1. Jake swung by around 8:30 or so this morning and we rumbled up to the V.F.W. Hall in Osburn for their fourth Saturday every month breakfast. DJ was busing tables. Eileen worked the kitchen. We were happy to see each other. I settled into a plate of one huckleberry pancake, some scrambled eggs, and a single sausage. I went back for seconds and enjoyed a biscuit with sausage gravy. The hall was buzzing with a good turnout and a lot of good will. On our way back to Kellogg, Jake drove us up Montgomery Gulch for old time's sake where the leaves were starting to turn orange, gold, and scarlet and we reminded ourselves where people we've known for years either still live or used to and swapped tales about time we spent up this gulch in our youth.
2. I got back home. Stu and Byrdman both sent me reports of snow where they live. In Kellogg, it was rainy and chilly, but I didn't see any snow fall during the day. I thought it would be a good day to hunker down and fix myself a brandy and hot water or two. That was a fun thought, but once I got settled in, watching the playoff bound Washington Nationals play the Cleveland Indians and as I got more and more absorbed in working more crosswords (the book I bought has 200 of them -- I'm almost to 70!), I never got myself up and moving to go down to the liquor store. To warm myself up, I heated leftover carrot/yam/apple/cauliflower soup I made on Thursday and suddenly had the bright idea that sour cream would taste good in it -- and I was right. The recipe recommended serving the soup with coconut milk, but I thought I'd go the other way and rather than further sweeten the soup, I'd give make it tangy. I liked it a lot.
3. Later in the evening, I popped myself a small bowl of popcorn and rented the very enjoyable music documentary, Echo in the Canyon. Cas had watched it not long ago and texted me that it was awesome and so I decided to give it a go. Cas is right. The movie delves into the genius of the pop/rock/folk music that grew out of Laurel Canyon, CA in the mid-1960s. Through interviews conducted by Jakob Dylan and television footage from about 1964-67, the movie explores the revolution in rock n roll created by The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Mamas and the Papas, The Association, and others; it also examines the impact The Beatles had on these groups and, in turn, the way these California groups inspired The Beatles.
The movie is anchored in a tribute concert performed in 2015 at the Orpheum. Jakob Dylan fronts a band that includes Regina Spektor, Jade Castrinos, Beck, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, and Norah Jones and they covered an array of songs originally peformed by bands in this movie. I loved hearing the parts of this concert that were in the movie and enjoyed the way the movie cut from these performances to interviews with Tom Petty (his last film appearance), Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Michelle Phillips, John Sebastian, Eric Clapton, Lou Adler, Roger McGuinn, Ringo Starr, and others and the way it weaved scenes from the movie Model Shop into the documentary.
If you ever spent time over fifty years ago listening to "In My Room", California Dreamin'", "Never My Love", "For What's It's Worth", "The Bells of Rhymney" and the other memorable and influential songs that came out of Southern California in the mid-1960s, and if you enjoyed these songs, I think chances are pretty damn good that you'll enjoy this movie.
Actually --- I loved it.
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