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Sunburst Projects Summer of 2011 Camp Session Schedule
Session #1 TEEN CAMP — (July 16 - July 22): Camp Sunburst Teen Camp
for HIV impacted teens 13-18 yrs.
Location: Grizzly Creek Ranch (just outside Portola, CA)
Orientation: TBA
Mandatory Training — For all New Volunteers
Session #2 FAMILY CAMP —
(July 3 - July 7): Camp Sunburst Family Camp for HIV impacted children/pre-teens 6-12 yrs.
Location: Camp Arroyo, 5555 Arroyo Road, Livermore, CA 94550
Orientation: TBA @ Camp Arroyo, Livermore, CA
New Volunteer Orientation (Mandatory): TBA
Detailed Description of Camp Programs
Camp Sunburst
At this week-long residential summer camp, HIV/AIDS infected children ages 6-11 are able to enjoy the companionship of others without the social stigma and isolation associated with the AIDS epidemic. In the safe haven of Camp Sunburst, children can freely participate in a variety of camp activities including swimming, hiking, fishing, arts and crafts, sports, and campfires. A 1:1 or 2:1 camper to counselor ratio is provided along with twenty-four hour medical care.
Camp Sunburst Youth Camp & Camp Sunburst Teen Camp
Thanks to new drug treatments, the first generation of infected children who were born with the virus is now living into adolescence. As these adolescents assume a normal interest in becoming independent and undergo the turmoil that occurs during this developmental stage, they also have to face their own mortality.
These youth grapple with questions like: "Am I a person with a disease, or does the disease define me?" Kids who have grown-up with AIDS now desperately want to separate from it as part of who they are. Unfortunately, for many teens this results in activity such as refusing to adhere to their drug treatments, smoking, drinking, and other risky behavior that can be life threatening to these young people.
Studies have shown that the odds for teens living with a life threatening illness for developing a diagnosable psychiatric disorder are more than 2 to 1. It is critical these youth receive emotional support to help them safely make the transition into emotionally healthy young adults.
Considerable time has been spent working on program design for the teen camp programs and future development of these programs includes directly involving these youth in assessing their special needs. At camp, teens participate in support groups ("Rap Groups"), empowerment and leadership training, and sexuality workshops facilitated by trained professionals.
Through these support groups and other therapeutic activities, teens are educated about topics including the importance of drug adherence, safer sex and risky behavior, self-identity, and a range of other topics that directly affect their lives.
Each Camp Sunburst Session Also Serves Affected Youth
The needs of siblings and other HIV affected children in the home are also addressed at Camp Sunburst. Not infected by HIV/AIDS, these children are virtually ignored by the medical community since they are not sick.
While the secrecy and isolation of HIV/AIDS pervades these youth's lives and distances their relationship with the outside world, uninfected children need support services that help them deal with these stresses.
Service Learning/Internship
Want to volunteer for camp and you need to complete a service learning or an internship requirement for your college or university degree? Consider a position with Camp Sunburst! If your school accepts Camp Sunburst as a site to participate in meeting your requirement, we are more than willing to assist you in doing such. The experience and skills you will learn will benefit many majors. Psychology, social work, sociology, counseling, medical degrees just to name a few.
Camp Sunburst has also provided a service learning position for students completing their general education in several community college programs. Please contact Cindi Rivas at Sunburst Projects if you'd like to learn more, contact email@example.com.
Some Quotes from Parents Who Attended Camp Sunburst
Your staff took such good care of us that I felt like for a whole week I didn't have to take care of anyone else. Thank you!
We loved it! What a blessing for our family.
The staff was so helpful and a joy to be around. Thank you all for a wonderful week and for letting us participate.
It's amazing how total strangers become a light in a dark tunnel.
I want my kids to come back because that's all they talk about.
I feel that camp has helped my child mature.


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Much better photo now that it's not red anymore :) I'm so happy with it.
If I ever get tatted (which will never happen) I wouldn't mind getting something like this.
I want this tattoo so bad.
in love I want
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Thought I'd add to the tattoo posts NICOLE AND BRIANNA

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PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — A new commanding general is coming to Fort Lee later this year.
The Progress-Index (http://bit.ly/wIHOqG ) reports that the Pentagon has named Maj. Gen. Larry D. Wyche to become commanding general of U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command and the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee. He grew up in Emporia.
Wyche is currently the deputy chief of staff for logistics and operations, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. He will be replacing Maj. Gen. James L. Hodge at the Petersburg base.
A Fort Lee spokeswoman said Hodge's next assignment has not been released. A change of the command will occur later this year.
Hodge has been Fort Lee's commanding general since Sept. 9, 2010.
Information from: The Progress-Index, http://www.progress-index.com


