ah, the places I have lived

brunette or blond (often) after I lived in NYC

MINNESOTA (then known as Tracy DeMeyer)

After Automatic disbanded in 1982, I joined Will Sumner's Tropic Zone in Minneapolis. My friend and roommate Charlie had recommended me and he was my agent who would eventually own and operate the Norshor nightclub in downtown Duluth which he renovated.
I packed up and moved to Minneapolis and moved in with a soundman Denny who worked at Prince's nightclub First Avenue. I did get to go there and hang out often...Denny toured the country with lots of big name rock bands.
First Avenue is most known from the Prince movie Purple Rain. It inspired the "Minneapolis music scene," a mix of funk, punk and alternative musics acts that hit national prominence in the 80's. Such acts as Prince, The Time, Vanity, Appollonia & Sheila E on the funk side. Husker Du, The Replacements, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks & The Suburbs on the punk and alternative side.

I think First Avenue nightclub shut down eventually but I'm not sure.

History

Here's Tropic Zone performing after I was let go*... (soon after I moved out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1983.) Their new lead singer Ron McCray sounded just like Al Jarreau. I don't think any video exists of me singing with them but I did backup vocals on a new song they recorded at Minnesota Public Radio studios shortly after I left the band. Will told me I'd be back in the band if they ever made it big. (nice guy) (They were called latin-jazz and Brazilian Rock and famous in the Twin Cities but never nationally... Will moved out to CA and is still a musician there.)

*I was let go after Thanksgiving in 1982 after Ron sat in with us on a song. That my friends is the music business. It can kill you if you let it. I didn't get in another band after that: I was too broken. Friends told me I never should have joined Tropic Zone since it wasn't a good fit for my voice and singing. I agree. (maybe more later)

https://www.willsumner.com/

Twin Peaks: What Changed In The Revival

I guess I better go back in time and rewatch all the old stuff first (I kinda remember it back when I lived in Seattle...)
and the artist who created it all ↓

A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film

you might want to...

A new generation of workers needs a new workplace manual designed to explain the particular norms, boundaries, and expectations of the contemporary office environment and help them navigate the cutthroat reality of a cubicled 9 to 5. Enter Stop Tweeting Boring Sh*t, a handbook of vintage-style public service announcements addressing modern office issues, including such gems as: “If you don’t have something nice to say, e-mail it,” “If it doesn’t have a meeting invite, it didn’t happen,” ... it has to be out there to buy... BOOM

diarrhea tweeting?

This sounds painful.... hope its not catchy

If all of this were confined to Twitter and blogs with names that sound like they’re definitely going to give you a virus, it’d be hardly worth mentioning.
So read about Trump Conspiracy Tweets

ah leah

You might be wondering why I posted this? It was on the Automatic song list and we rocked it... BOOM!

baadaboom

Source: MY TUMBLR IS BETTER THAN YOURS

Great chart for essential oil application

☀️ The Th☮ught B☮mb ☀️: Great chart for essential oil application

Appeciation Friday: Sidney Nolan.the trial.

The trial-Ned Kelly Series - Google Arts & Culture https://t.co/SXo1XCiBbs via @googlearts

— http:LaraTraceHentz (@Trace15) April 2, 2017

Sidney Nolan is one of my favorites (always will be)
Torn between being a poet and an artist (sounds familiar)

Earlier post:

appreciation-friday-artist-sidney-nolan

.inspired.

we're packing... BOOM

we cannot afford him

Mar-a-Lago

$3.3 million

Estimated cost of each weekend trip by President Trump to Mar-a-Lago

$85,000

Daily overtime pay for county and city police officers when Trump is in town

• $200,000 Up front cost for membership (doubled after the election)
  
• 500 Members of Mar-a-Lago, where membership records are private
  
• $65,000 Cost so far to one small skywriting business which can’t fly on the weekends
  

Source: Government Accountability Office; Palm Beach County; Skywords Advertising 

 

Travel and security

$58 million

Estimated annual cost of protecting Melania and Barron Trump in Trump Tower

$23 million

Estimated amount spent on Mar-a-Lago travel in the first 10 weeks of his presidency

• $97 million Estimated travel costs for Barack Obama’s entire eight-year term
  

NYPD; Judicial Watch; Government Accountability Office

 

you can't make this stuff up!

