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Van Morrison Astral Weeks. My kids and I were riding the aural wave this weekend! http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/archive/2009/03/01/astral-weeks.aspx

Buddy Holly 50 years later 50 years after the gig in Clear Lake Iowa, Here's a little tribute to Buddy Holly! http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/ Brown-eyed Handsome Man! 1959

Lightening is a serious fav!

St. Thomas In the depth of winter, nothing like Max Roach's calypso drums on Sonny Rollins's St. Thomas---Side B, track 1 on Saxophone Colossus. I wrote this piece about it...http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/

Good to see a fellow Milwaukeean on the lounge! Don't know Big Crawford. If only there was some kind of global data base, where people shared information, that I could look to to find this kind of information. sigh...

St. Louis Blues I've been listening to Blind Connie Williams and a lot of Muddy Waters since I got this 1930's Regal Dobro from my wife for my birthday. I wrote about my new toy here: http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/archive/2009/01/11/st-louis-blues.aspx

Django Reinhardt--All of Me http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/archive/2008/11/16/all-of-me.aspx

VINTAGE SEARS MAD MEN CHARCOAL FEDORA HAT 7 1/2 I just won this and am excited to receive! I've been collecting 7 3/8 because they are so much cheaper but I need to accept my big head! Let freedom ring!

St. Louis Blues This is what I am listening to: http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/archive/2009/01/11/st-louis-blues.aspx

Blind Willie Johnson

Milan Futbol! Here is my vintage Dobbs Milan 5th ave. which started out it's life in Birmingham, Alabama (store name Odum Bowers and White) now leading soccer practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! Any idea on the age? I got it last fall through ebay. Look how attentive the children look! Must...

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Quixotic hat rack I keep my hat on a bust of Don Quixote. Keeps me tilting at windmill monsters.

One of my favorite movie's is Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Any idea what hat Marcello Mastroianni is wearing in the flick? Some pics when I can figure it out.