#Staurt Marks

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Tuesday, 31 January, 2023:

Now That’s Country! The Definitive Collection Vol. 1 Marty Stuart (Hump Head) (released in 2017)

I certainly would have sworn that a Marty Stuart album (or compilation) would never enter my collection during my lifetime.  I’ve known of Marty Stuart for as long as he has been around making music as a young man (he was with Lester Flatt in 1974 as a 13 year old and while I knew Flatt thanks to my grandfather who was crazy for country music, I never would have paid attention to credits on my grandfather’s record collection) and I always thought he might be like that annoying pest you know but what nothing to do with even though he is always underfoot.  I realize that’s not a kind interpretation especially for someone I knew little beyond his work with Johnny Cash and other legends.  Stuart was always around in the 80s and modern country wasn’t my thing and I tended to selfishly disregard the genre and the artists save for a few select people (Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Emmylou) who were already in my record collection in the 1970s and onward.

Cut to the new century and all bets are off.  I would have sworn it was merely three months ago that my brother caught Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, but it was actually a year ago. Anyhow he raved about Stuart and his band and he even picked up a pair of compilations of Stuart’s work from the UK label Hump Head.  (My brother and I both wondered briefly if it was Staurt’s label named for his massive hair style.) I often get infected with my brother’s enthusiasm (and vice versa) and for about a week I obsessed over buying the same comps my brother bought despite not having heard a note of the man’s music.  By the time my Hump Head fever passed, I had forgotten about Stuart and the two compilations (that comprise five discs). 

At Christmas time my brother informed me that Stuart and his band were playing at a small venue in my hometown come the tail end of January.  He was interested in attending and suddenly I’m reinfected with Hump Head fever and the next thing I know my brother, his partner and myself all have tickets to see Stuart and the Superlatives.  I was surprised his girlfriend wanted to attend but she had just seen Ken Burns’ documentary Country Music and she said Stuart was all over that documentary.

Above you see the front of the compilation while the second and third photos show you the jewel case opened up.  Since it is a UK two disc set, it opens differently from US two disc sets.  It was hardly unique to me since I have many UK comps and two discs sets roaming around on my CD shelves.  That fourth photo is the back of the set. (These were sealed and I had photos of them sealed and then one day I didn’t have the photos. Digital photography is fun like that.) Below you will find an actual ticket that we used to get into the show.  I haven’t seen an actual ticket since I saw Mark Lanegan in 2010.  I’ve kept ticket stubs for almost my entire life and honestly, I didn’t think they even existed any longer.  So many of my tickets I print out or have on my phone so to see an actual ticket was rather surprising. 

The biggest surprise about the show was how good it was.  I’ve seen The Fall, The Mekons, Gruff Rhys’ first US tour, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers first tour, Springsteen in ‘77 and any number of band outstanding bands so I didn’t quite expect to get caught up in the enthusiasm of the moment, but know this: Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives were absolutely rocking.  Opening with a killer surf instrumental (what?!) and ending with a rousing Time Don’t Wait from his last album Way Out West, suddenly I was highly contagious with Hump Head fever!  Stuart sold the discs at his merch table (and while I didn’t get them there even though I wanted to, the drinks I had demanded other actions). 

Now I can imagine that this compilation won’t sound half as exciting as Staurt’s live show and that there will be considerable sheen and gloss on many of these songs.  It is country music after all, but this show was so much fun and I knew absolutely zero songs save for the cover of the Byrds (and Dylan’s) Ballad of Easy Rider and the traditional gospel songs, that I do believe I can handle the sheen and gloss, after all, I have all of Emmylou Harris’ albums and all of Johnny Cash’s albums and they too have that similar gloss and sheen.  I’ll survive.  Below you can see close up shots of both discs.

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Cyber Security

In the early long stretches of cyberattacks, associations would stand by to be assaulted before they built up an extensive arrangement and reaction to the assailant. The assault would render the associations' system nearness pointless and down for a considerable length of time. Staurt Rubin a few reasons cyberattacks could seriously disable a system in the beginning of this pernicious conduct are insufficient focused research on protecting and forestalling and the absence of a planned exertion between private industry and the administration.

Since the principal notable and wide spread cyberattack in the mid-1990's, numerous experts in broad daylight and private associations have tenaciously been examining and chipping away at the issue of cyberattacks. At first security organizations like Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, and so forth moved toward the issue from a responsive stance. They knew programmers/malevolent aggressors were going to strike. The objective of what is presently called Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) was to distinguish a malignant aggressor before an enemy of infection, Trojan pony, or worm was utilized to strike. On the off chance that the aggressor had the option to strike the system, security experts would dismember the code. When the code was analyzed, a reaction or "fix" was applied to the contaminated machine(s). The "fix" is presently called a mark and they are reliably downloaded over the system as week after week updates to guard against known assaults. In spite of the fact that IDS is a cautious stance, security experts have gotten substantially more refined in their methodology and it keeps on developing as a major aspect of the arms stockpile.

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Stuart Broad Burst Puts England In Command Before New Zealand Dig In

Stuart Broad Burst Puts England In Command Before New Zealand Dig In

Sports Paper: BJ Watling and Colin de Grandhomme, the Little and Large of Kiwi cricket, mounted a fine recovery on the second day at the Hagley Oval just when England sensed that everything was falling into place after the most frustrating of winters.

After the removal of Kane Williamson 10 minutes after lunch, New Zealand were 36 for five in response to England’s 307. Stuart Broad, having used…

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Best Of February 2021

Books

5. The Parade’s Gone By..., Kevin Brownlow

4. The Epic of Gilgamesh, tr. N. K. Sandars

3. Voices from Chernoby: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Svetlana Alexievich, tr. Keith Gessen

2. Faith & Joy: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Priest, Fernando Cardenal, S. J., tr. Kathy McBride and Mark Lester

1. Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi, tr. Staurt J. Woolf

Films

5. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, dir. Gordon Douglas (1950)

4. Gloria, dir. John Cassavetes (1980)

3. Criss Cross, dir. Robert Siodmak (1949)

2. Beanpole, dir. Kantemir Balagov (2019)

1. Daisies, dir. Věra Chytilová (1966)

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Evil Cat (1987)

Evil Cat (1987)

Every 50 years a cat demon has to be killed by a Cheung family member until the body-hopping feline demon's 9 lives are up. This time it falls on the shoulders of Master Cheung (Chia-Liang Liu). He is afraid of cancer killing him before he can stop the demonic force, so when Long (Mark Cheng) comes to him after his boss (Staurt Ong) gets possessed, he tries teaching him his family's Mao Shan magic hoping to pass it onto him since Cheung's bloodline stops with himself.

Try one more:

A Dog's Love (1914)