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So here is something interesting I discovered today - I may not be as big and round as I think I am
Cool news, huh? I find it very hard to believe.
Here's what happened - I put on a pair of jeans today that not only fit, but fit loosely. They are a size 8, Levi's Curvy 529 (LOVE these jeans, btw)
I started thinking that I wanted more britches that fit like this and maybe? I could even start looking at a size 6 ((be still my heart!!))
Anyway - went out to Levi's main website, plugged in Curvy 529 and found their new little Curve ID questionnaire. Kind of cool and very interesting. They have a few different ways of determining your 'curve factor' and what kind of jeans you may wish to wear.
Ok - fine. The first thing I tried was the quiz - A series of pictures are presented and you pick the one that you think most closely matches you.
I ended up with a Bold Curve - seemed to make sense to me as I have always had big thighs and a rounded rear with a smaller waist.
I then did the measurement test. Turns out my 'true' Curve ID is only Slight - not Bold or even Demi, but SLIGHT. Not only that - the tag line states "Celebrates straight figures"
WTH? Me? A straight figure? Since when?
Honestly, I would trust the measurements over 'eyeballing' some pictures and I measured a couple of times . But I am absolutely flabbergasted.
I guess this means my workouts have been effective.
Did the YMCA Christmas Fun Run on Saturday and am rather proud of myself. ;o)
I had thought my time was 1.12 - which is not bad for me, since I really hate running.
However, I just checked the postings and my chip time was.....
A Personal Best - Yeah!
So, today - for the first time since I joined SparkPeople, I was able to claim the 'Lost 5 pounds' trophy.
I have no idea where those pounds went - I am just happy I don't have them anymore!!
What has been working for me is pretty simple (as a concept anyway - darned difficult to actually DO!)
Pay attention to what I eat, especially how much &
Work my butt off (almost literally) ;o)
The Zumba classes have really made the difference for me. I'm doing anywhere from 3 to 6 hours of seriously high energy workouts each week, having FUN and (finally) losing the weight.
So, a few weeks ago we went on a short little vacation and didn't do much more than eat. Sure, we walked around a bit, but compared to what we ate - quite negligible. And man - was the food good.
Anyway - I managed to gain a bunch of weight by the time I got home. Now, I am tall enough that I can carry quite a bit of weight and not look anywhere near what the scale says. Doesn't mean I like to look at myself in the mirror - gak!
I resolved to get serious with the weight loss/exercise - pay very close attention to what I ate EVERY DAY and do 60 minutes of intense as close to every day as I could.
I am proud to say that it is working!!!! In the past 2 1/2 weeks, I have lost all of my vacation poundage plus a little bit more!!!
So, via Twitter, I found this blog:
which outlines how the author was ripped off by Cooks Source Magazine, both in their hardcopy version as well as the online and facebook versions.
Now, while I pretty sure this happens all of the time - the editor's response has generated a phenomenal reaction from the internet. It is really amazing to see how many hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people are up in arms about this.
You can check the exploding facebook page here:
Power to the People!!!


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California Dreaming: Pleasant Valley Sunday
With Headquarters, the Monkees had become a real band at last. Every guitar, keyboard, drum, or percussion part on the album, and all the vocals, was performed by one of the Monkees, with only bass, strings, and horns performed by session musicians. And even in the case of the bass parts, they'd been handled by people close to the band — either producer Chip Douglas, Douglas' old Modern Folk Quartet bandmate Jerry Yester, or John London, who had been in Michal Nesmith's pre-Monkees band Mike, John, and Bill.
However, working as a full band in the studio quickly became untenable. While Micky Dolenz was an imaginative drummer, he often took many takes to get a complete performance, and Davy Jones, who had been less keen than the others on the whole "real band" idea from the start, resented having to spend ten or twenty takes hitting a tambourine or playing maracas, just to make sure all four band members played on the track. Not only that, but the band's time was limited. They were recording their second twenty-two-episode TV series and regularly touring, and simply didn't have the time and energy for extended recording sessions.
But at the same time, the band didn't want to lose control of their own material, and Tork in particular wanted the band to remain a band, rather than a group of solo performers.
So early in the recording for Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd, the follow-up to Headquarters, a compromise was reached, in which there would effectively be a "studio Monkees" consisting of the two best instrumentalists in the band — Nesmith on guitar and Tork on keyboards — augmented by Douglas on bass and session drummer "Fast" Eddie Hoh. Jones would add percussion to those tracks that really required it, and Dolenz could add acoustic rhythm guitar or Moog where appropriate. The result allowed the Monkees themselves to retain control in the studio, and to provide the core of the instrumentation on their own records, while still being able to work quickly and produce tight, commercial, recordings.
Nowhere is this more evident than on Pleasant Valley Sunday, a track which all the surviving Monkees refer to as a favourite. This is unsurprising, as of all the Monkees' big hits, it's the one that allows every member of the band to have his moment in the spotlight.
The song was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and is a fairly typical piece of mid-60s Baby Boomer sneering at suburbia and materialism, mocking "Mr Green, he's so serene, he's got a TV in every room", and singing about how "creature comfort goals, they only numb my soul". While King's melody is, as always for her, superb, Goffin's lyric seems, frankly, a little mean-spirited with several decades' hindsight, and listening to King's demo one can hear something that might have become a pleasant album track in the manner of Early Morning Blues And Greens from Headquarters rather than an absolutely massive hit.
That the track is a success is down to Chip Douglas' arrangement. While previously the Monkees had followed King's demos precisely, replicating the backing track and copying her vocal harmonies, this time everything except the basic song was scrapped, and Douglas came up with a new arrangement using the same sense of dynamics that had made Happy Together such a success.
The track starts with a guitar riff, composed by Douglas but played by Nesmith, in the manner of the harder pop-rock records that had been coming out over the previous couple of years — it's reminiscent of the Beatles, but the Beatles of Day Tripper, Taxman, and, especially, I Want To Tell You. Dolenz comes in with one of his most successful vocal performances, and then in a masterstroke thought up by Tork, Nesmith starts doubling the vocal — while he occasionally sings harmony parts, for a large proportion of the song, Nesmith is singing in unison with Dolenz, and the band's two strongest vocalists' voices are blended into one "Monkee" voice.
