Abril 29th 2007
Hot Chip, Live at Antone's
“Hot Chip will break your your legs, snap off your neck.
Hot Chip will put you down, under the ground.”
Archivo de Abril, 2007
Abril 26th 2007
Memorizing The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1
Tao called Tao is not Tao.
Names can name no lasting name.
Nameless, the origin of heaven and earth.
Naming, the mother of ten thousand things.
Empty of desire, perceive mystery.
Filled with desire, perceive manifestations.
These have the same source, but different names.
Call them both deep–deep and again deep:
The gateway to all mystery.
Abril 26th 2007
Memorizing Song of Myself, Chapter 1
I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
for every atom belonging to you as good belongs to me.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d of this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here of parent the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old, in perfect health, begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while, sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check, with original energy.
Walt Whitman, from his original 1855 version of Leaves of Grass
Abril 26th 2007
Katie's Song – Why Can't Life
This is a song I recorded for a student of mine, Katie. I, of course, love it.
Why Can’t Life
Abril 23rd 2007
Thomas's and Carolyn's Wedding
Just after the ceremony, in the chaos of the photoshoot, as the evening light cut through, I caught Thomas as he saw me.
Abril 23rd 2007
Matlin & Carville
I saw republican strategist Mary Matlin and husband democrat strategist James Carville at UT. He was great. His predictions: Gore will get in the race. Newt will get in the race. Jeb will be the republican nominee. My favorite was his story about Bill Clinton having a talent for going directly to the most vulnerable person in the room. He swaggered around the big stage with his skinny butt and sharp head like an encylopedia salesman on democrat dope. I loved it. They were both amazed by what Barrack Obama’s campaign had pulled in.
Abril 10th 2007
Cartoon Caption Contest # 94
“I wish I’d thought to bring those.”
“That guy is my new best friend.”
“I’d give my right wing for a burger and a few rounds.”
Abril 7th 2007
Jody Runs Texas Relays
Maile, After The Race
J, After The Race
Libby and Maile
The Bleachers, After the Races