daily song - Oh Sweet Nuthin'

Today's song of the day is Hollis Brown's version of "Oh Sweet Nuthtin'".

song of the day - Dreams to Remember

Today's song of the day is Gary U.S. Bonds "Dreams to Remember".

song of the day - Sedona

Today's song of the day is Houndsmouth's "Sedona". It's a live version recorded on KEXP.

daily song - SOB

Today's song of the day is Nathaneil Rateliff & The Nightsweats.

California Christmas

Vintage Christmas

My most prized possession

Goodnight lovely sun

song of the day - With a Gun

Today's song of the day is The Minus 5's "With a Gun.

Hello Los Angeles

Just because it's a cool car

Steller - Halloween is coming

Steller - Lake Weekend

song of the day - Zen Brain

Today's song of the day is "Zen Brain" by Nada Surf.

song of the day - Speedbumps

The song of the day is Speedbumps by Luna.

song of the day - Let's Be Still

Today's song of the day is The Head and the Heart's "Let's Be Still".

song of the day - Kill the Cowboy

Today's song of the day is The Big F's "Kill the Cowboy" because this song seriously rocks. Maybe tomorrow's song will be their "Killing Time". They are both great songs.

Steller - Heading up the Mountain

Poem of the Week - Another of the Happiness Poems

This is my favorite poem of the week.  I subscribe to an email and get a daily poem from Poets.org.  It's a really nice thing to find a new (or old) poem waiting for me in my inbox every day.

Another of the Happiness Poems

 by Peter Cooley

It’s not that we’re not dying.
Everything is dying.
We hear these rumors of the planet’s end
none of us will be around to watch.

It’s not that we’re not ugly.
We’re ugly.
Look at your feet, now that your shoes are off.
You could be a duck,

no, duck-billed platypus,
your feet distraction from your ugly nose.
It’s not that we’re not traveling,
we’re traveling.

But it’s not the broadback Mediterranean
carrying us against the world’s current.
It’s the imagined sea, imagined street,
the winged breakers, the waters we confuse with sky

willingly, so someone out there asks
are you flying or swimming?
That someone envies mortal happiness
like everyone on the other side, the dead

who stand in watch, who would give up their bliss,
their low tide eternity rippleless
for one day back here, alive again with us.
They know the sea and sky I’m walking on

or swimming, flying, they know it’s none of these,
this dancing-standing-still, this turning, turning,
these constant transformations of the wind
I can bring down by singing to myself,

the newborn mornings, these continuals—

About This Poem

“I’m weary of the poet-prophets who proclaim what we already know: that we have made a mess of planet earth. I am enough of a romantic to believe that imagination, conceiving of our present and future situation in image and metaphor, may be our first step toward the possibility of change in rethinking national policies.”
—Peter Cooley

Sailboat on a lake

Blue sky and water

Lone Fisherman

Green Valley Lake

Green Valley Lake

Green Valley Lake - September

Steller - Friday Funky

song of the day - Something So Strong

Today's song of the day is Crowded House's "Something So Strong".  I love this song.
 Happy Friday folks.

song of the day - Friday I'm in Love

Today's song of the day is Yo Lo Tengo's version of The Cure's "Friday I'm in Love".  I really like Yo Lo Tengo, I love The Cure's original song and this video is pretty cool.  All in all a winner.

song of the day - James Alley Blues

Today's song of the day is Wilco's "James Alley Blues".

Steller Story - The Commute

Beach Day - Steller #jtucko

song of the day - Ooh La La

Today's song of the day is The Faces "Ooh La La".  Just because I love it.

Sunday sunset in Laguna Beach

Laguna on a Sunday afternoon in August

Kids at the beach at day's end - Laguna California

Tripping the Mid Century Fantastic

Wild Pig Exit - Catalina airport

Bison head

Catalina Island cove

Catalina island

Avalon harbor in the morning

Avalon fountain

Hotel Catalina

The Casino at Avalon

Avalon harbor

Freeway under a cloudy sky

My Steller Stories - Pioneer Town

Balsa Chica Estuary

Poem of the week - Respect by Melissa Studdard

Today's Poem of the week is "Respect" by Melissa Studdard.  I really like the kind of magical imagery mixed with reality.  You can sign up for a Poem a day at Poets.org   RESPECT by Melissa Studdard   Because her body is winter inside a cave because someone built fire there and forgot to put it out because bedtime is a castle she’s building inside herself with a moat and portcullis and buckets full of mist because when you let go the reins horses tumble over cliffs and turn into moths before hitting bottom because their hooves leave streaks of midnight in the sky because stuffed rabbits are better at keeping secrets than stopping hands because when the world got shoved up inside her she held it tight like a kegel ball and wondered at the struggle Atlas had carrying such a tiny thing on his back

song of the day - A History of Lovers

Today's song of the day is "A History of Lovers" by Calexico and Iron & Wine.  It just feels right for today.

daily song - Oh la la

Today's song of the day is Redbird's version of "Oh la la" because I love it.

The atomizer

Succulents in a sideways sink

Justine's shelves

Shreeya's groovy playhouse

4th of July pool party

Cool mural I passed on the way to work in East L.A.

Good morning clouds

song of the day - Cold Bread

Today's song of the day is Johnny Flynn's "Cold Bread".

song of the day - Rated X

Today's song of the day is Neko Case's "Rated X".

song of the day - Everyday Things

Today's song of the day is The Plimsoul's "Everyday Things". It is Monday after all.

Good morning interesting San Gabriel Valley sky

Love Wins!!!!! Today is a great day to be an American.

Today, more than any other day I can remember in my life, I am proud to be an American.

song of the day - A Soldier's Dream

Today's song of the day is "A Soldier's Dream" by Sleep Station. I dig it.

song of the day - All I Want is You

Today's song of the day is Tristan Prettyman's remake of  "All I Want is You".

Bookish in The Last Bookstore, downtown LA

Commencing countdown engines on

Ground Control to Major Tom

Pretty sky to the west

Ukes

Time