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Friday, March 14, 2014

Use To Do Lists

Build Your Routine,

Find Your Focus, and

Sharpen Your Creative Output

Thursday, March 13, 2014

The shortness of Life

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein

“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so life is amply long for the one who orders it properly.”
- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

(Source of the quote above)

“Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

-Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Rodriguez | Glastonbury Festival 2013 (60mins)

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Published on Jul 12, 2013

1. Only Good For Conversation
2. Crucify Your Mind / Like Janis
3. I Wonder
4. Dead End Street
5. Sugar Man
6. Love Me Or Leave Me
7. Lucille
8. Climb Up On My Music
9. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. Establishment Blues
11. Unchained Melody
12. Forget It

Category

Music
License - Standard YouTube License

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVEYBbS8WJg

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Dead Men Don't Tour - Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 (TV Documentary)

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Movie about a folk singer named Rodriguez who became an icon in
South Africa while being dropped by his record label in America.
Fantastic story. Tragic life. 100% of Rotten Tomatoes liked it which is
nearly unheard of praise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE9vFGKogs

The DVD is at our library.

Sixto Rodriguez

Music artist

Sixto
Diaz Rodriguez is an American folk musician based in Detroit, Michigan.
His career initially proved short lived, with two little-sold albums in
the early 1970s and some brief touring in Australia.wikipedia.org

Born: July 10, 1942 (age 71), Detroit
Spouse: Konny Rodriguez, Rayma Rodriguez
Parents: Ramon Rodriguez, Maria Rodriguez
Children: Regan Rodriguez, Sandra Rodriguez-Kennedy, Eva Rodriguez

Dead Men Don't Tour - Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 (TV Documentary)

http://youtu.be/in--_OWfTd4

Uploaded by kind permission of Tonia Moller (nee Selley).

Directed
by Tonia Selley, Dead Men Don't Tour, was first broadcast on SABC 3 at
9.30pm on the 5th July 2001 just after 'Ripley's Believe Or Not'.

This
film features wonderful concert footage, backstage antics, interviews
with Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen "Sugar" Segerman, Rodriguez
and his family, the promoters, the fans and the musicians.

All live footage was filmed at the concerts in Pretoria, Durban and the Blues Room in Johannesburg.

The
soundtrack for the documentary is based on the Live Fact CD with video
collages from the various performances. The concert footage is linked
with interviews, backstage antics, rehearsals, etc.

I Wonder /
Inner City Blues / Jane S. Piddy / Sugar Man / A Most Disgusting Song /
Like Janis / Establishment Blues / Climb Up On My Music / I Wonder by
Generation EXT (filmed during the studio recording) / Forget It

Produced by Incha Productions

Executive producers: Georgina Parkin and Charles Watson

Directed by Tonia Selley

Edited by Cathy Winter

http://rodriguezandbigsky.com/

http://sugarman.org