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Friday, July 25, 2008
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. — Jean Rostand
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces... I worry that pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us—then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. — Carl Sagan
Facts are stupid things. — Ronald Reagan
Short and Breezy I was going out to lunch with Dorothea Braemer and while sitting in the car waiting, I shot a little film. The music is just what I had playing in the car, one of the excellent Ethiopiques compilation albums of Ethiopian pop music from the 60s and 70s that Bill Sack turned me on to.
@ HW TONIGHT 8pm PERFORMING THE BORDER Video Essays by Ursula Biemann Ursula Biemann's work can best be described as a blend of ethnographic fieldwork and experimental documentary strategies that, when combined, form eye-catching, theoretical "video essays". In recent years, the Swiss artist has produced a wide variety of works--including multi-media installations--that investigate issues of mobility, technology and identity. As a theorist, curator and artist, she has taken up the questions surrounding migration, maintaining, “Location is spatially produced rather than pre-determined by governance.” Hallwalls Media Arts
@ HW OPENING TOMORROW, 8—11pm Karma Cab Boa Hallwalls 2008 Members Exhibition Exhibition opens Saturday, July 26, 8—11pm Exhibition continues through Saturday, August 30.
with works by: DAVID ANDREE • MOLLIE ATKINSON • RITA ARGEN AUERBACH • KATE BAE • DIANE BAKER • RACHAEL BALDANZA • MICHAEL BEAM • MARY BEGLEY • DENNIS BERTRAM • AMANDA BESL • ALAN BIGELOW • PRISCILLA BOWEN • NELSON BRADLEY • BRADLEY BUTLER • SCOTT BYE • ATTILIO CELOTTO • IAN CHRYSTAL • VIKTORIA CIOSTEK • OREEN COHEN • LUKIA COSTELLO • JAX DELUCA • MARIELY DOWNEY • LIZ DRUMM & CHRISTOPHER VEREL • VAL DUNNE • EDOLLIA • JACKIE FELIX • DOROTHY FITZGERALD • JOAN FITZGERALD • JENNIFER GOTTDIENER • ZEV GOTTDIENER • AMY GREENAN • JODY HANSON • PATTI HARRIS • PHIL HENDRICKSON • ROBERT HOLLAND • TOM HOLT • A.J. HUARANCA • BILLY HUGGINS • DALE INGLETT • ANITA L. JOHNSON • JOHN KENNEDY • LAWRENCE KINNEY • FELICE KOENIG • MATT KRUBACK • JAMIE KUBALA • MARK LAVATELLI • ZOE LAVATELLI • ELIZABETH LEADER • STACEY LECHEVET • GERALDINE LIQUIDANO • POLLY LITTLE & TED PELTON • SANDY LUDWIG • ROSEMARY K. LYONS • NAOMI MARINE • MAUREEN MATTHEWS • SCOTT McCARNEY • CHRIS McGEE • KURT McGHEE • MARK McLOUGHLIN • GERALD MEAD • R.J. MELNYK • DIANE MENCHETTI • LILLIAN MÉNDEZ • CONI MINNECI • ERIK MINTER • BERNARD P. MULLANE • KARA NEWBAUER • FRANK O'CONNOR • BOB OHRUM • MARY GRACE OHRUM • CATHY PARDIKE • NANCY J. PARISI • KATE S. PARZYCH • JAMES PAULSEN • ELENA RALSTON • JEAN-MICHEL REED • RENA REISMAN • THOMAS ROJEK • SALVATORE SCRIVO • GARY SCZERBANIEWICZ • KATIE SEHR • VICTOR SHANCHUK JR. • KATHLEEN SHERIN • JOANNE SLOAN • BENJAMIN SPENCER • CATHERINE LINDER SPENCER • NATHANIEL SPENCER • NORINE SPURLING • DEBRA STECKLER • KURT TREEBY • CHRIS VESPER • KURT VON VOETSCH • ALFONSO VOLO • GENEVIEVE WALLER • MARY WEIG • JACQUELINE WELCH • SUSAN WILKE • JANET WINKIE • GARY L. WOLFE • SUNG HE YOON • DIANE YUNQUE • and BRUCE ADAMS, listed last because in the world of Buffalo group shows, he always gets listed first.
