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"I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." --Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's." --Franny and Zooey

"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it." --J.D. Salinger

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Green Against the Machine

The music festival season is upon us, but this year the promoters are using more than headliners to one-up each other. Star power is still key, but the latest bragging rights involve green power. "[It's happening] mostly because organizers care, but it's also what the audience increasingly wants," says A Greener Festival co-founder Ben Challis, a non-profit company dedicated to helping music events adopt eco-friendly practices. "Sometimes it can save money, too, and keep a festival cleaner and greener."Bonnaroo, which takes place June 11 to 14 on a giant farm an hour outside Nashville, might be one of the biggest U.S. festivals with headliners like Metallica and Pearl Jam, but it's also one of the leaders in progressive environmental thinking. This year's festival introduces a permanent onsite electricity facility that plugs directly into the local grid to reduce generator use by 70 percent.

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Humanity Rises Up: Stories of Hope from Haiti - Tonic

More than two weeks after the world was shaken by the earthquake in Haiti, inspiring stories are rising up from the rubble. Stories of people pulling together. Stories of survival. Stories of everyday people raising money, and delivering hope. In the words of Haiti Lumiere de Demain founder Louis Elneus, "It is wonderful to see so much good in the world."

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Why is it that we so often don't appreciate the good with the horrific to prod it out of us?

All Aboard the New American Rail - Tonic

As Presidend Obama announced during the State of the Union address the other night that his administration will be disbursing $8 billion in stimulus grants for the development of high-speed rail in 31 states, starting in California, Illinois and Florida. The plan? To create America's first nationwide intercity network of passenger rail service, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Finally someone's paying attention! Jobs for thousands building something that will help local economies and make US travel so much nicer.

The Nubrella: A Better Umbrella?

The world benefits when someone comes up with a better mousetrap. Even moreso when they invent a Nubrella, the world’s first aerodynamically-designed, hands-free umbrella. Sort of a personal geodesic dome, this invention was created by Alan Kaufman after he watched people on a street in New York City struggling to manage their windblown umbrellas in the rain. On Friday January 29, Kaufman will be seen on ABC’s reality TV show Shark Tank presenting his $39.99 Nubrella to a panel of five investors.

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might be the only umbrella i'd use

YouTube - The Who '5.15' from Quadrophenia TOTP 1973

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The announcer's like, "Their new album, Quadrophenia I think it's called." Could you imagine being there for this?

Catcher in the Rye Quotes

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.  Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.  And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.  That's all I do all day.  I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.  I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield

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