Tork also gets his own moment to shine, in the middle eight, where his hammered, staccato, piano part manages to enliven what would otherwise be a very musically uninteresting section, and Jones gets a solo spot in the break after the middle eight, where he gets to sing-sneer a wordless verse of "ta ta-ta ta"s, in what may be his finest ever moment as a vocalist.
And then there's that ending, when Chip Douglas and engineer Hank Cicalo push the faders up well past the point where the track becomes a mass of distortion, creating the most psychedelic thing the Monkees had ever done.
Pleasant Valley Sunday was by far the Monkees' best single to date, from their best album — an album as consistent as Revolver or Pet Sounds. Unfortunately, it was also their least successful single to that point, "only" getting to number three in the US charts rather than number one — although being kept off the top spot by All You Need Is Love and Light My Fire is nothing to be ashamed of. Although they didn't yet know it, the Monkees' career had peaked…
Pleasant Valley Sunday
Composer: Gerry Goffin & Carole King
Line-up: Micky Dolenz (vocals, acoustic guitar), Michael Nesmith (vocals, guitar), Peter Tork (piano), Davy Jones (vocals, percussion), Bill Chadwick (acoustic guitar), Chip Douglas (bass), Eddie Hoh (drums)
Original release: Pleasant Valley Sunday/Words The Monkees, ColGems 1007
Currently available on: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd (Deluxe Edition), Rhino Handmade CD
California Dreaming: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
The Monkees wanted to be real boys.
Or, at least, some of them did. Peter Tork had joined the band in the belief that he would actually be joining a band — a group of people who would play music together. He'd found that he was relegated to the occasional comedy vocal for the most part, although Michael Nesmith did, when he was producing tracks for the band, allow Tork to be one of several rhythm guitar players on the records. Peter Tork wanted to be a real musician.
Nesmith was less bothered about playing instruments on the records than Tork was, although he would have preferred to be playing on the records than not. What Nesmith wanted was control — other than the couple of songs per album he was allowed to write and produce (but not allowed to play on), he had no artistic input into the records that were going out with his name and face on them. He felt like a fraud, and thought the band's second album More of the Monkees, which had been released without the band's knowledge, was the worst album ever made, and he wasn't shy about telling anyone, even journalists, his views. Michael Nesmith wanted to be a real artist.
Micky Dolenz, meanwhile, was less bothered. He was an actor first and foremost, even though he was the lead vocalist on the band's most memorable songs. But he wanted to support his colleagues, and he was also fascinated by the idea that something created as a fictional band in a sitcom could become a real, working band — to use an analogy Dolenz has used many times since, he thought it was as if Leonard Nimoy had actually gone into space. Micky Dolenz wanted to be a real Vulcan.
The problem was that the people in control of the Monkees' music had other ideas. Don Kirshner, the music publisher whose job was to commission songwriters and producers to make the Monkees' records, had very strong ideas about what could and couldn't be a hit, and Peter Tork (a banjo-playing folkie with pitching problems) and Michael Nesmith (a country singer who wrote wilfully abstruse psychedelic hillbilly music) were not, to his mind, people who should be allowed anywhere near a recording studio. Their job, in Kirshner's view, was to mime the instrumental parts while Micky or Davy sang, and the song should be one by Neil Sedaka or Carole Bayer Sager or someone equally reliable.
The tensions between the band and Kirshner increased to the point where, in a meeting between the band, Kirshner, and record-label head Herb Moelis, who sided with Kirshner, Nesmith punched his hand through a wall and said to Moelis "that could have been your face, motherfucker".
Surprisingly, this negotiating tactic worked, and the band were allowed to go into the studio and record for themselves. Nesmith's friend Chip Douglas, who had quit the Turtles almost immediately after arranging Happy Together for them, became their producer, and with Tork on harpsichord, Nesmith on guitar, Dolenz on drums, Davy Jones on tambourine, and Nesmith's friend John London on bass, they recorded two songs — All Of Your Toys, by another friend of Nesmith, Bill Martin, which was earmarked as a potential single, and Nesmith's The Girl I Knew Somewhere, a wonderful swamp-baroque-pop track somewhere halfway between the Sir Douglas Quintet and The Left Banke.
The agreement with Don Kirshner was that the band would be allowed to play on at least one side of every single they released. Kirshner, however, had other plans, and so while the other three Monkees holidayed at the beginning of February 1967, Davy Jones flew to New York, where he recorded lead vocals on several tracks produced by Jeff Barry.
Kirshner had promised Barry and songwriter Neil Diamond that if I'm A Believer, their previous contribution to the Monkees, went to number one, they would have the follow-up single. It did, and so Jones, who unlike the others was perfectly happy with Kirshner and just saw himself as an actor, went into the studio and recorded vocals for six songs, of which the obvious hit was Diamond's Latin-flavoured A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, a song whose conciliatory message ("I'm a little bit wrong/you're a little bit right") many of the people involved in the Monkees project at that point could have done well to listen to.
The song was clearly going to be a massive hit — not only was it written by Neil Diamond (then just on the verge of his later massive stardom, but already the writer of the Monkees' previous hit) but it was the first single to feature Davy Jones, who had quickly become the band's heartthrob, on vocals.
In fact, it was going to feature Jones on both sides, as Kirshner had no intention of letting the music that the band had recorded on their own ever see the light of day. Kirshner chose Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich's song She Hangs Out as the B-side, and had picture covers featuring both titles printed up.
Without the band's knowledge, the single was released to DJs (and at least a few copies apparently made it to shops in Canada) with the label saying '"My Favorite Monkee" Davy Jones Sings'. The Monkees' third massive hit would have even less of their involvement than the second, where the band were at least allowed to do all the vocal parts.
This not unreasonably incensed the band members, and so the single was withdrawn, and reissued with The Girl I Knew Somewhere on the B-side. Kirshner and his employees may have made the Monkees stars, but his puppets no longer needed anyone pulling their strings. Don Kirshner's involvement with the Monkees project was at an end.
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Composer: Neil Diamond
Line-up: Davy Jones (vocals), Neil Diamond (backing vocals), Al Gorgoni, Don Thomas, & Hugh McCracken (guitars), Lou Mauro (bass), Artie Butler & Stan Free (keyboards), Herb Lovelle (drums), Tom Cerone (tambourine), unknown handclaps and additional backing vocals
Original release: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You/She Hangs Out, The Monkees, Colgems 66-1003
Currently available on: Music Box Rhino CD, plus innumerable compilations.
