Saturday, August 28, 2010

Bread and Puppet 2010








Not Ready Pageant

every Sunday 11 July - 29 August

at the Bread & Puppet Farm

Show starts at 2:30 pm

rain or shine

The Decapitalization Circus demonstrates in 18 or 19 deathdefying stunts they phantastic effects of the capitalization of life in the U.S. and citizens’ courageous efforts of decapitalization. The performers represent the whole scale of the social spectrum from benign billionarism to despicable homeless anti-soacial-elementarianism. All the acts are FDA and FBI certified displays of patriotic correctness and defy all imaginable forms of terrorism. The Possibilitarians, a multi-instrumental variety ensemble provide the appropriate-innappropriate sounds for the circus.

The Nothing-is-Not-Ready Pageant which directly follows the circus is a greek-tragedy based typical American soap opera featuring several major current events and catastrophies and highlighting the chief actors and motivators of these events, exclusive their virtuous principles, moral assesments and speeches.


brainy books



Books on the brain:

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doige

Mindsight by Dan Siegel

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis

The Neurobiology of "We" by Dan Siegel

Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson

Cew Gardens


recent faves



best radio shows to get podcasts of:
Radiolab, especially the show on Memory and the one on Numbers, This is Your Brain on Love
Speaking of Faith: shows with Wendell Berry, Jon Kabat Zinn, Rachel Naomi Remen and others
Moth Radio: true stories told live

books:
Purge by Sofia Oksanen
Let the Great World Spin by Colin Mccan
What I Talk About When I Talk about Running Murakami
Invisible by Paul Oster
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

books on audio (both great readers):
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Steig Laarson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Friday, September 4, 2009

Pioneer Valley shape note singing in Leyden, MA

Aidan's song

Oh the Sun Rises
sung by my 6 and 7's at Pinewoods Family Week

puppets in paradise




Festival tomorrow in Westminster West 10-4 p.m. Here are photos from last spring.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Cheyenne Wyoming



Stayed at the Hitching Post with this out front at our Orff workshop this weekend with 30 great music teachers. Ate at the Luxury Diner, highly recommended.

my friend


Marian and I have a ball.