Minnie Riperton: Gagging You.

Minnie sounds like a barn sparrow shot through the heart with a BB gun in this #13 song from 1975.

10cc: I'm Not In Love

Year end #42, 1975.  Can you name their second highest charting hit song from a few years later?  Deceptive Bends LP? (second video below)

A Method To Stop Underwater Oil Leaks

The Rockford Files: Mike Pos

Can you hum this 1975 year end song #85 before you click it?  Mike Pos, Rockford Files Theme.

Ace: How Long

A subtle tune.  Ended up 1975at #57, but was released in 1974.  I have learned from posting for you here that I'm going to have to dig a little deeper.  My novel about building a beach at a lakeside in 1975 is set in one long summer.  I will need to define which songs were popular by each week in 1975.

Supportive Father--Or Child Abuse?

6/10/10

Teen sailor Abby Sunderland, who today made international headlines by requesting a rescue via various distress-signal units, is in a portion of the southern Indian Ocean that is so remote it could take at least a day but possibly two for a boat or ship to reach her position.

Sunderland, 16, had been a little past the halfway point in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone. She set off two rescue tracking devices, one of which is only for use when the sailor is in the water.

"He" gave her more than she could handle.

Pilot: Magic

Hit #31 in 1975 year end Billboard songs.

Jackie Blue: Ozark Mountain Daredevils

The novel that I am plotting and beginning to write is set in New England, summer of 1975.  In doing research, I found a list of the top 100 songs on the year end Billboard charts in 1975.  It was a transition year, with disco striking it big, and haunting rock tunes of the early 70s fading.  Here's one of those tunes.  I will be featuring a few tunes in my blog this week.  Some may make the book.  Here's year end #29 song, 1975.

Lost Hit Of The 70s: Suzi Quatro!

A Boat at NY, NY In Las Vegas

Stones Knocking

This opening riff is dynamite on a 6-string. Yes, I can hear you knocking!

Smashing XBox

I'm impressed.  My son M and his friend J recorded this video on a 5MP Sony camera, and the editing is explosive! Music, but still can hear the video sounds, voices and pounding.  Slow mo, fast mo.  Stop sound at will.  Graphic letters. It's a real treat to see that this type of movie can be made on a $100 camera with free online editing software, then posted for the entire world to view, all in the course of under an hour.

Smoking Indonesian Baby: $5/Day To Pay For The Fags

Lost Hit 70s: Peter Brown!

Peaceful Prijon Capris On Lake Of The Woods, circa 2004

Joel and Cathy, etching glass in plastic boats.

My Finished Work

http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2010/06/papa-knows-best.html

Six Sentences: Is Publishing My Story!

Okay, it's only six sentences.  But there is a certain knack or talent necessary to tell a complete story in only six sentences.  Not seven, not five.  I submitted only one story, about two weeks ago, and I just got an email from editor Rob McEvily, saying that my story is "excellent" and the website will publish it tomorrow!  This site was ranked a top 100 site by Writers Digest 2010, is on Facebook and Twitter, and I am going to have the story of the day.  For many of you, who have heard about my writing endeavors for years, this is the first time you've ever gotten to read something from me.  So, now that it's all built up, there's no way in heck it can live up to the hype.

Stay tuned.  For a preview of the website, here's the link:http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/

Eddie Van Halen's Guitar

Eddie Van Halen's guitar at Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas.  How come every place that has guitar memorabilia always has an EVH guitar?

Purple Lilac Bush, Fox Valley, Illinois

The Normal Illinois Theater, Main Street

Photos of this old time theater that is still frequented by college students as it's right on the ISU campus.  I snapped these photos on a bicycle ride on the Bloomington-Normal Constitution Trail with my son recently.  I couldn't help but notice that the movie house is playing one of my favorite flicks: Ferris Bueller's Day Off