It’s an anagram for “Barack Obama.” Which doesn’t mean the title requires a politically-themed submission or a portrait of the O-Man, though both are welcome. As always, you can ignore the theme. (But you must be a dues-paying Hallwalls member to participate—this you cannot ignore.) You might consider whether or not we are about to turn and face the ch-ch-changes. Is it karma, a generational shift, the beginning of a new progressive direction for the pendulum? Is he a snake, spewing snake oil, a new boss the same as the old bosses? And what of the cab? Is our meter running? Are we stuck in traffic? Or does the driver know the shortcuts? Can he get us there in one piece?
Opening Elsewhere • Robert Burley, Avalanche Collective, Ryan Boatright, Jim DeLucia, Bingyi Huang at the Rochester Contemporary op Fri, Aug 1, 6-10pm • Dianne Baker at Kouros Gallery (NYC) op Aug 6 (thru Aug 29) • Garden Mystique at Artsphere op Fri, July 25, 6:30-9pm • Ella Joseph at Squeaky Wheel Tues, July 29, 7-10pm • Max Streicher: Metamorphosis at the Castellani op Fri, Oct 5
MIchael Mulley: People Like You College Street Gallery op Fri, July 25, 8-10pm (thru Aug 1)
Peter Fowler @ Chow Chocolat op Fri, July 25, 5-10pm
Outdoor Animation Festival
Used to be a jail
Tom Hughes @ 218 Grant Street Continuing Elsewhere • OP Art Revisited at the Albright thru Jan 25 • Comfort Burn at Artspace & Big Orbit thru Aug 10 Arvoice Gerald Mead • Michael Veit at the Castellani thru Sept 14 • Kara Daving at the Niagara Aquarium thru Aug • Katie Sehr at the Center for Inquiry thru July • Rita Argen Auerbach at Chautauqua Institution thru Aug 23 • Molly jarboe at Studio Hart thru Aug 9 • Niagara Frontier at the Kenan Center thru Aug 24 • Members Show at Market Street Gallery, Lockport thru Aug 10 • Rick Steinberg at Quaker Bonnet thru Aug 29 • Ellis Ball, Jamie Hoggard, Robert Holland, Jeff McMullen, Sarah Baker MIchalak, Rosa Rojas at Olean Public Library thru Aug 15 • NLXL Visual Communication and Interaction Design at UB Art Gallery thru July 25 • Ella Joseph at SceneArtStudio (293 LInwood) July 19/20, noon to 3pm • Richard Huntington at the Albright Knox Collectors Gallery thru • Buffalo Flickr Photographers at Betty's thru Sept 7 • Molly Jarboe at Studio Hart thru Aug 9 • Kurt Treeby at Aeroplastic Contemporary (Brussels) thru July 29 • Writing With Light at CEPA thru Aug 27 • Julian Montague in Site Visits at Cambridge Galleries thru Aug 16 • Caitlin Krumm at WNED Horizons Gallery thru Aug 15 • Buffalo Society of Artists Annual Spring Exhibition at Insite thru July 26 • Dianne Baker at Galleryh @ Artpark thru Aug 22 • Julian Montague at Socrates Sculpture Park thru Aug 3 • Will West at El Museo thru August 31 • Shadi Nazarian at UB Art Gallery re-opens to the public July 1—July 25 • Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
Biff on Tifft Castellani Art Museum CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TopSpin: Artists of Western New York and Beyond The museum’s Tops Gallery—dedicated to the exhibition of work by local and regional artists— presents the TopSpin series. This juried series of solo exhibitions draws from the richly diverse work of Western New York artists, as well as that of artists beyond the region. TopSpin features a broad range of visual expressions, varied in media as well as message.
