Friends and family gathered at the Skye Dance ranch to remember David Mandot recently. Bek led the sharing of stories which you can hear in the audio below.
Author: j
I'm j and I play: musician, web guy, family man.
The Rainbow Show
When a rainbow appeared
touching down across the brushy hills
at the foot of the mountain facing
we stopped cleaning up after dinner
pulled our chairs together on the porch
and sat for the rainbow show
as the misty air blew through
and the low light lit the yellow hills
with long shadows like warm morning light.
The rainbow faded as the magpies gathered
just over the hill, no longer bright
as everything began to slip into its dusky attire
shadows vanished and where the rainbow was
no rainbow, the prismatic air invisible again
and through it all a nearby cricket played its violin legs
steadily with only brief pauses till the concert ended
leaving only a chatter of chirping
and the creaking of the kettle beginning to boil.
The magic hour over
dogs barked across the hills
and silence rose where the wind was.
Taos, NM
July 18, 2017
Kirby Jenner, Photobomb Master
Kirby Jenner makes me laugh really hard. The longer I look the harder I laugh. That’s enough. That mustache, that face, that body… so well played and seamlessly Photoshopped in.
There’s also a great gorilla satire to the hilariously eager and congenitally uncool character he inserts into the life of Kendall Jenner, professional princess reality star. Kirby is Kendall’s fictional twin we never knew she needed until now.
Kirby makes fun of Kardashian culture by impersonating it, inserting his parody persona in the form of a devoted fraternal-twin brother, tagging along on her photo shoots and photobombing her grandiose selfies with his goofy enthusiasm.
Kirby turns Kendall’s epic self-absorption…
… into a grand farce:
He’s usually too enthusiastically enjoying the situation, making an awkward goofy face, sometimes moping or somehow getting it wrong, and often eating a Subway sandwich. He makes Kendall the boring background she is.
He’s frequently in his underwear, like Kendall, exposing all sorts of gendered double-standards with how differently it reads. He’s trying to be like Kendall but it never works, always to comic effect. He just wants her to acknowledge he’s there!
And that’s just the photos. His captions and hashtags add another level of endearingly dumb bragging:
Thank you, Kirby, for making me laugh so much.
Dylan Singalong at Little Stacy Park
We gathered in the pavilion at Little Stacy Park on the first Sunday of June – 6/4/2017 – and had a great time singing Dylan songs. Here are a setlist, video and a few photos, below. The video features our versions of All Along The Watchtower, Subterranean Homesick Blues, and Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Blowin In The Wind
- The Time They Are A’Changin
- Mr. Tamborine Man
- Tangled Up In Blue
- All Along The Watchtower
- I Shall Be Released
- Forever Young
- Every Grain of Sand
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Knockin On Heaven’s Door
All I Wanna Do (Canyon Lake Version)
I had a weekend to myself in Canyon Lake with Joe’s Princeton Reverb and I took the opportunity to record this beautiful Brian Wilson classic.
[zoomsounds_player source=”3964″ type=”detect” config=”skinwavewithcomments” thumb=”https://jmolin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/princeton-reverb.jpg” cover=”https://jmolin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/princeton-reverb.jpg” autoplay=”off” loop=”off” songname=”All I Wanna Do” artistname=”Jason Molin covering Brian Wilson” open_in_ultibox=”off” play_target=”default”]
