April 16ths

4/16/1966

(Beatles Studio Diary)

“Eleven hours completing ‘Rain’”.    

Songday for today (a "rain refrain")

4/16/1998

Just discovered Jenni-Cam after hearing NPR interview. Interesting that now anyone can be their own TV show. There’s something so compelling about that. Jenni-cam now is so common on the Net that it now has a secondary meaning.  

Lyric idea:

Once in the saddle he’s a changed man
Dreaming of the gold in the emerald land
Packing all his bags full of wanderlust
Riding down the mountain in a cloud of dust 

[Pat and Anton: This is how Saddleman began]            

4/16/2012 

Picked up plywood panels for paintings. While the staff was opening shipping crates in the back, two little stowaway cats emerged: