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Happy Birthday, Em!

^I have, still need to listen. P.S. Excited to see Cory live in less than two weeks.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

Not anymore. I went on one about 5 years ago and the whole time I was wondering why I did it!

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your blowout party!

Wow, Igor, great photos! Thank you! Sexy! Scott looks intense!!

I love these pictures! It is so fun to me to see fans together, having a great time. I know exactly how happy those times are! Thanks again for sharing.

I was going to say money only, but I guess my MS150 bike rides would count as time?

Yep, pretty much that one for me, too! Love it.

^Wow, I loved that. Thanks, Nurk. Here's the trailer for the new Jack White video. This cracks me up, but it's actually really good and I can't wait for the video. ypE0ZsijAII

TIL there will be a new Jack White music video on 7/16 for Freedom At 21. How do I know? I saw a trailer for it. That's right, a trailer for a music video, lol. It looks very cool. Maybe I'll put it in video of the day.

No, but it might be fun.

Blind Pilot, Cory Chisel, Aerosmith and My Morning Jacket/Band of Horses at Red Rocks. That's in the next 3 weeks.

I'll be there. I'm excited!

Yep!

'House of Earth' to be published next year By ROLLING STONE Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/johnny-depp-co-editing-lost-woody-guthrie-novel-20120710#ixzz20HLMl1Xj Johnny Depp is co-editing the lost Woody Guthrie novel House of Earth alongside author Douglas Brinkley, with the book set for publication sometime next year, the New York Times reports. As noted in an essay penned by the pair that appeared in the Times, House of Earth was inspired by Guthrie's own experiences living through the Dust Bowl, as well as his reading of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Guthrie's own writing of "This Land Is Your Land." Perhaps the key source of inspiration, however, came when Guthrie saw the sturdy adobe haciendas while he busked in New Mexico – he was amazed by the weatherproof structures that could withstand the worst the Dust Bowl threw at them. The novel tells the story of two West Texas farmers, Tike and Ella May Hamlin, who despite an intense connection with the land they live on can't keep their house safe from damage in the dust storms, until Tike decides to build a new home out of adobe. But since Tike and Ella's home is on land owned by a big bank in cahoots with a lumber company, the project is forbidden. As Depp and Brinkely write: "In Guthrie’s fierce proletarian worldview, the rural poor are thereby shafted by the iron boot heel of capitalist greed merchants, and he finger-points everyone from bankers to lumbermen to termite-like real estate brokers, enemies of the little guy. At a key juncture, Tike rails against the sheep mentality of honest folks in Texas and Oklahoma who let the capitalist vultures steal from them." Encouraged by Library of Congress folklorist Alan Lomax (who wrote of the book, "It was quite simply the best material I'd ever seen written about that section of the country"), Guthrie finished House of Earth in 1947, put it away, and focused on songwriting. It's possible, as Depp and Brinkely note, that he was aware the book might not get published due to its content (both passé and ahead of its time) as well as Guthrie's "fertility cycle prose" and "use of an overdrawn hillbilly dialogue." When Depp and Brinkley shared the whole novel with Bob Dylan, the musician said he was "surprised by the genius" of the prose. This seems like an apt time for publication. The duo writes that the book is "a meditation about how poor people search for love and meaning in a corrupt world, one in which the rich have lost their moral compasses. Even though the backdrop is the washed-out agricultural fields of Texas, the novel could just as easily be set in a refugee camp in Sudan or a shantytown in Haiti. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/johnny-depp-co-editing-lost-woody-guthrie-novel-20120710#ixzz20HC4vOp8

^Since never I think Mike looks great in a beard. I was not fond of Tom's look during that period. He looks 10 years younger today, not six years older.

fresh spinach and fresh tomatoes

Wow, who knows! Probably the Ric on the cover of DTT. But I don't know! The White Falcon is really beautiful.

Ooh, very nice! I'll have to grab that.

^I thought of you on my hikes. I'm sure you'd love it there. Thanks for all the replies everyone. I'm still dreaming of my days there, wishing I were back.

Summer for sure. I can't stand anything under 50...I absolutely cannot stand -14!

The Beatles' Abbey Road continues to sell consistently. While digital single sales surge and album sales are on a decline, the vinyl record – though archaic seeming – still enjoys a good amount of music sales. Music sales tracker Nielsen SoundScan announced on Friday that the man of many bands and side acts, Jack White, is currently the top selling vinyl record midway through 2012 with his solo effort Blunderbuss. Jack White's Blunderbuss has sold 18,000 vinyl records since its April release, according to Music News. The album initially debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's all-genre encompassing albums chart earlier in the year. Trailing White by a small margin of 400 copies is alternative rock band The Black Keys with 17,600 in sales of their 2011 album El Camino. Adele's commercial success, 21, also enjoys continued vinyl sales, moving 10,300 in 2012. The midyear vinyl albums chart features many contemporary alternative rock and indie acts like Bon Iver and Beach House, but The Beatles' 1969 album, Abbey Road, continues to consistently sell well in the vinyl department. The Beatles' record is currently at No. 3 in midyear vinyl sales with 15,700 units sold. Abbey Road has been the biggest selling vinyl of 2010 and 2011, so White's Blunderbuss shouldn't get too comfortable in the midyear sales top spot. Overall album sales from digital and CD releases are declining once again in 2012. Adele's massive-selling 21 record no doubt aided album sales last year when they rose for the first time in a long while by 1.4 percent. With album sales declining, vinyl records have been on a steady rise. Since 2007, vinyl sales have increased by a whopping 294 percent over the years, according to The Bottom Line. Record shop enthusiasts and events like Record Store Day in April have been keeping a renewed interest in the long standing vinyl record, which speaks for the music medium's climbing sales. Here are the Top 10 Vinyl Albums of 2012 so far: 1. Jack White Blunderbuss (18,000) 2. Black Keys El Camino (17,600) 3. The Beatles Abbey Road (15,700) 4. Beach House Bloom (14,100) 5. Adele 21 (10,300) 6. Shins Port Of Morrow (9,600) 7. Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (9,600) 8. Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (9,400) 9. Bon Iver For Emma Forever Ago 10. Bon Iver Bon Iver (8,900)

You absolutely MUST see her live, Patty! But don't expect to get close to the stage...all the men line up on the rail early, lol. Do you have the new album? I still need to get it, it's very good! One of my favorite artists has a new album out. Of course I'd say it's very good and recommend it. Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons.

I also love SOhO, but can't go. I'll where my SOhO tee and carry my DK keychain that day.