California Dreaming: So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star?
But is it about the Monkees or not?
With Gene Clark gone from the band, the Byrds' star was fading. Without their lead singer and most commercial songwriter, their last two singles had only reached numbers 44 and 36 in the charts. Their imperial phase had only lasted a little under a year, between Mr Tambourine Man and Eight Miles High and the pop audience was already on the lookout for the next big thing.
So it's unsurprising that the new wave of teen idol pop stars was something that the Byrds looked on with, at best, ambivalence. While they were hardly an organic, dues-paying, band themselves (having not played on their first single, and having a drummer who was chosen for his looks rather than his playing ability), nonetheless it galled them when, as Roger McGuinn put it, "We were thumbing through a teen magazine and looking at all the unfamiliar faces and we couldn't help thinking: 'Wow, what's happening…all of a sudden here is everyone and his brother and his sister-in-law and his mother and even his pet bullfrog singing rock 'n' roll.'"
This experience inspired McGuinn and Chris Hillman to write a song mocking all these youngsters who were becoming rock stars by just having the right hair and attitude. Hillman had gone from not being a songwriter at all when the band's first two albums were released to being their most prolific writer, and had come up with the bassline for the song while playing on a session for the trumpeter Hugh Masakela. Hillman and McGuinn then added the lyrics, which seem more passionate than crafted, with many lines having scansion that doesn't quite fit the melody.
To produce the single, and the album Younger Than Yesterday for which it was intended, the Byrds turned to Gary Usher, who knew a thing or two about manufactured bands himself, having spent his time since he stopped working with Brian Wilson on producing bands such as The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Silly Surfers, The Weird-Ohs, and The Hondells, often working for Ben-Ven Productions, an independent production company owned by Nik Venet and his business partner Fred Benson. Possibly more to the point, he had recently produced Gene Clark's first solo album.
Usher's more experimental attitude would soon help push the band into new areas very far from their original folk-rock sound, but here what we have is pure 1966, a band clearly moving on into new musical territory, but with enough similarities to their earlier work that nobody could mistake it for anyone else. The main clues that the Byrds were going in a new direction were the addition of Hugh Masakela's trumpet — the first time that the band had used brass on their recordings — and Chris Hillman's bass, which had previously been low in the mix, being promoted essentially to the status of a lead instrument. The song also used sound effects — audience screams that had been recorded by Derek Taylor during the band's 1965 UK tour– something that they had never done before. It's clearly an advance, albeit an incremental one, on the band's earlier recordings.
But there's a big controversy about the song, one that still raises its head to this day — is it about the Monkees?
Both McGuinn and Hillman have said it isn't, but songwriters aren't always the most reliable guides to their creations. And certainly Michael Nesmith thinks it isn't — he planned an interactive video (and later an interactive CD-ROM) based on the song in the 1980s. But it still ends up getting said, over and over, that it is.
It isn't, of course. While the Monkees were definitely in the news at the time (the day that the Byrds started work on this track, in fact, was the day that they got a gold record for their second single I'm A Believer, November 28 1966), the controversy about them not playing on their own records didn't start until Saturday 28th January 1967, when the Saturday Evening Post released an article "exposing" them.
In truth, the song is about the Monkees — but only to the same extent that it was about Dino, Desi, & Billy, the Grass Roots, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Paul Revere & The Raiders, or, indeed, the Byrds themselves. The coincidental timing of this single being released just as the Monkees' manufactured status became a big news item is actually to do with bigger cultural factors.
The end of 1966 and beginning of 1967 was the time when "pop" and "rock" were first starting to split from each other — a split which will play out over the course of the rest of this book. Rock was starting to be defined against pop — as "authentic" and "art", as opposed to "manufactured" and "commercial" pop. The Byrds' pop career was effectively over — they simply weren't having big hit singles any more — and so they had to position themselves as rock artists rather than pop stars if they wanted to continue to have any career at all. The Monkees, meanwhile, were the biggest new pop band, and so would automatically be seen as what the rock bands were defining themselves against, even if, as we shall see, the reality was somewhat different.
Either way, the controversy managed to get the Byrds back into the top thirty, but it wouldn't last. Their next single, a cover of Dylan's My Back Pages would be the band's last top forty hit. And there would soon be many more changes in the band…
So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star
Composer: Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman
Line-up: Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals), David Crosby (guitar, vocals) Chris Hillman (bass, vocals), Michael Clarke (drums), Hugh Masakela (trumpet)
Original release: So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star/Everybody's Been Burned, The Byrds, Columbia 4-43987
Currently available on: Younger Than Yesterday, Columbia Legacy CD
California Dreaming: Last Train To Clarksville
(note, I'm posting this and tomorrow's post backwards — this comes after Along Comes Mary in the book, but I've not finished that essay yet and have done this one).
"Madness!! Auditions. Folk & Roll musicians-singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running parts for 4 insane boys, age 17 – 21. Want spirited Ben Frank's-types. Have courage to work. Must come down for interview."
In late 1965, when Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider placed that ad in Variety, the idea of a TV show about a rock and roll band, something like A Hard Day's Night, had been in the air for a while. There had been talks with both Jan and Dean and the Lovin' Spoonful about creating shows for them, but things had fallen through or stalled. Rafelson and Schneider decided they were going to just cast four actors who could also sing as their ersatz Beatles. They would work with Columbia/Screen Gems, who would handle the music side of things, and all their "band" would have to do musically would be to add the lead vocals. They would be in control, and not have to worry about the artistic temperament of a bunch of musicians.
As it happened, while the advertisement brought in hundreds of auditionees, including Paul Williams, Bryan Maclean, Van Dyke Parks, and Danny Hutton, only one person was cast because of the ad, and that indirectly. Steve Stills had auditioned, but (depending on who you believe) either told them he was more interested in writing songs for the show than appearing, or was turned down after the second audition because of his crooked teeth. He suggested that if the producers liked him, they might like his friend, Peter Tork, with whom he was in a band called the Buffalo Fish at the time, as many people said that Tork and Stills could almost be brothers.
