Ten Best Blog Posts of 2013
My blog posts are not at all like my children. I have some favorites and some are less than favorites. I would rather share the positive than the negative, so here then are my favorite posts of 2013, in no … Continued
A Present for You – Still More Classical Guitar Music
Happy holidays from we here at A Life’s Work. Here’s a recording of me playing Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Prelude No. 3 beside a creek in Wyoming. [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://alifesworkmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/villa-lobos-at-ucross-1.mp3″] Apologies for the sound quality and the missed notes. Want more lo-fi classical … Continued
Cameras: The Ugly
Ugly, Part 1 I once took a very dangerous photograph. So dangerous, I can’t even show it to you. But I can tell you about it. I took it a couple of years ago. I was on my bike and I … Continued
Win a CD Comp Full of Killer Gospel Music Guitar Tracks
We have a winner! Congratulations to M.E. Hope. The contest is officially over. Here’s a clip Robert Darden of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. He mentions some recording artists. [youtube]http://youtu.be/VxtEO1JGWoQ[/youtube] The first person to leave a comment on the … Continued
Cameras: The Bad
As you might have read in a previous post, I am fond of cameras, but… Maybe I just don’t like change. Maybe I never did. Here’s a photo of me taken in my parent’s kitchen more than thirty years ago. … Continued
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Angus Young Rock You
Several months ago I was in a coffee shop catching up with one of A Life’s Work’s cinematographers, Wolfgang Held. I snapped this photo of this painting — I put it on my computer’s desktop. I looked at it everyday. I … Continued
Cameras: The Good
Not surprisingly, I like cameras. Here’s a photo of me from a time before I can remember. Maybe it has something to do this: That’s a charm bracelet that used to dangle from my mother’s wrist and one of my … Continued
Top 12 Classic Gospel Christmas Songs Selected by DJ and Writer Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich, writer, creator of The Black Gospel blog, host of “Gospel Memories” Radio Show on WLUW Chicago, and friend of A Life’s Work has graciously allowed me to poach a list of gospel Christmas songs he compiled for TBGB. Thanks, Bob. If … Continued
Thanks 2013
Thanks to everyone who had anything to do with A Life’s Work and my other cinematic and/or literary endeavors in 2013. If you’re not thanked here, it’s very possible you were thanked in 2012, or 2011, or 2010, or 2009. Barbara … Continued
Have You Noticed…
… that this time of year you get mail from all sorts of organizations asking you to make donations? It’s a tax thing. I think the reasoning is you, the recipient of that pleading email or letter, are flush with … Continued