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NY Review: 'Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!'
99 Stock at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of the New York International Fringe Festival
Reviewed by Clifford Lee Johnson III
August 12, 2012
The play is set in1881, when Edward Gant and his acting troupe take the stage to dramatize a pair of tales about loneliness. In the midst of the second, a company member breaks character, refusing to participate in what she feels is inconsequential amusement. The debate she unleashes escalates until Gant kills himself.
The cast—Ian Hopps, Serra Naiman, Brandon Cusak, and Geneva Hollman—are all deliriously funny. They are abetted in their foolery by Michael Saarela's sure-footed direction. Each playwright must find his voice. Neilson hasn't yet, but he's tantalizingly close.
Presented by 99 Stock as part of the New York International Fringe Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St., NYC. Aug. 10–16. Remaining performances: Sun., Aug. 12, 6:45 p.m.; Tue., Aug. 14, 3:30 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 15, 4:15 p.m.; Thu., Aug. 16, 7:15 p.m. (866) 468-7619 or www.fringenyc.org.
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If you're judging me for being this excited about a little piece of
cheap-tasting chocolate. I'm judging you for not.
If you're judging me for being this excited about a little piece of
cheap-tasting chocolate. I'm judging you for not.
Hello Anonymous Friend,
Excellent question. And to be honest, I'm learning as I'm going. So far I've only hit up 2 layers (3 including my brazier), have only graduated to capris pants (thus still showing some calf skin) and have been perfectly warm.
So far, the worst part about winter running is the first 5 minutes, but then I get fairly toasty (although my fingers take a while to get circulation).
On Saturday I knocked out a 16k run (10 miles) in minus 2 weather (28F), and for the 1st time wore gloves, and a wind breaker (with 1 shirt under), besides the blizzard-like conditions, and the strong yearning for goggles, as I could hardly see, I was very warm.
I also always wear reflector lights (arm bands I can slap on), so I can be seen, as wouldn't it be shitty to get hit by a car running? What a terrible way to go – doing something I really don't love.
Jan 2011 I'm starting my 2nd official marathon training clinic, and will be running in "up to minus 30 (-22F) weather," so I'll try and update what I wear, and as the weather gets colder.
But so far? Around 0'C means 2 layers, and maybe gloves.
Hope this helps (for now), I will stay on top of my 'Winter-Running-Wardrobe' posts, as I'm learning as I go, and want a record of it too.
Thanks for asking,
And any other tips out there would be appreciated :)
Running in the cold (and dark) takes some serious motivation.
Does anyone have a camera they love? Is user friendly? Not giant? But Awesome? [I'd prefer Canon (only because I already have a huge memory card for it, but I know Sony has some pretty nice ones too)]
Recommendations please :)
Thank you.
Thank you, so so much
xo E
E: Does this dress make me look fat?
Mom: Well, you don't look hungry.
File Under: Alternate ways to call me fat.
in sleeping in and eyeliner [not together]
high heels, but also flats
the power of a thank you
and the importance of a please
kissing in public places,
stealing kisses, [really just kissing in general]
flannel pajamas
and christmas lights
birthday cards, and thank you notes,
rain boots,
and yellow umbrellas
cheese and grapes [I would so eat them together]
argyle sweaters [all colour combinations]
princess band-aids and princess tiaras [preferably together]
the perfect blue pen
long lists
and fine tipped markers [and new yellow highlighters]
using google as a dictionary [although this often doesn't work]
handwritten letters
and excel organization charts
mcdonald's french fries or ice cream [i am not below eating them together]
warm beds, with cold pillows [that's seriously the best]
pink nail polish, [with purple toes]
hot baths, with lots of bubbles.
and not a place to be in the world
dog walks in pea coats
holding hands
and favourite songs
being under country skies on open roads
the smell of leather saddles,
or leather boots
and loud music [but only when it's appropriate]
saving the tabs of pop cans for wheelchairs [always]
and weekends with nothing to do.
Happy Friday!!
Dear Asshole(s?) who keep Anonymously messaging me about my grammar, or lack thereof, skills.
Firstly, I have NEVER in my life thought I write well, I've never said I write well, and I haven't taken a writing/English/grammar course since, oh I don't know, grade 12.
I took business/economics/math through university and those are the things my current job is comprised of. I am fully aware of my terrible grammar/spelling errors, however your little, rude, spiteful messages always shock me, so really, mission accomplished.
All I will say is I hope to one day improve my writing, and I'd bet a lot of money, I'd scold you on a derivative/options/bond/econometrics math exam.
That is all,
Oh, and I would remove the 'anonymous' feature, but I know there are some readers out there who don't have tumblrs, and would still like to ask (nice) questions.
For my friends south of the border: 6.2miles and 28F. Don't act like you're not impressed.
ps I REALLY don't wanna go, but will.
Did you not see #3 on my previous list? I rest my case.
Things I have time for
Things I don't have time for
There is something seriously wrong with my priorities.
And on that note, I am off to Victoria Secret, then Starbucks. What? You thought writing it out would change my bad habits? The bad habits that are embedded in me to the bone? Oh… well isn't this awkward….
Sometimes I feel like I've given up.
Stopped trying.
Despite being unhappy with myself, my body, my arms, my butt, my stomach, my thighs… all of it really, I seem to have just given up and settled.
I find bursts of motivation to lose weight and eat less, spread sporadically throughout each day, however, never during the moments food is directly in front of me.
I can literally be holding a cookie and be thinking about upcoming events, clothes, boys, this blog, running etc. and then happily chomp down the cookie.
I have NO motivation and NO self discipline, and honestly spend the majority of most days thinking about food, and in turn, wondering what's wrong with me, for thinking about the food.
I honestly need a food slapper in my life. Someone who will hover over me, at all times, and monitor my food, as if I were a dog. [That's what it's come to, I'm comparing myself to a dog.]
If a dog needs to lose weight, the human will simply restrict their food, and the dog will thus lose their lard. However, I am not a dog, which means I'm the only person in this world who can restrict the food that I eat; I'm 25 (26 in 12 days, eek!!) for crying out loud, and I STILL weigh 165.
I still want to lose 40 pounds. I'm still unhappy with myself. And bitch about what I look like the whole time. I'm all talk and no action.
ALL TALK and NO ACTION.
There needs to be a day 1. And then a day 2. A day 2 where I can think about how well I did on day 1. And then a day 365, where I can think about how awesome the previous year has been.
Occasionally I find some strength beneath my gut, and will eat well for about 48 hours, and think I've conquered my weight loss issues, and thus can celebrate with carbs and cookies and sugar, and then wash, rinse, repeat.
I'm a food addict in every sense of the term.
I love it and hate it, am obsessed with it, will lie about it, will eat alone not to be judged, will spend money I don't have on it, will think about it constantly, and will feel guilty about it after.
But maybe, just maybe, admitting you're an addict it the first step?
I, E, am food addict.
And it totally fucking sucks.
I have read all the Harry Potter books, but never seen a movie, not even 5 minutes of one.
Although, I will admit, I am obsessed with Emma Watson; she is so the new Olsen Twins.
Despite the shitacular movement of my waistline (o.k, that's false, my clothes actually feel looser - WHA?!), there are lots of happy things in life to think about:
That's all I can think of right now, but besides being in a rut (because I really, really am), I'm still pretty happy, which simply means my rut, is due to me just being lazy.
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, going through a lot of changes, writing a lot, and making lots, and lots of lists.
To do lists, reading lists, weight lists, budget lists, marathon lists, studying lists, organizing lists and even lists prioritizing my lists. And now? now I have all these damn lists, but nothing on said lists accomplished.
In the last few months I've come to the conclusion that being successful in life is all about time management. If I can optimize
each and every day most days to their full potential, I'll be on top of everything, and not feel overwhelmed, like I have been lately.
Overwhelmed: bury or drown beneath a huge mass.
Yes, yes, that's exactly me, being drowned beneath my life. Beneath the move, the new commute, the financial exam I'm writing in Dec, my budget, my running (or lack there of), and my eating (Oh yes, my eating, that's the worst one), I am drowning.
I weighed in (at my body's beloved) 165 this morning. I don't even know how that happened. *cue my nose growing, and imagining all the glorious carbs I've recently been consuming in preparation for hibernating over the winter months.*
I feel my weight sets the tone of my life.
I know that's depressing and awful, and I shouldn't define myself by the number on the scale, but I do: if I eat well, I'll run, if I run, I go to bed earlier, if I go to bed earlier, I'm not tired, if I'm not tired, I clean/organize/study/be awesome. It's a chain reaction of excellent things, and it all starts with me not shoving carbs down my throat, because then I'm not a lazy mofo, like I've been the last week. Or two. Or three.
Browsing The Tumblr, drooling over fashion blogs, reading quotes, reading weight loss success stories, and reading about other people trying to fight the good fight, can only take me so far. At some point I'll have to kick myself in the ass and get out of this lazy, rut I've fallen into.
To maintain 165 I have to consume 2,175 calories a day
To lose one pound a week I have to consume 1,668 calories a day
To lose two pounds a week I have to consume 1,168 calories a day
The above is if I lose ONE pound a week. To be honest, I'm seriously debating, starting an actual (dare I say it?) DIET. Like with a set list of foods I can, and can't eat. None of this, I'm-Going-To-Try-And-Eat-Healthy Business, as it obviously isn't working for me, and when something's not working right, you gotta change it.
To reach a goal is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved, and I, E, really want to acheive, One Twenty Five.
I needed this so much right now little blog (Anon).
Thank you xo
Today is for…
And me,
And the fallen soldiers,
The nurses, and fighter pilots, and front line men,
The veterans who live with their memories,
And the families who lost their loved ones,
It's for saying thank you.
Thank you so much,
To the men and women who fought for us
Who fought for today, tomorrow and the future.
Today is to remember.
(These are my thoughts on Remembrance Day; very humbling day, indeed.)