Tork was hired, but the other three members of the TV show's cast were known quantities. Michael Nesmith was a folk singer who had put out singles on ColPix, a label owned by Columbia/Screen Gems under the name Michael Blessing. Davy Jones had also put out an album on ColPix, and was signed to Columbia for development as a screen personality, as his show-stealing performances in the Broadway musical Oliver! and subsequent TV appearances had marked him out as precisely the sort of cute, wholesome, British teenager who would make a perfect teen heartthrob in the days of Beatlemania. Micky Dolenz, meanwhile, was a former child star who'd had his own TV series — and who had developed a seriously impressive vocal ability as he'd grown older.
While all four men could sing as well as act, pre-production on the series started before they were cast, and so in the pilot they mimed to tracks by the Candy Store Prophets, a band that were a side project of staff songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Once the show was picked up by NBC, though, they would be making their own music, or so they were led to believe.
In fact, Nesmith, the most insistent on having some musical input, was allowed to write and produce (but not play on) a handful of tracks, and to have Tork add rhythm guitar on his sessions, but for the most part the music for the show was to be written, produced, and performed by outsiders, and the band members were only to provide lead vocals. In fact the band's first producer, Snuff Garrett, intended to have only Jones sing on the tracks, but within a few days Garrett was replaced by Boyce and Hart.
Boyce and Hart and the Candy Store Prophets (Gerry McGee on guitar, Larry Taylor, formerly of the Gamblers, on bass, and Billy Lewis on drums), augmented by session musicians, would create finished tracks to which Dolenz or Jones would add lead vocals. Nesmith only sang on his own productions at this point, while Tork wasn't considered a viable lead vocalist, and neither man was especially happy about being squeezed out of the process of recording songs by a band they were supposedly in.
But at least at first it was hard to argue with the results of that process. Last Train To Clarksville, the Monkees' first single, is based loosely around the Beatles' Paperback Writer (Hart had misheard the title as "take the last train" when he heard it on the radio, and used that when he discovered the song's real title) but with the addition of a variant on the Day Tripper riff and a train-blues rhythm that gives it almost the feel of Smokestack Lightnin', if it had been recorded by LA pop musicians rather than Chicago blues ones. To top it off, and make sure the Beatles connection was obvious, it had a "no no no" chorus, apeing the Beatles' "yeah yeah yeah".
In keeping with the other musical trends of late 1965 and early 1966, the song was, to a first approximation, a protest song, sung from the point of view of a soldier leaving for the Vietnam war, wanting to meet his lover for the last time as "I don't know if I'm ever coming home". The need to make the song ambiguous (as the label and TV show certainly weren't in the business of making political statements) worked to the song's advantage, as did Micky Dolenz's vocal, which played up the innuendo of lines like "we'll have time for coffee-flavoured kisses and a little…conversation" rather than stressing the message, such as it was.
The end result was a song and performance that perfectly captured everything good about pop music in 1966, and when it was released (backed with the Monkees' version of Take A Giant Step) it started going up the charts even before the TV series premiered. Once the series was on the air, the number one spot was as good as theirs…
Last Train To Clarksville
Composer: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
Line-up: Micky Dolenz (vocals), Bobby Hart (backing vocals), Tommy Boyce (acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Gerry McGee, Wayne Erwin, and Louie Shelton (guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), Billy Lewis (drums), David Walters (percussion)
Original release: Last Train To Clarksville/Take A Giant Step, The Monkees, ColGems 66-1001
Currently available on: The Monkees Rhino CD, plus innumerable compilations.
Michael Nesmith, Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music
This will necessarily be brief, because I only had four hours of sleep last night and I was incoherent even before seeing one of my musical idols. But I promised people a report on the gig, so here it is.
Much like the Beach Boys gigs in Italy, today was a day of coincidences. We've got a few people doing a six-week residency at my work, and just as I was leaving, one of them pointed to my Monkees T-shirt and said to me "My girlfriend [in the USian usage, for friend-who-is-female] got married by one of them. Mike… Nesmith, is it?" — Nesmith had officiated at her friend's wedding. Not only that, but my colleague's husband turns out to be one of The Golden Dawn, a classic 60s garage-psych band I like. So that was nice.
And then at the gig, after buying myself a T-shirt and a cut-priced box set of Nesmith's last four albums (with free DVD), I took my seat — I had a great seat, third row centre. Not quite as close as Iain Lee's description of being so close to Nez at Glasgow that he could see the shape of his penis, but then frankly that's a good thing. Some things are better left to the imagination — or even better left unimagined.
I found myself sat next to the same person I'd been sat next to at the Monkees gig last year. I'm afraid I talked a bit too much at her, because when I'm this tired I have no filters, but on the upside she turned out to be a fan of classic Doctor Who and Canterbury scene prog, and generally to be a very interesting person. Who I'm sure I bored to death, but I shut up once Nesmith came on.
Nesmith's show is absolutely stunning. His voice is almost unchanged since the 70s, and those rough edges it does have just give it a worn, comforting quality that, if anything, improves it. And he's such a great natural singer that he manages to work around the limitations his age imposes in much the same way that someone like Tony Bennett does. He's got a gorgeous, rich baritone, and I hadn't realised just how *bloody good* he is until hearing him live.
He was backed by Joe Chemay, who he's played with since 1979 (and who also played with the Beach Boys in the late 70s), on bass and backing vocals, and by Charlie Judge on keyboards and computers.
Because Nesmith has *radically* rearranged some of these songs, to incorporate electronic soundscapes, beats and samples. This has been the most controversial decision of this tour, but it's both absolutely right and absolutely wrong. On songs like Silver Moon and Rio, it doesn't work very well, and it ends up sounding a bit 80s cheese, like someone backing themselves with a Casio keyboard. But on the other hand, on Grand Ennui the result was something like Tom Waits by way of the Radiophonic Workshop, while Laugh Kills Lonesome became space age lounge music, something like Cornelius remixing Esquivel.
Possibly the most interesting reworking was Different Drum, which he performed in waltz-time, to a backing of accordion sounds, and which ended up sounding remarkably like Leonard Cohen.
I'd rather see a performer experiment and fail than not experiment at all, and the experiments worked more often than not. But for those who wanted him to do everything exactly as he used to, many of the most famous songs — Some Of Shelly's Blues, Propinquity, Papa Gene's Blues, Tapioca Tundra, Joanne — were done pretty much straight, and worked as well as ever. And the computers were also used on the last song to allow them to fly in Red Rhodes' original pedal steel solo for Thanx For The Ride, which was a beautiful moment.
