15th & 16th September, 2008
New concerts announced!
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Photo by Jay Hagan,
7/12/08 Burbank, CA
A Thought for Today
Follow love and you need no other leader.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THE VOICE OF INDEPENDENT MEANS
Stars,
if I could read you then I would.
Life goes on forever.
Youth lasts an hour, maybe less.
As the gangplank comes in nearer
I speed away behind an engine
warming up, left running.
Could I erase the deficit
and start again
I would not.
The beast too listens in the dark
for words that will not come,
is frightened by the stars
and goes off running
like the rest of us.
All out there, stars and signposts
voices too in twos and threes,
I know you are not enemies,
but friends
not yet so labeled
and collected.
Twilight passes like the tide
all hushed and strange.
We only see time's changes
when it is late and growing later.
Gabriel does not rejoice
at each new crowd
he only waits.
Oh lover, singing
out beyond the wood
do not bruise me with false cries.
Lullabies, lullabies,
sing me only lullabies.
Yours is the only song
that soars above the rest
and yours the only voice
of independent means.
Stars I'd reach and pick you
if I could
and ancient, newer loves
I'd do the same.
We'll all go home when winter comes
for now the seasons will not change
they are a shawl of ribbons, paper, rags
a willow dragging branches in the water.
Those voices and that voice
still singing in the not so wilderness,
still offering a song so sweet
that all the stars now take it up
and pass it down and on to us.
- from "Suspension Bridge", 1984
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Monday 15 September
Roy Acuff o
Cannonball Adderley o
Richard Arnell o
Robert Benchley o
Ann Berzinsky o
Agatha Christie o
Jackie Cooper o
James Fenimore Cooper o
Norm Crosby o
Henry Darrow o
Milton Eisenhower o
Louis Frémaux o
Prince Harry o
Tommy Lee Jones o
Dan Marino o
Kathryn Murray o
Jessye Norman o
Merlin Olsen o
Gaylord Perry o
Jean Renoir o
Rin Tin Tin o
François, du de la Rochefoucauld o
Bobby Short o
Oliver Stone o
Penny Singleton o
William H. Taft o
Rin Tin Tin o
Bruno Walter o
Fay Wray
Tuesday 16 September
Jean Arp o
Lauren Bacall o
Tina Barrett o
Elgin Baylor o
Ed Begley, Jr. o
Alexis Bledel o
Gwen Bristow o
Charlie Byrd o
Rosemary Casals o
Matt Chanoff o
George Chakiris o
David Copperfield o
Peter Falk o
Anne Francis o
Allen Funt o
Piero Gamba o
Linda Kaye Henning o
Kenny Jones o
Jack Kelly o
B. B. King o
John Knowles o
Janis Paige o
J. C. Penny o
Harrison Francis Parkman o
Mickey Rourke o
Reverend Robert Schuller o
Ben Shields o
Jennifer Tilly o
Robin Yount o
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The victory party isn't worth the having if
the celebration's done in solitary.
Do
you ever get the feeling we could use a lot less so-called human beings
and a lot more real people?
We learn too little in advance and too
much too late. There is no middle ground.
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RADIO - for Charles Osgood |
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The archers aim,
the straining bow,
the whistling arrow
through the air.
the victims cry,
the awful fall
as body and earth
meet up as one.
The trumpet bridge
that moves us then
to stratagem's hall
behind the line.
An argument, then
a new war plan.
Our Hero's foot
on the marble floor.
And now a harp
as lovers meet
a last embrace
a close of the door.
Here in your head
you saw it all
without a blink
of camera's eye.
you were the victim.
You were the winner.
The falling soldier,
the arrow spinner.
Yours was the mind
conceiving the plan
to win the battle
by hour's end.
You played the harp
and the voluntary,
colored the sky
and the hero's hair.
Amazing the sights,
springing from sound
that move unbound
through the air.
-from "Intervals," 1986 |
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