It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.-Theodore Rooseveltwww.dougburr.com
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Buddy Miller Over The Rhine: All I ever get for Christmas is blueCash, Hank I II & III, Social D, Reverend, Jack Ingram & The Beat Up Ford Band, Old 97's, Slowride, Brandtson, Stavesacre, Project 86, Buddy & Julie Miller, Kim Lenz, Brian Setzer, Spy Glass Blue, Drama Dust, Peter Murphy, American Culture Experiments, Face to Face (RIP), Pennywise, Bad Religion, Fugazi, Quicksand, Blindside, Backyard Babies, Bad Brains, Scaterd Few, Deadman, Over The Rhine, Emmylou Harris, Bill Mallonee, Bruce Cockburn, Mark Heard, MxPx, P.O.D., Downset., Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Stargun, Steve Earle, Dale Watson, Wayne Hancock, Rush, King's X, Halo Friendlies, Starflyer 59, Michael Knott, Elliott Smith, Ron Sexsmith, The Clash, The Ramones, U2, Daniel Lanois, Jeff Buckley, Ani Difranco, Chris Taylor & The Notorious Sinners, Audioslave, Ryan Adams, The Violet Burning, The Prayer Chain, David Bowie, Ronnie Dawson, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Supersuckers, Bostones, Rancid, Marley, Patsy Cline, Catherine Wheel, Red House Painters, Hagfish, Robert Deeble, Havalina, Dance Hall Crashers, Iggy Pop, Lucinda Williams, Gilian Welch, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dylan, Sam Phillips, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Wesley Willis, Mary Lou Lord, Patty Rothberg, Sixpence, Tori Amos, B52's, The GoGo's, Lou Reed, Thom York, Damien Jurado, Aaron & Jessie Sprinkle, Chuck Cummings, Ed "Giles" Benrock, Chris Colbert, The Choir, The Polyphonic Spree, SDR, Foo Fighters, For Love Not Lisa, Strung Gurus, Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, The Lost Dogs, 77's, Cowboy Junkies, Tremolo, The Grown Ups & Dan "the man" Spencer, Elvis-both of em' The Dandy Warhols, Roy Clark, Buck Owens, Chet Atkins, Charlie Daniels, Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie & Bruce Robinson, Julie Lee, Pierce Pettis, Kelly Willis, The Police, Chris Isaac, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Robbins, Carl Perkins, The Derailers
Wings of Desire, Godmoney, Lost Highway, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Tombstone, The Addiction, The Instrument- (Fugazi documentary) Willy Wonka and any Jimmy Stewart film.
It's Evil! Read a book... there are no comercials!
Too many to name... T.S. Elliot, C.S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, Walker Percy, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, David Dark and Brennan Manning are some of my favorite authors. Required reading:
Psalm 71 Joni Eareckson Tada, Wesley Willis & Willy Wonka, Peter Jackson for undertaking The Lord of the Rings project-Hats off!