Music, playing the guitar, playng the piano, the origins of things, linguistics, Cajun French, Coca-Cola™, concert-going, camping, Chinese food from the mall, cars, laughing, loving, M&M's™, my family, helping people, meeting new people, yelling as loud as I can from a high place over wide open spaces, film, art, traveling (Belgium: Mons, Brugge, Chimay, Couvin, Namur, Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp, Liège, Le Rœulx, Waterloo, Tournai, Charleroi, Bouillon, Sart, Jéhonville, Neuf Château, Nimy, Binche, Alle, Sivry-Rance, Montbliart. France: Paris, Versailles, Disneyland Paris. Luxembourg: Luxembourg City. Germany: Hildesheim, Wolfsburg, Berlin, Sachsenhausen, Hannover. Holland: Amsterdam.), singing in the car, singing in the shower, singing in a band (someday), always finding new interests...
Here are some websites that I've created and continue to maintain. Me and Kristy put together the cemetery website.
Rocky's Cajun French Source!
Historical Cemeteries of Chauvin, Montegut and Dulac, Louisiana [Les Cimitières Historiques de Petit Caillou, Montégut et Dulac, Louisiane]
Le Tabloid Cadien!
The Decadence of Referential French in Louisiana
Français Cadien de la Paroisse de Terrebonne
Terrebonne Parish French
“[The corporate mass-media] serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable — if they see too much of reality, they may set themselves to change it.†— Noam Chomsky
Here are some websites that I find interesting:
Chauvin Sculpture Garden
CODOFIL
CFMA
La Brise du Bayou!
LSU's Cajun Pages
BDLP Louisiane
Old Mines French
WWITV.com
Last Island's Waltz
In Harm's Way
Cultures of Acadiana
Hadacol It Something!
Shrinking Landscape
LaCoast
Wetlands Research Center
America's Wetland
Losing Louisiana
PACE
Cane River Valley French
Houma Skatepark
Chauvin Brothers, Inc.
Folklife in Louisiana
Unclaimed Property
LUMCON
Radio Louisiane
Gulf Restoration Network
Terrebonne Folklife Culture Center
Vien Içi
La Société des Cadiens
People who enjoy life, enjoy having fun and like to laugh. Real people who respect themselves and the people around them. Music lovers, and fellow musicians who like to share ideas and possibly collaborate.
La Brise du Bayou!
...are expensive.
Tell your own vision.
Books I'm currently reading:
Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana by my friend Kevin J. Rottet
The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice by Leanne Hinton & Kenneth L. Hale
Jesus. After all these years, he still wins the popularity contests.