Travis In Austin

This Ain't No Mouse Music is on Netflix right now and is an excellent documentary about Chris Strachwitz, the owner and founder of Arhoolie records in 1960. He started out much like Jac Holzman, recording "folk music." However, he stayed low key, and it was very interesting how he goes out and finds this music and gets it down on tape. He started recording lost blues treasures like Lightin' Hopkins and Big Mama Thorton, getting down local Tejano greats such as Flaco, Cajun, etc. He has recorded Artists who have recorded for the Arhoolie label include: Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, Dave Alexander, Nathan Beauregard, Juke Boy Bonner, Clifton Chenier, Elizabeth Cotten, Sue Draheim, Jesse Fuller, Earl Hooker, John Jackson, Mance Lipscomb,Guitar Slim, Robert Shaw, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Whistlin' Alex Moore, George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman, Charlie Musselwhite, Doctor Ross, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams, Silas Hogan, Mercy Dee Walton, Black Ace, The Campbell Brothers, BeauSoleil, Jerry Hahn, the Savoy Family Band, the Pine Leaf Boys, Los Cenzontles, The Klezmorim, Rose Maddox, and the Rebirth Brass Band. I highly recommend it if you have Netflix. Travis

Factory Records Rough Trade, by BBC if I recall correctly. Netflix has one now called Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton about the Hop Hop lable Stone's Throw Records. For a great book about Elektra Records I liked Holzman's book about the lable he founded, and Wexler's book about his Atlantic Records is indispensable in my opinion.

That is amazing. Did a truck back up into or something 20 years ago? That worm looking thing is really wierd, like borer damage or something, but I don't think that is what it is. What is the diameter of that stump?

Recent update on new bomber design from Forbes, still just speculation but these are very educated guesses. I'm very skeptical of a 5,000 NM range, but what do I know. http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2015/03/09/the-air-forces-b-3-bomber-isnt-as-secret-as-it-seems/

How about this: Eminent Technology TRW-17 Specifications: Amplifier Requirement: 150 watts @ 8 ohms Impedance: 8 ohms 0Hz - 40Hz Frequency Response: 1Hz – 30Hz +/- 4dB Suggested Crossover: 20Hz @ 18dB/octave Sensitivity 94dB 1 watt 1 meter @10Hz Maximum Acoustic Output: >115dB between 1 and 20Hz. Distortion: Typically 3% or less between 1 and 20Hz @90dB

Have a very Happy Birthday!!!!

Fantastic job, that looks great. I have a lot of fun memories down in Houma. Travis

Sorry it took awhile to respond. Thank you soooooiiiii much. I was hoping you would be on. Travis

I'm flying down to Corpus Christi, TX today for a funeral and thought I would check out a vinyl store while I was there if they had a good one. Anybody know of any? Travis

Not a documentary, but I saw an awesome movie tonight about Brian Wilson I can't reccomend highly enough. Stars Paul Dano and John Cusack who play the young and older Brian Wilson, respectively.

JWC would totally agree with you on that. He has sent me some awesome funk mixes. Travis

There was a budget request by the Air Force last spring FY 2015 for something just short of a billion for development, it is on C-Span. Jane's reported that with a $550M per plane cap it is likely to be a two engine design about half the size of a B-2. The price cap is expected to require the Air Force to use "mature technologies" rather then using new developments. The only two bidders, unless there is a secret one out there, are Northrup and Lockheed/Boeing. Personally, I think it will get axed. There is going to be too much pressure for money from competing programs like the F-35II and the replacement for the Ohio class submarine. But who knows. The only two bidders were Nort

They have over 14,000 employees in Fort Worth, TX, including a Skunk Works (ADP) office.

That is all very true, but it was different legal or policy vehicles that effected change. Standard Oil and US Steel by the Sherman Act and TaftTaft-Hartley, AT&T by consumers in court under the Sherman Act, IBM I believe prevailed in court against Memerox and DOJ but entered into consent decrees, and Google can do what it does because of the Patriot Act. Now it seems that it a more consumer driven backlash. Facebook has gotten heat, and you would think by now that people after reading about the last several murder cases would know that everthing is on your computer, not just google. The web searches found are always the big headline, poison, burying a body, etc. Of course you have the real smart ones that go to public library to be "anonymous" only to be caught on video tape conducting your searches. I believe Mark mentioned in another thread that the internet, while providing quick useful information, is really just an advertising platform. People think because you use it at home or access it from your home it is private private. It of course isn't, actually read a user agreement. You are the subject of the most sophisticated market research to date. What you search, how long on each page, what you click, don't click. We have all see it, you search for Filson Clothing and then for the next month you will go to a page for something totally unrelated and there will be a banner ad for Filson. I predict Google will have some sort of whistle blower that does them significant damage.

Primer, that should be one of Oldtimers faves Foxy Brown

Billy Jack The Return of Billy Jack Night of the Living Dead (original) Dazed and Confused, not surenif it qualfies, but it was low budget and no one was heard of at the time

Wow what a list so far. There were a couple mentioned I have not seen that I am going to check out right away. No one mentioned Citizen Kane, it wouldn't be in my top two either. I like movies that focus on the dialogue, or at least lately I have. 12 Angry Men is a great example, I like both the original and the remake. Glengarry Glen Ross Before Sunrise Rope The Conversation The Breakfast Club Resivoir Dogs Dog Day Afternoon Chinatown and the many others mentioned like Network, Pulp Fiction, but if I coild only choose two films, My Cousin Vinney, and The Verdict

Just tell her that some folks call it a Kaiser blade, some folks call it a bananer blade, but you call it a sling blade.

