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Re: Little Details from Your Day

1461 by losthighway
DaveA wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:05 pm Felt like quite a relief to send everything for an upcoming music release off to the manufacturer this morning.

I don't wanna do anything for a while.
I'm getting some of the same in the mail this week. Unfortunately getting to that finish line sapped my long-standing enthusiasm for the project. Hopefully the release hubbub is enough (doesn't take much for me) to get psyched about it.

Re: Little Details from Your Day

1462 by enframed
andyman wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:37 am
enframed wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:24 pm Last summer I picked some grapes in a really strange 100+ year old vineyard in the middle of an industrial park in Rancho Cucamonga. It was so strange picking grapes while surrounded by warehouses on all sides.

Today I picked up a bottle of the wine made from that fruit. Looking forward to drinking it soon.
Interested to hear back about this. I intuitively assume anything grown in a city will taste like shit due to smog and pollution.

In Rome there are beautiful orange trees around the streets of some government buildings. One night I saw an orange drop to the ground and went to peel it, but a security guard stopped me and just said "Trust me, you don't want to eat that".
Yeah I don't think pollution would be what the guard was referring to in Rome, probably to what unsavory things happen in the grove.

The vineyards are an hour east of LA, which is basically a big logistics/trucking/warehouse hub for southern California. At this particular one, diesel particulate would be most of the pollution around, but that would not make it into the finished wine. I imagine they wash/rinse the fruit before crushing, but I did not see the winemaking. The vineyards have been organic since planting. No rows, just head-trained vines scattered around. Some have died so there are holes, never replanted. It had been forgotten for decades. Now all these folks do it prune once a year.

LA and the surrounding area, before Prohibition, was the largest winemaking region in America. The oldest vine in America is in San Gabriel, planted in 1700s, the mission still makes wine from it every year (not for sale, IIRC). 75% of the jobs in LA were somehow related to the wine business. Much of downtown LA was once vineyard. So strange to think about that.
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Re: Little Details from Your Day

1463 by DaveA
losthighway wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:38 am
DaveA wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:05 pm Felt like quite a relief to send everything for an upcoming music release off to the manufacturer this morning.

I don't wanna do anything for a while.
I'm getting some of the same in the mail this week. Unfortunately getting to that finish line sapped my long-standing enthusiasm for the project. Hopefully the release hubbub is enough (doesn't take much for me) to get psyched about it.
Yup, getting across that finish line . . . it really can be an endurance test. That's why I don't wanna to do anything for a bit. Gotta sleep and forget.

Good luck with your album's release, though. When the big shipment comes in, you'll get a jolt most likely and snap back into it.

If the past is any indicator, I can't imagine my CD will be received with excess enthusiasm. However, if the clueless little scrub I was in the autumn of '93--when I first picked up a guitar--could see/hear the new one, he'd feel pretty alright about the whole undertaking. (He'd also probably wonder about the two or three gray hairs around my temples.) Even ten years ago, I don't think releasing a new album would've seemed that viable, but here we are.
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Re: Little Details from Your Day

1464 by biscuitdough
enframed wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:57 am
andyman wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:37 am
enframed wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:24 pm Last summer I picked some grapes in a really strange 100+ year old vineyard in the middle of an industrial park in Rancho Cucamonga. It was so strange picking grapes while surrounded by warehouses on all sides.

Today I picked up a bottle of the wine made from that fruit. Looking forward to drinking it soon.
Interested to hear back about this. I intuitively assume anything grown in a city will taste like shit due to smog and pollution.

In Rome there are beautiful orange trees around the streets of some government buildings. One night I saw an orange drop to the ground and went to peel it, but a security guard stopped me and just said "Trust me, you don't want to eat that".
Yeah I don't think pollution would be what the guard was referring to in Rome, probably to what unsavory things happen in the grove.

The vineyards are an hour east of LA, which is basically a big logistics/trucking/warehouse hub for southern California. At this particular one, diesel particulate would be most of the pollution around, but that would not make it into the finished wine. I imagine they wash/rinse the fruit before crushing, but I did not see the winemaking. The vineyards have been organic since planting. No rows, just head-trained vines scattered around. Some have died so there are holes, never replanted. It had been forgotten for decades. Now all these folks do it prune once a year.

LA and the surrounding area, before Prohibition, was the largest winemaking region in America. The oldest vine in America is in San Gabriel, planted in 1700s, the mission still makes wine from it every year (not for sale, IIRC). 75% of the jobs in LA were somehow related to the wine business. Much of downtown LA was once vineyard. So strange to think about that.
Northern California has its preferred varietals, but the good California Pinot Noir seems to be from Southern CA.

Philly's River Wards have a community garden or two, but there are also a lot of recent demolitions by slimy developers putting up formaldehyde-filled Lego Condos. The lead from all the old factories they tore down went right into the soil. My friends who live there grow anything they want to eat in raised beds.
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