Well, I would add those two links, but it seems that Blogger has lost my template, so I must not alter the template until I have time to make all the necessary changes. Hence, it shall be at least tomorrow, if not next week, before I can fix it.

I’m adding two new links. The first is Little Geneva - blog and website of Harry Seabrook, who just may be a Tech alum (if I am interpreting the pictorial biography correctly) and who is a fellow Floridian. The second is one that I posted earlier but did not add to my permanent links, Le Sabot Post-Moderne. John Bush, aka the Discoshaman, aka le Saboteur, is not currently posting due to a family vacation, but you should use the four days until he returns to read his archives.

The EU has published a draft constitution. I haven’t read it yet, as it is 148 pages, but I figured that I would link it for future reference. Without further ado, I give you the Blueprint for Europe.

Some of my readers may be interested to know that a biopic film of the life of Johnny Cash is in the works at Columbia Pictures. Read all about it here.

In my readings of A Guide to Musical Styles: From Madrigal to Modern Music by Douglas Moore, I came across this quote by the author:

“Romanticism, however, cannot be defined to a single period of music. Since it is primarily a point of view, a youthful, experimental naïvete on the part of the artist, it is found in all ages - even, with apologetic mien, in our own. The interests of the Romantic are wide. They include literature, history, philosophy, the world of nature, and the spirit of man, all of which are brought into the vocabulary of art, which is altered and expanded in the process. The artist, conceiving himself as more than artist, sees himself as a spiritual leader of the people, a sort of interpreter of the universe. He refuses to fetter his imagination with classical doctrines. So sure is he of his role of prophet that he sometimes forgets his duty as craftsman.”

I reckon that means that we have Rachmaninoff to blame for The Peace Piece.