On Tuesday, the folks at Warner Brothers released a few still photos from the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
In addition, it’s now been learned that a 15-second trailer for the movie can be seen prior to the IMAX version of the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight.
Enjoy the Potter photos here.
Les Paul, born July 9, 1915, turns 93 today.
Without him, music may have taken a different path. Leo Fender would have still gone on to develop the solid-body guitar, and, eventually, someone else would have developed and perfected multi-track recording.
But who knows how long it would have taken. And who knows how much music the world would have missed. Anybody who’s enjoyed a popular recording made in the past 50 years likely owes a debt to Paul’s genius.
Happy birthday Les.
Here’s a bit of his genius from back in the day with then-wife Mary Ford:
My wife Brooke works for and organization called Rice Bowls.
It’s a nonprofit organization that feeds hungry children in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Please take the time to visit the Web site and consider giving a miniscule amount of time and a small amount of change to help feed some children, physically and spiritually.
Thanks.
PS … there’s a page on my blog permanently reserved for Rice Bowls. You can always get to the organization’s Web site through that page as well.
Isn't Ella J cute?
There’s a story on MSNBC.com that says researchers have discovered that for moms, seeing their own child smile “activates pleasure receptors in the brain typically associated with food, sex — and drug addiction.”
Before I left home for Reno some five weeks ago, a co-worker of mine who listens to a lot of the same music I like asked me, “Are you gonna shoot a man there?”
“I might,” I said.
“Just to watch him die?” he asked.
“Why else?” I replied.
He was of course referring to the line in Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.”
But then my co-worker went a little too far.
“You know, there’s something wrong with that song,” he said.
“What?” I asked.
“Well, if he shot a man in Reno, what the hell is he doing in prison in California? Wouldn’t he be in prison in Nevada?”
My reaction included a few choice words. He had permanently guaranteed that every time I heard that song, I wouldn’t be able to stop from asking myself the same question.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, while I was in Reno, someone took a shot at answering that question.
Caleb Cage of the Reno News & Review, a weekly paper, looked a little deeper into the story … or stories … behind the song in his story, “I shot a man in Reno,” in the July 3-9 issue.
If you like Johnny Cash at all, you should check it out. Then you should check out this 1959 performance of the song.
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