Blame it on spring,or the sun or just some much needed sleep but I am up and at it again. First off is the Co-op. Our next meeting will be Saturday April 18th at 4:00PM. We will be discussing the upcoming open house for artists and arrangements of the shop. This will be a business meeting for us and a time to share ideas. If you are interested in beeing a part of this group please plan on being here.
Next is this wacky idea that I should try and do some teaching soon. I miss this activity and I have been working on a variety of projects that I am now getting finished finally! I would love to do a class on altered books. Is there anyone out there that might want to do this? I will be putting up posters at the crafts store and other areas and hope that some people will sign up for it. My other idea is a needle night. I love doing beadwork and crochet and embroidery and am wondering if any of you might like to join me for a needlework group?
I am still looking to put a radio show together for Rockhoppers and I would love an evening a week with a speaker or a small independent movie that elicits a discussion. I need to explore these a little more but know they are in the works.
I do have a book signing coming up later this month and hopefully will be picking up more of these. And as you may have noticed I am picking up musicians from over town as well as on the island. This will provide variety and help fill my calendar for events. I hope you will take up some of the things offered here at Rockhoppers and that we will see you soon.
So we have had some incredible days lately with sunshine and in the 60's, it is starting to feel likes spring around here. I posted this months calendar and I have to say we will be having some GRREAT events for the rest of this month.
First we will be entertained this Saturday with Che'. Che's evening of entertainment is always fun! He has a great sense of humor and his love of robotics and techno stuff gives his event an edge we dont usually have here. For dinner that night we will cook pork tenderloin roast. So be sure and come for an evening of fun.
The 18th we welcome Mike Curley. Mike has never been here before and we are really excited about him coming to Rockhoppers. Here is the write up that will appear in the paper(I hope) about Mike.
Rockhoppers is pleased to welcome Mike Curley Saturday evening May 18 at 8:00PM.The dinner for this event will be Cornish Game Hens and stuffing. There will be limited dinners available so call for reservations. Dinner begins at 6:00PM.
Mike Curley is a SONGWRITER OF CULT STATURE PROGRAMS / ARRANGER / VOCALS / GUITARS / PIANO / DRUMS. HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING Music for the film and documentary currently in the works for the Victor Lundin active film script "Whatever Happened To John Wayne".
In 2007 Closed the Czech Grammies singing Imagine, with The Alan White Band, with a live tv audience of 5 million. During that year he also opened for Dolores O'Riodran at Seattle's famous Showbox Theater.
2005 Released "Come Back Too Me", an acoustic cover originally made famous by the Scottish band Big Country, with over 25,000 plays and air-play in europe. During that year he also opened for Reo Speedwagon, Styx, and Foreigner, at The Gorge amphitheater.
He has Written three solo projects: It Took Along Time - So Long Big City - Here For You. He as also recorded two albums with rock band Clever Bastards, with Roger Fisher (Heart), Michael Derosier (Heart), Lynn Sorensen (Bad Company), Rick Knotts (Rail). The Great Unconformity and Dumb It Down.
Mike is also a noted producer having produced & created the concept for "LiveInTheLounge", through the insomnia radio, voted by business week magazine "Top Three Internet Stations" in 2007. with over 80,000 weekly subscribers to the network.
The month will end with Trilogy. Trilogy is a group of local musicians who are getting prepared to be in a Pete Segar concert in May.This group is wonderful to listen to and they always provide a great night of fun!
Our friend Kit posted a related video in her blog "Miss Kitty's Saloon and Road Show". I could not help but want to include my own video featuring an impromptu art gallery. I hope you enjoy. If you get a chance check out Impromtu Everywhere. They have some Great Shows!!
For those of you who enjoy April Fool's Check out this April Fool! Keep in mind that even the Funeral was staged. It was NOT a real funeral at All!! Watch the video of the funeral and then see how the joke ended up on the news!
when I was a kid my father used to play the worst pranks on us. We never did top him. My favorite and one my sister and I still laugh about was the time my dad turned our horses loose.
We lived on Mt. Spokane and owned 17 acres. Right next to our house was a 10 acre alfalfa field. Now this field was never really a problem until the alfalfa started to bloom and then the horses just had to have some... Usually they would find a way to break through the electric fence and they were on their way.
Well it was the end of March and the neighbors came to tell us that thier bee hives had been severely damaged by a black bear. It was about this time that we heard that another neighbor had shot a black bear that was trying to break into his house through a window. He was sure he hit it but didn't think he killed it. GREAT! a wounded blackbear roaming through the woods was not a nice thing to find!
So April Fool's Day rolls around and well we are all a little jumpy about the bear that may or may not even be around us! and the horse's get loose. Dad comes in and tells my sister and I to go get the horse's and he will go find where they got out and repair the fence.
So Shan and I take off (la te dah) and we are just walking along when all of a sudden in the bushes we hear this growling and see the bushes move. Both of us thought it was the end. I yelled at Shan and she yelled at me and we both did a 180 and ran for home. After a few feet, Shan tripped over a log and fell. My thought was "well at least the bear will stop for her." I later found out that her thought was if she laid still maybe the bear would go after me. (So much for sisterly love!)
Anyway, when I hit the road that was right by our house I suddenly hear this very deep voice laughing to high heaven. Dad was the bear and us girls were the bait!
My brother's great April Fool's Day joke was to call my great aunt who was over 80 years old and pretend to be an irate neighbor who was calling because Aunt Ella's chickens were in his yard. Would she please come get them? Aunt Ella didn't have chickens and what was worse was Aunt Ella did not recognize Dean's voice until he started giggling. Have a great April Fool's Day and here is some pranks you might enjoy reading about.
Clooney's Kind Gift to a Friend
One day driving around Los Angeles, George Clooney spotted in the trash a hideous painting of a naked woman. He took it home and started plotting his evil plan. George began telling his friends, including longtime pal Richard Kind ("Spin City" and "Mad About You"), that he had developed a newfound love of art, that he was taking painting classes, and that he thought he was quite gifted. George dragged Richard to galleries and craft shows to ensnare his victim deeper into his web. Then one day he showed up at Kind's home with, you guessed it, the dumpster art. He had signed the painting and said he was so proud of it he wanted to give it to his friend. A horrified Kind felt he had no choice but to display the art in his home. Clooney let it hang for a few weeks before confessing his prank.
This next one is a classic: Except I thought the nomination of Palin was the April Fools. The fact that she was on the recieving end of a prank only proves that we were the fools because we actually thought she was a legitimate candidate. I am still laughing at how we were fooled.... oh wait She really was a candidate and Ronald Reagan really was a president? Say it aint so Joe!
Sarah Palin Chats with French President Sarkozy
At the height on the 2008 Presidential campaign, Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the subject of the best political practical jokes EVER. Palin enthusiastically took a call from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who proceeded to tell her in a very heavy accent that he'd like to hunt in a helicopter with her and that he could see Belgium from his house. A nervous Palin replied tentatively, saying we all need to live next door to different countries we need to work with and that if the two of them were to hunt and work at the same time they could kill two birds with one stone. In true Palin form, she flailed until the bitter end, when a Canadian comedian revealed he was pulling a prank. We were just relieved she never had the chance to tell the real Sarkozy, "I love you guys!"
