Boom Boom Boom
How about a change of pace. Every June, Sacramento's Taiko Dan drummers perform here in Davis. I caught a snippet of their performance last year. Very exciting performers.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Videoblogging Week #7: Time to Say Goodbye
The four older puppies have moved on. Sigh.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Videoblogging Week #6: Atmospheric Phenomenon
I managed to catch a strange atmospheric phenomenon on video. I don't know that it has received nation-wide coverage.
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Friday, April 07, 2006
Videoblogging Week #5: Feeding Frenzy
Now we have 7 puppies, four 7 week olds and three 2 week olds, who need to be bottle fed. The older puppies go crazy when I'm feeding the younger ones.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Videoblogging Week #4: Go Away Kid, You Bother Me
The puppies haven't quite figured out that Sheila and Kimba aren't as eager to play as the puppies are.
Background music for this is Kettleman's Lustige Streiche, written by my daughter, Jeri. I used this in a dog video some time ago and as with that video, this one, too, seems almost to have been edited with the piece of music in mind (tho it wasn't).
Background music for this is Kettleman's Lustige Streiche, written by my daughter, Jeri. I used this in a dog video some time ago and as with that video, this one, too, seems almost to have been edited with the piece of music in mind (tho it wasn't).
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Videoblogging Week #2: The Battery
People suggested that the problem with my camera was that the battery was exhausted, so today the new battery finally arrived.
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Monday, April 03, 2006
It's Videoblogging Week! - #1
This is Day #1 of Videoblogging Week...and an e-mail I received led me to make this video.
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
Pops Concert
Another segment from the Davis High School Pops Concert 1986. Paul and his friend Paul singing a duet from The Music Man, and the Jazz Choir's finale, "One" from A Chorus Line.
The Jazz Choir was an award-winning chorus. It's surprising how many of these kids went on to perform professionally.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Xena
Xena had been the runt of the litter of 11 and had been attacked by her siblings, which was why the litter was split up (which is how I happened to have Fudge, Curly, Greta and Blackie). So today, Ashley decided Xena was doing well enough to return to some of the litter and gave her to me. (I named her Xena, because I figure she was kind of a "warrior princess.") I tried working her in with the others, but ultimately I could see that it was not going to be good for Xena and I told Ashley to come and pick her back up again. But I kept this record of what it was like.
It's obviously "survival of the fittest" even in the puppy world.
Friday, March 31, 2006
What I Did For Love
Not only do we have talented children, but talented in-laws as well. This is Ned's wife, from 1986 singing "What I Did for Love" at the high school Pops Concert. She later went on to be the trombone player in Lawsuit and the sultry chanteuse whose rendition of "Fever" was always one of the high points of any show.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
The Infamous Shoe Caper
My kids always made movies with plot lines. Not necessarily GOOD plot lines, but plot lines nonetheless. "The Infamous Shoe Caper" was made when my youngest son (who would be 33 today) was still in high school.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Rainy Day Play
It rained very hard today, so the puppies had to play inside. They loved it. I'm not so sure about me, however!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Searching for Josiah
My mother, my cousin and I went on a search for the schoolhouse where my great-grandfather taught. We visited the tiny "museum" in Inverness (California), the compound where my grandparents and several of my aunts lived, and my mother reminisces.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!
Here is the first video of our new foster puppies, 6 week old labs mixed with something or other. Meet Fudge, Greta, Curly, and Blackie.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
The Last Day
We had a mini night on the town, then got stuff organized and I took Lynn to the airport. This video is interesting for the confession of a bartender I happened to catch on film!
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Hyatt Regency Hotel
We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Embarcadero in San Francisco (where they filmed parts of "High Anxiety.") Lynn was most excited about having a space to iron. Go figure.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Therapy
There are all kinds of "therapy." For us, we went for "shop therapy" and "MQA" (Massive Quantities of Alcohol)...Actually MQA is a misnomer...we're older now, so it was more like "massive quantities of aqua...but still fun anyway.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Lunch with a Princess
I'm back!
I had a wonderful time with my friend, both here and in San Francisco. This is the first of a 2 or 3 videos about our time together.
This particular video is our lunch with our former co-workers--midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, clerical people. Only two still work in the same office and we hadn't seen each other en masse in years. It was a fabulous afternoon.
(I'm just sorry I didn't get the conversation about vibrators, but I was laughing too hard)
Friday, March 17, 2006
Taking a break
It had been my intent to continue posting videos while my friend Lynn was here, only taking a break for the days that we would be in San Francisco, but I'm discovering that it's more fun to visit than to work on a video, so I'm taking a break for a few days. I will be back on Thursday, after I return from SF.
I don't kid myself that more than a couple of people will even notice, but I didn't want to disappear without an explanation.
