As I have decided to attempt to journal again and I wish a certain amount of privacy my journal is now Friends Only.

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Louie Bellson dies at 84; Duke Ellington called him 'the world's greatest drummer'


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David "Fathead" Newman
                                                    February 24, 1933 - January 20, 2009

{From his web site}

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 "Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."

~ Fred Allen ~

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/iggypop/iggypop1.html

Funniest rider I've ever read.

The artist's dilemma and the meditator's are, in a deep sense, equivalent. Both are repeatedly willing to confront an unknown and to risk a response that they cannot predict or control. Both are disciplined in skills that allow them to remain focused on their task and to express their response in a way that will illuminate the dilemma they share ( Read more... )

                             "A beggars Kingdom is better than a proud mans delusion"

~ donald miller ~