LoveFest San Francisco 2008
If you are a new visitor - welcome! - you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks so much for visiting Jimboland Jots - the world from a freethinker, gay, green, radical, and American progressive worldview.
This is the USA’s version of the legendary LoveParade. San Francisco LoveFest 2008 is Saturday, 4 October 2008. PLUR - Peace, Love, Unity, Respect - are the values for the LoveFest. Come on down, dance to the music, meet many friendly people, and celebrate life!
The Austrian Hills are Alive Once Again
Check this out: the von Trapp villa has been renovated and will reopen as a high-end hotel in Salzburg, Austria. They even have a website here.
This is the legendary family story told by Rodgers and Hammerstein in the classic film, The Sound of Music, starring a young Julie Andrews. Apparently, Austrians have for decades resented tourists coming to see - and hear - the sounds of music. Now, it seems some Austrians have decided to capitalize on the film’s time-honored success and cash in on its near-mythical reputation.
My Favorite Things by Pomplamoose Music
This duo is talented, both musically and creatively. Cute pianist!
Well worth enjoying and sharing with others, they shall go far if they create for joy and for others and forego commercialization.
A brief history of the famous Doctor Who original theme
Filed under: art, music, science fiction and fantasy, technology, video
I stumbled on Doctor Who in 1975, while I was a nursing student in Chicago. This series birthed a lifelong love of British comedy, science fiction, and fantasy.
In 1963, Ron Grainer of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, wrote the score for the theme that Delia Derbyshire realized, using truly avant-garde experimental methods and sounds to create the legendary Doctor Who theme. Check out the original, compelling theme music at the BBC website.
This was too good to pass up: The Disco Handbook
Music and Song: Uplifting, Transformational, and Hopeful
Filed under: art, gratitude, health and wellness, men's health, music, science, spirituality
Positive psychology student, Bridget Grenville-Cleave, looks at the power of music and song to transform ourselves, each other, and society: well worth the 5 minutes of reading time.
-
Translator
By N2H