Boardwalk Rides part 17

 Late the other night, after dark, there was a pounding at the door.   My mother decided to answer it.  Turned out to be neighbors, delivering art supplies that had been left at their house.  The art supplies were for me, and were expected, but not there.  I had ordered some needed paper and watercolors (some for the new boardwalk print when I get that done and printed), but it was to be delivered to my house.  The order was right, and the addresses on both packages were correct, so this was a matter of the delivery people inexplicably taking it to the wrong place.  I guess I am lucky I got them.

I took the paper with me to the Studio this morning, figuring it would be better to store it there.  When I am ready to use it, it will be there.  For now it is still in its box, first stacked up with the other stuff, and later on my table when I left.  But I was really there to do more cutting.  Today I moved over to the airplane ride, in the other panel.  First I did the two lifting arms, which seemed to be the foremost objects. Then I did the plane closest to the viewer. including the little boy in it, as he was centered in the plane and there was no way not to do him at the same time.  Then I moved onto the other plane, which is a little further from the viewer, but still in the foreground of everything.  This area of the wood seemed a bit more splintery, so I took the time to glue everything as I cut it.  This probably added a few minutes to the whole process, but in any case, I decided this was a good time to stop.  Results of today's cutting can be seem below:

For music today I decided to go back to something I haven't listened to in a long time, my briefcase full of cassettes.  I think I mentioned that in the pre-compact disc era, I was buying a lot of albums on tape, as this was the most convenient way to listen to music back in my high school and early college days, definitely more then vinyl records, which required a phonograph player and/or stereo unit.  (in old blues days, it was common for average people to just buy different records, one particularly successful member of the community to buy a record player, and everyone got together to party) Back in the 80's, most cars came with cassette players.  I didn't buy any discs until the Beatles were finally on disc.  Later the cars got disc players. and I had a radio/cassette/disc player in my apartment in Carbondale, but in my studio I only had a radio/tape player, so I had to put all my records and disc on tape, plus all the label produced tapes, to have music to listen to as I worked.  The best of my tapes were in a rotating wooden tape rack, and what I didn't listen to as much ended up in this briefcase, and this is something I brought home from  storage last year.  

Looking through this briefcase the other day, I found some things I didn't even know I had, and I set some things aside to bring with me over the next few weeks.  For example, one thing I found the other day was a blank 60 minute cassette that listed John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band solo album on side A, and the first release from the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, White Dirt on side B.  So it turned out I could have listened to the Lennon song, "Remember" on November 5th if I had known I had it.  (I did find it on the web that night and listened to it that way)  I knew from the internet that the actual Lennon album was really 39+ minutes, so there was no way it could fit on one side.  So either I continued to whole album to side B of the tape, or I left out some songs.  Turned out to be the latter- I skipped over some of the softer songs when recording the vinyl.  Meanwhile, the Mudd Puppies release was a short album, and so the whole thing fit on side B, along with a song recorded from a radio show back in the early 90's.  Of course I knew this whole tape was only 60 minutes, so I brought with me another tape, a label produced cassette called Strange Brew- The Very Best Of Cream, songs from that band.  Knowing what I know now, I might pick different songs for a best of album, but it's a nice set in general.  The tape was lined up to side B, so that's what I listened to today.  Side A, which has their best known songs, will have to wait for another time.