Simon & Garfunkel

I didn't use Kodachome of this era, but I think my father did once he bought a Leica IIIa in Wisconsin after World War II service. The Peter Apo post was kinda slow, so here's a live Simon & Garfunkel medley that's Monday morning lively. Kodachrome. If you used it, you were a serious photographer, even if you were "just an amateur." I've long since surrendered to the digital camera wave, but every now and then I dig out my 1960's Kodachromes and I'm off chasing "Maybell... MORE

"Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Up in my bedroom (making love)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed
Someone's taken my place"    

Petros (Greek):  rock ... Lapides (Latin): stone; rock ... So I guess I am a rock... "A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Don't talk of love,
Well, I've hea... MORE

My last post drew some interesting Flak, so I'm playing it safe, with a "Hippie Era," butterfly-light tune. I did wonder if Paul Simon was under some chemical influence when he wrote this song, but it's a natural high for most. I'm pretty far from New York City, Central Park, or the continental U.S., but here's something for a sunnny-turned-cloudy Father's Day Sunday.  

An interesting "Demo" version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" highlighting what Paul was referring to in the previous post

An Everly Brothers original, here's a late entry for Cover Sunday. Simon & Garfunkel did "a neighborhood concert" in New York City's Central Park in 1981 and left an audio/video treasure. A Date Movie per se won't make you notorious, but Susie and her date are "in the soup," nevertheless.

I think the 60's had a lot to offer its youth unlike today. i mean drug wise it was i different thing in some ways the 60's drugs were a religious experience almost now today its more lets get fucking wasted. I'm not saying some people weren't like that then but it almost seems like everything meant more. Now people are rude and don't respect their elders like there parents or in my case grandparents would have. My grandpa says the only thing thats changed is the way we s... MORE

I'm Bridge Over Troubled Water!
Which Simon and Garfunkel album are you?

Here is a cute little sad song by Simon & Garfunkel. enjoy. :-)

S P A R R O W

Who will love a little Sparrow? Who's traveled far and cries for rest? "Not I," said the Oak Tree, "I won't share my branches with no sparrow's nest, And my blanket of leaves won't warm her cold breast." Who will love a little Sparrow And who will speak a kindly word? "Not I," said the Swan, "The entire idea is utterly absurd, I'd be laughed at and scorned if the other Swans heard." Who wil... MORE

"These are the very words

she usesTo describe her life She said a good day Ain't got no rain She said a bad day's when I lie in bed And think of the things that might have been " --"Slip Slidin' Away" by Simon and Garfunkel ================================== It doesn't look like it will rain.... ...but I am going back to bed.

Simon & Garfunkel tracks, once only available as A-track bootlegs, will now be making the live set Live 1969, due August 18th. The previously unreleased recordings are from the folk duos last tour before parting ways for the next decade and precedes their critically-lauded Bridge Over Trouble Water. Originally the live set was to be the follow-up to the 1970 album, but was put off till now, 37 years later. The disc is a collection of Simon & Garfunkel classics taken from... MORE

Big name musicians came out in honor of Paul Simon receipt of the Library of Congress' first Gershwin Award, recognizing contributions to the popular song as an art form. Paul Simon reunited with two major parts of his recording life Wednesday night in Washington D.C.'s Warner Theatre. Simon not only took the stage with his former songwriting partner Art Garfunkel, but also the Zulu choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo, his South African collaborators on Graceland. “I haven't... MORE

I wouldn't want to re-paint the Mona Lisa, or say something more interesting like Nude Descending A Staircase . They are fine as they are, and are perceived as even "finer" the longer history frames them. Why fuck with that? But actually, it's not even that-- it's more: why recreate when you can generate? I make music from the perspective of a visual artist-- and the thought of painting another person's work is just, well, strange. To try to paint a copy would only end... MORE