Cover art for In Rainbows // journal // hicksdesignThis is a great page – I downloaded (and yes I paid for) Radiohead In Rainbows recently – lots of cool ideas here for cover art. Â
Archive for the ‘Spirit’ Category
Cover art for In Rainbows // journal // hicksdesign
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy – Katie’s Crew
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 From my friend Nick – here is a great idea for charity giving this year: Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy – Katie’s CrewNick Says: “Spinal Muscular Atrophy. It’s a degenerative muscle disease. Derivative of muscular dystrophy. My niece has it. She’s been in a wheelchair her whole life. Pretty brutal. ”
Take a moment today – to remember
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Remember Sept. 11, 2001.  The other day Maia (my 12 year old) was doing an assignment on this terrible event for school. She had hit the site September 11 Digital Archive and was reading some stories and/or pictures to find one that most “moved” her. I came down to see her crying and Daniel (her brother) not really understanding what was wrong.  She had read a story about 11 firefighters that had died in the rescue attempt and she was devastated.  I love my children and can only protect them for now but give them what they need to make it in the world – whatever world its like when they are in my shoes.  I hope we all do what we can to change things so this never happens again, whether its at a national level if you have the power or in your home teaching what is right and wrong – to change your world. Peace.Â
Swift Sweet Rush
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Swift Sweet Rush by Jim Charanis
Took a bunch at Maia’s recital but this one of her and her friend running across the bridge in euphoric enthusiasm before the performance was candid. Funny how things work out – life is what happens when you are making plans.
Derek Art – Illustration, Serigraphs, Paintings, and Tiki Mugs
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Derek Art – Illustration, Serigraphs, Paintings, and Tiki Mugs
A friend with a very cool website but the real cool is the stuff he does. If you like retro 60’s funky comic meets Africa meets tiki; or want to hire an artist, Derek is your man.
Supertramp – today and yesterday
Sunday, April 8th, 2007The kids love to torture each other – My “literal” Daniel cannot stand that song Cupid’s Chokehold by Gym Class Heros because they sample the Supertramp song – Breakfast In America and what is worse they blend two different parts of the song – putting the “badadadum” right after the “take a look at my girlfriend” – and it is a hoot to watch Maia torture him when I sing the original supertramp version and she simplyl floats in a “badadadum” right after that part.
got me thinking of the standard – we all worked hard to learn the lyrics to. It would work today just as easily…The Logical Song
Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics
When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
Well they’d be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me
But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world’s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am
Now watch what you say
Or they’ll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal
Oh won’t you sign up your name
We’d like to feel you’re
Acceptable, respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable
At night when all the world’s asleep
The questions run soo deep
For such a simple man
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am, who I am, who I am, who I am
Daddy, Why are the CD’s Giant?
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
We were working in the basement and I said, “Hay kids, lets listen to some of dad’s old music.”
I have a turntable in my office in the basement. Sophia innocently asked..”Why are the CD’s Giant?” Never seen a record album before. People like to look back at baby boomers and my grandparents – regarding teh stuff they never had. Like color TV or TV at all. We remember when there were the first microwaves, personal computers, vcr’s, and cassette tapes. Yes – in the 4 years in college I went from a typewriter and learning COBOL on a Prime Mainframe to an Apple IIe where I learned BASIC and then an IBM PC where I learned WordStar. But Sophia didn’t even know what she was looking at. The bigger kids had since They have seen DJ’s and my records before. She is 6, time flew by and I hadn’t introduced her to those old songs yet, well those old albums, we have DaveFM here that plays all my old songs (over and over and over). Keep looking folks, it all changes fast.
