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South Texas Soul: The San Anto­nio Sound – Augie Mey­ers, Doug Sahm and the his­tory and influ­ence of South Texas on pop­u­lar music of today. Doc­u­men­tary film­maker Tracy Ready exam­ines the influ­ence of Ger­man, Pol­ish and Irish immi­grants in South Texas on pop­u­lar music styles includ­ing Coun­try, Tejano, Blues and Rock and Roll, from a unique perspective.

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Orig­i­nally posted on Feb. 16, 2009: The Aquar­ium Con­cept
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This dude has one awe­some “real” aquarium »

The Aquar­ium Concept.

Pretty sight, isn’t it? It’s not mine, in fact, I have never had suc­cess tak­ing care of trop­i­cal fish. It’s just not my “thing”, even though I enjoy scenes like this. I do have an “aquar­ium” of sorts, but it has no glass, rock or water, only thoughts and dreams. My aquar­ium was a total mess for a long time, until I came to terms with this:

In order for things to flour­ish, they must have a good envi­ron­ment. This goes for peo­ple and fish and ideas too. You can have an aquar­ium, with some beau­ti­ful young fish but if you don’t take care of them (as I found out at age 10) soon algae grows in the tank, the fish start look­ing sickly, and then die off. Sounds sim­ple, and it is, but look­ing at your life and your goals this way takes a lit­tle prac­tice. It’s the same with ideas, projects, art, poetry, music, film, video, job search, fam­ily rela­tions; what­ever the pas­sion, the aquar­ium con­cept holds true.
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Hats off to the Dal­las Pub­lic Library for host­ing Texas Music Mini-Conference with an amaz­ing line up of speak­ers, authors, his­to­ri­ans — all for FREE. We attended these ses­sions in Dal­las recently. It was a very infor­ma­tive day, and we received some very pos­i­tive feed­back on the trail­ers for South Texas Soul: The San Anto­nio Sound and Dal­las Elec­tric: The Texas Blues Story.
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