Saturday, February 27, 2021

Elliott Smith - Everything's Okay

Cheryl Posey Sommers (July 19,1961 - August 7, 2018)


 

Light-footed and happy, she was with me until we decided, perhaps inadvertently, that I was no good for her anymore.  She was better than me.  I trust that the years left her with an identical conclusion.  I wish I could have been a better man, but I was still an errant, foolish boy.  When I learned yesterday that she had died, I realized that I still have a love for her.  It's an old, burnished love.  I don't quite know what to do with it.

I remember that I picked her up once from her parents' home for a night out. Halfway to Brainerd Road she realized that she has shaved only one leg. We laughed it off and went on our way to the Yellow Deli, where she loved dine with my wild ass. This music-videi reminds me of Cheryl. <

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Riley Gene Ellison



 On May 27, 2012, Ronald Sherman Ellison, 36, his partner, Terri Lynn Henderson, 38, and their son, Riley Gene Ellison, who was just shy of his third birthday, were victims of a home invasion in the Grassy Fork community of Cocke County.  While the child's parents were being slaughter, their throats cuts by Adam Lawton Edwards and Marsha Gail Shelton, little Riley wandered into the bloodbath, crying for his parents. After killing them, Edwards took the child, forced him into a clothes dryer, and turned the dryer around so that the door was blocked by the wall.  He then set the mobile home on fire and drove away after taking a guitar, a bajno, and their Nissan Maxima.


Adam L. Edwards — one of two people arrested after the victims' bodies were found in a trailer that burned Saturday night on Henderson Road in the Grassy Fork community — has a lengthy criminal history dating to 1986, according to court records, that include drug, theft and assault charges.

Edwards, 43, and Marsha Gail Shelton, 29, both of Cocke County, were picked up Tuesday afternoon in North Carolina, just a few hours after being named persons of interest in the killings, which Cocke County Sheriff Armando Fontes confirmed to be a triple homicide.

As of Tuesday night, Edwards and Shelton were being jailed on probation violation charges in Haywood County, N.C., awaiting extradition back to Tennessee.

Before their capture, authorities had been seeking a white 2000 Nissan Maxima with a broken windshield that belonged to the burned home's residents. Family members identified the residents as Terri Henderson, 39, Sherman Ellison, 35, and their 2-year-old son, Riley.

A witness reported seeing a white male driving the car from the area.

A Cocke County deputy spotted the Maxima on State Route 107 in Del Rio, Fontes said, and a lengthy pursuit involving the assistance of a Knox County Sheriff's Office helicopter ensued over the state line into North Carolina.

Cocke County deputies arrested Edwards, a former neighbor of the victims, and Shelton after the car was wrecked, Fontes said. Other charges are pending, the sheriff said. The Maxima was sent to a crime lab in Knoxville.

Authorities have yet to confirm the victims' identities, their cause of deaths or a possible motive.

"We have a very good idea who they are," Fontes said, noting their autopsy results are pending.

Henderson's cousin, Tim Henderson, 34, said the family had lived in the single-wide trailer for about five years. His cousin was a stay-at-home mom, and Ellison did odd jobs around the neighborhood to keep the family afloat. They'd recently remodeled their three-bedroom home with an addition that included a wood burner, said Henderson, of Cosby.

On Tuesday, he stood on his cousin's property and surveyed what little was left of her trailer. The ashy carnage included pink insulation that had peeled off the home, burnt siding and a silver antenna on the lawn.

Nearby it, a yellow toy dump truck.

Henderson and other family members said a banjo and guitar were taken from the home before it burned.

The sheriff could not confirm that statement because he said the killings remain under investigation.

criminal histories

Court records show that as of October 2009, Edwards listed an address at 3698 Henderson Road.

Most recently, Edwards had pleaded guilty to charges including aggravated assault and theft in connection to an Aug. 17, 2009, stabbing. Court records show Edwards attacked three men — George Randy Wild, Edward Pendergrass and Edward Hammett — with a knife, stabbing each of the men multiple times.

Edwards was sentenced to six years in prison on Jan. 25, 2011, and released less than six months later, on July 19, 2011. Assistant Public Defender Keith Haas filed the motion for early release, stating his client "had been incarcerated for 485 days and had been on trustee status," making him eligible for release.

A court order approved by Circuit Judge Ben Hooper shows Edwards was placed on supervised probation for the remainder of his sentence.

Hooper issued a warrant for Edwards' arrest Jan. 26 for reasons including failing to report to his probation officer.

Shelton, who according to Fontes lives in Newport and whom authorities believe to be Edwards' girlfriend, also has a lengthy rap sheet, including convictions of DUI, public intoxication and child endangerment dating to early 2000.

a family's grief

The Grassy Fork Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fire at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, after a neighbor reported seeing part of the trailer on Henderson Road smoking.

By the time firefighters arrived, said Fire Chief Walt Cross, about 70 percent of the trailer was engulfed and the roof soon collapsed.

Neighbors didn't think the residents were home because the car was missing, Cross said.

The fire department worked on the scene until about 4 a.m. Sunday.

It was upon returning later Sunday morning, after daylight, that firefighters discovered the severely burned remains of an adult, Cross said. The Sheriff's Department, the Tennessee Bomb and Arson Squad and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation then joined the probe.