So this is the last entry until the 23rd, when I get back home again. I'm having too much fun to actually write about it or make a video!
I don't kid myself that more than a couple of people will even notice, but I didn't want to disappear without an explanation.
So this is the last entry until the 23rd, when I get back home again. I'm having too much fun to actually write about it or make a video!
Thursday, March 16, 2006
The Princess
My friend Lynn arrives from Texas today. She's always said that she wants to be a princess, so I'm planning this visit as if she is.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
A message home
This may be a funny video only to me. Ndangi from Zaire had lived with us for awhile and learned English here. Now Victor, his cousin, was living with us and learning English. He was making a video to send home to his family and wanted to introduce them to David, who speaks no French. This video just makes me smile. It's short.
Monday, March 13, 2006
The Dysfunctionettes
In another lifetime, I worked in an ob/gyn clinic, where we had parties for the usual holiday events. My friend Lynn and I were in charge of the entertainment. This is a song I wrote the lyrics to for our Christmas party.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Devil Dog III and IV
The puppies did grow and as they got older they got into show biz. They soon starred in their own short feature.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Meeting Teddy
At Easter time, the puppies went to the family dinner and met Teddy, a Cairn terrier.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Bath Day
When you are housebreaking puppies, there is a lot of stuff to clean up. They step in all sorts of things. So it's time for the puppies' first bath.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Puppies come home
Yogi and BooBoo having been chosen, now they come home and learn about their new surroundings.
Monday, March 06, 2006
It's Puppy Week!!
It's the start of Pug Puppy Week. My son Ned and his wife Marta have two pugs, Yogi and BooBoo. The dogs are pretty old now, and Yogi is literally on his last legs, but in going through old videos this weekend, I found lots of footage of the two little guys as puppies -- choosing them from among all the other available puppies, bringing them home, and the first weeks in Ned & Marta's house. The videos were so darn cute that I decided to devote a week to Yogi and BooBoo. This first video is making the puppy selection.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Little Friend of Mine
This was one of the first videos I posted here, but I had recorded it off of the TV screen and the quality was very bad. Now that I can dub from VHS to DVD and then record from that, I have made a better copy. It seems appropriate to close the "Paul videos" with this recording of the song that he wrote for David's memorial service.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
New Puppies!
The SPCA is going through a population explosion and ended up with FORTY-FOUR puppies that needed temporary foster homes, so I ended up taking four lab/retriever mix puppies. It's supposed to be only for overnight. They are very cute...but exhausting!
Friday, March 03, 2006
Sedona, Part 8
Finally, here is the "last act" of Sedona, Arizona, where Paul wraps it all up and talks about what happened at the show he put on in Sedona.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Sedona, Part 7
Paul discusses his marriage and human cruelty to helpless creatures.
(This is the second to the last in this series)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Sedona, Part 6
Paul discusses his life after David's death, his relationship with lesbians, and God's answer to a prayer
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Sedona, Part 5
This is the one that's difficult for me to watch, where he discusses my sister's death and his brother's death.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Visiting Grandma
Walt's mother has been in a convalescent hospital for a few weeks, following her release from the regular hospital for treatment of a fractured coccyx. We stopped by to have a visit with her on Sunday and then went to a birthday brunch at a local cafe. (It was Walt's birthday that day, mine the previous week, his sister's the week before that.) This video may be more of interest to folks in the family than to anybody else.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
SaysYou
We flew to LA for a taping of the radio show, "Says You" (one of the panelists is a familiar face to bloggers: Tony Kahn). I don't know if I could officially do any videotaping, but I got braver as the evening progressed.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
When Walt was 50
I'm taking a break from the Sedona videos because February 26 is Walt's (my husband) birthday. He will be 66, but when he was 50, I threw him the birthday party to end all birthday parties. I dubbed the VHS tape today and decided to put part of it onto a video to remind him of what a good day it had been.
The thing was a roast. There were more than 100 people at the theatre where it was held. There was lots of music and I was so pleased with how it all turned out.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Sedona, Part 4
Paul and Audra leave Sedona and head for Los Angeles, where Paul discovers something surprising about his spirituality.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Sedona, Part 3
In this segment, Paul discusses the residents of Sedona and his examination of the famous vortexes.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Sedona, Part 2
In this video, Paul explains how he came to decide to go to Sedona--and how he almost died on the way.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Sedona, Arizona 1
In 1996, after David died, Paul put on his first monologue show, "Morbid Self-Attention," where he charged his friends to come to the theatre and listen to him talk about is favorite subject: himself and what he had been feeling since David's death.
There were other monologue shows and the last was Sedona, Arizona, Paul's search for spirituality. There are mixed feelings among the family about these shows, but the one thing that is undeniable--the kid knew how to reach an audience. There was a lot of Spalding Gray in him.
