Music April 5, 2003 Archives 

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...SNOW...MIXING WITH AND CHANGING TO SLEET 
THIS AFTERNOON.  TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION...3 TO 6
 INCHES.  HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S.  NORTHEAST WINDS 
 10 TO 15 MPH.  
.TONIGHT...SNOW AND SLEET EARLY...THEN CLEARING. 
 NO ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATION.  LOWS IN THE LOWER
  20S.  NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH BECOMING 
  NORTHWEST   AFTER MIDNIGHT.  CHANCE OF SNOW 
  80 PERCENT.
Today's weather forecast has me less than cheery. This has been the longest winter. If I were betting on ice out, I go for the first week of May. To see past ice out dates, you can check out the the lake association site that I put up this winter. We may break the 1971 record of May 1. We are both so ready for some Gulf Coast beach time. Our Unity friend Terry Allan who has been in Bhopal, India on a three year mission to build a medicinal herb garden at a clinic there, will be coming to JazzFest along with some California people we met last year when we all had dinner together at the Heron and talked about going to JazzFest. I like it when things you talk about actually happen. What's a gazillion feet long and has a Louisiana license plate? Tab Benoit's truck. (John Payne, eat your heart out) He and Jimmy Thackery did a live recording of their WhiskeyTown album in the theater here. It was incredible; our ears are still ringing. Melissa made them lobster crepes for breakfast. The other group that will play here before we hear them at JazzFest are the Waifs. The same weekend I'll hear Canadian folkie Lynn Miles at the UU Coffeehouse in Waterville. Late spring syndrome can be treated with live music therapy, right?
In reading I knocked back a couple of sci fi thrillers, Signal to Noise by Eric Nylund and Tea From An Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan. Now for something heftier, Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
On a Bill Frisell album I borrowed from Bob C I found this old song by Hazel Dickens, and it's a good time to hear it again. It's this week's download.
With this issue the PicayUnity has moved to its own domain (picayUnity.com). Site hosting has come a long way in the last year. The new host (javaservlethosting.com) gives me java servlet/jsp as well as MySql database capability and has the most functional control panel I've seen.

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