Good Feeling
Lord, it’s a mighty hard living But a damn good feeling to run these roads Tyler Childers, Whitehouse Road
Don’t Be So Easy On Yourself
Trying to sum up our risky business, my Dad used to quote President Nixon: “Failure isn’t falling down. Failure is not getting up after you’ve fallen down.” Jason Isbell put it another way in this song against self-pity. Don’t be so easy on yourself (don’t be so easy on yourself)Don’t be so easy on yourself […]
Chest Fever
And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down on my knees. Chest Fever was Garth Hudson’s moment to shine in The Band’s live performances. He was allowed to stretch out on the organ, often introducing the song with a proggy solo they called “The Genetic Method”. Peter Viney called the lyrics “dummy words”, […]
Today’s Quote
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
The Wait
Said the wait child, bruised ball child, pride slapped child hurts The wait child, crest felled child, tear eyed child hurts The wait child, bus stop child, late come child hurts The wait child, platform walk, idle talk hurts Pretenders, The Wait So many of my cases have involved a delay in the face of […]
Today’s Quote
You were once wild. Don’t let them tame you. Isadora Duncan From New York to London, Paris to Moscow, Isadora Duncan danced her way across the world. Never one to be restricted by the rigidity of traditional ballet or the limitations of commercial performance, Duncan developed her own unique vision of dance — one inspired by nature, […]
High Water Everywhere
It’s a day for the blues. There’s nothing like a toe-tapper about a mass casualty event. When it comes down to it, that’s all the blues are about: making the insufferable thing bearable. In High Water Everywhere, Charley Patton sang about the 1927 Mississippi levee break that displaced tens of thousands. Patton lived on Dockery’s […]
I’m A Ram
Bart and I were sitting around an early morning campfire waiting for the day lineup to start when this white kid in dreadlocks and a hangdog look walked out of the Suwanee mist. “Was I here last night? Have you seen my car keys?” He was despondent and couldn’t remember where he’d been the night […]
Happy Day to Coltrane and F. Scott Fitzgerald (tomorrow)!
“There are no second acts in American lives.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If you follow the natural intentions, you get the most success out of life.”
So says RZA, a force behind the influential Wu-Tang Clan, composer of soundtracks, and film director. Fascinated with eastern philosophies, his quote encourages the pursuit of curiosities and passions in order to achieve true success and meaning in one’s life.