The songs worked better than ever, in fact — one thing that people have not properly mentioned in reviews is the way Nez has set the songs up. In order to make them fresh for himself and the audience, he tells a little… story isn't *quite* the right word, maybe scenario?… before each one, describing a context in which the songs could happen. These are very visual descriptions, told in Nez's wonderful Jimmy Stewart voice, and they do conjure up very vivid images in the head while listening to the songs. It's easy to see why he took to making videos with such enthusiasm — the descriptions sound like storyboards for videos.
The interesting thing about these is that the contextualising does help give the songs new meanings. Some Of Shelly's Blues and Different Drum, for example, are both songs I like a lot but which have a macho arrogance and callousness to them that makes it hard for me to love them. The settings Nez describes manage to remove that sting and make them both seem much more compassionate, empathetic songs, and all the better for it.
The best of these, though, was actually one he read from a book — Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling's conversation about fate, writing and how art becomes the property of the reader, as recounted in Craig Brown's Hello Goodbye Hello — which manages actually to make Tapioca Tundra's lyrics make some kind of sense.
To give some idea of how great Nez is as a live performer, when I saw the other three Monkees last year, even when they were posing for photos outside before the show, I was hit with a rush of childhood nostalgia. "That's Micky! Off of the Monkees! Off of the telly! It's MICKY!!!" — they were great, but they could have been godawful and I'd have loved them because I reverted to being eight years old.
On the other hand, when Nesmith mentioned the Monkees, which he did two or three times, I actually thought for half a second "Why's he talking about the Monkees? Oh yeah! Michael Nesmith is Mike out of the Monkees, isn't he?" — I was so lost in the music and the show that the fact that the little old man who was playing, talking and singing had a connection to a TV show I loved as a kid (and still love as an adult, of course) was about as important as what brand of shoes he was wearing. I was watching someone with a remarkable voice (and, other than Brian Wilson's, the most infectious smile of anyone I've ever seen) performing songs that are equal parts Cole Porter and Hank Williams, that make up one of the most remarkable catalogues in modern popular music, and that's pretty much all I was thinking about.
This has been a wonderful year for gigs. I've seen Neil Innes play to an audience of about fifty people, and the Beach Boys fill stadia, I've seen Ray Davies play Autumn Almanac with just an acoustic guitar, and Van Dyke Parks play Heroes & Villains with the Britten Sinfonia. In a year of wonderful performances by great eccentric 1960s songwriters, it's impossible to choose a best, but Nesmith's show was at least comparable to all of those.
He hasn't toured the UK solo since before I was born, and has barely ever gigged, so it's not likely you'll get to see him if you're reading this and haven't (although he's touring the US with the Monkees in a couple of weeks, doing a very different, but undoubtedly excellent, kind of show). But in the unlikely event you do get a chance, *GO*.
Setlist was Papa Gene's Blues – Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care) – Tomorrow And Me – Grand Ennui – Different Drum – Joanne – Silver Moon – Some Of Shelly's Blues – Tapioca Tundra – Rio – Casablanca Moonlight – Crusin – Life,The Unsuspecting Captive – Marie's Theme – Prison Closing Theme – Laugh Kills Lonesome – Thanx For The Ride


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Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.
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Official blog of Douglas Evans, children's book author
About Me
- Name: WT Melon
- Location: Classroom at the End of the Hall, California, United States
Author of numerous books for children, including The Elevator Family, MVP: Magellan Voyage Project, and the Classroom Creature Trilogy: Classroom at the End of the Hall, Math Rashes, and Mouth Moths.
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I gave cuts to Lena, and she gave cuts to Jim.
Jim gave cuts to Cory; Mac cut in front of him.
Mac gave cuts to Susan, and she gave cuts to Lee.
Tom took cuts before Dawn, and he gave cuts to me.
And when we left for recess, out the classroom door,
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Tom took cuts before Dawn, and he gave cuts to me.
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All the kids in our line, stood where they were before.
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50th Classroom Skype of 2013-2014 School Year
I just completed my fiftieth author/student Skype chat of the school year with students in eighteen states. What great fun to have entered classrooms Connecticut, Washington, Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, Georgia, Massachusetts, Kansas, California, Oklahoma, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, Washington, and Minnesota. Thanks to all the teachers and librarians for taking an interest in my books.
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The School Day Begins
It's Monday morning at 7:01.
You're still half asleep; your homework's half done.
Your shower is cold; your oatmeal's dry.
Your mother forgets to kiss you good-bye.
You're walking to school; it's thirty degrees.
Your fingers won't work; your toes and ears freeze.
Your zipper is stuck; your left sneaker squeaks.
Your backpack strap snaps; your soup thermos leaks.
You slip on school steps; you trip in the hall.
The toilet floods in the bathroom stall.
The gym door is locked; library's the same.
The principal greets you by the wrong name.
Your classroom is hot; the coat rack is packed.
Your bean sprout is dead; your clay pot is cracked.
Your pencils are dull; the sharpener jams.
Your fingers get crunched when your desktop slams.
Your math partner's gone; your neighbor is rude.
Your teacher's again in a crabby mood.
The morning bell rings; it is 8:01.
Come cozy up to the whiteboard,
Another school day's begun.
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Elevator Play License
License The Elevator Family Play, based on the successful children's book The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans. Check out script at Playscripts
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
MVP: Magellan Voyage Project Lesson Plans and Activity Guide (Updated)
For teacher and librarians using MVP: Magellan Voyage Project as part of their language arts or social studies Core Curriculum.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
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Fire Drill--new song!
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Fire Drill
When was our playground ever so quiet?
When was our playground not a chaotic riot?
When did the playground give me such a thrill?
When we stood very still for our monthly school fire drill.
I heard a breeze strum on the tetherball strings.
I heard the wind whistling through all the swings.
I heard the monkey bars make a toot and a trill,
When we stood very still for our monthly school fire drill.
What wonderful wonders on the school ground I found,
I saw unknown sights, and I heard every sound.
My teacher was silent and my classmates were fine,
When we stood in that fire drill line.
I felt the sunshine bounce off of my nose.
I smelled the tacos from the lunchroom windows.
Who knows the splendors you might miss until,
The whole school stands still,
And I hope that yours will,
At your monthly school fire drill.
Friday, January 31, 2014
The Classroom Creature Music Albums!