Please include artist statement, CV, 10-15 images (preferably on CD) and send to: Michael Beam Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Castellani Art Museum Niagara University, NY 14109 Please DO NOT email submissions. All submissions will be reviewed this fall for 2009 exhibition opportunity. www.niagara.edu/cam 716.286.8286
CANADIAN CONTENT CORNER March 11, 1977: Peter Gzowski is gamely trying to understand and Iggy is bored, annoyed, engaged, and wise... CBC Archives
"In recent years a number of advertising campaigns have seemed to draw their inspiration directly from high-profile works of contemporary art. And the artists who believe their images and ideas have been appropriated are not happy about it." NY Times Fineman
"...one artist who has excelled at this Nouveau Versailles esthetic—despite never working on a truly giant scale -- is Jeff Koons. Right now two of his three sculptures on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum may send you. They did me." artnet Saltz
"...it exudes a distinctly European spirit of ruminative pessimism relieved intermittently by moments of black humor and otherworldly fantasy. It lurches from transcendentally thrilling to portentous to kitschy." NY Times Johnson
"Germany has long been funny about its relationship to local stardom and to the very notion of celebrity, which makes this exhibition a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise." NY Times Kimmelman
"...beyond its artistic mission, the pavilion is a provocative advertisement. Chanel, the fashion brand, commissioned Ms. Hadid to create the traveling structure to house works by about 15 hot contemporary artists. Each was asked to create a work that was at least in part inspired by Chanel’s classic 2.55 quilted-style chain handbag" NY Times Vogel
You die and you are referred to not only as a "Bold Furrier" but an "absurdist furrier." Ok, that's pretty cool... NY Times obit
Something I listened to this week... I had expected it to sound like a 90s flashback and it did. For a moment. After that, it just sounded like a really satisfying album. Fuzzy, loud, great guitars, a perpetual wash of humming electricity. I listened to it while doing something else and found myself stopping numerous times to pay attention to what was happening. If it was only for the song "That's The Way My Love Is," it would be worth the listen, but there's plenty to chew on here. As good as any other Pumpkins' album and some of those were very good. Calling the album Zeitgeist, the prevalent question would be a paraphrase of one of their earlier lyrics: Despite all their rage, are they still just rats in a cage? And if they are, are we?
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe
Friday, July 18, 2008
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. — Oscar Wilde
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston Churchill
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. — H.L. Mencken
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. — Billy Wilder
Here's to Autism Rather, here's to those who create in the face of autism. I was visiting Rodney Taylor in his studio at the Langston Hughes Institute here in Buffalo and got a chance to see an exhibition organized by Autistic Services which is surely the feelgood exhibition of the moment.
Rodney and I agreed that there were a number of pieces that were hilarious, inventive, and indistinguishable from work you might encounter in any number of alternative art spaces. Not every piece was a home run, but there were more than a few winners.
Sure, much of it is clearly the product of deeply interior thought processes and unexplainable tangents, but tell me you haven't drawn from that selfsame well yourself more than once.
DROP-OFF BEGINS TOMORROW: @ HALLWALLS on July 26 Karma Cab Boa Hallwalls 2008 Members Exhibition Exhibition opens Saturday, July 26, 8—11pm Exhibition continues through Saturday, August 30.
It’s an anagram for “Barack Obama.” Which doesn’t mean the title requires a politically-themed submission or a portrait of the O-Man, though both are welcome. As always, you can ignore the theme. (But you must be a dues-paying Hallwalls member to participate—this you cannot ignore.) You might consider whether or not we are about to turn and face the ch-ch-changes. Is it karma, a generational shift, the beginning of a new progressive direction for the pendulum? Is he a snake, spewing snake oil, a new boss the same as the old bosses? And what of the cab? Is our meter running? Are we stuck in traffic? Or does the driver know the shortcuts? Can he get us there in one piece?
