Okay, well, no, that isn’t really my life pictured above.

At least, not these days. (But oddly enough, that does reflect summers throughout my childhood.)

Okay!!

Prior to my childhood…

73 years ago, on this very day!! At this very synagogue:

My adoptive parents were married! And even while they ended up really really REALLY not liking each other at all as the years went by…. (I can’t tell you how mildly I am stating that)…

On their wedding day, they were truly in love (and for several years afterward).

When I was growing up (while they were still married, that is), I loved when June 7th, their anniversary, rolled around because my mom would bring out their huge wedding album and I just loved looking at all the old photos from their wedding day. I especially loved my mom’s wedding gown.

Once my parents got divorced, the wedding album came into my possession (my mom wanted to throw it out but I rescued it from the trash) and I still have it. And I still love looking through it.

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Okay. Here’s this!!

This photo was taken on Thursday night, but I saw it yesterday (Friday) morning and I immediately sent it to Valerie in Brooklyn!!

This is one of Keith’s daughters that he had with his wife Patti. And during the time when Keith and Patti’s daughters were really young, Valerie was hired by the renowned interior designer (and wife of Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records), Mica Ertegun, to do a bunch of specialty painting and murals inside Keith and Patti’s (at the time) new home in Connecticut.

Everyone in the universe LOVES Valerie. I cannot emphasize this enough. She is the most likable person on planet Earth. Even her dealers — not to imply that she ever got anywhere near any sort of illicit substances that would require some sort of “dealer” — however, even her dealers love Valerie and can’t wait to just hang out with her.

And when they met her, Keith’s daughters were crazy about her, and called her Big Val, and invited her to have tea with them in their tree house. So she did!

Okay. That, alone, has always amused me because Valerie is 6 ft. 2 inches tall, and always weighs in the vicinity of 190 lbs. I cannot imagine a little kids’ treehouse supporting her weight long enough to “have tea”.

Anyway!! I totally digress!

I sent this photo to Valerie because I couldn’t believe how much Alexandra looks like Keith in this specific photo! (She usually looks more like Patti.) (This is a selfie she took on her way to an event, then posted to Instagram.) I just love it!!

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So, as luck would have it!!!

I discovered that “Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories”, that show I recently loved on Netflix, was a continuation of a show that ran for 3 seasons on Japanese television, before it was picked up and produced by Netflix Japan for 2 more seasons.

The original show is also carried on Netflix.

So now I get to keep watching the show!! I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. And the 3 previous seasons are just as good — and have the same characters — as the final 2 seasons that I fell in love with.

(Honoring the original show in Tokyo, back in 2015.) (2 minutes)

Wow.

I just looked at the time. And I seriously gotta scoot!! So, here’s this!!

Seriously, this is truly one of my “absolutely all-time favorite Nick Cave photos of all time”. I actually have TWO of these photos (of different sizes) stuck to different areas of my wall…

And FOUR more days until Nick Cave’s Solo Tour of Europe (with bass player) kicks off in Switzerland! (If you’re lucky, you might be able to buy tickets for the tour here.)

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And here’s this!

Part of my front porch with flowers yesterday — and KonTiki of the Great Outdoors!!

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And now I gotta fly!!

Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Our new Daily Feature continues!

Gifts Keith Richards gave me when I was a wee bonny girl!!

Wherein I regale you with “songs Keith loved, that he would talk about in an interview in some magazine, and then I’d go out and try to find the record and then buy it with my babysitting money, and then I’d listen to it alone in my intense little room, playing it on the portable record player that my dad bought me, and the song would change my life. “

Today’s selection!! 

I was a little older when I first heard Keith talking about this guy, but I really loved Jimmy Cliff’s music after that, as well as the film of the same name, “The Harder They Come”.

Jimmy Cliff, “The Harder They Come”, 1972. Enjoy, gang.

“The Harder They Come”

Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you’re born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry

So as sure as the sun will shine
I’m gonna get my share now, what’s mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all

Well, the oppressors are trying to keep me down
Trying to drive me underground
And they think that they have got the battle won
I say forgive them Lord, they know not what they’ve done

‘Cause, as sure as the sun will shine
I’m gonna get my share now, what’s mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all

And I keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you’re dead you can’t
But I’d rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave

So as sure as the sun will shine
I’m gonna get my share now, what’s mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all
Hey, the harder they come
Harder they fall, one and all
What I say now
What I Say now

What I say now
What I say, one time
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all

c – 1972 – Jimmy Cliff