Here is a song off there first LP. BTO released their first album in May 1973. The band is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. I have always been a night owl. This was my anthem for many years and it may have been the first vinyl record I literally wore-out.
See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalistsand journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maioremDei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”- See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
"Hairstory" at Maryland Art Place April 21 -
August 18, 1991. A collaborative, temporal, room/environmental, mixed media
construction on the walls of the "14 Carat Cabaret" in the basement
of MAP. As the execution of this environmental piece was in progress, music by
Sozra was played... — with Dan Shapiro, Patti Anne Battaglia, Cathy Leaycraft,
Linda Van Hart and Kevin Earl Dayhoff.
I believe these were the years in which I had a ponytail
down past the middle of my back – but you cannot see that in this picture. I
guess that is a good thing LOL.
At this point in time the show was 24-years ago at Maryland
Art Place – and sadly Patti Anne Battaglia is now gone. I miss Patti.
According to Linda Van Hart “A cover from one of John's CDs
came from this installation at John Water's HAIR BALL at the old location of
Maryland Art Place downtown Baltimore. We were doing pop up installations as
The United Art Workers in abandoned buildings or buildings under construction.
He heard about us from Patti who was in Serial Mom and invited us to install
for his EVENT!!!”
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art,
artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists
and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem
Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson:
“That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!”
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“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed… just do
it in private and wash your hands afterwards,” attributed to Robert Heinlein.
The use of semi-colons is optional.
Warning, writers may find the attached image somewhat
disturbing. That said, non-writers will
not understand the attached. It is from
a blog called “Severe Writer’s Block.”
Although I do not want to jinx myself, I can’t identify with
writer’s block. I can relate to falling
asleep at the keyboard and/or being too tired to write; but writer’s
block. Nah.
20021100 Occupation writer: Will code HTML for food.
November 2002
Occupation writer. Ultimately I am a slave to the masters of the page, the soldiers in my life - words.
“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed… just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards,” attributed to Robert Heinlein.
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.” Tennessee Williams
I am a mild mannered vacuous unemployable college drop out - a political novice, hilltop hillbilly farmer artist with no leadership skills and decades of unaccounted for time; fighting off the forces of poverty, the intellectually stunted, and the artistically disinclined.
One of my all-time favorite movies... I ran across this review, by happenstance. I have not seen the movies in ages; however as a result of reading the review, I will look forward to watching it again soon...
My Dinner With Andre BY ROGER EBERT / January 1, 1981
The idea is astonishing in its audacity: a film of two
friends talking, just simply talking—but with passion, wit, scandal, whimsy,
vision, hope, and despair—for 110 minutes. It sounds at first like one of those
underground films of the 1960s, in which great length and minimal content
somehow interacted in the dope-addled brains of the audience to provide the
impression of deep if somehow elusive profundity. "My
Dinner with Andre" is not like that. It doesn't use all of those words
as a stunt.
[...]
The two people are André Gregory and Wallace
Shawn. Those are their real names, and also their names in the movie. I
suppose they are playing themselves. As the film opens, Shawn travels across
New York City to meet Gregory for dinner, and his thoughts provide us with
background: His friend Gregory is a New York theater director, well-known into
the 1970s, who dropped out for five years and traveled around the world. Now
Gregory has returned, with wondrous tales of strange experiences. Shawn has
spent the same years in New York, finding uncertain success as an author and
playwright. They sit down for dinner in an elegant restaurant. We do not see
the other customers. The bartender is a wraith in the background, the waiter is
the sort of presence they were waiting for in "Waiting for Godot."
The friends order dinner, and then, as it is served and they eat and drink,
they talk.
Mary Katherine Ham to Alicia Silverstone: Go Hunting
October 3rd, 2007
Although I have spent a large portion of my life as a vegetarian; as I grew older and life got particularly hectic, I gave it up – for now anyway.Who knows, tomorrow, I may go back.Whatever.
A number of years ago, as I was attempting to reason with an unreasonable person and losing miserably, a colleague said to me:
“You know what your problem is?”
“Ugh.”I really did not need advice at that particular moment; however, I prized his friendship and sheepishly asked: “What?”
“It's a dog eat dog world out there, and you're a vegetarian!"
We solved that by going out to a sub shop where I gave up the anorexic bliss of salads and voraciously scarfed down a cheese-steak sandwich.
It was a road to Damascus experience
I still lose miserably with folks who accept narcissistic fiction as fact, however, I am bigger now and I figure that if I am to be eaten alive, I might as well give folks a flavorful super-sized meal.
Then again, to be candid, I was never good at being a vegetarian.I never stopped eating animal crackers and every once and awhile at Moms, I’d dive into a steak – and I can rarely remember missing turkey at Thanksgiving.
