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.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
November 02, 2009 - 4:56 p.m.
I love writing Wise Madness yet I always have trouble getting myself to do it. That's me in a nutshell. Perhaps I'm just a nut.
Yesterday afternoon I went out to the Sunday Street Series and SUNY Stony Brook to see Rod Picott and Amanda Shires. They were on a co-bill with Ana Egge. Lots of names to mispronounce there. It's Picott is pie-cot, Ana is Anna, and Egge rhymes with leggy. If you have trouble with Rod, Amanda, or Shires I can't really help you. Well I can but I won't.
This wonderful series is hosted by Charlie Backfish and is associated with his show on WUSB Sunday Street.
Charlie introducing Rod & Amanda
First up was Ana. She has a link with Rod in that both had songs recorded by Slaid Cleaves. Rod has known Slaid a bit longer, since they were kids. She was born on a farm in North Dakota (or is that SD) but now lives on the prairies of Brooklyn.
Ana Egge
I've known Rod since Carey and I saw him open for Slaid at Baldwin Station in Sykesville MD. Not that that's important; I'm just showing off to Carey that I remember the name of the place and the town. Rod still associates us and one of the first things he did was ask me about Carey.
Rod
Amanda's roots are in Western Swing, she learned from the members of Bob Wills' band. She has chops. She also has a fiddle. I should have mentioned that.
Amanda fiddles while Rod blazesI didn't get my request played because Rod got by my accent saying Haunted Man. What can I do? I'm from New Yawk. He was quite amused.
I try to teach my students that math is all around them and that they can find it where they least expect it. I found a double integral.
Here's a link to the rest of the main photos.
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| Rod & Amanda @ UC 11-09 |
None of those is my favorite though. Here is a slide shows of the ones I like the best. They are of Amanda's shadow.
Does anyone else think that a video of her shadow would work great?
Rod's been around a while. You probably have heard Slaid Cleaves's Broke Down without knowing that Rod wrote it. He's someone that my friends need to discover. Carey will back me up on this. He's a great singer/songwriter yet is not nearly well enough known. I'm trying to get him and Amanda to play the The Budgiedome next year. If they come make sure you see them.
On the way home I stopped a foreign Trader Joe's out near Stony Brook. It was weird. Things weren't where they belong. The sipping chocolate was not with the coffee. It took some getting used to.
I finished Xenophon's Anabasis. Now I'm reading Roger Angell's The Summer Game. Guess what it's about.
I don't have much exciting coming up on my schedule the next few days. I'll have to come up with some ideas to write about.
It's the latest it's the greatest it's the library - November 08, 2009
Art, a Picasso or a Garfunkel - November 06, 2009
Run With It - November 05, 2009
Elevators 101 - November 04, 2009
Reading and Writing but no Rithmatic - November 03, 2009
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