Schooling

Seeing as how I'm in school now and not busy with the summer you'd think I'd be able to blog more often. I'm seriously going to try and start blogging daily again, but I make no promises.

So I'm in college and I spend my time in between classes day dreaming of the time that was. Thinking about when colleges were separated by sex, of when everyone lived on campus regardless, of a time when the colleges were actually cool looking. I'm such a dreamer!



I was riding in the RTD bus yesterday and was thinking of when people would have taken carriages to class. Oh to dream a beautiful dream.



Before this break during my three hour long class is over I would like to announce the beginning of my newest blog, starting today. It will be a sort of diary on my experiences on the RTD. So fascinating and crazy! I never knew how educational and entertaining it was going to be.

Back to class.

Photo of the Week

Mammuthus

So we are gonna go off the beaten path a bit, do something a little out of the ordinary for this blog and talk about Mammoths.

Yeah I know. Random, right?

I am watching Night at the Museum and for some reason I became obsessed with mammoths and I wanted to know everything there is to know about them and I wanted to see one in real life... a living one that is. But seeing how that is impossible I'm just gonna have to study them and look at pictures of them, instead.

Alright first off they are, were, relatives to elephants. Which isn't hard to figure out because they look a lot alike.










Mammoth comes from the Russian word мамонт mamont meaning "earth horn". In the English language the noun mammoth means "large". A fitting description for such large animals. They were covered in a reddish colored wool and had large tusks.

Many mammoths have been found frozen in the ice. This is how we know so much about what they look like. We don't know why the went instinct but they no longer exist on this planet. A baby mammoth was found not long ago and for sometime it was debated whether or not they should try cloning it to see if they could bring mammoths back to life today.

Not Snoopy's Friend... Woodstock

Forty-one years ago today something the world knows as Woodstock occurred. It was and still is the biggest gathering of people in one place ever known. Over 500,000 people came to this three days of "Peace & Music".

The concert had been planned months in advance. It took place during the war in Vietnam, when so many were afraid of being drafted. Because of their growing fear many boys and their girlfriends decided to become peace lovers and express their new beliefs by becoming hippies and listening to music that said exactly what they were feeling.

Many teenagers ran away from home to see the concert. Other youngin's had been planning the trip for weeks and started out early so they could get the best seats on the field where the concert was to take place. From the stories I've read many people have agreed going was "totally worth it." Some unfortunate souls could not make it inside the concert seeing as there were too many people already in and no more tickets left. These individuals camped on neighboring lawns and listened to the muffled music from a distance, still enjoying the experience of being surrounded by other peace-loving hippies.

But the concert wasn't exactly what I would call an ideal place to go. There was tons of drugs being passed around and there were so many people jam packed into one small area it was almost impossible to leave the spot you were at. Once you were inside the concert there was no getting out. And a great deal of the experience was slipping around in the mud due to the pouring rain. (But according to many people's accounts going to Woodstock was the first time they became aware of the fact that they could eat healthy. So there's something positive.)

As for the artists and their music... for three days straight there was constant music. Here is the line up of artists and the songs they played:

DAY ONE - August 15, 1969

1. Swami Satchidananda

2. Richie Havens

1. The Minstrel from Gault
2. From the Prison
3. Get Together
4. From the Prison (Reprise)
5. I'm a Stranger Here
6. High Flying Bird
7. I Can't Make It Anymore
8. With a Little Help from My Friends
9. Handsome Johnny
10. Strawberry Fields Forever > Hey Jude
11. Freedom (Motherless Child)

3. Country Joe McDonald

1. Janis
2. Rockin' All Around The World
3. Flyin' High All Over The World
4. Seen A Rocket
5. Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die-Rag

4. John B. Sebastian

1. How Have You Been
2. Rainbows All Over Your Blues
3. I Had A Dream
4. Darlin' Be Home Soon
5. Younger Generation

5. Sweetwater

1. Motherless Child
2. Look Out (???)
3. For Pete's Sake
4. Day Song
5. What's Wrong
6. My Crystal Spider
7. Two Worlds (???)
8. Band Introduction
9. Why Oh Why