I have a number of colleagues and some family members who are, at the moment, practicing vegetarians - and I respect that choice. Besides, I really like vegetables.Then there are folks who don’t like vegetables or are otherwise broccoli intolerant.To them I say, ya really ought to “give peas a chance.”
A member of my family, who is an avid vegetarian, recently gave some seafood a try.
Bold.
Writing for the Washington Post, Joel Achenbach says:
“Certain kinds of seafood, such as lobster, clams and crabs, are honorary forms of meat, but a small filet of a low-fat white fish should be viewed as essentially a vegetable. Raw oysters are manfood, as is any fish served with the head on and the mouth gaping in horror.
Me, I could live off of Dr. Pepper, coffee and grits.Hey, don’t knock the cooking with Dr. Pepper book.There are some great recipes in there.
I never tried the “vegan” approach.I often wondered how the term came about.When I was quite young I had a great deal of confusion over the term “vegetarian.”If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
Mr. Achenbach calls to our attention a savior for vegans, who every once in awhile, go Jonesing for a milkshake – “soy cows.”
In the column he was initially singing the praises of his new “Fabulator 5000.”
What is a “Fabulator 5000?”I am so glad you asked.I was fascinated about this development since I am still using the Fabulator model No. 1953.
I’ll let Mr. Achenbach ‘splain:
“I love my new food printer, the Fabulator 5000, which makes the previous food printers look not just clunky but positively medieval. There's no more click-and-point nonsense on the screen, no more waiting five or six interminable minutes for the food to print. You just tell the Fab 5 what you want. The food comes out in about three or four seconds, complete with garnish and a complementary wine.”
Oh, the “soy cows?”Apparently Mr. Achenbach recently “took the kids … to Homewood Farm to see a good old-fashioned agricultural enterprise…”
“I got a look at the new soy cows, grazing in the large field just north of the orchard. The USDA apparently felt that soy milk could be produced much more efficiently if it came from cows made of soy. These cows are so green they nearly blend into the landscape. They say the soy milk is a lot better tasting (not as beany, somehow) than the stuff derived from plants, and the soy burgers are more tender. But you've probably read about how the soy cows dry up badly in drought conditions -- they literally wilt -- and even catch fire. Bored teenagers have been blamed for setting some of the cow fires.”
There is much to be appreciated by the vegetarian lifestyle; nevertheless my goal was to not be evangelical about it all.
But – and ya know there was going to be a “but” in here soon – I’ve never been fond of PETA’s Strindbergian gloom and bleakness approach to advocacy.
When I was a practicing vegetarian, invariably, some folks would suggest some linkage to me, a vegetarian, with PETA’s in-your-face humorless lactose intolerant militancy. An approach which often seems more oriented to being obnoxious and annoying instead of being compelling and persuasive to what is otherwise, a perfectly fine lifestyle, vegetarianism, for which PETA routinely does an injustice....
At a local government - social event, a local elected official’s wife was horrified that I was a vegetarian.“How can a big strapping former Marine be a vegetarian,” she gasped.
I solved that in quick order.She was a dog lover and the owner of a huge dog.I mean huge – about the size of a water buffalo.
I asked her if she had ever eaten dog.When I was in the Marines, a South Vietnamese ranger once cooked-up a mess of dog.
It tasted like chicken.
I suggested to my scowling friend that her St. Bernard could feed an entire village…And one wonders why I lost my last election?
Recently Alicia Silverstone did an ad for PETA that has garnered a great deal of attention.I can’t believe that it is winning over any converts to vegetarianism, but it has attracted attention to PETA.
Whether it is really the sort of attention that an advocacy organization wants is a bigger issue for which there is not right or wrong, it just isn’t my cup of tea.
Nevertheless, in age of so much strife and discord, I yearn for a time when peas will rule the planets, and love won’t be such a fuss. I long for the dawn of the age of asparagus.
Enter stage right, Mary Katherine Ham.Ms. Ham has done a spoof on the Ms. Silverstone ad that is a real crack-up.
9 1/2 weeks - Kim Basinger - Mickey Rourke - Ayo - "Without You"
Retrieved August 3, 2009
The scene in the controversial February 1986 film version of Elizabeth McNeill’s short story, “9 ½ weeks,” where John Grey, played by Mickey Rourke, feeds a blindfolded Elizabeth McGraw, played by Kim Basinger, various fruits, honey and beverages from the refrigerator.
The Westminster Eagle column for Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff (649 words)
She was once a proud ship, a ruler of the waves and a queen of the sea. The “Patapsco Militia Ship Westminster” was her name.
