DX LOG 05/26

94.1 WYYY with announcer Shannon and all eighties weekend.

95.1 WBRU with classic rock.

99.5 WDCX with "Lifeline", announcer introducing a lecture by historian Jerry Stewart.

REPLY AWL

The March 5 issue of Maclean's has an article about a woman who has written a book on achieving proper balance when both partners in a marriage work. She says wives who don't work at all are twice as likely to get divorced. Sounds like a bunch of propaganda to me. All has to do with people having love for only themselves.

In the same issue there is an article about how couples are being more open about miscarriages. To a certain extent, a greater willingness of people to talk about miscarriages and stillbirths is healthy, but some women are taking it too far. For example, one woman mentioned in the article is still in deep mourning three years after loosing her child. That is not healthy.

In the March 12 issue of Maclean's Brian D. Johnson mentions how there really aren't actors coming up who are action heroes. This is because there are far fewer manly men than there used to be.

RADIO-RELATED STUFF

Texe Marrs is now on WINB.

Good to here Lawrence Stevenson, host of "The Search" on 91x, featured in a piece on "Living Out Loud" on CBC yesterday afternoon.

Picked up radio Australia this morning shortly after 9:00 eastern with country music show.

I WON'T PLAY BIETHOVEN, CAUSE THE MOOD'S NOT RIGHT: THE AMAZING JAM, THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN MADOC

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“I play classical music when it rains

I play country when I am in pain

I won't play Beethoven, cause the mood's just not right

I feel like Hank Williams tonight....”

“When I'm real high I play rock and roll

I play country when I'm losin' control

I don't play Chuck Berry

Quite as much as I'd like

But I sure feel like Hank Williams tonight”

“I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight” – Jerry Jeff Walker

2012_05300065 (640x480)So hey up and hurry on down to Amazing Coffee (in Madoc) this Sunday afternoon for 2 o’clock! We’ll be looking out for you.

Never know who will stop by.... But it’s always a good bunch of people playing all kinds of music together. Happens this Sunday (and every Sunday) afternoon.

Come and join us! Bring your instruments, your voices and your songs. We'll be starting up the tunes around 2 in the afternoon and running until 4 pm or after.'The Coffee' is on the corner of Russel St. and Prince Albert just a couple of blocks south of Hwy 7. Highway 62 (Russel St.) runs right past the door!

It's all unplugged and it's all good! We've had guitars and basses and harmonicas and banjos and mandolins and ukuleles and fiddles and accordions and flutes and saxophones and a dobro and a harpist with a reallynice celtic harp. (Check out the pictures.) There's a piano over in the corner that's fairly much in tune and a drummer sometimes turns up playing a snare with soft nylon brushes (not too loud, sounds just right...) Some people sing to their own instrumental accompaniment, some singers bring an accompanist with them and there is one absolutely fabulous vocalist (yes, that’s you Carol....) who sings a cappella with heart, passion and soul so rich and vibrant that the even the coffee grinder behind the bar falls silent! Conga drums set-up in the parking lot....

It's all unplugged and it's all good! We've had guitars and basses and harmonicas and banjos and mandolins and ukuleles and fiddles and accordions and flutes and saxophones and a dobro and a harpist with a nice celtic harp. (Check out the pictures.) There's a piano over in the corner that's fairly much in tune and a drummer sometimes turns up playing a snare with soft nylon brushes (not too loud, sounds just right...) Some people sing to their own instrumental accompaniment, some singers bring an accompanist with them and there is one absolutely fabulous vocalist (yes, that’s you Carol....) who sings a cappella with heart, passion and soul so rich and vibrant that the even the coffee grinder behind the bar falls silent! Conga drums set-up in the parking lot....

la with heart, passion and soul so rich and vibrant that the even the coffee grinder behind the bar falls silent! Conga drums set-up in the parking lot....

2012_03040011Could be only 4 or 5 of us; might be a whole room full of musicians. This group has a place for ‘first-timers’ and experienced players alike. Musicians range from people in their teens all the way through proto-geezers and even an incipient-geriat or two....

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The music is just terrific; good tunes you may have heard before and a songwriter or two (or three, or four or more) who keep on amazing us all with their talent. It's always worth coming out and joining in.

The Amazing Coffee serves tea, coffee, espresso, latte, cappuccino, chocolate – you name it – and the food at ‘The Coffee’ is quite excellent too.

Thanks to everyone who comes out to play music together, "bringing it all back home". Thanks to Tony Long, the proprietor at the Amazing Coffee for giving us this space to play our tunes every week. And thanks to Sarah, the fabulous lady behind the bar!

2012_03040008Welcome new faces, familiar ones and small faces too. And welcome to all the people whose pleasure it is to stop by 'the Coffee' on Sunday afternoons and listen to the music while they sip their coffees, enjoy their sandwiches and pastries, use the high-speed internet...

Share a song or two, or several...

Come on out this Sunday aft and "get yer lovin' spoonful". Help us make just a spoonful of Amazing Coffee worth 2 or 3 cups of that other stuff from up the road.

James Reid

REVELATION SPEAKS PEACE-PART TWO-ARMAGGEDON

This is a commentary on session one on the second video tape in this series.

The speaker, Sean Bunstre, asserts that the real point of Armaggedon is "if God be God then follow Him, but if Ball be God follow him." Actually, this is the whole point of the book of Revelation. John is given this vision of the end times where the door of grace will be shut and there will only be those serving God and those serving Satan. There will be no fence-sitters and no gray areas.

Also, may I point out the audacity of beginning what is supposed to be a commentary on a book of the Bible in the sixteenth chapter? That's one thing about the Seventh-day Adventists: they aren't much for expositional teaching. Apart from Daniel and Revelation, you won't find many Seventh-day Adventist pastors who take a book of the Bible and go through the whole thing from beginning to end.

REPLY AWL

In this week's edition of the online Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, Elena Roberts writes about prisoners transcribing braille. Aside from the fact jails are unscriptural, having prisoners work takes jobs away from the rest of the general public. Soon you'll call up your bucking bank and the person on the other side will be sitting in a cell wearing an orange jump suit.

In the same issue, Anne Chiapatta writes about getting her first tatoo. Aside from the fact tatoos are unscriptural, they are a bad idea from another standpoint. A few years ago, a Japanese scientist discovered it was possible to write on water, and when he wrote kind words or hateful words on it, they changed the water's character. Our bodies are 70 percent water, so what could tatoos do to our bodies?

In the same issue, Lynn Tatum writes about needing surgery for gallstones. The process for said surgery involved a sonogram. A friend jokingly asked her if she were having the sonogram because she thought she might be pregnant. I don't know. Maybe her partner Maria will get her pregnant someday.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Christianity can be like a drug. You try a little bit and don't really like it, but you want more. Eventually you want it in greater and greater amounts till it takes over your whole life.