Like a piece of ice on
a hot stove the poem
must ride on its own
melting.... It can
never lose its sense
of meaning that once
unfolded by surprise as it went.
~ Robert Lee Frost
You did what you knew how to do
and when you knew better
you did better.
~ Maya Angelou
writers and flyers, singers and dreamers, painters and weavers, movers and shakers, buyers and takers, dancers and bakers
This is just a sample .... The Zutons, Wheat, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Anberlin, She Wants Revenge, The Doves, Portishead, Massive Attack, Telepomusik,Greenskeeper, Res, Hot Chip, Psapp, The Urbs, Esthero, Bright Eyes, Blue October, The Police, Metric, Postal Service, The Puppini Sisters, Etta James, Nina Simone, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, T. Bone Walker, Ani DiFranco, Katie Melua, Angela McCluskey, KT Tunstall, Eva Cassidy, Norah Jones, Edie Brickell, Debbie Harry, The Roots, Tupac, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Common, Bonnie Somerville, Susan Tedeshi, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Ray LaMontagne, Amos Lee, The Cars, Imogen Heap, Kidney Thieves, Love and Rockets, Madeliene Peyroux, Martina Topley-Bird, Snake River Conspiracy, The Kooks, Jesca Hoop, Leela James, James Morrison, Citizen Cope, Fink, Greg Laswell, Rachel Yamagata, Sia...and so on...
The Wizard of Oz, Amelie, Finding Nemo, The Boondock Saints, Go, Snatch, The Usual Suspects, Chocolat, Under the Tuscan Sun, Garden State, Steel Magnolias, Seven, Secret of Nimh, Play It to the Bone, The Last Kiss, Fargo, Tombstone, Starship Troopers, American Beauty, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shopgirl, Triplets of Belleville, Being John Malkovich, Must Love Dogs, Grosse Point Blank, Better Off Dead(anything John Cusack), Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Crash, Closer, The Profesional, The Hobbit, Watership Down, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated), The Christmas Story
Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Gray's Anatomy
Atlas Shrugged, The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Time's Arrow, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Everything Is Illuminated, Life of Pi, Lovely Bones, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman, I Know This Much Is True, The Bridges of Madison County, Midwives, Good In Bed, In Me Own Words, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
My mother, sisters, Harriet Tubman, Wonder Woman