With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
July 06, 2005 - 10:01 a.m.
I meant to post this last night but couldn’t. So just change every “today” into a “yesterday”
I didn’t give any hint to what I was up to today, did I? I broke my usual format, I usually tell you what’s coming up. So now you are in like total suspense, right? Did I go to the moon? Did I have an orgy with a WNBA team? Did I sit around and vegetate? Did I have a meeting with the G-8 leaders? Did I go to a concert? OK, before you read any further vote on which of those choices is right. And the winner is…
I went to a concert, Crooked Still. They were playing in Ridgefield CT part of the CHIRP series. Ridgefield is a quite well to do town in Connecticut that uses a decent portion of its wealth to promote folk music. In addition to the summer Chirp series, there is a winter series plus another series at the library. Years ago Carey and I saw The Kennedys there.
I discovered Crooked Still at FRFF last year and have wanted to see them again, this was my first opportunity. I met Jessica at the show. She is a friend of Paul’s that I had met briefly a couple of times. I recently got to know her through the Richard Thompson community on LJ. She responded to my posts about last weeks shows. I looked at her profile and saw that we have quite a few friends and interests in common. She mentioned in her LJ that she was going to the show and I told her to look out for me. I am of course easy to find as I’m right down front.
I was soon joined by Jessica, her friends, and her friend’s dog, Zoe. Notice who’s name I remembered? OK I actually remembered Jeff and Vivian too and they are people. Zoe ended up stealing the show and Crooked Still dedicated a song to her.
I liked Crooked still even better than at FRFF. That isn’t surprising as I had a much better seat for a much longer show. I got to talk to Aoife during the break. I’d write her name out phonetically but she told me she hates that. Let me see how I can do this. Aoife rhymes with the first two syllables of Beefaroni. I believe it is the Irish version of Eve.
I was not surprised to discover that they are friends with the Mammals. Like them they are a young group that does traditional folk. They don’t use the most traditional instrumentation. On most songs there is a banjo, cello, and double bass. They add a guitar on a few of them. Their sound blends beautifully with Aoife’s vocals. They are now on my don’t miss list.
Not a bad night, I met a new friend that I sort of knew before, saw a new band that I sort of knew before, and heard lots of old songs, most of which I sort of knew before.
Oh yes, one more thing, remember the multiple choice question about what I did today? I actually did two of those things, I’m not telling which one, only that it wasn’t vegetate.
Errata: Yesterday I said I was listening to the Kennedy’s album No Angel Knows. I meant to say, Angel Fire. No Angel Knows, is a Slaid Cleaves Album.
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