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Spent Sunday evening with my friend and mentor Jack Radcliffe and his crazy-talented daughter, Alison:
Alison is a tremendously gifted vocalist with a sound that falls somewhere between that of Billie Holliday and Mahalia Jackson. Her sound and her appearance are disparate:
While her look and her sound may be somewhat incongruous, her passion is undeniable; and, her singing, a gift to music lovers of any genre!
Thanks for reading, and take care!
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Alison is a tremendously gifted vocalist with a sound that falls somewhere between that of Billie Holliday and Mahalia Jackson. Her sound and her appearance are disparate:
While her look and her sound may be somewhat incongruous, her passion is undeniable; and, her singing, a gift to music lovers of any genre!
Thanks for reading, and take care!
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03 March 2011
06 February 2011
Saturday Night
Saturday nights (when I'm not working) usually find me out and about with my camera to try to find something that would look interesting in a photograph. The results are about evenly spilt...half the time I don't find much, and the other half I do. This Saturday - quite happily - was one of the latter. I was cruising Bel Air in Lonesome Blue (my pick-up truck) and listening to Cousin Brucie on Sirius when I found:
see my "diner divas". Last Summer, I gave myself an assignment. I had been stagnating, socially. So, one Saturday night I decided to go where all the lonely nerds go on a Saturday night...Barnes & Noble. There was nothing doing there, even though I tried to get some conversation going. So, I thought about going to get an ice cream cone, then heading home. Then I thought to myself - and may have even said to myself - "Dammit! I'm going to meet someone tonight...someone that I can talk to!". So. I headed across the street from the Barnes & Noble parking lot, which, incidentally, is where the first photo in this post was taken, to the Double T Diner.
I ordered a coffee and some dessert. I struck up a conversation with my waitress, Erica, and some of the staff there, and I have managed to find a handful of really great, decent friends by having done so. Needless to say, the diner sign is always a welcome sight for me, and proof that to have friends one first must be a friend.
Hopefully, tomorrow will present more good photo opportunities. Thanks for reading, and take care!
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So, I got out of my truck after the orange spinny light rent-a-cop pulled away from where I was on the parking lot (they don't like photographers much) and scouted for a few different angles. Obviously, the one above was my favorite. Well, about that time the melted snow started to soak through the thin soles of my worn out boots and I was getting cold.
I don't like to be very cold for very long. So, I headed to:
see my "diner divas". Last Summer, I gave myself an assignment. I had been stagnating, socially. So, one Saturday night I decided to go where all the lonely nerds go on a Saturday night...Barnes & Noble. There was nothing doing there, even though I tried to get some conversation going. So, I thought about going to get an ice cream cone, then heading home. Then I thought to myself - and may have even said to myself - "Dammit! I'm going to meet someone tonight...someone that I can talk to!". So. I headed across the street from the Barnes & Noble parking lot, which, incidentally, is where the first photo in this post was taken, to the Double T Diner.
I ordered a coffee and some dessert. I struck up a conversation with my waitress, Erica, and some of the staff there, and I have managed to find a handful of really great, decent friends by having done so. Needless to say, the diner sign is always a welcome sight for me, and proof that to have friends one first must be a friend.
Hopefully, tomorrow will present more good photo opportunities. Thanks for reading, and take care!
Cut!