Trump on Assad: "He’s there, and I guess he’s running things, so I guess something should happen" https://t.co/jCByO4eOYv pic.twitter.com/Tcaw9hkfIw

— POLITICO (@politico) April 6, 2017

crazy shot on air force one from reuters pic.twitter.com/ZyMAKBQKPy

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 6, 2017

it's a boondoggle in DC

President Trump gives Steve Bannon’s seat on the National Security Council to Rick Perry pic.twitter.com/FZoFauhHAu

— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 6, 2017

rest in peace funnyman Don Rickles

dean martin and don rickles pic.twitter.com/AmTqOXRrj3

— julia 🐑 (@juliakszry) April 6, 2017

Monk's Mound

Monk's Mound. You know how people treat the very existence of the Great Pyramid in Egypt as one of history's most confounding mysteries?

Well, Cahokia's pyramid dwarfs that one, both in size and in degree of difficulty. The mound contains more than 2.16 billion pounds of soil, some of which had to be carried from hundreds of miles away, to make sure the city's giant monument was vividly colored. To put that in perspective, all 13 million people who live in the state of Illinois today would have to carry three 50-pound baskets of soil from as far away as Indiana to construct another one.

"What if we built a middle finger large enough to flip off God?"

So why does Egypt get millions of dollars of tourism and Time Life documentaries dedicated to their boring old sand pyramids, while you didn't even know about the giant blue, red, white, black, gray, brown and orange testament to engineering and human willpower just outside of St. Louis? Well, because the Egyptians know how to treat one of the Eight Wonders of the World.

America, on the other hand, appears to be trying to figure out how to turn it into a parking lot.
VIA 


And if you must know more (and you do) read THIS

Thursday Scoops : DNA, TREES, GREEN GOOD

1. DIY DNA Tests Are The New Thing.

You no longer need to pause a Netflix binge to test your DNA for genetic disease risk. 23andMe, a company backed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is now offering the first approved, at-home DNA test without any doctor involvement. That means you can easily know if your microscopic human code (which looks kinda like a curly fry or churro) contains risk factors for diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson's. As the delivery box for this revolutionary test says: “Welcome to you.”

WAIT!!! NO SO FAST!
And 23andMe will carry on selling people's genetic info to Pharmaceutical firms... [see https://www.google.co.uk/amp/gizmodo.com/of-course-23andmes-business-plan-has-been-to-sell-your-1677810999/amp … ] 

This forest overhead shot looks like broccoli.

2. There Are This Many Species Of Trees On Earth. You wouldn't think a comprehensive study of the world’s trees from Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) could be riveting, but here we are. We now know there are 60,065 (!!!) species of our trunky-dory friends in the world. For some context: There is one species of the cheeky primate called human, Sapiens. The 500 member organizations of BGCI compiled the digitized list of the tree species, including geographic data showing where each species lives. This data will not only serve useful for tree-huggers seeking to hug certain species of trees, but also for conservationists who want to save endangered species from human-caused deforestation.

We're winding up in a good place.

3. Clean Energy Investment Is Down... And That's A Good Thing.

A new report says clean energy investment in 2016 was less than 2015, which sounds like bad news... until you realize less money was spent on a higher amount of clean energy. The monetary cost of renewable energy (solar and wind, notably) has decreased, becoming competitive with non-renewable sources. Social costs should always be taken into account, too — and burning fuel or coal that releases toxins into our air or water isn’t exactly a social pick-me-up. This report is pretty optimistic for the future of clean energy. Even as the United States government turns its patriotic back on Mother Nature, the sheer force of price (my high school economy class was surprisingly helpful) is driving continued foreign and private adoption of the green good.