http://six06.com/blog art by julie zarate Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:16:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few years back, Jerry Wexler burned a CD for friends of the songs he was the most proud of from his half-century career in music. Here's the playlist. [this is what rolling stones lists]: 1. Professor Longhair, "Tipitina" (1953) 2. Ray Charles, "I Got a Woman" (1954) 3. Big Joe Turner, "Shake, ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/wex-on-wax-twenty-essential-jerry-wexler-productions/ test post hooray! my media uploader works again! thanks, monica, for helping me discover that. on a related note, i disabled the contact form, it seems to have been the culprit to breaking the uploader to begin with. there is a fix for it, but i can't be bothered with that much ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/testing/ i went to the ymca to meet with one of the execs there and from the corporate office. unfortunately, the gent from corporate could not make it, but amanda was most helpful. [a phone call later from mr. s later apologizing was very kind]. will be meeting again with amanda ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/dirty-hands/ the whitest kids you know [nsfw] ilu sundance big girl's blouse http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/ilu-ifc/ not all foam insulations are the same. i lamented about this before. i picked up "the wrong kind" that didn't harden as i'd hoped. i left the "Icarus" to dry properly and it never did what i expected. sure, it dried, to a nice poofy texture, but i knew it would ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/fail/ i've been thinking about cutting my hair. it has gotten quite long [if i stretch it out, the curls, that is, it comes to just inches above my hips. that's long. for me, anyway, since i haven't had it this long in forever. i think my hair was just a ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/cut-dont-cut/ i recently heard this report on NPR about the stances each president elect is taking on relinquishing executive power that was given [taken?] during the bush administration. i'm more comfortable with obama's statement, but not all that convinced that the dangerous precedence that was made by bush didn't start a ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/never-forget-no-not-911/ it poured, and it flooded last night. julian had practice, and although i know they've made him play through bad weather before, they usually don't when there are hurricane like conditions coupled with lightning. they wound up watching a film instead. he had a "meet the teachers" event at the ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/the-bean/ i had just laid the foundation for the "bones" of the sculpture. the following day i bulked up the matches, adding texture, and securing all match ends underneath a victorian looking miniature picture frame. oh joy, how i loved the way it turned out!! enter the heart there was a ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/when-we-last-left-our-hero/ here is another i have been working on and off ... on. [er.] it started out like the first shrine [FAITH] that i created, but worked in the same approach with the toothpicks as i had on the last shrine i completed [HE NOT BUSY, etc.]. there is a layer of ... http://six06.com/blog/2008/08/in-progress-untitled-6/