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^^ Have the best time Beth! Nothing like getting away...especially to London...and if you do get lost, like Linda said, it will just be another adventure ... how fun....
^ Beamish, hope your work situation is looking up!
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I was always an Earl girl
but out of the Heartbreakers, I would choose Mr. Campbell. -
I'm okay with it - I've never really thought about it.
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I think your question answered itself
I don't get it at all and I've had no interest in figuring it out. It's part of what turns me off about Facebook - I don't want to hear what someone else is doing every 5 seconds! There are people in my life that I used to think "I wonder what happened to them?" and now they are on Facebook and I know EXACTLY what's going on with them and think I was better off just wondering how they were doing before. lol...... -
1. One Web site you can't live without - I'm trying to think I could live without any of them because I get kind of bummed (cranky) when I spend too much time on them..but probably this one... ?
2. Two sites you don't like to admit you visit - hmm...I actually went and read the Bachelor (tv show) boards when the show was on - ugh...talk about wasting time! lol.
3. Three sites you wish more people knew about - I don't go on the computer that much, unless to listen to music, go on here or check myspace and facebook. So...I'm a little behind the times.......
4. Four great sites for wasting time - myspace, facebook, last.fm .... mudcrutch farm -
5. Five shopping sites you would love to win shopping sprees for - ooh, i am very similar to Magnolia -
Barnes & Noble, Ticketmaster, Sephora, REI (or Roadrunner!) Amoeba or some music site 6. Six links to your favorite charities -
www.ccakids.org (Children's Craniofacial Association), www.childrenshospitalla.org,
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Probably not. I tried being vegetarian (not vegan) some years ago and lasted about a year but I didn't stick with it.
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^ me too!
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How touching.....thanks for posting this Marcia! Every time I hear or think about him right now, I picture the last time I saw him and his sweet smile - he was so loved by everyone.
Oddly, to tie this together with this forum....a friend of mine was telling me a story the other day about how one time he was arguing with someone about Tom Leadon vs. Mike Campbell on the Mudcrutch album and Duane was sitting there too and jumped in to defend Mike... (as if he needs defending - lol).... but I thought it was kind of cute to picture these pro musicians all hanging around arguing over Tom and Mike like a bunch of little boys talking about "who's better".... and of all things, the boys in Mudcrutch.
We had a nice laugh about it in remembering him. -
Oh I am with Magnolia! I vote the Belly Up - it is a great venue (!) .... and it's where my husband and I met....
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^ that is so great Patty....
I love how my son completely ignores me when I am talking to him while he's on the computer
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^^ good luck Magnolia with the 1/2 - you'll be doing a full one before you know it!
^ you need a break ref!
I am hanging with my nephew and my kids in Westlake and then taking my youngest son to a birthday party in the morning - and then hopefully catching a movie with my husband in the early evening tomorrow. That's the plan, anyway.
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I just have a nano - but I like being able to listen to all of my favorite songs in one place, whenever I want.
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1. Ladies and Gentlemen, do you wear perfume or cologne? Not very often - I have stuff hanging around but I always forget to use it. Yesterday I did wear Pure Grace by Philosophy. I have no idea why but it reminds me of the beach....
2. What brand or kind of soap do you use most? I always try different ones - whatever smells good.
3. Do you use anything to scent your home (air freshner,candles, potpourri, scented oils, etc.)? No - I used to like the smell of Nag Champa incense when I was younger and would use that, but that seems like ages ago.
4. What's your favorite scent on a member of the gender to which you're attracted? just (clean) natural guy scent works for me...
5. Have you ever tried aromatherapy? If so, describe your experience; if not, do you think it might work? Never tried it, although I do like what Conmae said about how different smells can bring back memories. That happens to me every time I go to my mom's house and walk to or from her front door - the smell from the flowers (I don't know what kind they are!) near her front porch bring back all kinds of memories of growing up.
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Tired of You - Foo Fighters
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I was just cleaning out my closet and looked in the box with my TPATH stuff in it and I had to post this. I have cut outs from the paper for ads from different tours....
