Your Future Our Clutter

2010 album from Mark E. Smith and the mighty Fall, their first album in over two years. Not just a return to form, the bloggers are on fire saying it's potentially their best record in a decade. Recorded at various studios in the north of England over the past year, Your Future Our Clutter is The Fall at their most rampant, most forward moving, bone shaking best. With nine tracks that rock like raw fury, we see The Fall heading into their next decade with the same intensity with which they started. Domino.

Son in his new cataraft, heading down the Yakima River to the Umtanum Creek Canyon footbridge, where we will "take out".

Young son up from Arizona again. He just purchased a new Waterskeeter Guide Lite cataraft to support his favorite avocation - - dry fly fishing.

He talked his wife and me into going in half each on a 2nd Guide Lite. Great deal for the whole family.

The two of us decided to give the two new catarafts a "test run" down an easy river, so we floated the Yakima River from Ringer Road, north of the Yakima River Canyon, down to the Umtanum Creek Canyon foot bridge.

I left my four wheel drive pickup truck at the Umtanum footbridge parking, and we took the two new rafts up to assemble and launch at Ringer Loop access.

On the float down the river we saw mule deer and many bighorn sheep, who watched us float by from their canyon cliff view points.

The Yakima River is a great year round catch and release trout stream. We both had our fly fishing gear along, but since my son, and his wife had an evening flight back to Arizona, we didn't want to chance them missing their flights, so we just enjoyed our float.

Fall colors were spectacular along the way. We had calm, high winds, sun, clouds, and rain. Whatever the weather we both had a great time.

There are some minor adjustments to the set up of the two catarafts, that we will make on our next float, but all in all, they performed absolutely wonderful. Perfect craft for small rivers.

We will get many years of use out of these small catarafts. I'm already plotting a 2009 float trip (a three day float trip from Minam to Troy, Oregon on the Wallowa and Grande Ronde rivers). Can't wait.

I definitely like to gallop & whinny but Christ I hope I don't end up that way, with my head sliced all the way off -- & especially not outdoors in the sunshine where everybody can see what happened!

Anyhow have a happy halloween everybody! Plus election day, vote vote vote!

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In south Minneapolis on October 28th, 2008, at the southeast corner of 27th Avenue South and East 28th Street.

From the director of The Cell comes a visually stunning epic fantasy about a bedridden man who entertains a curious little girl by telling her a fantastical story of exotic heroes and far off places which reflects his state of mind. The central story takes place in a remote 1920's hospital where a small girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) is recovering from a severe looking shoulder injury incurred in a fall while trying to pick oranges. One day she happens to meet Roy (Lee Pace) - a stunt or "gag" man for the "flickers" or moving pictures- who seems to have injured himself out of a future in a particularly reckless stunt, even for those times. He is a clearly unhappy man who- through his own carelessness- unwittingly leads Alexandria to believe that he intends to entertain her with a lavish, epic story of exotic heroes and far off places. As the stuntman's health reaches to the point of peril - so does the story he is telling her...with potentially fatal consequences.

Roger Ebert proclaimed it "one of the most extraordinary films I've ever seen," and there's no denying the avalanche of wild images in The Fall: grand castles, desert vistas, elephants swimming in the open ocean. Commercial and music-video director Tarsem has piled these visions into an elaborate remake of an obscure Bulgarian film, Yo Ho Ho, which is anchored in (but by no means limited to) a quiet hospital during the silent-movie era. A stunt man (Lee Pace) is laid up with leg injuries, and an eye-popping black-and-white prologue (utterly mystifying while we're watching it) tells us how he got here. Depressed over his disability and a recent lost love, he plans suicide, but is temporarily derailed by the inquisitive friendship of a little girl (Catinca Untaru), to whom he tells wild stories of adventurers and princesses. We see these stories, which is where the dizzying visuals come in. This movie probably won't inspire many lukewarm responses: either you'll fall madly for this paean to storytelling magic, or you'll be suspicious about the parade of pretty pictures, which tend to have a magazine-layout sheen. The movie certainly has more soul than Tarsem's yucky previous feature, The Cell, and the scenes between Pace and Untaru (who scores an 11 on the cuteness scale) are genuinely charming. The director actually put a considerable amount of his own money into the production (which shot in over 20 countries), and whether you buy his vision or not, he put his money on the screen. --Robert Horton