...and in this moment when
the world washes over and forgives
we can now begin
to dismiss our woes and love to live..r{}
Music, Dancing: Free, Swing, Salsa, Contact Improv
Le Francais, all things thoroughly pondered.
Someone with which to share a glance
looking toward
whatever it is we've been longing for.
Jazz: Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown, Jay Jay Johnson, Gil Evans, Brad Mehldau, Johnny Hartman, Lester Young, Yusef Lateef, Keith Jarrett, Ahmad Jamal, Thad Jones, Art Blakey, Art Tatum, Bob Sheppard, Kenny Garrett, (no need to mention the popular and pervasive names)
20th century composition: Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Samuel Barber, Elizabeth Maconchy, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Latin at Large: Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Artuo Sanduval
Hip-Hop: Sage Francis
Progressive Groove: Gruvis Malt
lo-fi alternative & punk: Modest Mouse
Currently scattered throughout:
Civilisation and It's Discontents - Freud
The Jazz Book - Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand (with all the hyperboles and rants I'm thru at pg 772.)
The Pocket Book of Modern Verse: American Poets of the 21st Century - Edited by Oscar Wilde
New Method for the Double Bass - Franz Simandl
How to Train Singers - Larra Browning Henderson