Hard Promises tour (at the Forum) - ticket prices $12.50/10.50/9.50
Long After Dark tour (at Universal Amphitheatre) - ticket prices $15.00/13.50
LOL - sigh....those were the days. It would cost $15.00 just to park now!
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There needs to be a "most of the above" button
If I had to choose, I'd say work and family health issues. -
After watching my stepfather die from lung cancer and my mom literally just going through her second surgery last week due to lung cancer, I have no problem with them hiking the taxes, whether it is fair or not. I really do understand that quitting smoking is so difficult and my hats off to all who are able to do so....(Sharon and Linda)....
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^ what a great picture that is!
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I wish I would snap out of this big fat funk I am in.
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yes, I definitely think we do.
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well I am going to go with L.A. out of my own personal affection -
but I do love the music scene going on in Austin and.... Nashville is just another little world in and of itself - NY is always great too. I think I just love NY period. -
This is a really lovely tribute written about him....
By PETER COOPER • Staff Writer • April 1, 2009
- Duane Jarvis, the amiable singer-songwriter who commanded stages with what Rosie Flores called a “Keith Richards flair and a honky-tonk heart,” died this morning in his Los Angeles apartment. He was 51 and battled colon cancer for 16 months.
Mr. Jarvis, who recorded five critically acclaimed solo albums, lived in Nashville from 1994 until recently. Known to his friends as “D.J.,” he played guitar on recordings by Flores, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, Frank Black, Amy Rigby, Giant Sand, Peter Case and many others. He toured with artists including Prine, Black and The Divinyls, and his songs were featured in motion pictures The Horse Whisperer and The Rookie.
He was an admirable conundrum: a rock ’n’ roller known for kindness and gentility, and a shy and soft-spoken man known for his electrifying stage presence.
“D.J. was such an unassuming fellow. He was quiet and sincere,” said Prine. “But he also had this Rolling Stones thing going on when he was onstage, whether he was playing country or rock.
(Wife) Fiona and I would go see him whenever I was in town and whenever he was playing. I loved his songs.”
Mr. Jarvis grew up on the west coast, in Oregon, Washington and California. His father — who often played country records around the house — was in the U.S. Coast Guard, and his mother was a nurse. Mr. Jarvis was fascinated by music from an early age. As a pre-teen, he lived briefly in Florida, where he saw blues legend BB King in concert. At show’s end, he moved to the edge of the stage, where King saw him and handed him a guitar pick that he kept throughout his life.
As a teenager, Mr. Jarvis joined a blues band and then became a member of power pop group The Odds.
“I was very quiet, and music was my big outlet which helped me communicate with people,” he told interviewer Shuichi Iwami. “I think I would have been kind of lost without it.”
In concert, Mr. Jarvis would sometimes proclaim “This is what we live for,” before striking a guitar chord and singing one of his self-penned stories.
Mr. Jarvis moved from Oregon to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, and he became part of an L.A. country scene that included Flores, Yoakam, Williams, Buddy Miller, The Blasters and Jim Lauderdale. Mr. Jarvis wrote songs and worked in Long Tall Marvin, a band fronted by Lone Justice founder Marvin Etzioni, and his session work included playing guitar on Williams’ Sweet Old World album.
He also played club gigs and made demo recordings, and the recordings caught the ear of former Replacements manager Peter Jesperson, who ran Medium Cool Records in Minnesota. Medium Cool released D.J.’s Front Porch in 1994, the same year that Mr. Jarvis moved to Nashville.
“The careening ‘Good On Paper’ and the wistful ‘Back of Beyond’ sound like lost gems that were left off (the Rolling Stones’) Let It Bleed,” wrote Bob Cannon of Entertainment Weekly in a review of D.J.’s Front Porch. “Jarvis seems to spit out these evocative country-soul tunes effortlessly, indicating that Front Porch is built to last.”
For Mr. Jarvis, Nashville offered an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded, left-of-center talents such as Tim Carroll, Amy Rigby, Steve Allen, Joy Lynn White and Dave Coleman. Music City was also a place for him to settle into healthier routines.
“Los Angeles was a fast track, and I was the one driving the car,” he told The Tennessean in 2000. “I’m the eternal optimist. I feel there’s a place for my songs in Nashville.”
