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WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?
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your assets. Another source of revenue is possible. Stay out of somebody else's argument. Tackle big goals, and get support.
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Finish up tasks today and tomorrow. It's emotion versus reason. Take time for ritual and peaceful meditation. Public obligations could interfere with private time. New possibilities stretch old boundaries. Focus on keeping old commitments.
before making new.
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Friends pry you from your comfortable shell over the next two days.
Community bonds and projects call you to action. Go for having it all (as long as you get a full night's sleep)
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Give up what you don't need. Balance accounts. Someone influential is
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what's wanted.
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Study ways to make and keep money. Negotiate contracts and file papers.
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Your partner can be a big help over the next few days. Hold meetings to resolve priorities, or waste time with upsets and misunderstandings. Resolve a financial issue.
Be receptive, and offer support. Take care of
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Focus on your work for the next two days. Your pursuit of excellence is paying off. Learn from a master. Keep up with correspondence and communications.
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Play with someone attractive today and tomorrow. Rearrange your schedule to include more fun. Don't discuss money.
Listen carefully, to avoid a communications breakdown. Follow emotions as well as intellect. Distrac
tions cause mistakes.
Focus on love.
Capricorn(Dec. 22-Jan19) Walk and talk with your partner. Attend to household matters today and tomorrow. It could get busy ... work from home. Family comes first. A private conference spells out the facts. Disagree persuasively. Rely on your schedule.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Update your skills over
the next few days. Study
with a talented teacher.
Get expert assistance.
Follow rules carefully.
Avoid another's controversy. Tie up loose ends,
and take a break. The competition is smart. Be here now.
Q&A: Albert Hammond Jr. on his new album and life as a singer-songwriter
It's been two years since his last album, "AHJ" — following 2006's "Yours to Keep" and 2008's "Como Te Llama?" — but Albert Hammond Jr. is back.
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Pisces (Feb.19-March 20) The next two days are good for business, which is lucky as bills come due. Your ideas are attracting attention.
The singer-songwriter and Strokes guitarist released "Momentary Masters" on Vagrant Records this summer, and the hype is justified. This album is something fresh, something different, but still very AHJ, and he sounded stoked about the writing process.
UDK: Which album would you show an alien that best represents Albert Hammond Jr.?
Albert Hammond Jr.: "Momentary Masters," or the EP if they have a short attention span.
UDK: How would you compare Albert Hammond Jr. in "Yours To Keep" versus Albert Hammond Jr. in "Momentary Masters"?
AHJ: They're just different people making music. I was 26 when I was making "Yours To Keep." Back then, I had been in a back, and it was my first time
exploring finishing songs and decided to making something I liked. Now, I'm a little more confident in what I'm doing.
UDK: "Momentary Masters" has a kind of unity to it. Is this something that was planned out, or did the uniformity emerge as you were writing the record?
AHJ: I don't think you could accidentally do that. I would have been extremely lucky. I grew up with that kind of melodic rhythmic rock-and-roll that was exciting and had structure with unique sounds, melodies and songs. The songs are the biggest thing.
UDK: At various points throughout the record, it sounds like you're having a dialogue with someone. In "Coming To Getcha," for instance, you say, "Someday soon, you'll have to leave. Someday soon, you'll have to excuse me." Elsewhere, you say "I forgave you long before I met you for the things that you were bound to do." Who are you talking to?
AHJ: It's hard to explain. When I'm working on songs, I'm trying to find words to fit with the music as well as a stoo-
ry. That line in "Touché" was taken from Sarah Jones who I dedicated the record to who passed away. It was one of her lines of poetry. I saw the other lyric as a story about myself. But, you can see it however you want to. Someone might relate it to something they've experienced. Emotions are universal. In fact, some melodies might even cause certain feelings. I don't think it matters what the truth is, really — as long as it has some effect on you.
UDK: I caught your show back in Albuquerque a few years ago. In a live setting, it was great singing and participating one on one. How does it feel playing some of these songs live?
AHJ: These songs were made for playing live. It's a real live record.
UDK: The producer Gus Oberg worked with you on your previous record, what was his role in crafting "Momentary Masters?"
AHI: Gus Oberg has done everything with me. I met him when I was recording "Yours To Keep." He produced "Como Te Llama." We spent a month doing demos at my house of all
the songs.
UDK: There seems to be a certain chemistry between you and Gus Oberg.
AHJ: Very much so. There's a huge chemistry there, which is why we worked together. We even produced The Views' next record, which comes out in September. There's definitely a sense that we trust each other. We push each other.
UDK: Can you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by "pushing each other?" And, would you say it's important to have that interaction?
AHJ: It's very important. It's important in life to have enough ego to have confidence, but enough self-doubt to not be an asshole.It's okay to question,but,at the same time,you don't want to have too much of that because you'll never finish anything. It's a tough line.
AHJ: Yeah, exactly. It helps having those relationships. In the band, we're constantly working to make the songs
UDK: Self-criticism is important, but too much of that can be a bad thing.
sound better.
UDK: So, in a sense, seeing AHJ on the cover of your record can be misleading, right? It's easy to forget that there's a whole process that goes into crafting a record, a process involving other people.
AHJ: Sure. There are very few things anyone does without other people. Even when you think you're doing something by yourself, you still have people. That's part of the fun, to share and to start something and get other people to believe in it, too.
UDK: I'm really looking forward to purchasing your record at the show.
AHJ: I'm looking forward to the show too. It's so soon; I feel like it's only been a week. I can't wait.
The album is currently streaming on Soundcloud, "Momentary Masters" is available for purchase on iTunes. Albert Hammond Jr. will perform at The Bottleneck on Sept. 13. Tickets are $15.
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"Pie touches a place in people that other desserts don't, mostly because people's experiences with pie is that their mothers or grandmothers made it or they ate it where someone who loved them very much took the time to bake a pie."
That feeling of love and comfort is something that Abigail Crouse, a waitress at Ladybird, said comes out in everything they do.
"I think we have a lot of fun working here, and I think that really comes across in how we serve the public," Crouse said. "I consider everyone who walls in the door like this is our home and we're having people over."
The atmosphere at Ladybird Diner is inviting, from the Christmas lights strung around the bar to the buffalo head in the back adorned with sunflowers.
"This is really just a collection of things that I think are neat. The Pyrex bowls remind me of my grandmother, and the Donegan quotes remind me of my oldest son," she said. "Everywhere you look, there's something to look at. I wanted that for the staff, that's why we made all these aprons by hand."
Crouse said it was incredible to see her friend of 15 years finally be able to live out her dream. She said Heriford's personality radiates to every aspect of her diner.
The Ladybird bakery staff bakes roughly 30 pies a day during the week and nearly 50 a day during the weekend.
For now, Heriford and her staff members are working on getting back into the groove they had just before the fire, welcoming everyone who walks in their door with a piece of pie and a warm smile.
"This is definitely a community stop, and people that we don't know, we get to know pretty quickly," Heriford said.
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