Silver Solo

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death." -Mel Brooks

Sunday, February 26, 2012

If you go away

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Nick Drake Magic Orchestrated Version 2

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

PHIL OCHS: There But For Fortune - THEATRICAL TRAILER

I viewed on Netflix today. Excellent documentary of both the man and the times.
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Phil Ochs - When I'm Gone

Gone at 35. Lived passionately while he was here.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Dishwalla - Angels or Devils

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

ALL GOOD THINGS: My Favorite Things I Love About Audrey Hepburn

ALL GOOD THINGS: My Favorite Things I Love About Audrey Hepburn
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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Leonard Cohen - Because of

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Friday, September 2, 2011

QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 1

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QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 2

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QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 3

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Genetic instructions are being selected and evolving. Acts of apparent altruism are merely selective for substantial future benefit. My optimum intermediate position varies with the circumstances. You and I are distant relatives and everything is relative.
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  • ▼  2012 (5)
    • ▼  February (1)
      • If you go away
    • ►  January (4)
      • Nick Drake Magic Orchestrated Version 2
      • PHIL OCHS: There But For Fortune - THEATRICAL TRAI...
      • Phil Ochs - When I'm Gone
      • Dishwalla - Angels or Devils
  • ►  2011 (34)
    • ►  December (1)
      • ALL GOOD THINGS: My Favorite Things I Love About A...
    • ►  September (4)
      • Leonard Cohen - Because of
      • QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 1
      • QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 2
      • QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 3
    • ►  June (3)
      • Richard & Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day (liv...
      • Self-Consolation
      • I Love Doodle
    • ►  May (4)
      • I Miss "We"
      • La Valse
      • Soothing Music
      • Who Kissed Me?
    • ►  April (6)
      • American Idol Shocker
      • Mathmatical Impossibility
      • Sufficiency Principle
      • For Tim Hardin
      • Gibran on the Sea
      • Gibran on Greatness
    • ►  March (6)
      • AI ELIMINATION
      • Fondly
      • Back on My Feet Again for Japan
      • American Idol Picks
      • Venus in Blue Jeans
      • Jackie Evancho
    • ►  February (3)
      • The Definition of Love
      • Balancing Act
      • Flickriver
    • ►  January (7)
      • A Thing of Beauty
      • New Girlfriend
      • The Lovers
      • The Cloak
      • A Dream Within a Dream
      • The Dude Abides
      • Almost Like a Song
  • ►  2010 (28)
    • ►  December (8)
      • Change of Seasons
      • Happy New Year
      • Just For You Ernesto Cortázar
      • Love's Deity
      • I Live One Day at a Time
      • Silent Night
      • The Love She Found in Me
      • A Reason For Happiness
    • ►  November (11)
      • Selectively Silver
      • Sexual Deception, et al
      • The Pilot
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Ava Swan

Ava Swan is the pen name I have adopted for my writing. I am tagging my writing with Ava Swan to allow others to give credit (as some wish to do) when using my writing on their blogs.

Ava means like a bird. One of the definitions of Swan is: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.

Well, I'm no Shakespeare, so here's a little darker meaning:

The well-known Orlando Gibbons madrigal (The Silver Swan) states the legend thus:

The silver Swan,
who living had no Note,
when Death approached,
unlocked her silent throat.
Leaning her breast
against the reedy shore,
thus sang her first and last,
and sang no more:
"Farewell, all joys!
O Death, come close mine eyes!
"More Geese than Swans now live,
more Fools than Wise."

