You know what happens when I miss a day of posting to the blog — I have too much stuff to try to catch up on!

Before I forget–

The electrician is coming here tomorrow morning at 9AM to replace the breaker panel, and the power will be shut off the whole time.

So chances are high that I won’t be posting here tomorrow, gang, but we shall see!

(I’m guessing that if I help him, it will go much faster!)

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And speaking of all these repairs and upgrades that I’ve been getting done to this old house on a grant from the USDA (my mortgage company)–

Guess what came in yesterday’s mail??? The annual statement for my mortgage. And guess what was on there??

Starting in May, my mortgage payments are going down!!

How the heck does that happen, gang? I was so thrilled to see that.

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Okay, here’s a big bunch of “here’s this’s” for today!

Ronnie Wood will be in concert in Amsterdam on September 7th, and tickets go on sale today!

You can buy them HERE.

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Sadly, this past Saturday, Augie Meyers passed away. And with his passing, now all of the Texas Tornados are gone, gang. What a great band they were!!

Loyal readers of this lofty blog perhaps recall that the Texas Tornados were a huge part of the soundtrack to our honeymoon, when Wayne & I got married and headed across the country in a rental car! Best song, EVER:

(RIP, everybody.)

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Okay. Here’s this.

And no! I am not jealous. At all. Why on Earth would I be? I have a perfectly good Honda Civic, I don’t need to ride on any fucking trains….

Nick Cave the other day, not smoking on a train:

And speaking of Nick Cave…

Why do I even bother to exist if I can’t get Sky TV??? I don’t get to see any of this stuff…

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Let’s be serious for a moment.

It looks like Keith may have had a boo-boo of some sort many years ago. He seems to be pointing at something that hurts:

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And here’s this!

Keith smoking, while accompanied by the Stones, somewhere at some point!!

And another shot from that great photo shoot in 1969!! (My whole girlhood is sort of encapsulated in that photo shoot, gang, even though I didn’t get my poster from it until late 1972.)

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Switching gears!!!

The New York Dolls on TV in 1973! I don’t know if they’re performing “Personality Crisis” here, but they very well could be:

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Another photo of a place I seriously dream of going to one day, gang!

Kafka’s house museum in Prague. Wow, I would so love to see this place!

(You know, the kind Board of Directors here in Crazeysburg stopped by my house recently and told me they’d like to turn my house into a house museum, honoring my long legacy of brilliant writing. They want to have all my books and papers and photos and furnishings on display. They thought the attraction could be a good money-maker for our tiny village and I was just thrilled!! I said, “Of course! Yes, of course!! I don’t mind the extra daily foot traffic!!” However, I wasn’t so happy with the fine print. In order for this to happen, I had to die. You know, like, soon.)

Just kidding.

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Okay!!

Nick Cave sent out a brief Red Hand File this morning that now requires that I go to the movie theater!! ASAP. Nick says, in part:

“And the answer was yes, angels do exist, in all their joy and fury.

“So, right now, my crucial question to you all is, ‘Have you seen EPiC, Baz Luhrmann’s new film of Elvis Presley in concert?’

“My best advice to you, Benny, and everyone else. Just go, truly, just go and see it…”

I have seen reviews for this film recently that said it was really great, but you know how I feel about movie theaters these days, gang. And all the movies I want to see end up being at a theater an hour away.

But after I read Nick’s Red Hand File this morning, I looked up EPiC online and it is playing at that theater in town that’s really close! It’s actually about 3 seconds from the Rural King. And it has plenty of show times, daily!! SO! I’m gonna go.

Meanwhile, you can read Nick’s Red Hand File in full here.

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And that’s it! I gotta head out to see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man on this rainy but delightful almost-Spring morning!

If I don’t see you here tomorrow, gang, rest assured I will be working on that short story. And thanking God for my new breaker panel that will not be a fire hazard to my humble, really, really old, home!!

Meanwhile, have a wonder-filled Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Let’s close with this beauty-filled gem!

The song wherein Nick Cave declared that he didn’t believe in the existence of angels, but he has now changed his mind!!

From one of my favorite albums of all time, The Boatman’s Call, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ “Into My Arms”. 1997. Enjoy, gang.

"In to My Arms"

I don’t believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I don’t believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that’s true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

But I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

c - 1997 Nick Cave