6. Incredible String Band

1. Invocation
2. The Letter
3. This Moment
4. When You Find Out Who You Are

7. Bert Sommer

1. Jennifer
2. The Road To Travel
3. I Wondered Where You Be
4. She's Gone
5. Things Are Going My Way
6. And When It's Over
7. Jeanette
8. America
9. A Note That Read
10. Smile

8. Tim Hardin

1. (How Can We) Hang on to a Dream
2. Susan
3. If I Were a Carpenter
4. Reason to Believe
5. You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
6. Speak Like a Child
7. Snow White Lady
8. Blues on My Ceiling
9. Simple Song of Freedom
10. Misty Roses

9. Ravi Shankar

1. Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital
2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal
3. Raga Manj Kmahaj
4. lap Jor
5. Dhun In Kaharwa Tal

10. Melanie

1. Close to It All
2. Momma Momma
3. Beautiful People
4. Animal Crackers
5. Mr. Tambourine Man
6. Tuning My Guitar
7. Birthday of the Sun

11. Arlo Guthrie

1. Coming into Los Angeles
2. Wheel of Fortune
3. Walking Down the Line
4. Arlo Speech: Exodus
5. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
6. Every Hand in the Land
7. Amazing Grace

12. Joan Baez

1. Oh Happy Day
2. The Last Thing On My Mind
3. I Shall Be Released
4. Joe Hill
5. Sweet Sir Galahad
6. Hickory Wind
7. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
8. I Live One Day At A Time
9. Sweet Sunny South
10. Warm and Tender Love
11. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
12. We Shall Overcome

DAY TWO - August 16, 1969

1. Quill

1. Driftin'
2. They Live the Life
3. BBY
4. Waitin' For You
5. Jam

2. Keef Hartley Band

1. Spanish Fly
2. Believe In You
3. Rock Me Baby
4. Medley: Leavin' Trunk, Halfbreed, Just To Cry, Sinnin' For You

3. Santana

1. Waiting
2. Evil Ways
3. You Just Don't Care
4. Savior
5. Jingo
6. Persuasion
7. Soul Sacrifice
8. Fried Neckbones

4. Canned Heat

1. I'm Her Man
2. Going Up the Country
3. A Change Is Gonna Come
4. Leaving This Town
5. The Bear Talks
6. Let's Work Together
7. Too Many Drivers at the Wheel
8. I Know My Baby
9. Woodstock Boogie
10. On the Road Again

5. Grateful Dead

1. St. Stephen
2. Mama Tried
3. Dark Star
4. High Time
5. Turn On Your Lovelight

6. Mountain

1. Blood Of The Sun
2. Stormy Monday
3. Long Red
4. Who Am I But You And The Sun
5. Beside The Sea
6. For Yasgur's Farm (then untitled)
7. You And Me
8. Theme From An Imaginary Western
9. Waiting To Take You Away
10. Dreams Of Milk And Honey
11. Blind Man
12. Blue Suede Shoes
13. Southbound Train

7. Creedence Clearwater Revival

1. Born On The Bayou
2. Green River
3. Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
4. Commotion
5. Bootleg
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Proud Mary
8. I Put A Spell On You
9. Night Time Is The Right Time
10. Keep On Choogin'
11. Suzy Q

8. Sly & The Family Stone

1. M'Lady
2. Sing A Simple Song
3. You Can Make It If You Try
4. Everyday People
5. Dance To The Music
6. Music Lover
7. I Want To Take You Higher
8. Love City
9. Stand!

9. Janis Joplin

1. Raise Your Hand
2. As Good As You've Been To This World
3. To Love Somebody
4. Summertime
5. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
6. Kosmic Blues
7. Can't Turn You Loose
8. Work Me Lord
9. Piece Of My Heart
10. Ball and Chain

10. The Who

1. Heaven And Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. It's A Boy
4. 1921
5. Amazing Journey
6. Sparks
7. Eyesight To The Blind
8. Christmas
9. Acid Queen
10. Pinball Wizard
11. (Abbie Hoffmann Incident)
12. Do You Think It's Alright?
13. Fiddle About
14. There's A Doctor I've Found
15. Go To The Mirror Boy
16. Smash The Mirror
17. I'm Free
18. Tommy's Holiday Camp
19. We're Not Gonna Take It
20. See Me Feel Me
21. Summertime Blues
22. Shakin' All Over
23. My Generation
24. Naked Eye




