Silvio Rodriguez - Unicornio
Angela Gheorghiu - Casta Diva
Feeling Good Again (cover)
This is one of my favorite Robert Earl Keen songs but couldn't find a clip with him...so this is the next best thing.
RJD2
I caught him live once and was so friggin' impressed at his skills. To take a sample-based creation and perform it live in this manner is just so sick. This video gives you an idea of what his show is like.=====================================================
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
"Quit smiling, We ain't won shit yet" - Chuck D
"I will not engage in the politics of fear. Because fear is poisonous. All through history it has been used to hold back progress and limit fairness. Only hope destorys fear. It always has" - Deval Patrick
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"The best explanation I've seen of "simple living" is that it is about discovering what is enough in your life and discarding the rest." - Russell Coleman
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From the Sunday Los Angeles Times interview with Chen Kaige, director of "Farewell My Concubine" and 'The Promise".
As an individual living in a society, so many things influence me, make me feel like there's something I want to express. Because as a film director, on the one hand, I have to think about commercial stuff. But on the other, I always think about what is the important message that I can put into a film. I'm tired of this kind of commercialism, materialism around us. We're losing our old lifestyle. I'm not saying it's suitable for everybody, but I think we're losing the way we used to live. And everybody becomes very busy without a purpose. What is the purpose?
Also, people pay very little attention to the culture. Here it's different, you know. American culture is very young, people don't normally look back, learn from history. There's nothing to learn — let's just go ahead and do what we want to do. But in China, it's a big country, a lot of people and beautiful traditions. There's always a need for us to get something from the past.
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