DROP OFF DATES:SAT JULY 19 12 noon to 4 pm MON-WED JULY 21-23 11 am TO 5 pm
PICK-UP DATES: MON to WED, SEPT 2, 3, 4 from 11 am to 5 pm
WORK SPECIFICATIONS: The theme specified above is, as always, OPTIONAL. ONE work per member—if you have small work, more than one is possible, but you MUST phone ahead to confirm. Maximum size 48" x 48" —larger works are possible, but you MUST phone ahead to confirm. Video works are welcome, but you MUST phone ahead and inform us. You MUST be a Hallwalls member to submit a work for the show. You can join/renew when you drop off the work, OR You can join/renew on line: Hallwalls Membership (Current members of the Rochester Contemporary are also allowed to submit work for the exhibition. You must show your RoCo membership when dropping work off.)
Any further questions, please contact John Massier, Visual Arts Curator at john@hallwalls.org
Opening Elsewhere • Dianne Baker at Kouros Gallery (NYC) op Aug 6 (thru Aug 29) • Ellis Ball, Jamie Hoggard, Robert Holland, Jeff McMullen, Sarah Baker MIchalak, Rosa Rojas at Olean Public Library op Fri, July 18, 6-8pm (thru Aug 15) • closing reception for International Group Show at Gateway Gallery Fri, July 18, 7pm • meet Dan LaPorte at Cosmopolitan Gallery Sat, July 19, 5-7pm
@ the Albright-Knox Op Art Revisited op Fri, July 18, 3-10pm (thru Jan 25)
image above: from when people knew how to dress for openings...from the Member's Preview of Movement, Optical Phenomena and Light: Kinetic & Optic Painting and Sculpture in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on March 4, 1972.
@ Allen St. Hardware Brian Dickenson: Tales From The Cryptozoologist Opening Sat, July 19, 7—11pm (thru Aug 28)
Kelly Richardson: Twilight Avenger @ Birch Libralato, Toronto op Thurs, July 24, 5-8pm (thru Sept 6)
Continuing Elsewhere • Comfort Burn at Artspace & Big Orbit thru Aug 10 • Michael Veit at the Castellani thru Sept 14 • Kara Daving at the Niagara Aquarium thru Aug • Katie Sehr at the Center for Inquiry thru July • Rita Argen Auerbach at Chautauqua Institution thru Aug 23 • Molly jarboe at Studio Hart thru Aug 9 • Niagara Frontier at the Kenan Center thru Aug 24 • Members Show at Market Street Gallery, Lockport thru Aug 10 • Rick Steinberg at Quaker Bonnet thru Aug 29 • NLXL Visual Communication and Interaction Design at UB Art Gallery thru July 25 • Ella Joseph at SceneArtStudio (293 LInwood) July 19/20, noon to 3pm • Richard Huntington at the Albright Knox Collectors Gallery thru • Buffalo Flickr Photographers at Betty's thru Sept 7 • Molly Jarboe at Studio Hart thru Aug 9 • Kurt Treeby at Aeroplastic Contemporary (Brussels) thru July 29 • Writing With Light at CEPA thru Aug 27 • Julian Montague in Site Visits at Cambridge Galleries thru Aug 16 • Caitlin Krumm at WNED Horizons Gallery thru Aug 15 • Buffalo Society of Artists Annual Spring Exhibition at Insite thru July 26 • Dianne Baker at Galleryh @ Artpark thru Aug 22 • Julian Montague at Socrates Sculpture Park thru Aug 3 • Will West at El Museo thru August 31 • Shadi Nazarian at UB Art Gallery re-opens to the public July 1—July 25 • Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
As with many a Buffalo tale, it begins with Louis Grachos and ends in a trail of blood...
A sweltering rabbit suit and 100 degree humidity is not going to stop Kurt Von Voetsch from laying his face in the cool goo of dead octupus, as he did during his performance at the opening of Comfort Burn, curated by Alex Young for Artspace and Big Orbit. I was told it was a self-portrait of some kind—degraded self-portraiture being a recurring theme in Kurt's work—and when I asked Lily Mendez if she knew where Kurt got the soundtrack he was playing, she replied, "Oh, I don't know...he was recording it himself at midnight..."