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W William Cannon Dr & Woodhue Dr has a Walk Score of 45 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in the Garrison Park neighborhood in Austin. Nearby parks include Odom Park, Garrison Park and Garrison Pool.
Nearby schools include Primavera Montessori School, Odom Elementary School and Eden Park Academy.
The closest grocery stores are Maximum Nutrition Centers ATX, Sprouts Farmers Market and Sprouts Farmers Market.
Nearby coffee shops include River City Donuts & Coffee House, Roz's Hot Tamales and Starbucks. Nearby restaurants include Hao Hao Restaurant, Casa Garcia's Restaurant and Cici's Pizza.
W William Cannon Dr & Woodhue Dr is near St. Edward's University, Huston-Tillotson University and Whole Foods Market Headquarters.
There are minimal bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. W William Cannon Dr & Woodhue Dr is somewhat bikeable, there is minimal bike infrastructure.


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umm no they cant. Replacing harness and pcm from an earlier model isnt consider tuning a 2011-2012
I just talked to them today and they can tune a 2011 with the PCM in the car and in January they will be able to tune the PCM out of the car (they are building the cables to interface directly with the ECM vice the ODBII port).
And he can provide tuning for Nitrous and Blowers on the 2011 with the stock PCM.
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A healer in every home…..PART 2 of 3
The medical profession doesn't have a single drug that the blood-brain barrier doesn't put up a mounted defense against! (It's a good thing, since drugs are never assimilated, digested, and eliminated by the body as natural plant foods and medicinal extracts are. And they always have side effects. Some side effects we FEEL, some we […]15 Comments • Continue Reading →
Announcing the GreenSmoothieGirl Health Coach Certification program!
I am going to certify 12 GreenSmoothieGirl Health Coaches in September, 2012. We're very excited. Often I talk to readers who have a new IIN diploma, or who are self-educated, and want suggestions for ways they can make a career or part-time job helping people with their health knowledge. We have an opportunity for you. […]15 Comments • Continue Reading →
Detecting Cancer Far Earlier than Traditional Means..Part 6 of 7
The EDS Biosurvey Cancer Cascade. The "Cancer Cascade," or the biochemical changes that occur in the human body, takes about 8 years before cancer cells develop into a tumor detectable by traditional means. That Cancer Cascade involves the pH in various tissues becoming too acidic, too oxygen-deprived, and the immune system and organ functioning […]5 Comments • Continue Reading →