Sedona had wonderful response from everyone who saw it. It is funny, sad, emotional, powerful. You laugh one minute and cry another.
The response to Sedona was so positive that Paul decided to film it and try to market it. He did the show for an audience and filmed it and the plan was to add music in between the various segments of the show. In fact, the morning of his death, he had called band members to set up a recording session to work on the music for the show.
Well, Paul never had a chance to try to market Sedona, Arizona but now that I have it on DVD, I decided to post it on the Internet. There are 8 different segments and I'm going to post one segment a day. I think the first one is the weakest, the 5th one is the most emotional. But the whole thing is still very good and each segment runs from 5 to 10 minutes in length.
So today, I'm posting Sedona, Arizona, Part 1, in which Paul discusses barbershops and introduces his search for spirituality.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Test DVD movie
We now have a DVD burner and I have burned my first VHS tape onto DVD (I'm so excited!). I'm testing a program for ripping that DVD into .avi format. Since it's a trial program, I could only get a 5 minutes worth of film and the first 2 minutes was not what I wanted to use. So here is about 2 minutes worth of the band Lawsuit at a club in San Francisco on St. Patrick's day in 1996.
Test DVD movie
We now have a DVD burner and I have burned my first VHS tape onto DVD (I'm so excited!). I'm testing a program for ripping that DVD into .avi format. Since it's a trial program, I could only get a 5 minutes worth of film and the first 2 minutes was not what I wanted to use. So here is about 2 minutes worth of the band Lawsuit at a club in San Francisco on St. Patrick's day in 1996.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Birthday Cards
I've discovered that you can have your card and recycle it too. As with our Christmas cards, I've also made a slide show out of the greetings I received for my birthday.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Refuge
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Biking in Australia
Biking in Australia
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
My Mother's Dove
My Mother's Dove
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Birthday Celebration #1
My birthday is in 2 days, and today my mother took me to lunch.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Monday, February 13, 2006
Valentine Cake
I was asked to make a Valentine cake, so I decided to videotape the process. Understand that I used to do this semi-professionally and was a LOT more professional than this!
Sunday, February 12, 2006
The Internet Community
InternetCommunity
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
First Signs of Spring
It was such a beautiful day yesterday, I went out to see where Spring was beginning to spring.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Fears of your Life
Fears of your Life
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Trip to New Norcia
Trip to New Norcia
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This is a trip we took to New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town, now an historic place. It was spring in Australia and all the canola fields were in bloom. A beautiful day!
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The Audition
I don't expect anybody will find this interesting except me, but I was going through some old video yesterday and came across this clip of Paul rehearsing for a movie or TV audition. (It looks like it might have been for a commercial)
Was he ever that young...?
Was he ever that young...?
Monday, February 06, 2006
No More Fosters
No More Fosters
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I just happened to be videotaping, so was able to get the attack on Kimba on tape (though it ends very abruptly, since I had to drop the camera to go after Sheila!)
Music for this is called "Bump as You Go," written by Ned about his dog, Bert, who died suddenly on Christmas Day, while Ned and Marta were in Hawaii.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
KingsPark
I'm sorry that I didn't realize, 3 years ago, when I went to Australia, that I would eventually get into video. It frustrates me to have so little of that trip recorded on video. But this is a snippet of Kings Park, overlooking Perth.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
ProductTesting
ProductTesting
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Friday, February 03, 2006
Happy birthday, David
Happy birthday, David
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Thursday, February 02, 2006
"The Drawer"
"The Drawer"
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
AVtest
I now have a little AIPTEK DV4500, a "toy camera," (thank you) which saves to SD cards and uses AA batteries. It also fits in my pocket. It's more convenient to use, but not quite as good quality as the other one, but it sure is more convenient, and easier to film myself with the camera held at arm's length. This is a "nothing" movie--just a test to see how it all works and check the quality. It was a gray day, so not really a good test of the color quality
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Getting Lazy
I guess I'm lazy this week. I haven't made any videos, other than Concetta's birthday. Actually, the tape on that one had a glitch on it, so I need to buy a new tape and that is partly the reason why I haven't spent any time on videos.
Thing is, I have a couple of ideas of things I'd like to do, so first chance I get, I'll have to get out and get some more tape and try making a video again.
It's not that I have the most interesting videos on the internet, but I at least have consistent, regular, expectable contributions and if I start posting irregularly, I will lose too many of my 7 viewers.
Thing is, I have a couple of ideas of things I'd like to do, so first chance I get, I'll have to get out and get some more tape and try making a video again.
It's not that I have the most interesting videos on the internet, but I at least have consistent, regular, expectable contributions and if I start posting irregularly, I will lose too many of my 7 viewers.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Concetta turns 65
Concetta65
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Surprise!