My Blog List

  • Live Mindfully
    Millennium Park Zen Group - The Millennium Park Zen Meditation Group is a month old now. We meet every Wednesday afternoon, from 2:15 to 3:30 pm. Each meeting, we practice the Zen...
    3 hours ago
  • ALL GOOD THINGS
    At The Beach: CAROLE LOMBARD - *You know I had to include my girl Carole in this series....here is a photo of her from the film Swing High, Swing Low.*
    9 hours ago
  • Cooking Tip of the Day
    Important Food Safety Tips for Grilling - With the official start of this year's grilling season about to start ... I thought it would be a good opportunity to re-post some Food Safety Grilling Tip...
    9 hours ago
  • melsdream
    TFTD - *Life is enjoyable not because of how things are, but because of how you are. Enjoyment is a choice of how to be, not a reaction to what has been.* * * *Wh...
    10 hours ago
  • Biophilia
    Philosophy: the infancy of knowledge. Or worse! - *What is philosophy's relation to theology, and to other fields?* A recent CBC ideas podcast series was named "After Atheism", but was, disappointingly, al...
    1 day ago
  • very merry vintage style
    The Beauty of a Rose {It's Worth It} - My roses have begun to bloom. I had to capture their beauty in pictures, because I'm not sure how long it will last. Last year I was a big neglectful, and ...
    1 day ago
  • Peace
    Reassurance - What is Spirituality and how do we apply in our lives? Why does it seem that at times when we need it most it seems to elude us? When we read or talk about...
    2 days ago
  • not all those who wander are lost
    scarlet stars - when we first came to live in South Australia in the early 1970s [yes, children, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mother was dodging lava pud...
    2 days ago
  • Yer Sweet Chimneys
    Book Review: Andrés Neuman's Traveler of the Century - I've been fortunate enough to review—within the last year and change—three new novels by contemporary authors that have turned out to be so absolutely, m...
    4 days ago
  • communikate by telegraham
    my feet planted firmly on the ground. - After weeks and weeks of being cooped up indoors, trips outdoors are always well needed, and somehow make feel a little better. We had Graham's brother, ...
    5 days ago
  • A Glance Into the Beautiful Uncertain Horizon
    Ancorā impāro - I’ve gone through a lot in the past year, I ended up some place I would have never guessed would be a place for me to be. Here are some things that I’v...
    3 weeks ago
  • Liberated Dissonance
    OK, I don't like this - Anyone who knows me knows I dislike change, particularly when it is unannounced, and Google has just decided to change Blogger. There are lots of spiffy ne...
    3 weeks ago
  • Movietone News
    Titanic Week, Day 6: Rediscovered! - A series of posts to commemorate the centenary of Titanic's only voyage (apologies for the delay to these final two posts) Is there room on the lifeboat for...
    4 weeks ago
  • 100yearoldWhiskey - The California Dreamer
    Happy Birthday to.....me - Well, I've just turned 25 today and.....I'm starting to feel old. I know. I know. I'm still young. But there's still the thought of having to reflect on pa...
    4 weeks ago
  • Peter Wilkin's BLOG
    - *Summer Lightning * Deep In the day’s shadows my blue-eyed boy dawdles where dreams and stars blend in glorious paradox. Here, in his sea-soft space gall...
    5 weeks ago
  • readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore
    American Values Project Exhibition Gets the Greenlight! - After much Sturm und Drang for the AVP team, we're happy to announce that we've finally managed to secure a location and date for our exhibit! So, mark you...
    1 month ago
  • MR. POTTER'S FUNTIME BLOG
    HELP ME COMPLETE MY COLLECTION!! - As my friends and blog readers may already know, I'm a big fan and collector of Garbage Pail Kids trading cards/stickers. Believe it or not I don't own a "...
    1 month ago
  • R. Garriott
    Fresh Paint: Name That Painting - (red tulips) oil 24" x 24" R. Garriott Often I have a name in mind for a painting before I even begin to paint. I'm drawing a blank this tim...
    2 months ago
  • Mr. Words Worth! AKA Mark Campbell
    Boy in the Bubble - Of all the songs Paul Simon has done, this one has my favorite opening. Not just musically. But lyrically. Simon was coming off of a major commercial di...
    4 months ago
  • Flickr Walkabout With Bill Cross
    The Boats - [image: The Boats by Shuggie!!] The Boats, a photo by Shuggie!! on Flickr. "Masterpiece" says it all........
    6 months ago
  • whisper salad
    Two years in remission - Today, October 15, 2011, I celebrate two years in remission from my stage four throat cancer. Yes, two years. My life is again full and busy and my energy ...
    7 months ago
  • Sunshine Mom
    Chicken Pot Pie with Sweet Potato Biscuit - We have been working on the 3 types of mixing methods for quick breads in my Baking and Pastry class for the past 4 weeks. We spent two weeks on biscuits a...
    1 year ago
  • Do you see?
    FOOTPRINTS IN THE BAJRA a "first in Indian writing in English" - INDIAN LITERATURE (IL, 259), the flagship journal of Sahitya Akademi (national academy of letters, India) recently published a nice review to my book "FOOT...
    1 year ago
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