The days of glory for the PMS Westminster are now gone as she sits askew on the ground with a list and sigh on the shores of the Patapsco River in back of the Westminster utilities work shop on Manchester Road.
The once proud ship is hardly noticed by passersby in their hustle and bustle traveling to and from Westminster. It's an inglorious plight for the once proud master of the seas.
No one knows, for example, that the PMS Westminster was the ship used by George Washington in his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
This event has become confused with the passage of time. Initially George Washington crossed the Patapsco River on his way to the Battle of Brandywine.
The event stirred such emotion and passion that the news media wanted it recreated for the 5 o'clock news. By then General Washington had travelled far from the Patapsco River so they used the Delaware River for the reenactment.
It's only fitting that the Patapsco River near Westminster should have such a rich and colorful nautical history.
This area of Carroll County was founded by the Carthaginians shortly after the 3rd Punic War which raged in the Mediterranean Sea from 149 to 146 BC.
After Carthage was destroyed by the Romans, a small band of seafaring Carthaginians set sail for a new home and settled in the valley by the natural port offered by the Patapsco River in what we now know as the Lucabaugh Mill Road and Manchester Road area near the new Westminster Cranberry water treatment plant.
The Carthaginians named the Patapsco River after Patroclus, the gentle and amiable friend of Achilles in Homer's “Iliad.” A rival group of natives at the time confused Patroclus to be "Petapsqui" – the Native American word for backwater or tide water covered with foam which was actually the froth formed by the discharge pipes of the large stills operated at the time by the Patapsipiss tribe of brewing Native Americans.
The well read Carthaginians were also aware that the site where Ulysses successfully sailed past the Sirens was actually on the Patapsco River.
The exact spot is the bridge over the railroad and the Patapsco River on Manchester Road just north of Westminster.
The Sirens, if you'll remember, were sort of a sea goddess who lured to destruction those who listened to their songs. When Ulysses sailed under the bridge towards Westminster to attend a public hearing, he stopped-up the ears of his companions with wax and had himself tied to the mast of his ship.
Ulysses thereupon passed safely, and the Sirens, disappointed at their loss, drowned themselves – which is exactly what many of us want to do after attending most public hearings in Westminster.
George Washington wrote in his “Maxims: Transcripts of Revolutionary Correspondence” that he felt that Westminster-on-the-Patapsco ought to have been the site of the nation's capital. The planners confused the name Patapsco with the name Potomac and well, the rest is history.
When President Abraham Lincoln began his trip to Gettysburg to deliver the Gettysburg Address; the plan was for him to travel up the Patapsco River on the PMS Westminster, disembark, and travel by land for the balance of the trip.
Upon reaching Westminster, Lincoln was thereupon informed that Carroll County's road system was a bad collage of stoplights, confusion, and overcrowded roads which go from nowhere to nowhere. So he took the train.
These are but a few of the legendary exploits of the PMS Westminster and the Westminster Navy. A proud heritage only a few Carroll Countians know. Now you know it too!
Well, maybe not. Happy April Fool’s Day.
That’s my two-cents. What’s yours?
I’ll look forward to your comments in the readers’ comment section below.
The reclusive and enigmatic childhood friend of Truman Capote, Harper Lee, celebrated a birthday yesterday. She was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama…
Song info: Lyrics and Music: Toni Stern and Carole King feat. Dina Carroll
Lyrics:
Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time There's something wrong here There can be no denying One of us is changing Or maybe we've just stopped trying
And it's too late baby, now it's too late Though we really did try to make it Something inside has died and I can't hide And I just can't fake it
It used to be so easy living here with you You were light and breezy And I knew just what to do Now you look so unhappy And I feel like a fool
And it's too late baby, now it's too late Though we really did try to make it Something inside has died and I can't hide it And I just can't fake it
There'll be good times again for me and you But we just can't stay together Don't you feel it too Still I'm glad for what we had And how I once loved you
But it's too late baby, now it's too late Though we really did try to make it Something inside has died and I can't hide And I just can't fake it
Don't you know that I... I just can't fake it Oh it's too late my baby Too late my baby You know It's too late my baby
Its four in the morning, the end of December Im writing you now just to see if youre better New york is cold, but I like where Im living Theres music on clinton street all through the evening.
I hear that youre building your little house deep in the desert Youre living for nothing now, I hope youre keeping some kind of record.
Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Did you ever go clear?
Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder Youd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without lili marlene
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life And when she came back she was nobodys wife.
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Well I see janes awake –
She sends her regards. And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you Im glad you stood in my way.