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[Original Airdate: March 30, 2012]
Dan Jones (moderator), Denise Callaway, Kevin Fischer, Joel McNally, and Gerard Randall discuss Tuesday's Presidential Primary and candidates for local office; Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's plan for empty jail cells; and, the Brewers kicking off their season next week with a weekend series against St. Louis. Rick Horowitz talks about President Obama's teleprompter. Obama is often ridiculed for his use of a teleprompter. Rick wonders if the other candidates would be better off if they relied on one.
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- Politics
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- Segment #2
- More Inmates
- Producer
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- Segment #3
- Brewers
- Producer
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LinksJSOnline - "Romney leads Santorum in new poll of GOP presidential primary voters"
JSOnline - "New poll finds Walker in tight matchups with Barrett, Falk"
JSOnline - "Milwaukee County Board race could usher in new era"
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How did you come back from miserable failure?
My life was humming along more or less well until a couple weeks ago when disaster struck. I have, temporarily at least, failed out of school, which, beyond the obvious, has enormous financial and personal implications. I'm 35 and a single parent, so starting over, while possibly necessary, feels extra daunting. As often happens, this one disaster is causing me to see everything else in my life as a failure. In an effort to avoid spiraling into depression, I'm trying hard to keep my brain together by exercising, talking to friends, and seeking inspiration from other people who have had their lives fall apart and recovered. In short, I am seeking metafilter-flavored chicken soup for the soul. Can you tell me how you came back from totally fucking things up?
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I am so sorry you're going through this & I can relate. Basically, due to some unfortunate circumstances, I self-destructed a few years ago and lost pretty much everything that was important to me. I don't really want to get into details on the interwebs, but please feel free to email me.
Anyway, it took time, and a lot of help from my Mom, my closest friends, and a good therapist. I'm also someone who does best when I have something to work towards, even if it's incredibly far out, and by far out, I mean it could be years. For example, moving to a different place, taking a vacation, buying a house, or having a dog. If you can find something to build towards, it may give you just enough momentum to keep putting one foot in front of the other. It may not seem like it now, but it will get easier.
Also, I don't know the circumstances of your issues with school, but can you find value in this disruption of your plans? Meaning, maybe you were not studying the right thing for you and this will force you to redirect your academic energies to something that would be a better fit, or maybe there is something else you need to be focusing on right now that was being eclipsed by school. This is an incredibly hard thing to do, but if you can find a purpose in this experience, it will help you to move forward.
I know how daunting starting over can be, but it can be done. Bit by bit, it will come together and become exponentially easier, and it will be worth it. Best of luck.
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I ended up taking a job with the government at a desk for about a year and a half, after flunking university after two years.
The job was enough to pay the bills comfortably and for me to relax and unwind after that experience. However, the place was the epitome of bureaucracy...obviously. After seeing the lack of advancement opportunity, I decided to head back to post-sec, this time to a technical college.
The differences were night and day. No lecture halls; much lower pretentiousness-level; classes with subjects I could excel at and enjoy. Through that I ended up getting a part time job in the field, and I'm finishing my last year while working.
I would just keep in mind that student loans are by far the cheapest borrowed monies, and also, in your case (single mature student) bursaries and scholarships can probably pay for half of your tuition for a year! Especially if you're a woman! Especially if you don't take a full course load! Hopefully this time you can choose something you actually like to do, which might not get you the greatest degree from a top-notch school, and it might take you 6 years to complete a 3 year course, but then at least you have a goal.
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When I nearly failed out of school (I was a lot younger though) I discovered that it was because I didn't really want to be doing what I was doing. I then, in a somewhat accidental fashion, found something that I did want to be doing, and everything went drastically better from then on. It wasn't that simple in the details, but that is the outline. So I guess the message from this is to take this opportunity to think hard about why you're in school, and whether what you are studying is what you really want. (I can also sense a need for some serious thought about this from previous questions...)
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on November 1, 2009
I have
told my story before
. Going from losing nearly everything, to acceptance that your entire life has to change is frightening, but eventually enlightening and uplifting. The key for me was the acceptance. When I quit fighting for the old ways and began fighting for change, I was richly rewarded with a new happiness.
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There's cognitive things you can do, like reframing your failure as something else, like a bend in the road on the way to your success. Lots and lots of successful people have had spectacular failures on their way to success. You are just one of them.
Failure is an inevitable aspect of change. You could even say failing is an essential ingredient especially the willingness to fail and keep going.
You can look at all the people who do not have what you have now and practice gratitude for what you have, actively, daily as a practice recount all the things you have to be grateful for.
It's hard to negate a negative, meaning focusing on the negative aspects of what happened will only make it loom larger. Examine the lesson, take it to heart and start planning something better, something to look forward to and working toward.
It helps to make positive statements in your mind. Yes, it happened. Yes, you can survive this and move forward and be successful, yes it was a good lesson and now for something better.
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on November 1, 2009
When I was in the throes of divorce and probably at the lowest point of my life so far, a mate said to me:
be your own best friend
. By that he didn't mean that he was abandoning me, but that I should treat myself with the same respect and care consideration that I would treat him, instead of beating myself up. I found that very sound and helpful advice, and it helped me bring a little detachment from my misery. If your best friend was in this situation, how would you comfort and reassure them?
Incidentally, I was 30 then. I had no assets, few friends, had a pack a day cigarette habit and was drinking way too much, and terrified that I would lose my place in my daughter's life. Now I'm 39, probably healthier than I've ever been, certainly wealthier, I have a satisfying and remunerative job, my spare time is consumed with various co-operative endeavours, I'm engaged, my kid is doing great and of course she love me... my general well-being could not be better compared to that time. And yet the route from there to here has been mostly unplanned and unexpected. I've just improvised.
Frankly I think a lot of recovery isn't so much effort as it is avoiding wallowing while you wait for the wheel of fortune to turn a bit, so that you can grab it when it does.
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In 2001 I was a full time student at community college, when my live-in boyfriend and I broke up in an incredibly messy way. I tried to keep up with my classes, but I was so depressed I abandoned them, and most of my teachers gave me F's. This was especially hard to deal with since I had known a couple of them for a few years; I felt like I had really let them down on top of all the other horrible crap I was feeling (one had even gotten me a job that I utterly bailed on). Four years later I went back after I decided that school was really what I needed to do. The breather had been worth it, though- I refocused on what I really wanted and needed, and what my priorities were. I decided that I was really and truly tired of not being paid enough or taken seriously enough in my profession, and I wanted the degree to open up places that wouldn't even consider me without it (even if the thought irks me somewhat). It was hard to go back into the close-knit department I felt I had let down before, especially when all my former professors recognized me on my first day back. However the fact that I had been so lame before gave me new resolve to really kick ass and prove that I wasn't the total fuck up that I might have been before. I transferred to Davis this fall. It was long and difficult and I know that I really got in my own way during the journey, but I know I'm where I really want to be right now. I'm not sure I would have the resolve I have right now (and sometimes it definitely wavers) to get through this if I hadn't gone down the rabbit hole of feeling totally useless and unworthy of support. Going back and finding out that people were willing to give me a second chance was a great feeling, and I was grateful to be in a better frame of mind and have the drive to prove myself this time around.
I guess the thrust of my post is that sometimes these setbacks are necessary or helpful in some way, even if it seems like utter failure at the time. As fucked as education in the US is, they will always take you back, if you want it badly enough. My geography professor told me that she flunked out of college three times; the last time was when her sister was shot and she had to take in her niece and nephew and raise them herself. But then, you know, years later she was my geography professor. It's what she wanted, and she made it happen. As an older returning student to the Oakland community colleges, I was amazed at how many classmates had it so much worse than me or were coming back from much larger setbacks. It really helped my perspective in a lot of ways, and ultimately I am a better person and a better student now than I was.
I don't know if any of that helped- I'm not sure I'm particularly articulate this morning. Feel free to MeMail any time, if you like. I'd be happy to meet for coffee some time if you're still in Oakland.
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Reading books is one of the things that helps me get through my most difficult periods. Two that have been especially helpful are
When Things Fall Apart
by Pema Chodron and
When You're Falling, Dive
by Mark Matousek, which is a collection of stories of people who have made it through hard times.
Best of luck to you. Be gentle with yourself.
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It's always reassuring to read these threads and realize that other people have suffered the same slings and arrows of fate, because when you're going something like what you described, serazin, it certainly feels like you're alone. Like so many others who have posted, I had a bad experience with grad school, nearly a decade ago, but its effects linger on.
I think you've started with some good ideas, namely exercise and social support. I found exercise to be centering - it was one thing I could say, "well, I may have fucked XYZ up, but hey, I can run miles, lift weights and look awesome!" Not to mention, I slept a lot better and it gave me an outlet for the days when I was so stressed or beset by self-loathing that I had to do something besides lay down and cry. And sometimes I did that too.
Sounds stupid or vain, maybe, but you need to find those things, however small, where you can have a win.
Get enough sleep, but don't let yourself oversleep.
Personally, while reframing and all that is well and good, I found that it was literally years before I could even think about the circumstances around what happened and avoid the crushing return of self-loathing and despair. Eventually I was able to look back more kindly and recognize factors of why what happened happened, and what I would do differently, but I'll differ and say right now, don't try to analyze the situation, or compare yourself to the less fortunate. Right now you're still in shock and you just need to keep yourself moving - I'll hazard a guess that you're probably too close to take any sort of useful lesson from this yet. Give it time.
Proactive planning - goals, like katecmd said, start planning your next steps, even if (and especially if) they are as mundane and immediate as a new job. a new exercise routine, somewhere to take a few days off with your kid. Keep busy with the basics to let life settle out until you're feeling stable enough to start planning for what comes next.
I also found reading therapeutic, a lot of
Thich Nhat Hahn
and other comforting books I'd already read.
Many already wrote this, but truly, be gentle with yourself. I wish I'd been better about this, myself. Whatever the circumstances, this is not the end of your story. If your mind tricks you into thinking that your life is now a total failure, make a simple list. Five things you love, or are grateful for, or know you can do. Just a quick way to force yourself away from the cognitive trap of seeing everything only in black or white and letting this overwhelm everything else.
Easier said than done, I know, believe me.
In the end, I think I agree with joe:
Frankly I think a lot of recovery isn't so much effort as it is avoiding wallowing while you wait for the wheel of fortune to turn a bit, so that you can grab it when it does.
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Positive music always helps me...you only have one way to go which is Up! according to Shania:
Exercise definitely helps. Perhaps add some yoga for extra calmness.
I'm going through something similar as you right now. One big thing that helps me is that I schedule every hour of my day to study, etc.
I literally have no time to be depressed even if I wanted to!
I get down once in a while and start thinking negatively (like just a few minutes ago) and started reading Metafilter and that's how I saw your posting.
It makes me feel more at ease that I am not alone in my struggles. And you are not either.
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Great answers here already. Failure is a relative term. Many people don't even get to school to flunk out of it. No one will be judging you more harshly than yourself, but take comfort in the facts that a) You have your life, your health, and people who love you, b) Flunking out of school is very common, many people do it and many people overcome it. c) I think as adults we're somewhat failure-averse. Kids fail at stuff all the time. In fact, they're shit at practically everything. But we don't view that as failure, we view it as
. So you learnt something. Congratulations. Surely that is why you went to school, why you live, in the first place? Learning is never something to be embarrassed or ashamed of.
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Serizin-you are already taking reasonable and prudent steps to stop the spiral of depression. That shows your wisdom. Honor that in yourself.
I'm considerably older than you and this is your jumping point to the next step in your development.
I tried to go to college, but was in an abusive relationship and my husband made it horrible, so I took four years of working and beatings to get my AFA.
In spite of that, I raised 3 kids, had successful and not so successful businesses, in which every failure opened up a new opportunity. For example, my recent bout with cancer almost cost me my job due to loss of productivity. I took five months off of work and wrote articles, blogs, and updated my resume. Luckily, with an ADA accommodation I got my job back, PLUS, because of my ***
*** at my job I discovered I was a marketable and very awesome writer.
The moral of the story is when you are locked in a room, crawl out the window.
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There's a quote somewhere that goes something like, "Persistence is more important than talent". People crash and burn and flunk and fail all the time. Sometimes, as in your case, it's more visible than others times. Assess your mistake, but do not be afraid to fail again. It's okay to flunk! Even preferable, sometimes. Just don't let it wipe you out. Take a week and mope, then start walking again
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on November 1, 2009
No matter how low you feel, there are thousands upon millions of people that would trade places with you in a second if given the chance. Homeless people would kill for the warmth of your apartment. Parents ripped from their children by death would love to spend another night with their son or daughter. People starving would relish those unappetizing leftovers you had for lunch. Failure is rarely absolute. Lick your wounds; feel what you feel, but don't let the illusion of complete failure blind you.
This perspective is what keeps me positive when I feel buried in failure.
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You need to get into talk to your school advisor ASAP to find out if you've really flunked out or if something can be done. If there were extenuating circumstances, they might be able to get you incompletes or late personal hardship withdrawals in your classes and work things out with your financial aid so you can pick yourself up and try again next semester. This is definitely something where the sooner you act the more options you have, so get on this first thing tomorrow.
If you want to MeFi mail me more details (school, circumstances of failing out, etc.) I'll see if I can think of more specific things you can try.
I speak as someone who had to deal with this kind of crap before and found out that schools are often a lot more accommodating of personal crises than one might initially imagine...
posted by
on November 1, 2009
Thanks everyone. So far there's been some really useful and reassuring advice here. I'll check out some of those book recommendations too.
posted by
on November 1, 2009
seconding Jacqueline: do not be ashamed; talk to people at your school (your advisor? trusted prof? dean of students?) to see what your options are. There may be a way to stay, or to arrange it so you are taking a year off, but can return if you demonstrate x, y, z progress during the year.
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I wrote a Fail CV listing every fuckup I'd ever made in my adult life. After years of diffused social pressure to present myself as flawlessly and continuously successful (hi, Facebook!), it filled me with a mad, cathartic glee and was actually weirdly empowering.
One of the richest women in the world
has also meditated on the uses of failure.
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That Rowling speech was surprisingly compelling. Thanks.
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You Like Me! You Really Like Me!
It's a writing class, but it often becomes a conversation class, since there's only so much you can teach someone about writing. I ran out of stuff a couple of months ago, but we can always discuss a controversial topic & try to come up with arguments that could be used in an essay about it, then they write the essay at home.
Today, I brought in a short article about the chocolate Jesus sculpture, so we read it & chatted about why it's so controversial. After about 45 minutes, I gave the students the option to go home early, or to keep chatting for a while longer. And they chose to stay and chat!
They asked about my Peace Corps experience, and my impressions of Poland, and just generally seemed interested in my life. I guess it's normal to have an interest in someone who chooses to live in a country that so many people are choosing to leave, but it was a little surprising to me. I certainly never had any interest in my teachers' lives outside of school.
So it was a nice way to end my day, realizing that my students just may like me a little.
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You are quite a likeable person,you know ;-)
- 09 April, 2007 21:24
You said what I was going to tell her , too. I have never met you but reading your journal makes me say I like the persona you created. But hey! "persona" used to mean "mask" in ancient greek language. Oh well, I am sure you are likeable and lovable in real life.
Your part time reader.
- 09 April, 2007 21:35
would you rather that students didn't ask any questions about your personal / out-of-uni life?
- 10 April, 2007 00:51
- Lisaopolis said...
Of COURSE they like you, what do you expect? My studnets got me side-tracked talking about rap music today (?!) and so I just broke it down, saying I liked OLD SCHOOL. Hey, now that everyone calls me "Ma'am", I might as well not try and NOT date myself anymore with indexing my musical prefs. Class of '89 woo hoo!
Are you going to be 'home' any time this summer?
- 10 April, 2007 07:56
- The Wendy Lady said...
I truly wasn't fishing, but thanks for the ego boost! It's not so much that I don't want them to ask about my personal life, I just find it odd that they're interested. But I'm happy to tell them about me if they want to know.
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On the ancient sources, see the standard commentaries on the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and Josephus ("Loeb Classical Library"). Among recent monographs, Carl H. Kraeling, John the Baptist (1951), is primarily a historical investigation, while Walter Wink, John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition (1968), studies the Gospels' tendencies and their differing representations of John. For analogous contemporary baptizing groups, see J. Thomas, Le Mouvement baptiste en Palestine et Syrie . . . (1935), and more recent literature on the community that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls. Most encyclopaedias of religion or biblical studies contain articles on John. Representative are: P. Vielhauer in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 3rd ed., vol. 3, pp. 804–808 (1959), who offers the mainline view of critical New Testament scholarship; and W.R. Farmer in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2, pp. 955–962 (1962), who stresses the political aspects of John's activity.