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Gone High Tech
Gone High Tech
You may have noticed, teacher,
I am not in school today,
But the voice recorder on my desk,
Will pick up each word you say.
Switch on my laptop's Web cam,
When you have something to show,
And if you pass out homework,
Find my fax number below.
I've e-mail and a smart phone,
So I won't be hard to reach.
Since I don't need to be in class,
I'll do lessons at the beach.
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Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers Squeal
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MVP: Magellan Voyage Project Skype Chat
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Mistletoe--a short story for Christmas
Here's my short story Mistletoe (pdf) a short story about giving for Christmas with a nod to O'Henry.
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
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It seems smart to put The Amazing Race on the back burner for mid-season. With the gimmicky Family and All-Stars cycles, this most-honored of all reality-competition shows was beginning to look a bit played out. Less is more. CBS should make this show feel like an event, and the best way to do that is not to schedule it season-round. Leave us wanting more, and maybe more will come.Moving Without a Trace back to its old Thursday slot: Good idea. This season, it helped establish CBS' new Sunday strategy of a crime block to counter ABC's popular soaps. Now it can go back where it truly belongs, restoring some luster and stability to the toughest, most competitive night of the week. (And selfishly, I've had nothing to enjoy watching Thursdays at 10 pm since ABC yanked Men in Trees from its lineup. It'll be good to have Trace once again behind CSI.)And a big whew for CBS' mid-season renewal of The New Adventures of Old Christine. I love that show, and was worried that the mystifying succ...
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"I loved every minute of it!" Tommy Linz, 19, says of The Amazing Race: Family Edition, which sent him, his brothers Alex, 22, and Nick, 24, and sister Megan, 21, zipping through 50 cities in three countries in 25 days. TVGuide.com talked to the foursome the day after their long ride officially ended.
TVGuide.com: Congratulations! For a while there I thought God might help the Weavers win. If that had happened, what would you have done? Nick Linz: We would have congratulated them! They were a strong team and very competitive.
TVGuide.com: Now that you've won $1 million, what will you do with it?
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Oh, the Paolo family. They fight like enemies. But when the chips are down, Tony, Marion, D.J. and Brian always manage to pull it together like best friends. TVGuide.com talked to the family from Carmel, New York, the day after they were eliminated from The Amazing Race: Family Edition.
TVGuide.com: You got eliminated just when it was starting to look like you could win.Brian Paolo: We thought the same thing. I mean, we were in the final five and we were doing so great and we thought we actually might have a shot at this.D.J. Paolo: The one thing you have to realize, though, is that being in first place doesn't mean anything. [The difference] between first and last is only a matter of 40 minutes, tops.
TVGuide.com: When you applied to the show, you told CBS you didn't think your mom would last ve
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The Schroeders
Call it embarrassing, ironic or hitting them where it hurts. The Schroeders of New Orleans — Mark, 40, Char, 39, Stassi, 17, and Hunter, 15 — were practically in their own backyard when they were eliminated from CBS' The Amazing Race: The Family Edition (just like New York's Frank and Margarita from Season 1 and San Fran's Will and Tara from Season 2). But unlike any other team before them, the Schroeders' biggest adventure started after the race ended.
TVGuide.com: You got lost trying to find a park that, by your own admission, was one mile from where you used to work. One mile!Mark: Yeah. I'm not a big park-goer. I had no idea that park was there.Char: Nor did I. None of us blame Mark for not knowing the
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Amazing Race's Tony Aiello
There are times when having four strong men on your team would be a plus, like if there's heavy lifting to be done or fighting involved. This week on The Amazing Race: Family Edition, however, was not one of those times. As the combined body weight of the uniquely formed Aiello family — father-in-law Tony, 57, and his three sons-in-law, Kevin, 31, Matt, 31, and David, 26 — not only pushed them down in the mud, it shoved them out of the race.
TVGuide.com: Four men on the ultimate road trip. What did you all pack? Kevin: We took about four days' worth of clothes and toiletries. But looking back, we all wished we'd packed a hell of a lot less.Matt: Because we really didn't have time to change. Tony: One time, when we were crossing the Delaware, I just turned my socks inside out because t
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The Rogers family
Looks like the sky wasn't blue for the Rogers family after all. The troop from Shreveport, La. — father Denny, 47, mother Renee, 42, sister Brittney, 23, and son Brock, 19 — were eliminated in Middlesburg, Va., after they got lost on the way to Washington, D.C., went to the wrong reflecting pool, then couldn't' make up time at the Civil War reenactment grounds. The day after their elimination they talk to TVGuide.com about their misadventures in The Amazing Race: Family Edition.
TVGuide.com: If you happened to bump into that guy who said "You can't miss it," then proceeded to give you directions to the wrong reflecting pool, what would you say to him?Brock: I'd slap him.
TVGuide.com: OK, for the record: How do you get to D.C.?Renee: Um, 80 East.Denny: 80 West. And since I seem to be the villain here, I'll say I made the decision to go
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This is a basic 10x10 expandable map (snaps to other pieces identicle to it) in which special tiles can be placed on top (held in by the grooves, kinda like legoes). Included are a rock panel, wood panel, flat panel, and wall panel examples. Additional panels can easily be modeled by the user as detailed as they like. This is intended to make games such as dungeons and dragons a little more exciting and visual.
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I'm super excited to finish my campaign so I can play with these to make some maps! Great idea.
This is really impressive! A prime example of why 3d printing is important to nerds like me. Well done!


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|On another current thread about how a wood counter with Waterlox is not fairing well, a couple of members have started discussing how their tops are wearing. Rather than hijack that thread, I thought we should begin a separate one for this conversation. It might help others thinking of a wood top to know what to expect. I gave a quick answer to Firsthouse when she posted a thread asking me about mine so I think others could benefit. And, we can reassure ourselves that our patina'd tops are "normal." :)
I NEED to sleep so I won't post much tonight, except to say that my Osmo Polyx Oiled Black Walnut counter has scratches and some dents after 14 months. I can't imagine that any wood counter wouldn't do the same, even those with Waterlox. When you drop an aluminum can of stewed tomatoes or have a cocktail shaker full of Lemon Drop yumminess fly out of your hands while vigorously shaking, wood will do what wood does.
Anyone else want to chime in until I can post some other experience and photos tomorrow? It might help to identify your wood species and what product you used for finishing.