If you ever come by here, for jane or for me Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
And jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear
-- sincerely, l. cohen
SDOSM 20090321 20090321 SDOSM Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen 19710000 MariaAdouaneta 20071220 Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen
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The French Trailer for Lili Marleen by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Non-associative meanderings and musings from the sofa by Kevin Dayhoff
February 9, 2009
I had the music and art of “Cold Play” in my head all day. With that in mind, I was was roaming around YouTube this evening. While I was surfing, watching and listening, I came across “Coldplay_Trouble.” It can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwGHQ6WyQFU.
The clip immediately reminded me of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König,” (“Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King” – June 23, 1972) - - and other practitioners of the “New German Cinema,” such as Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff, and Werner Herzog.
I settled upon looking for clips by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982. He remains one of my all-time favorite directors, in a list that on any given day, can be cluttered, complicated, and crowded.
Of course, when one thinks of Mr. Fassbinder, the words cluttered, complicated and crowded, come immediately to mind...
This is perhaps a better way of saying that he led a life of constant strife and controversy in which he managed to offend anything, everything and everybody on any given day.
Even saying that one likes the work of the Mr. Fassbinder is controversial. Oh well, sometimes art is art… Whatever.
Wallace Watson wrote in 1992, in “The Bitter Tears of RWF,” that Mr. Fassbinder “did little to discourage the personalized nature of the attacks on himself and his work. He seemed to provoke them by his aggressively anti-bourgeois lifestyle, symbolized in his black leather jacket, battered hat, dark glasses and perennial scowl.”
The prolific filmmaker died at the all-too-young-age of 36; after maintaining an impossibly frenetic pace in which he created over forty films in 15 years.
Among my many favorite Fassbinder movies, certainly “Love is Colder than Death” (1969); “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972); “Berlin Alexanderplatz: (1980); “The Marriage of Maria Braun” (1978); “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” (1974) and “Lili Marleen” compete for my most favorite.
The YouTube video pasted below is the French trailer from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1981 classic “Lili Marleen.” (The movie is based upon the autobiography of Lale Andersen: “Der Himmel hat viele Farben.”
This movie showcases a stellar performance by Hanna Schygulla, which along with her performance in “The Marriage of Maria Braun,” is one of her best.
“Lili Marleen” also includes great performances by Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer,Udo Kier and Barbara Valentin.
I want to know you I want to show you I want to grow you Inside of me I want to see you I want to free you I want to be you Inside of me Love me 50,000 miles beneath my brain Love me 50,000 times and then again
Can you love me with a thousand eyes? Can you see right through my bones? Can you kiss me with a thousand lips? Can you melt a solid stone? Can you hear me from a thousand miles When you're screaming at the stars? Can you pull me up to Jupiter When I'm all hung up on Mars? Burn my eyes with your flame Let your world spin free Let it go, baby I'll do the same All depends on me Let it go It's all the same What with jewels that you can't see Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, babe Bring it on home to me...
SDOSM 20090126 19700417 Ten Years After 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken
October 23, 2008 I’m not sure when Orson Scott Card said this; however the following quote ought to be an everyday mantra for anyone in the public spotlight.
It is certainly a thought that many in the blogosphere ought to take to heart…
It reminds me of the great admonition that I often repeated to myself when I was an elected official – although critics will suggest that I, all too often did not follow my own advice enough: “Never miss an opportunity to sit down and shut up.”
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken." Attributed to Orson Scott Card
Letters Posted 9/24/08 http://explorecarroll.com/opinion/1084/letters/ Perhaps Kevin Dayhoff is still working in landscaping. Regardless, Westminster residents deserve better than the manure he shoveled in his column in The Westminster Eagle ("Be critical of spending, but MML has been worthwhile"), Sept 17.
Perpetuating the lie about the city paying for a dinner for elected officials, staff and family members is bad enough. The city hasn't paid for that dinner since Dayhoff lost his reelection bid for mayor in 2005. Before that, Dayhoff never seemed to mind ordering drinks and food on the city tab.
His reservations about the creation of new positions which include the new city administrator are puzzling as well. Before he was against it, ex-Mayor Dayhoff was a vocal advocate for hiring a city administrator.
Most importantly, Dayhoff seems to have forgotten that all the financial problems the city now struggles with were all present the first day he became mayor in 2001, and yet for his entire term, no progress was made solving them. He also neglected to mention his attempts to have the city pay for a laptop computer to use at home, as well as reimburse his mileage for trips to Annapolis and outside the state on business that the council, at that time, didn't deem to be beneficial to the city.
One other assertion he must be challenged on is that the current administration "campaigned on the need for increased spending, taxes, etc." No current city official ever made those statements, and Dayhoff knows it.
Robert Wack, council member, Westminster Common Council