"For the average middle-class American, however, prefabricated housing has always lacked sex appeal." NY Times
"It really bugs me that mainstream art critics never give the sponsors of a show the kudos they deserve. So, right up front, enthusiastic thanks to the Bank of America and the Access Foundation for their spectacular generosity in making possible the grandiose and not-to-be-missed J. M. W. Turner show at the Met." artnet Hoving
"One is a neo-Light-and-Space artist who proffers installations with a nebulous environmental theme. The other is the Andy Warhol of Japanese cartoons." artnet Davis
Something I listened to this week… Actually, believe it or not, I almost bought this album at Starbucks. They have these hard plastic cards, like big postcards, that you buy to get a downloadable version of an album and this particular one just looked so great as a flashy piece of plastic objet d'art, I almost fell for its glam allure. It sounds much like it looks. Bright, clear production, good singer, wholly listenable. Not necessarily one for the ages, but one of the better female pop albums of the last few years. A million times better than the last album by Liz Phair.
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. — John Ruskin
Friday, July 11, 2008
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. —Socrates
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. — Norman Maclean
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have such poor vision I can date anybody. — Garry Shandling
@ Hallwalls Tues, July 15, 8pm Pecha Kucha Night $5 (seating limited) Hallwalls Perform/Lit
@ HALLWALLS on July 26 Karma Cab Boa Hallwalls 2008 Members Exhibition Exhibition opens Saturday, July 26, 8—11pm Exhibition continues through Saturday, August 30.
It’s an anagram for “Barack Obama.” Which doesn’t mean the title requires a politically-themed submission or a portrait of the O-Man, though both are welcome. As always, you can ignore the theme. (But you must be a dues-paying Hallwalls member to participate—this you cannot ignore.) You might consider whether or not we are about to turn and face the ch-ch-changes. Is it karma, a generational shift, the beginning of a new progressive direction for the pendulum? Is he a snake, spewing snake oil, a new boss the same as the old bosses? And what of the cab? Is our meter running? Are we stuck in traffic? Or does the driver know the shortcuts? Can he get us there in one piece?
DROP OFF DATES: SAT JULY 19 12 noon to 4 pm MON-WED JULY 21-23 11 am TO 5 pm PICK-UP DATES: MON to WED, SEPT 2, 3, 4 from 11 am to 5 pm
WORK SPECIFICATIONS: The theme specified above is, as always, OPTIONAL. ONE work per member—if you have small work, more than one is possible, but you MUST phone ahead to confirm. Maximum size 48" x 48" —larger works are possible, but you MUST phone ahead to confirm.Video works are welcome, but you MUST phone ahead and inform us. You MUST be a Hallwalls member to submit a work for the show. You can join/renew when you drop off the work, OR You can join/renew on line: Hallwalls Membership(Current members of the Rochester Contemporary are also allowed to submit work for the exhibition. You must show your RoCo membership when dropping work off.)Any further questions, please contact John Massier, Visual Arts Curator at john@hallwalls.org
Opening Elsewhere • Dianne Baker at Kouros Gallery (NYC) op Aug 6 (thru Aug 29) • Buffalo Society of Artists at Artpark op Sun, July 13, 1pm • Ellis Ball, Jamie Hoggard, Robert Holland, Jeff McMullen, Sarah Baker MIchalak, Rosa Rojas at Olean Public Library op Fri, July 18, 6-8pm (thru Aug 15) • Niagara Frontier at the Kenan Center op Sun, July 13, 2-5pm (thru Aug 24) • Members Show at Market Street Gallery, Lockport, op Sat, July 12, 5-8pm (thru Aug 10) • Rick Steinberg at Quaker Bonnet op Fri, July 11, 5-8pm (thru Aug 29) • Type Is Art at Sp@ce 224 op Fri, July 11, 7-10pm (thru July 19) • NLXL Visual Communication and Interaction Design at UB Art Gallery op Thus, July 17, 5:30pm (thru July 25)
