11. Moving from Memphis
Go to Memphis, go to Graceland and all you do is get Elvis songs stuck in your head.
Although, weirdly in my case I found myself humming a very obscure A-Ha song Move to Memphis instead, and from that it took me to Mark Cohn’s Walking in Memphis, and from there the natural transition is to go to the remix by Shut and and Dance Raving I’m Raving, which is just … well - bizarre - if you’ve never heard it before and Mark Cohn purists look away now and don’t click on that link!
Still, it’s video time. Was still having to use the second camera, so the quality is not the best. But it’s fun. Graceland, long haired rock-stars, Geoff flirts with a 70 year old and we get caught in a rather severe thunderstorm …
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the 
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London
July 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Glad to see you finally got the video!!! I sm sooo happy. Wish you would have met the rock star when you were down by me. Glad that you didnt experience a tornado!!!! You are a storm chaser!
July 16th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I’m happy to see you back in action with the new camera. It really does make a difference. It’s fun to see your mom too - Hi Mom!
July 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
So what kind of gadgets does one add to that camera? Budding videographers would like to know!
July 17th, 2009 at 6:35 am
@cdmwebs
sure, well first a battery that lasts! the one provided gets you about 60 minutes of recording time. i bought two heavyweight chunky ones that give you over 120 minutes.
the lens has a cap on the front too, but you could also get a wide angled lens attachment which would really make it look good.
it’s got one shoe bracket on top to hang a device on, but onto mine i put a ‘Y’ bracket which lets you hang off TWO things. in mine case - a light and the radio mic receiver. oh yeah - you GOTTA have a radio mic
then there’s the tripod attachment clip that goes underneath. and because it’s a Sony and it has a pain in the arse (the ONLY bad thing abotu Sony camcorders) tape loader right by the tripod screw, you can get a spacer which means you DON’T have to take off the tripod attachment each time you want to load a new tape.
so by the time you’ve added all that.. it looks pretty fcuking professional.
oh - get a water/splash protection casing as well. i had one, but it was stolen…
July 17th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Yeah 2 da new cam n yur Mum!! ….shez so cute !!
Im sure traveling with her must hav been sooo much fun. Cheers
July 19th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Cool, thanks!
I do need to look into a radio mic. I’m just playing, but I would like to put something together soon.