Jesca Hoop, will finally release her debut album KISMET. She is also on tour. Not sure if I can make her show at the Magic Stick in Detroit, but I would like I love to go. I first heard Jesca on Nic Harcourt’s Morning Becomes Eclectic Show. If you haven’t heard Morning Becomes eclectic it’s …
Monthly Archive: September 2007
Sep
19
Wawa, Greenland Style Kayaking Symposium 2007
Doug Van Doren and I arrived in Wawa Ontario midday on Friday. We stepped out of the car to view Rock Island Lodge’s panoramic view of both the Michipicoten River mouth and Lake Superior. The dappled gray rocks, with pock marks of orange lichen and moss stripe the pillowed rock formations the lodge sits upon. …
Sep
12
Pit of Dread
I made the after work foray to South Haven south beach yesterday. The wind was up again, 20-25 knots out of the northwest, gusting to 30 knots. I had the beginnings of a cold, now in full bloom. When I arrived at the beach the tops of the waves were being blown off into furious …
Sep
11
Here is what is-Daniel Lanois film
Daniel Lanois may be the most under rated musician I’ve ever heard. Of course that could be an over statement of huge proportions. As he has worked with many of the biggies, Dylan, U2, Emmylou Harris, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, and Willie Nelson, (Nelson’s Lanois produced album-Teatro is probably in my top ten album list …
Sep
11
End of Summer Surf Session
Jason Roon and I headed out to South Haven with the wind roaring in the treetops like an angry lion wanted them to fall over. We arrived on South Haven north beach to see that the wind had died out almost entirely from the south west. We drove back to the south beach side and …
Sep
04
Maverick Indoctrination
My Mega Maverick finally saw the sort of conditions it needed to properly surf our fresh water seas. Off Point Betsie Lighthouse near Frankfort Michigan this Sunday, 3-6 foot waves were pushing in from the southwest. It was a steady slug fest into the wind to get out. I caught a few outside rides, but …