@Artspace & Big Orbit Tonight Today's Hilarious Aplomb Award goes to Colin Dabkowski who, in his Buffalo News preview, follows up a quote from curator Alex Young by wryly concluding, "For an idea of what that might mean, only the walls of Artspace and Big Orbit can offer an answer." @ Rust Belt Books Al Larson presents CPR (Custom Pedal Response) MFA Thesis Exhibition ONE NIGHT ONLY: Sat, July 12, 7—9:30pm Property Is Theft
@ Allen St. Hardware Brian Dickenson: Tales From The Cryptozoologist Opening Sat, July 19, 7—11pm (thru Aug 28)
Continuing Elsewhere • Michael Veit at the Castellani thru Sept 14 • Kara Daving at the Toronto Zoo (thru June 22) and at the Niagara Aquarium (thru Aug) • Katie Sehr at the Center for Inquiry thru July • Rita Argen Auerbach at Chautauqua Institution thru Aug 23 • Molly jarboe at Studio Hart thru Aug 9 • Richard Huntington at the Albright Knox Collectors Gallery thru • Jan Nagle, John Opera in The World is a Handkerchief at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in Long Island City, NY thru July 15. • Buffalo Flickr Photographers at Betty's thru Sept 7 • Tom Holt at Gallery 164 thru July 13 • Molly Jarboe at Studio Hart thru Aug 9 • Kurt Treeby at Aeroplastic Contemporary (Brussels) thru July 29 • Writing With Light at CEPA thru Aug 27 • Michael Lovullo, James Angelo, JC Delettrez, Gene Witkowski, Steven Myers, J. Tim Raymond, Chris McGee, Jonathan Rogers, Mike Martell, Tim Stinson, Elvis Snache at Gateway Gallery thru July 12 • Julian Montague in Site Visits at Cambridge Galleries thru Aug 16 • Caitlin Krumm at WNED Horizons Gallery thru Aug 15 • Buffalo Society of Artists Annual Spring Exhibition at Insite thru July 26 • Dianne Baker at the 51st Chautaqua National thru July 15 • Dianne Baker at Galleryh @ Artpark thru Aug 22 • SKINNED at Allen St. Hardware thru July 17 • Julian Montague at Black&White Gallery, NY thru July 12 • Julian Montague at Socrates Sculpture Park thru Aug 3 • Will West at El Museo thru August 31 • Shadi Nazarian at UB Art Gallery re-opens to the public July 1—July 25 • Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
Your Guide To Aggressive Common Sense We're winding down our way through the alphabet and some definitions extracted from The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul. We're up to the letter Y...
YES An affirmation which results in sexual, commercial or political consumption. Deliberate confusion of the three is central to advertising and public relations.
The underlying argument which accompanies this word is that we must not be afraid to say yes. "Say yes to life." The suggestion is that it takes courage to take a risk. In reality, yes is the traditional response of the passive party to the lover or the salesman or the person with power. If courage is to be treated as a serious factor then it must take the form either of a no or of a negotiation for better terms. Modern politics at their most cynical sell the courage to say yes.
“What all of this suggests is not just a reinterpretation of Rockwell but a meditation on an American crisis of self-confidence: the sense that trust in American ideals is giving way to fear and uncertainty about how they are exploited.” NY Times Damien Cave
“Some might say that her paintings of friends, lovers and famous faces reflect rather than influence that culture; they are steeped in the elixirs of youth, beauty and celebrity infatuation.” NY Times Rosenberg
“It occurred to the world-class phony Olafur Eliasson that New Yorkers, whose thoroughfares and daily walks are obstructed by scaffolding which, for insurance purposes, often lingers for years before and after its use on a site, would like to be bludgeoned by huge scaffoldings dubbed ‘Art’ with a dollop of water added as window dressing.” artnet Charlie Finch
Something I listened to this week… A little heavy on the God theme but, recorded live in the mid 1960s, I do believe this could actually shake your rafters if you play it loud enough. Can I get a witness?
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. — Douglas Adams
