The latest episode of The Agency Podcast is called The whole point of a twist. You can listen here or find it in the usual places. In this episode we venture way back in time. Join us!
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The whole point of a twist
Studio Snapshot: UPG (Universal Poetry Generator)
The Universal Poetry Generator is a 2-panel painting, oil on canvas. Each panel is 24X24″.
A song for people in pain…
It’s Ramblin’ Jack performing Arthritis Blues
Go with Vox
We played 5 games online last night. I continued to give 2 stones and receive 6.5 points komi. I won 4/5 but needed the komi to win 2 of them.
This is the 3rd game, which I won by 9.5 points. Vox misplayed the bottom right corner and I killed off those stones. He recovered some by cutting off and killing 5 stones in the centre-left, but it wasn’t enough to win the game.
If Vox is going to get back to even play, he has to get better at the corner sequences. It seems that most sessions there are one or two games in which I steal a corner or kill a corner, which on review it’s clear he should have been more successful. As well, I think he needs to develop more aggressive play to keep my groups more unsettled. Of course figuring out how to go about this is the challenge.
Prohibition is a Failure
Continuing on a theme after Where do you get your Whiskey…
This is Dean Barber. He’s a banjo picker from down in Texas I believe. I enjoy his playing and singing both.
Where do you get your whiskey?
Askin’ for a friend.
Here’s Bruce Molsky, Joe Newberry, Mike Compton and I believe the bass player is Tom T. Ball – and also Riley Baugus off to the side on guitar. You’d have to look long and hard to find a finer group of pickers than these guys.
Studio Snapshots: Dead Man’s Fingers
This is another new painting called Dead Man’s Fingers. It’s oil on canvas, 24″X24″.
The last few months have been a period of improvisation for me in the studio. I’ve been having tremendous fun with this group of paintings, feeling loose and free, open to all kinds of ideas.
Dead Man’s Fingers, and all the new paintings are available. If you’re in Toronto and want a better look at them, let me know, and I’ll be happy to invite you to visit my little secret garage studio.
Damned Old Piney Mountains
Here are Toronto’s own Lonesome Ace Stringband with an inspired version of Damned Old Piney Mountains. This is from Deep End Sessions on YouTube.
3001
Sending out a big thanks to all the fantastic listeners to The Agency Podcast. Today we reached a milestone – 3,000 downloads. Now I understand that in a social media world where people achieve hundreds of thousands of visits for all kinds of goofy things, our little milestone may be small potatoes – but it’s our small potatoes.
My co-host Candy Minx and I keep making podcasts because you keep listening! We love you.
If you’ve never heard our podcast, you can listen to all 50-odd episodes here.
Hard Times
From the 90s, Bob Dylan and friends perform the fabulous Stephen Foster song, Hard Times Come Again No More
27th Street 