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News Feed for Dixon Milner - CultureMap http://austin.culturemap.com/feeds/author/dixon_milner/ 2013-03-01T10:35:21-06:00 Yonder Mountain String Band on Devo and the magic of live music 2013-03-01T10:35:21-06:00 Dixon Milner http://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/03-01-13-yonder-mountain-string-band-interview/
 Yonder Mountain String Band is one of the most aptly named bands around today, especially in the jam band genre. Based outside of Boulder in Nederland, Colorado, the four-person string band has cultivated a devoted following by combining original songs, traditional string band and bluegrass numbers, and pop music covers in their improvisational live shows.

 Live show juggernauts, they play a relentless lineup of shows and festivals where their improvisational skills, in-between-song banter and mid-song gibberish outbreaks have endeared them to bluegrass and jam band fans alike. But the band transcends the jam band or bluegrass genre moniker and provides something for everyone at their live shows, which feature lots of dancing in a party atmosphere.

 For those unfamiliar with the band's music, any of the Mountain Tracks live series albums is a good starting point. The albums capture the band in their most natural setting and feature the best of their live shows. In addition to having a knack for improvisation, Yonder displays strong songwriting skills on their studio albums.Some of their most well-known album songs include "Half Moon Rising," "40 Miles from Denver," "At the End of the Day," and "If There's Still Rambling in the Rambler (Let Him Go)."

