This is the first Personal Photo Project of the Week where I didn’t actually take the pictures. I just designed them. Sara was kind enough to take time off from her studies to come up and take these pictures that graced my birthday barbecue invitations.
These pictures are not presented in order of personal preference, but simply in the order that they were taken.
Done Got Old Alpha
Done Got Old Beta
Done Got Old Gamma
Done Got Old Delta
Done Got Old Epsilon
Done Got Old Zeta
Done Got Old Eta
Done Got Old Iota
Done Got Old Kappa
Done Got Old Lambda
Done Got Old Mu
Done Got Old Nu
Done Got Old Xi
Done Got Old Omnicron
Done Got Old Pi
The theme for the invites this year came from an old blues song originally recorded by Junior Kimbrough, (I think) but was introduced to me by Buddy Guy on his album Sweet Tea. An album that I believe might have been a gift from a Sam Goody employee.
I’m not going to pretend that the song is a masterwork, but you never know where you will find inspiration.
Done Got Old
Well, I done got old,
Can’t do the things I used to
‘Cause I’m an old manWell, I done got old,
Well, I done got old,
I can’t do the things I used to do
“Cause I done got old,Remember the day, baby
That done passed and gone
When I could love you
Most all night longBut now things gone changed
And I done got old
I can’t do the things I used to do
‘Cause I’m an old manI can’t look like I used to
I can’t walk like I used to
I can’t love like I used to,And now things gone changed
When I done got old
I can’t do the things I used to do
Because I’m an old manAnd I’m an old man
I’m an old man
I’m an old man
And I’m not the same
I’m a very old man
In addition to Sara taking the pictures I should thank her for loaning me the prop cane. Derrick was also instrumental (bad pun intended) in loaning me the unstringed, left handed guitar with real bullet holes.
After the photo shoot, Sara and I met up with Jen and Derrick and went to Wallaby’s for celebratory fried mushrooms. Something that I like to think is a tradition for us.
To answer two surprisingly common questions:
1. Yes, the white shoes were intentional. A lot of people have a problem getting their head around the white shoes, but believe me they were very intentional. Even Sara had a little difficulty with them. Her first few pictures she tried to shoot around them until I told her that they should be in the picture.
2. My favorite pictures are Alpha and Mu.
I ordered something like 75 prints and since I only have about 10 friends and I don’t have much use for pictures of me, if you show up to the barbecue and want an additional picture of Blind Dog Bennett, that might be arranged.
One last sidenote, the guitar is destined to be turned into a clock, but if it doesn’t become a timepiece, Derrick is going to set it on fire and smash it. After all, that is what Derrick likes to do.
I’m partial to Alpha and Lambda.
The beauty of working at Sam Goody were those CDs that you normally wouldn’t have even know had been released if you just listened to the mainstream radio, but the labels would send. I miss getting to listen to all of those…
Mainstream radio has even gotten worse now. It is hard to imagine any band that wasn’t being pushed by a major label on mainstream radio making it big nowadays.