If you love American music, find and watch Muscle Shoals: The Incredible True Story Of a Small Town With a Big Sound. It features Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, Steve Winwood, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Cliff, Percy Sledge and Wilson Picket but the real stars are the session players whose names you never knew. Available on Netflix streaming.
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Sarah Jarosz at Twisted Oak Winery
I didn’t get a chance to post about it earlier but man, what a show to kick off the season at Twisted Oak Winery! Sarah Jarosz with Alex Hargreaves on fiddle and Nathaniel Smith on cello played two fantastic sets that set a very high bar for coming shows.
The encore brought everyone up to the stage (if only to keep warm) for Tom Waits’ quasi-gospel song, “Come On Up To the House”. A fine way to end a special evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzapgZI5SEc
Our Diet Has Been Based On Bad Science
This article in the Wall Street Journal asks the excellent question, Are Butter and Cheese Really Bad For You?
The fact is, there has never been solid evidence for the idea that these fats cause disease. We only believe this to be the case because nutrition policy has been derailed over the past half-century by a mixture of personal ambition, bad science, politics and bias.
It looks like it’s the foods that we’ve been eating instead of fats (grains, oils and sugar) that have been doing us harm.
What have I gotten myself into?
This is where painting the entire inside of the house begins.
The Funniest Post That Should Scare You To Death
Think that there is someone who can actually fix your computer or website? Think again. This article by Peter Welch explains all.
The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.
Read the whole thing: http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/programming-sucks/