December 2011
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“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
– Dave Barry
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.”
– John Cleese
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“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more… We risk the loss of our...”
– René Dubos
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“God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
– Christopher Morley
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“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Son, can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure...
I grew up listening to my father play my grandmother’s old upright. I didn’t know the names of many of the songs, but my younger brother and I would dance on the oriental rug in time to the music we knew by heart. Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Ray Charles, Dan Fogelberg, Elton John, Vince Guiraldi, it didn’t matter. He played Beatles, Beach Boys and Benny Goodman. Old Missouri...
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“You ain’t supposed to die on a Saturday night.”
– Brian Fallon, The Gaslight Anthem
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“I’d rather wake in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.”
– Steve McQueen
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“What is soul? It’s like electricity - we don’t really know what it is, but it’s...”
– Ray Charles
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“It’s easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it’s as if the...”
– Andrew McMahon
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“A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and...”
– Rose Macauley
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“I would like to be able to admire a person’s opinions as I would their dog -...”
– Frank Clark
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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time...”
– E.B. White
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“Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and striped...”
– C.R. McNamara
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“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys, The least of which wronged Memory ever makes Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1816.
Wow. Who knew a poetry fragment from the early 19th century could so accurately describe my current feelings and state of mind?
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Mutability.
I think I got my love for physical books from the shelves of cracked spines and faded pages in my grandmother’s house. She and her two husbands, both of whom died before I was born, amassed a huge collection, and they now line the walls of every room.
She’s been to five of the seven continents and has the stories to prove it, ranging from hiking to find the silverback gorillas in Africa to...
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“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence.”
– Edith Sitwell
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“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in...”
– Bob Dylan
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“Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.”
– Zen saying
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“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”
– Christina of Sweden
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The Best Christmas Songs You've Never Heard
My last installment of What Life Sounds Like had me in a Christmas music mood, so I’ve had my holiday playlist on repeat. Of course, I’ve got the classics (Ella Fitzgerald’s version of “Sleigh Ride” is phenomenal, and “White Christmas” can almost always make me cry), but I decided to share some of my favorite alternatives to the Christmas classics. Enjoy!
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“Cherry bomb, your love is surgery, removing what you don’t regard, and...”
– Brian Fallon, The Gaslight Anthem
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“Yes, Obama duped young people by not doing every single thing they want. So now,...”
– Stephen Colbert
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“The more evolved someone becomes, the greater his need for silence.”
– Omraam Mikaël Aïvanhov
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
– Mark Twain
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“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of...”
– Olin Miller
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“I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“I’m wearing a cross necklace. Why? It goes with my outfit. I needed a good...”
– Duncan Holahan, devoted Catholic and my soul sister. Wishing he wasn’t attending college in Middle-of-Nowhere, Missouri. Hey boys: he’s single.
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That awful moment when you go to Bread Co. and buy...
Girl, please. This is my Sunday night study-fest before Finals Week. I just want to curl up in my flannel shirt and bang out this seven-page essay. I have my Bacon Turkey Bravo, my Diet Coke and my copy of Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” You didn’t buy food. Four people (who bought food) are waiting for your table. Including me. And I am very, veryhungry.
As I have...
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“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
– Anton LaVey
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“I am an electric eel in a pool of catfish.”
– Edith Sitwell
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The master list of concerts.
I was talking to my friend Johnny a while ago, and he discussed the list of concerts he’s seen. I, of course, was intrigued and decided to see if I could compile my own list. So, in chronological order (more or less), here are the concerts I have attended.
N*SYNC Yes, this was my first concert. Don’t judge. N*SYNC came to the Edward Jones Dome when I was in first grade, and I went...