All needed healing to you and yours.
Love the tree idea.
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I didnât shop there a lot, but a few times. I went in there looking for Iâm A Man by Spencer Davis Group after hearing it on dj Andy Smithâs Document mix. one of the guys couldnât locate it on the floor and went into the store room for a really long time and still couldnât come up with it but you could tell he really thought he could find it. it was an older cat who knew the stock extremely well, so it may have been him. I really donât remember what he looked like, though. itâs a great shop but almost all my record buying in Atlanta has been hip hop singles, so Earwax and the like got most of my money.
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We do have a nice ecosystem for buying albums (on whatever medium) in ATL (W-n-F, Criminal, Wuxtry, Earwax, whatâs the one down in Decatur?, etc).
It was likely either Harry or Danny most likely⌠Iâve talked with both a time or two over the years, but with Danny a bit more. That shop is really an institution in the area, for sure⌠Danny also ran DB records out of the back of the store back in the day. I got to go back there once and itâs a crazy storage situation with records just all over the placeâŚ
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{I could cry, thinking abt long-gone Detroit-area record stores, both new and used.}
{âAs a girl, I wept in record shops.â}
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He was great.
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yeah, there were a ton of Love Tractor records on the floor still sealed. I copped Themes From Venus and later noticed that the label had an Atlanta address on Moreland, I realized it must have been Wax n Facts.
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This was back in February, but I just happened to be watching a Rockford Files episode that he was in - wondered why he looked familiar.
ETA: Joan Van Ark was in the same Rockford episode (2nd of 3 that she was in; all diff. characters), & they both got their start in the same theater company
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From April. (Iâd thought this was upthread?)
As they worked together, [Terry] Gross and Davis formed a friendship that blossomed into something more. âOur first date, so to speak, was an Abdullah Ibrahim concert in West Philly; Iâm pretty sure it was at St. Maryâs Church,â Gross remembers. âThen we went to hear Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, and then we went to hear Lou Reed. And by then, the deal was sealed.â Davis and Gross became a couple in 1978. They married in 1996.
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After watching the movie with Paul Dano, I looked up Wilson to learn more about his life. Itâs true, a lot got left out. The biggest issue was how the wife (I think they got divorced later?) was involved in the film and so it had a very soft focus on her role in his life. I gathered their marriage was way more tumultuous than it was portrayed.
And there was just so much they left out, too, but he was a complex person and a film has a very simple structure and must be pared down in order to work on screen.
I thought overall they make the right choices in what they showed.
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Ah, yes. Marilyn Wilson, mother of Carnie and Wendy Wilson (of Wilson Phillips fame). Yes, they indeed had a tumultuous and fraught relationship.
Some background: Marilyn Rovell and her sisters Diane and Barbara were actually part of a girl group called The Honeys, who were up and coming at the same time as The Beach Boys in the early 1960s. They shared the same producer who in turn introduced Brian to them. Marilyn was just 15 when she married the then-21 year old Brian.
There were never any reports that I was aware of with Brian physically or mentally abusing Marilyn or their kids, but obviously he wasnât a great father or husband (he notably had an extramarital affair with Marilynâs sister Diane, who he had always had a thing for).
Ultimately it was Brianâs extensive drug use and addiction that led to Marilyn filing for divorce after being married for 15 years. The story goes that she found Brian, strung out, offering drugs to a young Carnie, That was the final straw. Brian was estranged from his ex-wife children for many years after this, but they eventually reconciled once Brian was free of Eugene Landyâs influence.
Marilyn would remarry and become a real estate broker. Last I heard sheâs still active in that profession.
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Couldnât decide if this belonged here or âfollow-upâ but since this event seemed like a wakeâŚ.
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My BFF sent me a link to the auction, and I looked thru every page. It made me very sad, and gave me an empty pit of the stomach feeling. So much personal stuff - even a pair of his shoes, FFS.
At least they didnât sell his toothbrushes.
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OMFG
Iâm not even halfway thru, but knew the vid needed to go here.
Mother, Father, God, thank You for providing Mikayla with only great and fortunate rebirths. Thank you for ensuring she is only ever born of friends; and thank You for providing her, her family, and all who truly love her with all needed healing.
Thank You for providing complete Enlightenment and real justice for those who pushed her to end her life.
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A local who will be missed:
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What?! She was young!
ETA; She was fox rescue; she was synonymous with fox rescue, and I guess people were jealous of that.
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Apparently a lot of ignorant people were also angry that she didnât release all those foxes into the wild. Itâs illegal to release captive-bred foxes, which was pointed out over and over again on her channel, but ignorant people ignore important information like that.
Some asshole attacked me twice for posting that above blessing in the comments. Ironic as.
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I just checked out the wildlife rescue subreddit, which identified a subreddit as the likely culprit. Apparently most of what was said has been saved, and the general feeling is that it should be passed on to the police if her husband wants to pursue charges of cyberbullying.
This is heartbreaking for so many reasons.
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