.
Fran
was a great news photographer whose works - four pieces as a matter of
fact - were chosen by the New York Museum of Modern Art for their
retrospective of twentienth century photojournalistic excellence. He
was a gentleman, a kind man, a great cook, and quite the ladies man: he gave me a lamb recipe for the first time I had a
woman over for a serious dinner date. It worked.
But this is not really a story about Fran, or Beethoven, but about Ed
Frisbee, one of the most serious drinkers and most entertaining
story-tellers I knew in my early life. It was another era. I had a lot
to learn about booze.
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
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Sweet fluffy lambs.
On a recent post celebrating Beethoven's birthday, I mentioned a lamb recipe for the bachelor who wants to impress a woman with his prowess in the kitchen. As we know, skill in the kitchen implies a heightened respect and knowledge of les Plaisirs d'Amour. D'accord.
One of our readers requested the recipe. I am including two recipes today. Neither are very demanding, but are delicious, nutritious, and shagalicious. Here is the first:
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Determine if prospect eats meat and has sex on first date.
- Get good lamb chops, about 1" thick.
- Trim excess fat.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Sprinkle dried tarragon generously on lambchops.
Cover tarragon with coating of gourmet mustard - your choice, hot, sweet, whatever
- Sprinkle italian seasoning on top of mustard.
- Put lamb chops on roasting rack and into oven.
Cook for 30 minutes. (Vary time according to thickness of chops)
- Serve with brown rice and raisins. Spinach salad with avocado and tangerine slices and vinaigrette.
You will get lucky. 
(Recipe #2 & story on the flip-fl0p)
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
From his website:
Robert Farber~Fine Art
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"Welcome to the Fine Art Gallery exhibiting Robert Farber's expressions of the nude. His work in nudes have many parallels in painting. For example, his classical nudes seem to draw inspiration from the old Dutch masters, and the softness of many of his images echo Renoir's Impressionism, yet his graphic nudes have all the strength of abstract art."
Hard to believe I've been posting for months and haven't put up one true nude, aside from the large-breasted mannequins piece, that is.
Fifty years ago, I was looking around my father's study, a small room off the garage, where he worked on his first book, The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned, and I found one of his photo magazines. His day job required him to shoot photos as well as write and edit marketing materials for the companies where he worked before that book became a best-seller, setting him free from the workaday world.
I was five years old, obsessed with Superman and Zorro for the most part.
Back then, the photo magazines were very different from the soft-core porn they are today. I remember though, as if it were yesterday, looking through the magazine.
Still-lifes, landscapes, nature photography and then, near the back of the magazine, at the bottom of the page, a tiny picture of a naked woman.
And I knew in that moment that there was a universe full of wonder to explore, a world of mystery of which I had been heretofore unaware. And that that exploration would shape my life.
Little did I know.
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
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made an announcement that he would make a
poster-a-day for musicians (with a show to promote)
for the month of February.
I got my request in for the 28th & final slot.
I told him I had a booking, but not a firm date,
so he was kind and came up with
this very interesting take on yours truly, based
This is what he wrote about me:
Today's poster is for Knox Bronson. It's an interesting mix of Bowie-esque, slightly 80's inspired, but darker - music. 3 Sec b4 mia smiled is my pick of the myspace tracks.
Bowie-esque? Yes, hard to avoid his influence. Darker? My songs are
bright vessels of West Coast pop-puffery, infused with sunlight
fermented during the Summer of Love. I think.
And ... the eighties? I was, like Bowie, in an blackout for the whole
decade, so I don't really see how I could have been influenced by the
music of that era. Some kind of subliminal infusion?
Oh, BTW, do yourself a favor and visit onetonnemusic.com and look at the other posters he's done for other artists. Thank you, Nathanael!
I will of course notify this space as soon as I HAVE the show date.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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Based on a true-life story.
Take Me Down @2006 Knox Bronson (ASCAP)
Click on Read More for lyrics.
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