 Recently we spoke with Jeff Austin, singer and mandolin player for Yonder, to discuss his recent musical tastes, the magic of live shows and what festivals he's excited to play this summer.

 Culture Map: What is your favorite venue or city to play?

 Jeff Austin: I've got to say the Tabernacle in Atlanta is right up there. Red Rocks and Telluride Town Park in Colorado are my favorite spots.

 CM: What have you been listening to lately?

 JA: Todd Snider. I just get so inspired every time I listen to his stuff.

 CM: Yonder plays a lot of cover songs. Which is your favorite?

 JA: Lately we've been playing "Gut Feeling" by Devo. That song is a blast to sing.

 CM: Do you feel a responsibility to carry on the traditional songs and styles of string band/old time/bluegrass music?

 JA: I just feel responsible to keep doing what we are doing and keep coming up with new music for the fans.

 CM: How has the recent popularity of bluegrass affected the band?

 JA: Nothing I really notice; our fans have been loyal for a long time. They've stuck with us through all kinds of trends that have come and gone.

 CM: What is it about the extended improvisations or culture of jam band music that you think attracts people?

 JA: It's watching musicians being very free in the moment. By being there and being in the moment with them, you can change the course of a show.

 CM: Has anything crazy happened on this tour so far?

 JA: Haven't hit the road yet! (Editor's note: Yonder played throughout January but has been on break since February 3.) Home time is family time for me. The craziest I get is staying up past 10 pm.

 CM: What can concertgoers who haven't attended a Yonder show expect? Anything new for seasoned fans?

 JA: We are bringing new music out all the time. We find it very important to keep people engaged.

 CM: What is it about playing live that can't be captured in a studio?

 JA: That fan reaction is just irreplaceable.

 CM: Are y'all working on any new music right now?

 JA: Yep, trying to get some stuff in the studio done. But, between touring and life, it's been a little rough.

 CM: For those planning their spring or summer concert festival trips, which are you most excited about?

 JA: Telluride Bluegrass Festival, All Good and String Summit. But playing outside is just the best. I look forward to it each year.

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 Yonder Mountain String Band plays Saturday, March 2, at Stubb's BBQ.
 Alejandro Escovedo reflects on Texas music and his journey prior to Gruene Hall 2013-02-06T09:35:00-06:00 Dixon Milner http://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/atx-entertainment-alejandro-escovedo-set-to-rock-historic-gruene-hall-talks-about-texas-music-and-his-background/
 Alejandro Escovedo is a true Texas original. He hails from a musically inclined family and his father came here from Mexico. Settling in Austin in the '80s, he's also spent time in California and New York. Since then he has produced music, both in bands and as a solo act, that generally falls into the "cowpunk" label.

 Touring relentlessly, Escovedo has built a devoted fan base that includes some of the music industry's most respected personalities. Those friends came in handy when he suffered from a previously diagnosed but untreated case of Hepatitis-C and needed help paying his medical bills. Back in full health by 2005, he has since produced six albums, including 2012's Big Station.

 Gruene Hall owner, Pat Molak, had this to say about Escovedo's upcoming performance: "We're very excited that Springsteen's soul brother, Alejandro Escovedo, born in SA (in the USA) will be returning to Gruene Hall, bringing his very high quality, unique style of music with him. We love San Antonio – he's a San Antonio native so we're all looking forward to this rare show at the old Dance Hall."

 We spoke with Alejandro recently about his February 8 performance at Gruene Hall, his take on Texas music past and present, and where his music comes from.

 CultureMap: You come from a very musical family, but also are the son of an immigrant. That is a pretty unique story. How has that shaped your perspective and approach to making music?

 Alejandro Escovedo: I was influenced by my older brother's and father's music and record collections. My mother was born in San Marcos, but my dad was from Mexico so they had different experiences but we found this common ground and love for records. My family had a huge influence on what I write about and how I wrote it.

 CM: What does it mean to play Gruene Hall?

 AE: It's very historic, it's a great treat. The last gig I did there we had quite a beautiful show, so I'm looking forward to playing there and having Amy Cook play with us.

 CM: Besides Gruene Hall, what's your favorite venue to play?

 AE: The Continental Club.

 CM: What's it like working with Jon Landau (Bruce Springsteen's manager)?

 AE: He's been wonderful, very supportive, very interesting in his opinions and outlook, the things he finds important. It has changed my life. The exposure and type of shows I've been playing and things I can do have changed.

 CM: "Wave" is a pretty interesting song. It has an REM sound to it. Is this song about immigration? Or something larger?

 AE: The song was inspired by my father and his stories he told me about leaving Mexico in order to find his parents who had gone to Texas to find work. It was the first one of a song cycle about his life. It was the inspiration for the play, By the Hand of the Father, that I did. It was stemming from his story.

 CM: What's the state of music in Texas right now?

 AE: I think it's really healthy right now. A lot of music is made here and there are a lot of good clubs to play. In Austin, there are so many styles: there's new jazz guys in town, new rock bands, and there's a little scene on the East Side.

 CM: How has touring changed over the years?

 AE: It's changed quite a bit. It's not as easy as it once was. As you get older it changes too. If I was just starting a band now, I'd be going through the same motions I was then of sleeping on your friends couches and what not.

 CM: Do you like where you're at now better?

 AE: I'm not sure I do. [Laughs] It's cool being with your mates, one of those "all for one and one for all" type things. But the physicality of it is not what it once was. All those things you have to do to get a decent gig, traveling around in the bus and what not.

 CM: What is your favorite Texas band... other than your own, of course?

 AE: The Werewolves, out of Dallas, they were amazing. They were in the '70s and produced by Glyn Johns or Andrew Loog Oldham (Rolling Stones producers). Out of Oak Cliff, very Stone-sy.

 CM: What bands have you seen recently?

 AE: The Ghost Wolves, the Happen-Ins, and the Mastersons.

 CM: What's next for you?

 AE: Hit the road in March, SXSW, some shows with Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys in the summer. Then I'll start thinking about another record.

 CM: You've played with Los Lobos for a long time, what fuels that partnership?

 AE: They have always been inspiring to me, I love them so much, on a lot of levels. I'm always learning something from them. They're just wonderful people to hang out with.

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 Gruene Hall is located near San Marcos, about 45 miles south of Austin. You can purchase tickets through the venue's site.
 The Drive-By Truckers' Mike Cooley on recording live & how the Internet changed the South 2013-01-25T11:15:00-06:00 Dixon Milner http://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/atx-entertainment-the-drive-by-truckers-mike-cooley-on-recording-live-music-and-how-the-internet-changed-the-south/
 The Drive-By Truckers have been exploring what it means to be Southern through storytelling songs since 1996. The two founding members, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, are from northern Alabama but the band started in Athens, GA — the college town that also spawned the B-52's, REM, Widespread Panic and many others.

 The Truckers rose to prominence in 2001 with the release of Southern Rock Opera, an album that examined the band's Southern roots.