DAY THREE - August 17, 1969

1. Jefferson Airplane

1. The Other Side of This Life
2. Plastic Fantastic Lover
3. Volunteers
4. Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon
5. Eskimo Blue Day
6. Uncle Sam's Blues
7. Somebody To Love
8. White Rabbit
9. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds

2. Joe Cocker

1. Delta Lady
2. Some Things Goin' On
3. Let's Go Get Stoned
4. I Shall Be Released
5. With A Little Help From My Friends

3. Country Joe & The Fish

1. Barry's Caviar Dream
2. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
3. Rock And Soul Music
4. Thing Called Love
5. Love Machine
6. Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die-Rag

4. Ten Years After

1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
4. Hear Me Calling
5. I'm Going Home

5. The Band

1. Chest Fever
2. Baby Don't Do It
3. Tears Of Rage
4. We Can Talk
5. Long Black Veil
6. Don't You Tell Henry
7. Ain't No More Cane
8. Wheels On Fire
9. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
10. The Weight


(After midnight - Monday Morning) - August 18, 1969

6. Blood Sweat And Tears

1. More And More
2. I Love You Baby More Than You Ever Know
3. Spinning Wheel
4. I Stand Accused
5. Something Coming On
6. God Bless The Child (Order ?)

7. Johnny Winter

1. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
2. To Tell The Truth
3. Johnny B Goode
4. Six Feet In The Ground
5. Leland Mississippi Blues/Rock Me Baby
6. Mean Mistreater
7. I Can't Stand It (With Edgar Winter)
8. Tobacco Road (With Edgar Winter)
9. Mean Town Blues

8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
2. Blackbird
3. Helplessly Hoping
4. Guinnevere
5. Marrakesh Express
6. 4 + 20
7. Mr Soul
8. Wonderin'
9. You Don't Have To Cry
10. Pre-road Downs
11. Long Time Gone
12. Bluebird
13. Sea Of Madness
14. Wooden Ships (Encore - Acoustic)
15. Find The Cost Of Freedom
16. 49 bye-byes

9. Paul Butterfield Blues Band

1. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
2. Driftin'
3. Born Under A Bad Sign
4. All My Love Comin' Through To You
5. Love March

10. Sha-Na-Na

1. Na Na Theme
2. Jakety Jak
3. Teen Angel
4. Jailhouse Rock
5. Wipe Out
6. Who Wrote The Book Of Love
7. Duke Of Earl
8. At The Hop
9. Na Na Theme

11. Jimi Hendrix (The Gypsy Sun & Rainbows Band)

1. Message To Love
2. Hear My Train A Comin'
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Red House
5. Master Mind
6. Here Comes Your Lover Man
7. Foxy Lady
8. Beginning
9. Izabella
10. Gypsy Woman
11. Fire
12. Voodoo Child (slight return)/Stepping Stone
13. Star Spangled Banner
14. Purple Haze
15. Woodstock Improvisation/Villanova Junction
16. Hey Joe

Baseball, Peanuts and Hot Sunny Days

Today and Sunday my brother and I have been getting out the old baseball mitts and baseballs and have been playing catch. Ok so I'm pretty horrible at it and get pretty tired of constantly leaning over to pick the ball up off the ground but I'm getting so much better.

I don't watch baseball often but when I do I enjoy it. And it takes me back to the late eighteen hundreds. When I was younger we went to an "old" baseball game. It was so much fun! Everyone was in their nineteenth century clothes, the crowd was sitting on the ground, everyone was in a big open field. No one wore baseball gloves and Woman Rights Activists would randomly interrupt the game by walking across the field carrying their signs. It was so much fun!





Sometimes I wish it could be like the old days (meaning 20s - 50s) when all the boys in the neighborhood would go to a near by field or baseball field and play ball for hours on end. People could walk by and watch, I know I would have. Sometimes it's more fun to watch kids playing then intense men competing.

Ahh to have a dream...

Must Get This Out in the Open!

It's really time I get this out in the open. But I love the '60s. It seems that most of the blogs I read they love the '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s but what about the SIXTIES? Is it because the world drastically changed? Suddenly we were flying out in outer space, girls were wearing pants, people were listening to rock'n'roll, people were smoking pot, Vietnam was happening? Sometimes I wonder.