I have no video for today. I looked at the two that I have waiting in the wings and decided that they were crap and would be posted only to keep the "one-a-day" record going, so I've decided to take a day off.
I'm sure the world will go into mourning, but...well...that's life.
I'm sure the world will go into mourning, but...well...that's life.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Happy Birthday, Paul
Happy Birthday, Paul
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Pine Ridge Winery
We took a tasting tour of the Pine Ridge Winery on the Silverado Trail in Napa. It included instructions on pruning vines and information about the barrels stored in the winery's caves (which we visited), an in-cave wine tasting, as well as tasting in the usual tasting area. Really an interesting tour.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Up and Down the Silverado Trail
Up and Down the Silverado Trail
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Old Film
I really kind of liked the way I chopped up Thanksgiving into three different little movies--but I never got this one posted, so I'm posting it today. In this video you see how my mother imported a non-family member to stand up for her against her disrespectful grandchildren.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Sunday, January 22, 2006
English lessons
English lessons
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David and his friend Jeff took it upon themselves to teach Victor English. Every day after school they would get together and try to teach him to speak English, and not only did he begin to learn, but a close friendship developed.
We lost track of Victor, but years later he got word of David's death and showed up at our door on the day of his memorial service, tears streaming down his face. We haven't seen him since that day.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Take a Turkey...
Turkeysoup
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Friday, January 20, 2006
Kimba
I found an old video of young kimba, about 16 years ago. I'd forgotten she was so thin and so cute!
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Piano Lessons
Piano Lessons
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Living through History
Living through History
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
The Jagged Tree
The Jagged Tree
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Monday, January 16, 2006
CircusTrain
CircusTrain
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
In the Still of the Night
In the Still of the Night
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
MyDay
Walt tells me that when I post links from YouTube, they don't show up for him, but that these DailyMotion links do, so I'll go back to DailyMotion.
I made this video for two reasons. One was because Walt asks me every night "what did you do all day?" and I thought I should let him know, and also because Susan of KityKity.com posts a video each day called "My life in 5 second increments" and I thought it would be fun to parody her.
Try not to get too worked up over this.
I made this video for two reasons. One was because Walt asks me every night "what did you do all day?" and I thought I should let him know, and also because Susan of KityKity.com posts a video each day called "My life in 5 second increments" and I thought it would be fun to parody her.
Try not to get too worked up over this.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Masks
I was just playing around with some old photos today. I kind of like this one, but it's just kind of strange.
Monday, January 09, 2006
Superman3
The kids made "Superman," they tell me, 3 times. They are getting older and trying more sophisticated things in this version (but not THAT much more sophisticated!)
Lord help us if I ever figure out how to transfer VHS tape to my computer. There are YEARS worth of home movies.
Lord help us if I ever figure out how to transfer VHS tape to my computer. There are YEARS worth of home movies.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Family Treasures
Family Treasures
Originally uploaded by basykes
(P.S. -- LATTE HAS A HOME!!!!!)
Saturday, January 07, 2006
The Last of Latte
The Last of Latte
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Friday, January 06, 2006
Nannie and the Piano
Nannie and the Piano
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We'll never know.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
When you care enough to send the very best
I started this three years ago. We get so many photo cards at Christmas. Just like all of you, we watch our friends' kids grow up in our mailbox each year.I never know what to do with them. You can't keep them all (can you?) but I did the next best thing...I started scanning them and arranging into a slide show.
This is our 2005 edition.
Flash version is here.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
JimminyGrasshopper
JimminyGrasshopper
Originally uploaded by basykes
Too bad the "Daily Motion" snap that they chose for the thumbnail happened to come in the middle of a dissolve so it looks more like abstract art than a real photo.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Indy and the Goose
Indy and the Goose
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Here Indy, a herding dog, tries to herd a goose, who isn't having any of it.
Monday, January 02, 2006
The Bird Tree
The Bird Tree
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Did you know that if a black cockatoo sings, it's going to rain?
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Bush Walk
One of my very favorite things to do when I was in Australia in 2003 was to take the dogs (German Shorthair Pointers, Keno and Chippa) to the bush in the morning to go for their run (for Chippa) and walk (for Keno). Peggy and I would be out at 6 a.m., occasionally earlier, just when the sun was coming up. We drove to a park and then to the back of the park, which opened onto the bush land that was part of Pinaroo Cemetery. The place was filled with birds and rabbits and kangaroos. I only saw roos in the place where we walked twice, but we could look down onto the cemetery land and see them lounging on the graves, and sometimes we walked down to the graves area to let the dogs run (not on the graves, but on the grassy area along the sides).
No roos in this movie, but the thing I loved most about those times was watching Chippa running through, around, and over the bushes and there is a lot of that here.
No roos in this movie, but the thing I loved most about those times was watching Chippa running through, around, and over the bushes and there is a lot of that here.
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