 Sometimes described as alt-country, DBT's sound spans from arena rock to soul, but is always rooted in regional influences. Often full of dark lyrics and sinister characters, the band also seeks to illustrate the other side of the Southern story: overcoming national biases, explaining the views of Southerners and shedding a light on the complex nature of "the Southern thing."

 To wade through what's behind this deep material and understand their approach to touring after all these years, CultureMap spoke with co-founder, singer, songwriter and guitarist Mike Cooley. Drive-By Truckers play Emo's East on January 25.

 CultureMap: You recorded as the backing band for Booker T. in 2009, along with Neil Young and Andre 3000. That's a pretty eclectic lineup. What's the coolest band or musician you've gotten to sit with?

 Mike Cooley: Booker is way up there. Spooner Oldham played a bunch of shows with us and a couple albums with us. They are about tied. He's from Muscle Shoals so Patterson Hood has known him since he was a kid, since his dad knows him.

 CM: Can you talk about your new solo album, The Fool on Every Corner, that just came out?

 MC: It's fun. It's a live album. It's a lot of Drive-By Truckers songs that I just reworked to do solo shows. I'm pretty proud of it. There are a few songs that we didn't get good versions of, some fan favorites, but overall we got some good songs.

 CM: How do you decide which shows to record and then which to release as an album?

 MC: Funny thing is, it happened with this album of mine, if you record more than one night, the night you thought was the worst will be the best. If you pick a great venue and play a good show but played a dump the night before, you'll have a better record from the dump. If you're gonna take it live, you're gonna get what you get. There's not much control over it other than listening to and deciding this can never be heard by anyone ever again.

 CM: During the New Year's show in DC, Patterson Hood said something to the effect of, "Southerner's make good records, write good books, take good photographs and make beautiful paintings, so maybe the South will rise again, just in a better way." Do you agree with that statement? Can you talk about it a bit?

 MC: I absolutely agree with that. He and I were doing the same thing at the same time: trying to learn about that era of our culture and trying to look at it from an adult perspective. We were kids when George Wallace was governor of Alabama, and the Civil Rights movement was going on. There's so much good in the culture here to have so much bad. Maybe that's the same everywhere. We're just talking about the South because that's where we're from.

 CM: The South is an interesting place to be right now. Businesses and people, both from inside and outside the U.S., are moving there and Southern culture (food, art, drink, etc.) is getting a lot of attention from critics and television. Is this a turning point for the South?

 MC: In the cities for sure, but outside the cities it's the same as it's always been. The city culture of the South was still the South back then, just with more concrete.

 I think the Internet has influenced that, because you can get information from anywhere. It's not as backwards, not a bubble stuck in another time, like it was when we were kids. We only had TV, and God knows that's not a good thing. You're probably learning less from TV now, even though we only had 3 channels. Maybe it's also the generation of parents, maybe we're more forward thinking. Maybe they had the same type of introspection we did.

 What I've learned since we've been on the road is that rural culture in America is not that different from one end of the country to the other. There are places in Northern California that make where I'm from look downright cosmopolitan. The only thing that changes is the accent.

 CM: Is Texas part of the South?

 MC: No. Hell no. (Laughs.) It's a Southern state. It was a Confederate state. But if you think of the South, as we do, as the Southeast or the Deep South then it's not. I don't know why they call it the Deep South, Texas is deeper, I've seen a map. I'm kidding about it not being the South. We don't even consider Florida to be part of the South. Maybe Northern Florida, but Florida is like three or four different states and only the Panhandle is Southern.

 CM: Most bands are either "road bands" who live to play, or bands who can't wait to get back in the studio, but y'all seem to straddle both. Does one feed the other?

 MC: I enjoy making records, all of us do. I love being able to tour and love playing live. If I had to do only one, I'd get sick of it. I can see why some people don't like making records. If nothing else, it's just fun to hang out in the studio. A lot of the time it's just us bullshitting. If you do that long enough, you can come up with something that works. That's [where] a lot of our stuff comes from. It's cool to not have an audience around and just be able to hang out with the band.

 CM: What's one song you'd wish you'd written?

 MC: If you hadn't asked me, I'd be able to name ten. Something by James McMurtry.
 Old Crow Medicine Show talks new tour, a return to roots and Guns N' Roses 2012-11-27T16:29:00-06:00 Dixon Milner http://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/atx-entertainment-old-crow-medicine-show-talk-new-tour-return-to-roots-and-guns-n-roses/
 Old Crow Medicine Show, internationally famous for the hit sing-along "Wagon Wheel," is back on tour promoting new album, Carry Me Back. The band's first album in four years, it recaptures their original sound as well as the energy of their live shows. It also signals co-founder Critter Fuqua's return after a five-year hiatus.

 Old Crow Medicine Show is known as one of the chief purveyors of roots music. Along with other popular acts such as Mumford and Sons and The Avett Brothers, the band has introduced a new generation of music fans to a diverse style that is sometimes called Americana, bluegrass or roots music. Old Crow has toured and released albums since 1998.

 Part of the band's notoriety involves the story of how they were discovered. Originally the band busked for a living: they played street corners for money, in the tradition of many great acoustic acts before them. While busking in Boone, NC, bluegrass and folk legend Doc Watson (with the help of his daughter) heard them and was extremely impressed.

 This led to them playing Watson's annual festival, MerleFest. From there they were invited to play the Grand Ole Opry, which led to collaborations and other festivals and launched them as a prominent act in the Americana and roots music genre.

 CultureMap sat down with Critter Fuqua to discuss his return to the band, the new tour, his influences, and the state of the hard to define — yet wildly popular — roots music movement.

 Culture Map: How does it feel to be back on tour after a hiatus?

 Critter Fuqua: It's great, I'm loving touring. It's really normal, I think. I got sober while I was away and that's got a lot to do with it. We got a new stage show, and the dynamics have changed so it's a fun show. It's a lot different than how we used to do it, now we have risers and better Feng Shui.

 CM: Can you tell me about Chuck Mead and His Grassy Knoll Boys, who will be opening for you? You recently recorded a version of the traditional song "Wabash Cannonball" with him.

 CF: Chuck is great, he's such a spirit. The BR549 [Chuck Mead is a member of the band BR549] guys were big, he was the helm of that when we were coming up in Nashville. They opened up for us, but it was kind of a double bill. It's great to have them because they are the cream of the crop when it comes to hillbilly rock.

 CM: What inspired the return to Old Crow's roots on the latest album, Carry Me Back? Is that a direction you think you will continue in for awhile?

 CF: I think so. We don't really make a decision which direction it goes in, it takes on a life of its own. We'll always be Old Crow and have the Old Crow sound. I really love playing the new album. I wasn't involved in writing, but it's fun to play. It's like riding an old bike — it's just comfortable.

 CM: What's your favorite song off the new album?

 CF: "Carry Me Back." We've been opening the whole tour with that song. I like it because I'm from the Shenandoah and I'm a big Civil War buff and had family who fought. It's a heavy song and it's important.