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|I have a small island (52" x 32") topped with the Ikea Numerar oak butcherblock. It has been installed 2,5 years ago and so far no problems other than some minor sctratches. These get a light sanding and a new coat of Behandla, the wood treatment Ikea sells. It contains Linseed oil, Wood treatment oil, Lead free drying agent, Emulsifier according to the label.
The island gets only light use, as it is used for eating breakfast and lunches and some minor prep work (no sink on the island).
When first installed I put a lot of work in prepping the wood, applying some 15 thin coats of oil, letting them cure well and sanding to an ever finer grit between the first 5 coats. The upkeep is easy, a quick sand and a coat of oil once a year.
The wood works well for me as is, but I am glad I chose a granite for the perimeter where the serious prepping takes place.
I'll add a picture of the island and a link to the reveal of my kitchen (more pics ;-).
HTH, Petra
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- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 11:56
|Petra! You know, somehow, I completely forgot you had a wood counter. I'm embarrassed! My eye always stops to linger over your playful tile, the soaring ceiling beams, that gorgeous wall treatment around the hood, and the great open corner shelf. So many other eye treats that don't see the island top. It looks so great with your other kitchen elements!
I'm curious about a couple of things.
Do you have dents in the Numerar?
Do you think if you prepped more often on the island that you'd have more scratches and/or dents?
And, just to confirm, the oil you use for the yearly touch up is the Ikea product, right?
- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 12:42
|Our island has an antique pine counter. Pine is soft, but so far (only been 6 years!) we haven't made any dings that are noticeable. There is some day-to-day wear (dents) but I don't notice them either.
It is finished with Good Stuff for Wood. DH recoats it about once a year. Should probably do it twice a year. The only part that gets worn down is to the left of the sink, where wet things are sat (but not left long).
I clean with Lysol wipes and Trader Joe's Cedarwood & Sage multi-purpose cleaner (smells wonderful). The TJ's has essential oils.
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- Posted by oldhousegal (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 12:56
|We had IKEA butcher block sealed with mineral oil only in a previous kitchen. We only lived with it for a little over a year. I cut directly on the surface so there were obviously knife marks. I also had a stain from food coloring dripping on the counter when I was making icing for cookies. I tried to sand that out, but it had penetrated deeply enough that I wasn't able to get it all--didn't want a depression in the counter and wasn't willing to sand the whole thing down for a very small spot.
I liked it quite a lot and would not rule it out for future kitchen remodeling.
- Posted by wi-sailorgirl (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 13:51
|We had a poorly made butcher block island top for about 10 years and recently replaced it with a walnut edge grain top from Blockhead Blocktops. Although we never cut right on it, I appreciate the ability to easily sand it and reoil it when necessary as we did with the old one, so we are doing just an oiled finish. I used Boos Mystery Oil and Boos Block cream on it. Since it's only a few months old, we're stil in the "breaking in" stage so I'm oiling it quite a bit and I think it's a little darker because of it.
It's wearing great, with a small dent from the bottom of a wine bottle. Doesn't bother me at all.
I should add that I used Ikea countertops in my office at work for a counter and desk top and finished them with Waterlox. I had some problems finishing them, but when it was over they looked great and they've worn incredibly well, which is impressive since they are abused all day five days a week.
Picture is of my kitchen island top.
|Maple butcher block here, I installed in 1986. Never used anything on it but Mineral oil. I do prep food on it, so there are knife marks, but that just adds to the character
|@ Breezygirl: Thank you for the compliments on my kitchen. Please, don't beat yourself up for not remembering every detail.
Do you have dents in the Numerar? * No, I don't have dents in the oak. It has a hardness of 6280 on the Janka scale. About the same hardness as Walnut 4500, Cherry 5780, White Oak 6050, Hard Maple 6500 and Beech 7060.
Do you think if you prepped more often on the island that you'd have more scratches and/or dents? * Yes, I am quite certain of that.
And, just to confirm, the oil you use for the yearly touch up is the Ikea product, right? * Yes, I usually apply the Ikea Behandla oil, although last year I used the Behandla oil-wax combination, to get a nice soft shine. (Can you tell I'm a regular at Ikea? ;-)
- Posted by 2LittleFishies (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 14:28
|On the other thread, Someone asked how many coats of Waterlox I have. I believe 4. It was only in the cab makers shop a couple of weeks before install and it has only been here since 12/26, so IDK if it was fully cured?
Our Pottery Barn Dishes are ceramic and if you slide them they scratch the finish. It's not horrible, but when the sun comes in you can see it and I just wondered how others were holding up?
Here are some photos. They scratches are really hard to photo!
- Posted by northcarolina (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 17:01
|Mine is Ikea Numerar oak, finished with several coats of Ikea's Behandla oil. It's been in use for about 7 months. Very minimal scratches (you have to get down at countertop level and have the light at just the right angle to see them), no dings or dents. DH had an "incident" with beets and the Vitamix the other day; no stains at all on the countertop (the same when I got beet juice all over it making borscht). I am very happy with the top and the finish. I don't cut directly on it.
My kitchen is never in any condition to be photographed, but anyway this is the most-used prep area next to the sink. Sorry so dim -- the countertop has a slight sheen that isn't showing up in this photo.
And here is a Christmas KIA shot.
- Posted by sarahhomeremodel (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 18:34
|My craft art wood top is finished with Waterlox. It was 2 coats of "Sealer/Finish" and 2 coats of "sealer/finish" mixed half and half with their "original satin finish"
it is holding up really well. i think i got it over a year ago now. gosh has it been that long?
by the sink i think it could use a refresher since water isn't beading up like it used to (i am very hard on it though and use soap and water instead of vinegar to clean it).
i am going to try and take pics and upload from my phone but i've never done it from my phone before. if i can't then i will post tomorrow.
but for the record i ADORE my craftart wood countertop. it is super easy to maintain. in fact, when i sand and reapply the oil i will take and post before/after photos.
|My walnut has only been in since the week before Thanksgiving, but it has survived two holidays!! It is finished in Osmo PolyX. At least one coat was put on by the cabinet shop, and last week I put another coat on it. I think this is going to be a regular maintenance project. It looks MUCH better right now, but it had become quite dry, and a little rough, so I sanded it with a 320 block.