I notice people commenting on '60s fashions, and eye makeup. Sometimes I wonder if all people remember was the makeup and, oh, the hippies. Gotta love hippies.


And then I realize, it's the movies. And maybe the music too. People love classic films. I love classic films too!! But I love the sixties too. I was born about 50 years too late, I do believe. Who wants to listen to metal when they have '60s music? And what is up with clothing nowadays? We don't want to go back to the '80s styles and yet scarily enough I think we just might be going there, again. Who wants that?

But I'm just ranting.

I think I need to find one person who is my kindred spirit and loves the sixties as I do, besides my dear Aunt (you know who you are) who can sit around and talk to me about sixties music, clothes, movies, and history for hours on end.

Some of you may comment on this and tell me I'm CRAZY because the sixties was such a CRAZY era. And, yes, this may be true, but the world changed so drastically in that decade. It's amazing to read about! And some of you may comment and say you do love the sixties, well please do comment and tell me that! I need to hear it from somebody.

Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven O'clock Twelve O'clock Rock!

Seeing as how I love music I might as well write this article. First of all I would like to say that rock'n'roll was started in the United States. It began in the late '40s and continued to be a big hit for young people across the country in the '50s. Up until this time the most popular music in the country was the Big Band music of the '20s, '30s and '40s.

Rock and roll was a combination of several different types of music. Mostly jazz and blues with a little country, folk, gospel and boogie-woogie mixed in there. When rock music first came about the main instrument was usually a saxophone or a piano, in about the mid to late '50s this was changed to the guitar, something that has continued to this day.

The golden age of rock and roll is considered the '50s and '60s which I most definitely believe because I've heard Bill Haley and His Comets, The Coasters, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc. Most of it is much better than you will hear today, but I am bias.

One of the most popular rock'n'roll forms in the '50s was what is known as the "doo wap". Some of the songs that people may recognize as doo wap songs are Earth Angel or maybe Why do Fools Fall in Love?

Starting in the 1950s many diner owners started buying jukeboxes. They were boxes filled with popular, usually, rock'n'roll music. Anyone who was willing to pay a certain price could put a coin in the box and chose one song to play so they could listen or maybe dance to it.

Anyway I don't have much more to say on the topic. If you want to listen to some '50s rock'n'roll may I suggest a few songs?

Yakety-Yak - The Coasters
Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
That'll Be The Day Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Aint That A Shame Fats Domino

Enjoy!!

Photo of the Week... August 1st, 2010

My Man Goddard

Man! I can't get the SPACE RACE out of my head. Every single time I lay down to go to bed or take a nap or watch a movie or read a book my mind starts wandering back to the 50s and 60s and wishing I could have been alive for the beautiful days.

But thinking this I remind myself that there are some very specific people that were VERY important in the Space Race before the Space Race even began. One being Robert Goddard.

In the late 19th century in Massachusetts a young man had the huge dream of flying in space. This young man's name was Robert Goddard. For years Goddard worked on making rockets. However he was much made fun of for his crazy dreams. The New York Times mocked young Goddard saying he should retake high-school science. Didn't he know there is no air in space? Had he ever read the law of physics? To move in space you have to have something to push against and without air there is nothing to push against! However, none of this discouraged Goddard in the least. He continued dreaming and designing rockets.

One day Goddard and a group of his friends decided to launch a rocket they had built. It tragically ended in a small disaster when the rocket went farther horizontally than it did vertically and landed in his aunt's cabbage patch. The results of this accidents was the passing of a law forbidding anyone to launch a rocket in the state of Massachusetts. But this did not dissuade Robert Goddard. If one state wouldn't let him launch rockets then he would simply move to another state that would. Goddard moved to Roswell, New Mexico where he continued and experimenting and launching.

Dr. Robert Goddard made many important discoveries and invented many great things, useful for spaceflight. Goddard patented all his inventions. However after his death in 1945 the US government took all his patented work upsetting Goddard's wife, Esther Christine Goddard. She sue the US government and was given one million dollars. A virtual steal for the government considering all Goddard's work was worth well over sixty-million dollars. All his life's work was an important contribution to the American space program. And to correct what they had originally said about Goddard the New York times made a formal apology, of a successful rocket launch into space, saying it was indeed possible to fly in space.