Life and all in Redding California
Tyler Faires’ documentary about Redding area local food will spark your viewing pleasure.
To Plant a City – Creating Community Through Our Local Foods from Tyler Faires Productions on Vimeo.
Very well done. Kudos to all involved. Eat local. It’s Really Redding.
Less than that, actually. Here’s a brief experimental video.
Just fiddling with a new production technique on a rainy day.
An appropriately hypnotic video by visual artist Zrnho set the music Craig Padilla and I recorded in 2010 using analog synthesizers.
Set the controls for full screen and full volume, and get ready to space out…
Nice to see this indigenous Redding music translates across the Atlantic. Pleasurable listening right down to the cerebral cortex for me, as it brings back fond creative memories. Thanks Zrnho. Your work is inspiring. Check out many more clips at his prolific online video channel. Gotta love the interweb.
Should mention too that you can buy this CD directly from Craig, and get a better fidelity recording along with the cool cover art. CraigPadilla.com
Street legal racing at the Redding Dragstrip keeps competitive spirits with powerful machines from racing on the streets of our community.
It’s safe and legal to speed at RDS. Saturday, putting the hammer down at 6pm.
Just $5 gets you in, $10 to race. Redding style prices, for sure.
Better here than on the street. Modern motorcycles have astonishing speed. Just gotta try it out somewhere…
Oh by the way, The Beast will return for Kool April Drags. This year the plan is to chain a car to the back of this thing and toast it. A “Car-B-Que.” I kid you not. Two nights in a row! That should be…I don’t know what, but I’ll be there.
From my phone, I posted an image onto Facebook of what looks like high gas prices in Redding.
$90 bucks for 20 gallons. I got some interesting comments about the “high” cost fuel. The thing about Facebook, and the internet actually, is the global nature of the viewers. I got 2 comments from the UK:
Nick Rothwell: “Wow … that’s almost as high as half what we pay in the UK.”
Ben Richards: “You’d have a revolution if you saw UK prices”
Presumably, Ben meant “another” revolution. But I get the point. I wondered what they pay in the UK vs US so I went to WolframAlpha for a gas price computation. Here are the top 10 countries for gas prices:
Wow indeed. I guess “high priced gas” is a relative term. Still, I don’t think we in the US are set up to run on $8 gas, unlike say, the Netherlands. And saying that, we may need to look more closely at how they manage it.
A little Norwegian time lapse, set to Moonlight Sonata. Perfect before bedtime.
The Water from TSO Photography on Vimeo.
Saddened to hear of the passing today of rock legend Ronnie Montrose. I have some of his LPs, and have always been a fan. He played live here in Redding. Early ’80s, I think. I can’t recall if it was at the Red Lion or the Holiday Inn, but it was in a big conference room at a hotel on Hilltop. (Anyone remember which?) Probably just a stop on the way somewhere else. I was there with Brent Taylor (Taylor Motors, Hi Brent!) who is a hard rockin’ guitarist himself. We were grinning ear to ear at the pleasure seeing and hearing Ronnie in a such a small room. Montrose had toured mega-arenas all over the world. I recall it was a few short sets, but Ronnie displayed extraordinarily expressive pitch control and blazing speed. He made a big impression on me. A virtuoso player.
I imagine you’ll hear plenty of Rock Candy and Bad Motor Scooter in eulogy. Classic rock pieces that help define the genre. Straight-ahead rock fun. If you haven’t heard some of his more Prog Rock work, you might like this video from the Open Fire days.
Yesterday evening, Erin and her friends attended the Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday celebration at Moseley Family Cellars, at their location at 1300 Market Streeet in Redding.
Celebrants partook of Jambalaya, King’s Cake, and other traditional Mardi Gras foods, paired with Moseley’s Chardonnay and Zinfindel. And served with New Orleans style jazz and zydeco in the downtown Redding tasting room.
“Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler” (Let the good times roll!)
If you can’t actually be in New Orleans, wine tasting in Downtown Redding offers an alternative. Moseley Family Cellars is located across from Old City Hall Downtown, and can be reached at (530) 605 4222.
