Gone but Not Forgotten: Westwood

At the end of it's life, in the '80s, it was referred to as "Mountain High Racing", built into the side of the mountains above Coquitlam and Port Moody.



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e-Tracks: World Motor Racing Circuits Guide - Westwood

Despite being a relatively short and low-key track, far off the beaten path from Road Atlanta, The Glen, Laguna, Sears or Riverside (major US tracks), Westwood attracked some major stars from the racing scene of the 50s to 70s.



It was well known for it's hairy, down-hill "Clubhouse Corner", forest setting, and imfamous "Deer's Leap" - a sudden dive in he middle of it's back stretch, which sent a number of high-powered cars launching into the woods.



Now, in modern times, it's nothing more then another parking lot of track-housing and Mc-Mansions, but back in the day, it was the place that caused me to fall in love with fast cars and tight apexes.

ABC News: 'Malcolm's' Muniz Leaves Hollywood Rat Race for Pro Racing

ABC News: 'Malcolm's' Muniz Leaves Hollywood Rat Race for Pro Racing: "The 20-year-old 'Malcolm in the Middle' star has applied the breaks to his acting career, at least temporarily, to race for Jensen Motorsport in the Formula BMW competition. "

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TheNOJO.com - The Official Website of The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

TheNOJO.com - The Official Website of The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

Kurt Elling - the words - Lyrics - Night Dreamer

Kurt Elling - the words - Lyrics - Night Dreamer: "NIGHT DREAMER
From 'Live In Chicago', 2000
Music by Wayne Shorter
Solos by Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan, 1964

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Lonely the roses of Avondaire / sing as though somebody still may care.
They live only for the dream of living / so come follow where / they will take you there.

I once was apprenticed / to a man who was living
in the eye if the hurricane / to know despair,

He knew all the dreams by heart / just like sailing in a boat of
crystal silence / seeing visions / of the world / of life within a life.

In a turning / like a burning / came turning /
out of everything stirring / and what had begun before

but all wrapped up / in one great godly becoming -

Tumbling / and fumbling / and stumbling
into bumbling / and rumbling along -

whirling it / and swirling it / and twirling it / and hurling it /
and overturning it / and burning it again.

I shared a whirling dervish out on the side of a hill called metaphore vivace
swinging en route to a nascent solar / with the scissored visored blizzard wizard /
gizzarding planets and secrets within / like an avatar.

While meanwhile / in turnstyling / and spinning over him
spells bespeaking kingdoms in the dark

calling me to yield / knighting me in a field / covered with armies
and with princes. All were signing / cannons shining / pennants flying.

And when he spoke to me he sang / and his words really rang -
this child of the knowledge of the beauty of the night -

he sang to me of masters passing on / of father after father after father
climbing up into the lotus bloom / upon the tortoise's back



and of grandfathers / who danced through their living a longer time ago.
He showed me a palace in time / in which all the talismans
from all the zeuses / swing upon a pendulum of secrets
in a circle that remembers / and when asked a question will surrender

every secret key to every hero's message / given to every heart in time
but only known to but a few /or so it seems.

When I asked of them / what shall I do / to see the god?
They only said / the goldenrod / which grows inside of
every secret dream you dream / while waiting for the god -
it-s a symbol from the man in the fire.
ling you the thing you desire
is a garment that covers the riddle of everything secretly wished for
and of the world of which you are an inheritor.

Suddenly the chamber was flooded with light /
hurling me skyward like a meteorite/

When I fell to earth / I saw everything in a blur.
I saw that time was accelerating in a curve

and the palace in which I had stood / it was flowing, like lava, on acres of woodland
like a pompei-an mountain volcano / making archipelago
and destroying the planet / at fortissimo

bulldozing everything down / to make room for what
was a byzantine / a labarynthine / knotty mess of
manifolding passageways / a tangle of confusion /
where the walls made / an asylum of baroque.

Like a joke / words were spoken
to provoke me / and to toss me
nude and empty / to the sea.

But I would have none of it.
I simply turned my back and walked out/ of the dreamscape/
into landscape / like a bedroom / where I heard that

Lonely the roses of solitaire / sing as though somebody still may care.
They live only for the dream of living / so come follow where they will take you there.
Stay awake - no mistake - dance the dream awake - and awake."



Kurt Elling - Live at The Green Mill

Variety.com - Homer going to bat in '07

Variety.com - Homer going to bat in '07: "Twentieth Century Fox will formally announce today that its long-awaited 'The Simpsons''The Simpsons' feature will open worldwide in theaters on July 27, 2007.
It's the official confirmation since the reveal was done over the weekend with rule-breaking behavior worthy of serial prankster Bart Simpson.
The first step was a promopromo during Fox's 'American Idol' broadcast on Wednesday when animated Springfield newsman Kent Brockman announced that long-awaited news would be revealed on Sunday's broadcast of 'The Simpsons.' Fox then introduced a 20-second teaser trailer Friday on prints of 'Ice Age: The Meltdown,' panning away from a tight shot of Superman's 'S' logo to show the symbol on a three-sizes-too-tight T-shirt worn by Homer Simpson, who was otherwise clad in his underwear. The release date was flashed.
Within hours of the film's opening, Web sites like Ain't It Cool News were dotted with sighting reports, and Web wonks tempered enthusiasm with skepticism, thinking the trailer might be an April Fools' Day joke.
It's no prank.
'That trailer is running on 7,000 screens this weekend, committing us to opening every place in the world on the same date,' executive producer James L. Brooks told Daily Variety Friday. 'Which means, we'd better get started.'
Brooks and his co-conspirators are in the storyboarding stage following two years of script drafts and three covert cast readings. Though news of the movie became known when a feature option was made part of contract renewals for show regulars in 2001, the script and release strategy were successfully cloaked in secrecy by Brooks and Fox AnimationFox Animation president Chris Meledandri.
'We've taken script security to the point of lunacy, though it helped that we wrote it in Aramaic" quipped Mike Scully, who penned the script with creator Matt Groening, Brooks and series vets Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David MirkinDavid Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti.

David SilvermanDavid Silverman, the "Simpsons" supervising animation director who co-helmed 2001's "Monsters, Inc.," is set as director.

Deals are done with show regulars Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden and Tress MacNeille.

"We've also set Albert Brooks, Minnie Driver and the real Erin Brockovich, so you should be able to deduce the plot just from that information," said Jean, who is running the show in its 17th season.

The original intention, said Groening, was to delay the film until the show was done.

"We tried to save this until the end of the series, but that intention was undone by good ratings," said Groening. Last month, Fox committed to two more seasons of the show.

"The movie has been so daunting, and the contract between us has always been to wait until we all felt the script was right," Brooks said. "We tell a feature-length movie story with each episode, but we feel we now have a story and script worthy of a movie. And there was so much secrecy that it's actually a relief to be able to speak about it now."

Brooks is producing with Groening, Jean, Scully and Richard SakaiRichard Sakai.

Date in print: Mon., Apr. 3, 2006, Los Angeles