Wow! It's been awhile since I posted last. Just lost two games of Pokemon to my daughter, though through a special subterfuge all her own, she actually set me up to lose the first one. I made her feel bad about that, so hopefully we'll have none of that in the future.
Last Friday night I was standing in front of the CD storage unit we've had so much trouble keeping up and it fell forward again. Since I was right there I was able to catch it before anything fell out, but then I wasn't able to reach anything to prop it up with. This was about 2 in the morning, so I started SCREAMING for my wife - it took her about 15 minutes to come around. Then she held it up while I packed boxes in front of it until it stood on its own.
The following day Keith came by and we emptied the sonovabitch out. Then Keith used a nail to find the studs, and discovered that even though we had turned the wall behind the unit into swiss cheese trying to countersink to hold the unit up, we had managed to miss every stud with each hole drilled. We had used an electronic "stud-finder" that came attached to my drill - and it turned out to be a useless piece o' crap. Worse yet, we had lost the power supplies to both the drill AND the electronic screwdriver I own, so Keith had to spin the electronic screwdriver around manually to get the screws into the wall. Incidentally, all of my "acoustic" tools, most given to me as birthday gift by my Dad, were stolen by one of our neighbors at the last apartment complex where we lived.
But now, thanks to Keith, the unit is finally standing tall and proud. My wife filled it up to the brim with CDs, but it's not budgin'. While I'm not going to knock Mrs. Lewis' efforts, it is kind of inconvenient as she left me no room to refile the CDs in some kind of an order. Oh well - at least it gets them off the floor and out of the hallway.
The day she finished this task, I was seated on the floor watching something on TV, and Allisyn had turned away from her seemingly unending game of Internet Scrabble to watch me watching TV. And BANG!! Crashing down came a column of CDs - though not from the storage unit. Rather she had stacked a tall row of them alongside the unit, but only about a third of the way up she had put in one of those slim, cardboard CDs that don't lie exactly flat. Everything above that fell, and part of it landed in a neat row onto the surface of the computer desk, inches away from Allisyn's head. Had she been playing her game at that moment, she would've been knocked cold. Who says miracles don't happen?
Say! I've got a playlist - and guess what? It's current! It's for the Cinco de Mayo show I did on Monday, and it will appear below my signature. I also finally finished the one from three weeks ago, but that probably wont go up here until tomorrow. I still have yet to compile the two shows I did last week. This weekend I am to Cincinnati to prepare notes for my ARSC talk, provided that I get to do one this year.
Uncle Dave Lewis
uncledavelewis@hotmail.com
06:00:00 Fletcher Henderson The House of David Blues (used as thesme An Anthology of Big Band Swing Decca Jazz
06:03:00 Frederick Fennell & Eastman Wind Ensemble Father of Victory (Gustave Louis Ganne) Hands Across the Sea Mercury Living Presence
06:08:00 Thomas McIntosh & The City of London Chamber Orchestra Concerto No. 2 for organ & orchestra (Thomas Arne) A Gala Evening in London Vox Cameo Classics
06:21:00 Micheal Ponti Widerspruch Op. 95/3 (Ignaz Moscheles) Moscheles Vox Candide
06:23:00 Miklos Rosza & Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Danube Waves (Jan Ivanovici) Starlight Fantasie EMI Angel Studio
06:33:00 Barbara Schlick et al, Hermann Max, Rheinesche Kantorei & Di Lasset uns ablegen die Werke der Finsternis (W. F. Bach) W. F. Bach: Kantaten Vol. 1 Capriccio
07:04:00 James Sedares & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra The Vintner's Daughter op. 23a (Miklos Rosza) Miklos Rosza: Symphony. The vintner's Daughter Koch International Classics
07:23:00 Martin A. Bruns, baritone & Kolja Lessing, piano Lebensweg, Op. 7/1 (Philipp Jarnach) Philipp Jarnach 1892-1982 Divox
07:25:00 Tim Weiss & The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble In the White Silence: except (John Luther Adams) In the White Silence New World
07:43:00 Carlos Chavez & Ensemble Sones Mariachi (Blas Galindo) A Program of Mexican Music CBS Masterworks
07:55:00 Marimba Centro Americana de Guatamala Besame One-Step Victor 18292 (78 rpm) Victor
07:58:00 Hurtado Brothers Royal Marimba Band Angelina Tango Columbia 36356 (78 rpm) Columbia
08:05:00 Orquestra Max Dolin Cielito Lindo Victor 73193 (78 rpm) Victor
08:07:00 Orquestra Max Dolin El telefono a larga distancia Victor 73193 (78 rpm) Victor
08:11:00 Orquestra Internacional Kamar Fox-Trot Victor 73535 (78 rpm) Victor
08:13:00 Conjunto Peerless Jarabe Tapatio ("Mexican Hat Dance") Peerless 1918 (78 rpm) Peerless
08:19:00 Mariachi Tapatio Mananita Tapatio Victor 75271 Victor
08:22:00 Mariachi Tapatio La Negra Victor 75271 (78 rpm) Victor
08:25:00 Estudianta Tipica Ayacucho Acachau (Huaina) Victor 30047 (78 rpm) Victor
08:28:00 Silvia Degrass y Coniunto Panameno Chorrerano Victor 82928 Victor
08:31:00 Lorenzo Pego y su Orquestra Para Vigo Me Voy (Ernesto Lecuona) Victor 32836 (78 rpm) Victor
08:34:00 Jorge Negrete con el Mariachi Vargas El Soy Mexicano (from film "El Penon de las a ninas") Victor 70-6960 (78 rpm) Victor
08:45:00 Desi Arnaz Peanut Vendor Victor 20-2281 (78 rpm) RCA Victor
08:48:00 Skinnay Ennis Mexico Joe 16" transcription unknown
08:51:00 Alvino Rey Picnic in Purgatory 16" transcription Standard P-185
08:54:00 Esquivel Honky Tonky Cha-Cha See It In Sounds House of Hits Productions
08:57:00 Baja Marimba Band Goin' Out the Side Door 45 rpm single Almo Productions