  "Guns N' Roses is my roots music. You don't have to grow a beard and buy overalls to play roots music. "

 CM: The Lumineers are starting to receive a lot of attention, what was it like touring with them?

 CF: I love playing with The Lumineers. Their energy reminds me of what we used to be like. We're not old men, but after our shows we retire to our quarters. Their energy is infectious. It's really fun to get to know the people you're on tour with and have it be a family. We had a couple practical jokes going on and they got us good in Atlanta.

 CM: What was the prank?

 CF: Remember when that guy ran on stage when Bob Dylan was playing the Grammy's and that guy came out on stage with "Soy Bomb" written on his chest? They soy bombed us during "Wagon Wheel."

 CM: What are your influences?

 CF: Guns N' Roses was my first influence, in 7th grade, in 1987 when they came out with Appetite for Destruction. I knew then that I wanted to be a musician. I didn't get a lot of what they were singing about but I knew I wasn't supposed to be listening to it. AC/DC, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, and then into blues and then into more obscure fiddlers. Some Conjunto from down in San Antonio.

 CM: One of the most well known songs you wrote for Old Crow was "Take 'Em Away." It mentions a couple rivers in Texas. Where did the inspiration for that song come from?

 CF: I was born in Austin. We moved to Virginia in second grade. Our roots in Texas go back to the Civil War with my family coming from South Carolina.

 The song is loosely based off Mance Lipscomb, a blues singer and sharecropper from Navasota County, and the rivers I remember as a child living in East Texas. He was a big influence on me.

 CM: Old Crow has covered or reinterpreted a lot of standards. Are there any you're working on right now?

 CF: Ketch Secor [Old Crow's lead singer] and I just wrote one about Doc Watson. About being on the corner in Boone and him discovering us. It honors Doc and the high country blues sound. We've been playing Mighty Quinn in the encore. We like to play regional songs when we tour.

 CM: Do you think the old time/bluegrass/Americana/roots music following is here to stay? Besides the Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, what do you think has contributed to its recent popularity?

 CF: It's strange. I took a break for about five years and I saw it grow exponentially. Now it seems like every other band has a fiddle and a banjo. It might be here to stay, I think it's great. Roots music isn't about what instruments you're playing but what you're saying and the drive behind the music. It doesn't have to be old. Roots to me is whatever kind of music is rooted spiritually for a community. Nirvana is my roots music, Guns N' Roses is my roots music. You don't have to grow a beard and buy overalls to play roots music.

 CM: Do you feel a responsibility to carry on traditional songs and styles? Kind of in the way Bob Dylan did with Woody Guthrie?

 CF: I guess I feel a responsibility for the songs we do and rearrange. I know that as long as we're not the only ones playing them, this music will keep on going. So long as people realize it's theirs too, not just ours. It's a community thing, that's the way it will survive.

 CM: What can concert goers expect?

 CF: Expect to need a sober ride home, maybe a cab ride. You'll maybe have too much to drink. Expect to have fun and dance.

 Old Crow Medicine Show plays ACL Live at Moody Theatre in Austin on November 28, the House of Blues Dallas November 29, and the House of Blues Houston November 30.
 Modern rockers Delta Spirit talk songwriting and moving to the East Coast 2012-11-08T15:00:00-06:00 Dixon Milner http://austin.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/atx-entertainment-modern-rockers-delta-spirit-talk-playing-dallas-songwriting-and-moving-to-the-east-coast/
 Delta Spirit has been on the move lately. After releasing their eponymous third album in March, the band recently moved from Southern California to Brooklyn.

 Formed in San Diego in 2006, Delta Spirit has been touring relentlessly and releasing critcally acclaimed albums in the roots rock and folk scenes. But they saw themselves as a modern rock band and set out to prove that on their latest album.

 Their first hit — a word they are wary of using — off the album is "California." It starts with a driving beat and an airy, almost haunting guitar lead. Synthesizers and effects help create a big, open sound on the track. The juxtaposition helps frame lyrics that are certain about the end of a relationship but uncertain about what the future might hold.

 We sat down with bassist Jon Jameson in between shows to discuss their roots and what they've been up to. Stay tuned for the airing of their November 2 ACL Live taping and read the review here.

 CultureMap: How has the beginning of the tour been going?

 Jon Jameson: Yesterday was the first show. We played New Orleans on Halloween, which was crazy. Before that we had done some random one-off shows around Northern California. We also were scheduled to play a show in Honolulu, but it was canceled because it was on the night of the alleged tsunami. We were able to play a show there later, however.

 CM: What can people who've never seen Delta Spirit live expect?

 JJ: We take shows really seriously, but we still have fun. We take shows personally. The first thing we do after we got off stage each night is we criticize and think about what we could have done differently. We feel like we are a live band, and that's where we really connect with people.

 CM: Talk about your most recent album. It sounds a bit more pop or electronic than previous efforts. What inspired this? How did the recording process work?

 JJ: We like to get away and make a record in a place where we can focus on just making an album. We made our second album at a ranch in a converted chicken coop that Tom Waits recorded in once. We made this album in an old Catholic church near Woodstock, New York. We spent three months writing in San Pedro, California, before that. It was like a job, five days a week. We were there for a lot of hours each day.

 We had some direction going into it. We didn't want to make a quiet acoustic record. We get bored pretty easily so our sound is always evolving, and we have diverse tastes so that keeps changing too. The best thing about our band is we have dedicated fans who love everything we've done. They have given us permission to try new things and do whatever we want, as long as it's within the bounds of something we really love.

 CM: That sounds like a pretty intentional writing process. Do you sit down and write or wait until the ideas come to you?

 JJ: Both. The song "Vivian" came to Matt after his grandparents died. Other times we sit around in a room and jam until something sparks and connects. Other times we have to hash out a song for months. Writing is different every time.

 CM: What's one album or song you wish you could've written?

 JJ: That's a good question. There are so many great songs. I've been in to Van Morrison's album Astral Weeks lately. I'll say "Sweet Thing." That whole album is a crazy thing. He went in and recorded the whole album in 16 hours with a bunch of musicians who hadn't played together before.

 CM: Talk about the song "California." Y'all just moved from there to Brooklyn, right? Is this a song to someone you've met on the East Coast since then?

 JJ: That song was written before any of us thought we were going to move to the East Coast. Kelly wrote that about a specific girl he dated, and things just didn't work out. It was that give and take in his mind of how long distance would work out. It started as one beautiful line that turned into a song.

 CM: What prompted the move?

 JJ: We moved for lots of different personal reasons. My wife is from Philly, and our guitar player lived in New York, so it felt like the right time for a change. It was time to see a new area. It has been great so far. Our rehearsal space flooded during the hurricane, but thankfully most of our gear was out here on tour with us. Besides the hurricane, the East Coast has been great.

 CM: What's your music about in a few words or images?

 JJ: Authenticity. We care about being a genuine band. We can all be pretty sarcastic and pessimistic, so to be genuine is a constant struggle, even among ourselves. We need to do it in a way that is worthy of people's time. Our deepest gratification is when we come and play these songs and connect with people.


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