On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

"You may well ask me such things, that to some I shall answer truly, and to others I shall not." And she added, "If you were well informed about me, you would wish me to be out of your hands. I have done nothing except by revelation." - Jeanne D'Arc (The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc, trans. by W.P. Barrett) The historical origins of music aren't clear. However, the internet, which is never at a loss for words, provides a wealth of competing theories, which as a matter of fairness, will be listed without comment, though I'll omit the purported dates so we won't have to remember anything. The various wellsprings of song include: Lyre accompaniment to Greek poetry recitals, accompaniment to seasonal and fertility rites, celebrating a successful harvest, bird songs that inspired the Flintstones and Barney Rubble to explore their inner fem, tribal drummers playing long boring solos so people started adding vocals, aliens giving ancient Egyptians another nud...

He traverses familiar,  As one should come to town  And tell you all your dreams were true;  He lived where dreams were sown. - Emily Dickinson  "Do you suppose I give a damn about life now? Why, you bone-head, I haven't got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left!" "By God, there's no hope! I'll never be a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! Life is too much for me! I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of everything till the day I die!" - Eugene O'Neill (The Iceman Cometh)  I've first saw O'Neill's play, "The Iceman Cometh" in high school. My English & Literature class watched the movie version that starred Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan on PBS. I won't go into all of the deep meaning, as there's cliff notes and Google for that, but what seems relevant today was the importance of dreams, which are part of a reality, even if delusional. The play'...