Lot of good comments and remarks here about where to get your information. Just a couple of observations, after the "networks" were bought up by large corporations the news departments were converted from being "news organizations" to being a business with accountability for their bottom line, and thus they became entertainment. This has been well documented in academic journals and discussed by everyone from Reasoner to Cronkite. We live in the information age now. We all first thought that this meant we would be more informed. What we all discovered is that there is more garbage then truth in the information, on any subject. Are tubes better than solid state, CDs better than LPs, Ford vs. GM, is a place to eat any good, food safety, product safety, teacher ratings, music ratings and anything else you can possibly think of, including hate. This subject doesn't have to be on a recent event in Congress, it could be on any issue that effects a person and/or their family. It take more work to be well informed in the information age. You have to work at it. It there is a blog article on a subject you have to find out about the blogger, if it is a website, about who is behind the website. To be well informed before the information age all you needed to do was read two or three newspapers with different points of view, a couple of national journals with opposing view points like The National Review and The New Republic, and watch the news on one network in the evening and another network at night. It took a couple of hours a day to be well informed, but it wasn't that difficult. You could save some time by subscribing to a news consolidator that summed up articles from around the country, like "This Week." With the information age you are bombarded with email blasts telling you to worry about this, you get news in the form of sound bites of information with catchy phrases borrowed from advertising, tweets from whomever you deem is worth following about their views in 160 characters or less, viral videos, 24 hour news services. The objective now is to try and have you get all of your news from one source. TV, Tweets, Ipad, blogs, whatever, their hope is that you get it all from them, whoever "them" is. You will have information overload, but you will not be well informed. There are about 6 corporations in the US that control about 90% of the media. You have to be extremely skeptical about any "news" article or broadcast, regardless of the source. Skeptical, not, paranoid, there is a difference. It is hard to be well informed in the information age because of the sorting and sifting you have to do. I think people tend to gravitate to publications and television programs that have similar views they do. It is human nature. The problem is that the view points get confused with the facts. The facts get spun, to match the viewpoint. This isn't news, it is advocacy. Everyone does it, some slightly, some very overtly. It is a fantasy that you are getting fair and balanced information from ANY one network or news source. The way they are organized and that humans run them makes it impossible. Whatever the relative merits, bias, etc. of a particular network, there is no way you can get a balanced approach on ANY issue from a single source. I don't care if it is the weather, a movie review, what the local dog catcher is doing, or national news. If they allow the opposing view point to have equal time, equal stature, etc., they will turn off their base, whatever that is, and lose viewers. They cannot have "balance" because they will lose viewers, and you don't last on those network shows if you lose viewers. AP is still the most often cited news organization and enjoys a reputation as still authoritative and trustworthy. I don't know if that is actually the case or not. Mark asked if the AP article was accurate, here is it is you want to read it and decide for yourself: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_HOMELAND?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Fortunately, on the issue of politics, you don't need to rely on ANY news account to get to the truth of the matter. If an issue is important to you and your really want to know what the situation is, what the arguments are, what political maneuvers are being utilized, what the actual testimony was, the House and the Senate DEBATES, the votes, etc. it is all there on C-Span. Uncut, full length, gavel to gavel coverage. http://www.c-span.org/search/?tagid[]=485&sort=Newest Unfortunately, now in order to be fully informed on a issue, whether it is stereo, home theater, turntables, politics, whatever, it usually requires finding trustworthy sources, whether they be forums such as this one, a blog, website, magazine, and to consult multiple sources when possible. In many cases it takes longer to find a trustworthy and authoritative source then it does the answer, but we have all been burned by misinformation and we know it is worth the effort.

I have tried to attach the photo of the back of the program for Joe's wife, however, whatever I do, it end up upside down. Maybe somebody here can do something with it and repost it right side up. In the meantime, I have just dictated it out as it appears in the photo so you don't have to turn you head upside down: Obituary Patricia Ann Shultz, of Kyle, Texas, was born October 2, 1959 in Vidor, TX. She passed away Saturday, February 21, 2015, at the age of 56. Pat is survived by her husband, Joe Shultz, and children Aaron Shultz, Emily Shultz, and Jake Kesinger. Sister Sandy Jacobs & Brother Kenneth Jacobs. She met her husband Joe in Hemphill Texas, and they married 28 years ago in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. Employment took them from Florida back to Nacogdoches, then on to Phoenix Arizona, before returning to Austin in 1992. Pat was a loving wife and homemaker who home schooled Aaron and Emily. Her family and friends will always remember her as a kind and caring mother. The family of Mrs. Pat Schultz wishes to express out sincere thanks for the expressions of lover during our time of bereavement.

Luther and I were able to spend some time today with Joe and his wonderful family. I will attach soon a photo of the back of the program giving a brief background on his beloved wife when I get home.. The music Joe picked out was wonderful and it was amazing how they put together a photo essay of his wife and their family. Travis

Duck or a Rabbit?

Gold and White from the beginning, and it has never changed.

Safe bet...especially since the Scotch is no longer in Binghamton or Rochester. Only the original in Syracuse (where I took my prom date in 1970) is still operating. WHAT? Really? That was one of my favorite places. I went to school with a kid from Binghamton and we went there when I visited, seems like they served us no problem at 18 or 19 (was New York 18 drinking age in the late 70s?). They had locations in LA and Santa Barbara a couple of years later we hung out at. LA closed a long time ago I heard. It seemed like it was a real Binghamton institution that you would never expect to go away, like Scoma's in San Francisco, Morton's in Chicago, etc., etc. The last time I was in Binghamton, a long time ago, I was able to arrange a tour at the Mac factory and then went by there for the obligatory stop. Well I am glad there is one still left, I hope it is good as it used to be.

Michael: So where do things stand now?