They located the remains of a second adult Sunday afternoon and the remains of a small child Monday afternoon.

Cross said firefighters found several spots in the trailer burning hotter, which "can sometimes indicate foul play."

Fontes said police had been called to the residence before when the couple reported being victims of theft.

"He shouldn't have been out," Tim Henderson said, referencing Edwards' early release. "Anybody who can do that to a kid shouldn't be walking this earth."

"They shouldn't be breathing this air," added his uncle, Glenn Henderson, who stood next to him. The 55-year-old Del Rio resident called the attack on his niece and her family senseless.

"That little kid. He didn't deserve it," Glenn Henderson said. "They could have at least left him outside. Dropped him down the road somewhere."

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Idioteque

In Limbo

Kid A - The Eponym

Everything In Its Right Place

The Tourist

Electioneering

Fitter Happier

TASH SULTANA - JUNGLE (LIVE BEDROOM RECORDING)

Agnes Obel - The Curse (Berlin Live Session)

Thom Yorke - Unmade (Live from Electric Lady Studios)

Dry Cleaning - Strong Feelings (Official Video)

Portishead - Roads

Radiohead - Knives Out

Radiohead/On A Friday - Fat Girl

Radiohead - Just

Bones

Radiohead - High and Dry

The Bends

Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief

Monday, February 8, 2021

Thursday, February 4, 2021

My Essential Radiohead

M Y   E S S E N T I A L   R A D I O H E A D


Left to Right:  Thom Yorke, Front Man, Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano; Jonny Greenwood, Lead Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesisers; Colin Greenwood, Electric and Stand-Up Bass; Ed O'Brien, Guitar, Vocal Backing, Vocalise; Philip Selway, Drums, Backing Vocals, Vocalise. Clive Deamer (Not Pictured), Drums. 

1986 On a Friday (Band's Original Name):  Demo Album; Fat Girl; Lock the Door.

1993: Pablo Honey; Prove Yourself, Blowout,

1995 The BendsBones, High and Dry; The Bends; Just; 

1997 O.K. ComputerParinoid Android: Electioneering; Karma Police; Climbing Up the Walls; The Tourist.

2000 Kid A (Meditative);Everything in its Right Place; Kid A; Morning Bell; Idioteque; National Anthem; In Limbo; How to Disappear Completely. Optimistic.

2001 Amnesiac (Meditative);  Pyramid Song; Life in a Glass House (Pure Jazz);Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box; Knives Out; Dollars and Cents; I Might Be Wrong; Like Spinning Plates;

2003 Hail to the Thief, 2 + 2 = 5;Sit Down Stand Up; There, There;Where I End and You Begin; Sail to the Moon; Backdrifts; A Punch Up at a Wedding;  Scatterbrain.

2007 In Rainbows: 15 Step; Bodysnatchers, Nude; Weird Fishes/Arpeggi; Faust Arp; Reckoner; House of Cards; Jigsaw Falling into Place; Videotape;

2008 Greatest Hits:

2011 King of Limbs :  Feral; Staircase; Supercollider; Little by LittleLotus Flower; These are my twisted words; The Butcher; CodexGive Up the Ghost (Haunting, Beautiful); SeparatorThe Daily Mail.

2016 A Moon Shaped PoolBurn the WitchDecks Dark; Desert Island Disk; Ful Stop; Identikit; The Numbers.

Singles:  Staircase, Street Spirit, Daydreaming (At the end, the sound produced is identical to the snoring noise we oftentimes make just before we die), Lotus Flower, Go to Sleep;

Live Performances:

Web:  Radiohead Public Library:  I now have the Library Card for Paul S. Whetstone


Filmography:  (2007) Scotch Mist, from the In Rainbows Album.  King of Limbs and In Rainbows are both live on From the Basement;

Pablo Honey:  B

The Bends: B

OK Computer A+

Kid A gets an A+++:  Great long play album.  Jazzy.  Electrica. 

Amnesiac gets an A+

Hail to the Thief: B+

In Rainbows: A+++

King of Limbs: B

A Moon Shaped Pool:  A+++


Morning Bell

Someday, I aim to wire up the bedroom so that this song automatically begins to play at 6:00 a.m. everyday for the rest of my life and a couple of days after my death, just for effect.

Monday, February 1, 2021

RADIOHEAD en Chile 2018 || Pyramid Song

Grizzly Bear "Yet Again" By Emily Kai Bock [Official Video]

She reminds me of Cheryl Posey, who died in 2018.

Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong


I'd like to think that Thom and the crew intend on taking this one out of the closet and installing a break-out hard rock interspersion between the first and last parts.  This song is great, but it could be stellar.

Radiohead - There, There

Radiohead - Karma Police

Radiohead - Pyramid Song


Masterpieces emerge when astounding, breathtaking talent meets relentless hard work.

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Radiohead - Nude

Grizzly Bear - Shift | A Take Away Show

George Orwell's "What is Fascism?"

Orwell's final warning - Picture of the future

Aphex Twin - Lisbon Acid

Dead Pirates - UGO

Broken Social Scene - Halfway Home (Stephen Colbert)