One of those songs, a co-write with Williams called “Still I Long For Your Kiss,” wound up in a movie soundtrack and was recorded by Williams on her breakthrough Car Wheels On A Gravel Road album.
He also placed songs on albums by Carroll, White, Greg Trooper, Pinmonkey, Peter Case and others. Mr. Jarvis’ music was a mash of rock, country, R&B and blues, distilled into what is now often called “Americana.” As a staff songwriter for Lieber and Stoller, he scored no major radio hits, but his songs and guitar work were key elements in a street-level movement that offered a creatively compelling alternative to the more sanitized sounds coming from Music Row.
That movement was synthesized on a Bloodshot Records compilation called Nashville: The Other Side of the Alley, an album that featured Mr. Jarvis’ “Cocktail Napkin” alongside cuts from artists including Carroll, Paul Burch, Phil Lee and Jason & The Scorchers.
“D.J. was amazing in his guitar playing and in his whole spirit,” said Buddy Miller, who once hired Mr. Jarvis to engineer a recording even though Mr. Jarvis had no engineering experience.
“He didn’t know what buttons to press, but he learned fast and we could show him all that. The important thing when you’re recording is to have people there who bring comfort and a good feeling to the room. He was just the best guy to be around.”
In Nashville, Mr. Jarvis recorded solo albums Far From Perfect (1998), Combo Platter (1999), Certified Miracle (2001) and Delicious (2003). Each album found Mr. Jarvis combining hard-won knowledge with his signature soulful wit.
“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song/ Had no idea I’d be singing for so long,” he wrote on “Spread My Soul Too Thin,” from 2003’s Delicious. On Certified Miracle’s “Broke Not Busted” Mr. Jarvis sang, “I might not be what you bargained for/ I’m a discount bin, not a money drawer.”
In 2007, Mr. Jarvis — who by then had moved back to Los Angeles — was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. That same year, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He endured multiple surgeries and round of chemotherapy, and in March of 2009 he entered hospice care.
Music remained a constant through his final days. Friend Billy Block said Mr. Jarvis offered a bed-ridden but note-perfect version of the Ben E King hit “Stand By Me” last Thursday, and Rosie Flores said he entertained her last week by picking out a song on a banjo.
As news of Mr. Jarvis’ death spread today, friends emailed memories to Web site guest books. They wrote of songs shared on stages and in backyards, beers shared at the old Sherlock Holmes Pub, and of the kindnesses that Mr. Jarvis bestowed upon friends. They remarked on the music that lives on, and of the peculiar grace that passed with the musician.
Peter Cooper writes about music for The Tennessean
- Duane Jarvis, the amiable singer-songwriter who commanded stages with what Rosie Flores called a “Keith Richards flair and a honky-tonk heart,” died this morning in his Los Angeles apartment. He was 51 and battled colon cancer for 16 months.
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For those that said prayers for Duane, I wanted to let you know I received the following email. I also want to say that I posted all of this because Duane was the type of guy that was not only super talented, but also humble, gracious, kind and funny - a magical combination in a musician and I know you're all music lovers.. so.. thanks for thinking about him........
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Duane Jarvis left us at 1:30 AM this morning. He is now in a better place, making music with other angels and getting the place ready for us to join him when our time comes. We were blessed to have him with us in this world.
"Nobody gonna take the place of you, laugh your laugh, cry your cry, dance your dance, breathe your sigh. Nobody gonna take the place of you, this happens to be true.
"-- Duane Jarvis
"Live for today, pray for tomorrow" -- Duane Jarvis
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^ ah Brandon, I hear you! but... I have an indefinite "consulting" job and even though it's "indefinite", it doesn't feel right - doesn't feel like knowing you have stability..and the crazy thing is that it's at a company I have been at for years now. It's all so stupid. And there are these really young kids acting like they know everything. It's a little maddening. I really wish I could go back to school or rewind time and start over.
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We need to redo our front walkway and different sections within our backyard with plants and flowers - so I am hoping we get on it sooner than later. We also have two Christmas trees (Monterey Pines) that I am trying desperately to revive - they started heading downhill during the heat of the summer last year and I am so bummed about it.