No real scratches yet, even with constant cat traffic,
|We have IKEA Numerar beech, finished with three coats of low-VOC Waterlox and topped with 1-2 coats of low-VOC Waterlox Satin (noted in case the low-VOC performs differently--I think the last layer may actually be a mix of the two, but we followed Waterlox's instructions and erred on the side of more coats whenever there was a range). Our counter is not in proximity to water or heat. We've been using it for close to two years, and clean it with a water-vinegar mixture. So far, so good--only dent is from dropping a knife on it (seems fair!) We are actually far happier with the wood than with our main counters. :)
For comparison, though, we also have an old IKEA butcher block with an oak top (I think the same as Numerar oak), finished only with infrequent oilings and used as a cutting surface for about seven years. That one has not aged especially well, although it could likely be sanded down and refinished. That's why we chose to use a more rugged finish on the counter, though, and why we opted not to use it for cutting.
- Posted by 2LittleFishies (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 18:54
|The prep side of our island is fine. It's more where we eat and food bowls get moved around. Also, the kids sit there and sometimes having little toys or whatever. I mean they are NOT pushing little cars around on the top but still is scratching a bit. I'm thinking now maybe they weren't fully cured.
Maybe I should contact Waterlox and show them... I think I can sand down those areas with a high grit block and just rub WL over them again. Is that right?
- Posted by trailrunner (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 19:15
|I have teak that is going on 7 years finished by me in Waterlox Satin. My teak is around the sink and gas cooktop and Miele deep fat fryer that is built in adjacent to the cooktop.
All of it looks perfect after all this time but the area to the right of the sink where DH drains dishes on a cotton towel after washing. I had put on many many coats and sanded when I first did the surface. When black appeared in the wood last year I called Waterlox. The guy was pretty rude to me. He basically said it was my fault...huh...I followed all their directions to a T. So I sanded back to bare wood on that whole area and got rid of all the black in the grain. I then carefully recoated and let it dry and sanded between coats and it looked great. But DH got careless recently and I noted yesterday that the black is coming back. I have no idea why. I am not going to call WL again. DH has promised that he will refrain from soaking the wood/towel while draining dishes. We do use our DW but we both hand wash a lot of things and after 42 years that is not going to change :)
Good thread ...most of you are not subjecting your counters to soaking water day after day year in and year out...it took mine almost 6 yrs to show this. So I am going to start over . c
- Posted by KCRemodeler (My Page) on Fri, Jan 18, 13 at 21:31
|My craft art walnut countertops finished in 2 coats original 1 coat satin Waterlox have held up GREAT after a year! I have countertops around my induction stove, sink, above dishwasher, and peninsula where we eat every night - with kids. So no light use here! I clean with vinegar/water. The only problem I had - I had a small plant with pink plastic container wrapping paper and my husband watered the plant while i was out of town, got the paper wet, and it stained a pink ring on the countertops. it'll sand out. There are a few dings from where I've dropped heavy appliances but you have to focus your eye to find them and even when I do, the dings don't bother me. I'm surprised there aren't more fine scratches....I was expecting that there would be.
My cabinet installer (who advised me to NOT do wood countertops) came to see them last week and said he was amazed at how good they look - he thought they'd look dried out. It was his first time using Waterlox and the year after results impressed him.
I plan to light sand and reseal this spring when i can open up the house, so we'll see how that goes.
|We installed the Ikea Numerar Oak butcherblock two years ago this spring. We decided on it since we could DIY it, and it was affordable. We used Waterlox on it and it's held up very well. You can see a few minor scratches if the morning light hits it. We don't cut on it, mainly just eat at the bar, and light prep. I've been happy with it so far :)
|2LittleFishies, your wood top is SMASHING! I love the color and lines in it!
We have a mahogany top on our island and have had it for 13 months. All in all I like it, we get a lot of compliments on it, but it isn't a bulletproof material. It will leave hairline scratches if you drag something across it that has a rough bottom so I try to be mindful of that or not serve the kids food in dishes that I know will scratch the surface. It is our island, so I do a lot of work on it. Kids eat at it every morning, do homework on it every day, etc. I don't cut directly on it because it has a shiny surface on it. But it gets used daily and lived in very well :) Honestly, my biggest regret is that we had it stained a few shades from its natural color because I was concerned the mahogany would read too red. I regret that. When the natural sunlight hits it, it's noticeable to me, looks sort of cloudy or not pure...can't really describe it. Maybe its just because I know its been stained?!
I cannot tell you what finish is on it, the woodworker did it for me, all I can say is he recommended it over Waterlox and said it is what they use all the time.
The thing that is nice about wood is that it gets that aged, lived in look, but can also be refinished if you ever want to.
- Posted by hosenemesis (My Page) on Sat, Jan 19, 13 at 1:16
|I have cheap 2" maple butcher block bought from a place that supplies industrial work benches. The counters are 12 years old. Most are sealed with plain old Minwax eggshell (or was it satin?) polyurethane, two coats, and they have a slight sheen. No staining at all, impervious to water, and only one dent from where I dropped the framing hammer. But there are gajillions of tiny scratches that make it look dull after all of this time, so they could use a good sanding and a few new coats about now. The prep area counter just has mineral oil on it, and I recoat about once every six months. I use it as a cutting board, so it's a little chewed up, especially in the center. Some day I hope it will look like a bread board in a French farmhouse :) We do not think about these counters at all. I absolutely love them.
|I installed Ikea numerar oak almost 3 years ago, around the sink and along the peninsula. Finished it with 4 coats of original Waterlox. I love them and get alot of compliments on them.
No dings yet, but as others have mentioned, I have several very fine surface scratches. Not noticeable unless you really get down and look for them. The rough bottomed ceramic dishes are the main culprit. I don't cut on the surfaces and always use pot holders/trivets for hot dishes.
I would definitely do more coats of Waterlox next time. There is one small spot by the faucet handle that always seems to have drips left on it and it's starting to look weathered. I plan to wipe on a couple more coats this summer (when I can finally open the windows again).
I only use soapy water to clean and then rinse/dry.
|Wow, I love how those countertops look... very nice.
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Create the next logo for Sobresalen
Logo design contest
Bronze package purchased for $295
(including 99designs fees)
Contest started Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:59:58 +0000
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Client has 1 refund
Designers enter their initial design concepts for feedback and direction.
The client picks up to six designers to continue working with.
Remaining designers enter revised and refined designs.
The client picks a winning design.