David Bruce Anecdotes
This email includes a canto from my retelling of Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY, which has 100 cantos.
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Superstitions
• Athletes frequently have odd superstitions and do odd things that they feel bring them good luck. Sarah Hughes, who won a gold medal in ladies’ figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, always slept in a Peggy Fleming T-shirt before important competitions. Ms. Fleming even sent her one with this note: “P.F.’s PJs.”
Training
• Veronica Walker, the sister of NBA great Herschel Walker, was a track star. When Herschel was young, he wanted to beat her in a race, but he was pudgy and he could not beat her. Getting tired of losing all the time, he asked Tom Jordan, the coach of the Johnson County (Georgia) track and field team, what he had to do to beat her. Coach Jordan, who was full of common sense, told him, “Do pushups. Do situps. Run sprints.” Herschel worked hard at pushups, situps, and sprints, and after much, much work, he beat his sister in a race. Immediately, he set a new goal — he tried to beat a pet horse in a race. His mother, who was full of common sense, told him, “Herschel, you can’t outrun a horse.” She was right. He tried a beat a pet horse in a race, but he lost. His father was another person who was full of common sense. Herschel and his siblings wanted to practice their jumping, and they talked about jumping over their father’s car. Their father quickly put an end to such talk: “You fool kids, that’s my car! You’ll get hurt. I’ve got no money to pay for hospitals.” All of Herschel’s hard work paid off. In high school, he did not lift weights, but when his high school got some new weightlifting equipment, he decided to give it a try. He lifted 250 pounds a few times, and then he told his coach, “Coach, 250 pounds isn’t heavy.”
• Triathlete Heather Hedrick takes her sport seriously, and so do the other athletes she hangs out with. One advantage of having fellow athletes as her friends is that everyone is training. According to Ms. Hedrick, “I’m never the party pooper. Everyone else goes home at 10 p.m., too.”
Umpires
• It doesn’t pay to try to win an argument with an umpire. Detroit Tiger Bobby Veach hit a ball over the third-base line and took off running before umpire Tommy Connolly ruled whether it was fair or foul. Mr. Veach was standing on second base when Umpire Connolly yelled at him, “Foul ball. You’ll have to hit another.” Mr. Veach grumbled, but left second base to return to the batter’s box. When the inning was over, he ran to the third-base line where his ball had dropped, then came running back to Umpire Connolly to report, “That ball was fair, Tommy. It landed right on the foul line, and there’s a mark in the lime where it landed. You can see it plainly.” Umpire Connolly smiled and said, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You just run out and bring that foul line to me, and I’ll have a look at it!”
• Sometimes, umpires get blamed for what other umpires do. A minor-league umpire named Kerin worked a game that upset some home fans who abused him mightily, and Mr. Kerin challenged any fan who wanted to fight him to see him after the game. The next day, Harry “Steamboat” Johnson came in to umpire, and fans yelled things at him like, “Kerin, you better get the cops to look after you when this game is over, because we are after you and mean business.” Not until halfway through the game did the fans realize that Steamboat was not Mr. Kerin. In telling this story in his autobiography, Standing the Gaff, Steamboat marvels about fans, “And still they try to call close plays from where they sit!”
• Umpire Tom Gorman once had his leg broken when Al Oliver and Paul Popovich collided at first base, blindsiding him. He was lying on the ground in pain when Leo Durocher came over and asked for a ruling, screaming, “What is he? Safe or out? Safe or out?” Although he was in great pain, Mr. Gorman managed to joke, “He’s out — he had the wrong foot on base.” In the next inning, when Mr. Gorman was in the hospital, Mr. Durocher thought about the answer he had been given, and he started screaming again: “What did Gorman mean — ‘wrong foot’? There’s no ‘right’ foot.” But the other umpires answered, “Too late, Leo. You’ll have to ask Tom.”
Thanksgiving
• In 1943, the Army nurses in the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Capua, Italy, north of Naples, managed to make fudge for Thanksgiving, despite such interruptions as air raids that sent them diving into their foxholes. Nurse Claudine Doyle remembers that during air raids, sometimes a nurse would get out of her foxhole when it seemed safe and run over and stir the fudge. For Christmas that year, the Army nurses decorated a tree, using surgical gloves to make balls. The nurses stuffed the palm section of the glove with gauze, and then they tied all of the fingers of the glove together. Then, to make the glove-ball sparkle, they dipped it into Epsom salts and let it dry. In addition, from tin cans they cut out angels, stars, and Santas.
• Karleena Carpenter has cerebral palsy, and she has a service dog named Amanda to help her be independent. The dog will bring things to her, pick up things she has dropped, press a button to answer the telephone, and even open a door by tugging on a towel tied to the door handle. One Thanksgiving Karleena visited her brother and sister-in-law, and Amanda went outside to a patio. Unfortunately, the patio is where her brother and sister-in-law had placed a container of turkey so it could cool. Soon, there was no turkey but there was a very happy and very full Amanda. Karleena says, “My brother and sister-in-law were not very happy, but I thought it was pretty smart of Amanda to open the tight lid on that container. She’s very intelligent, funny, and loving.”
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Brunetto Latini (Inferno)
As Dante and Virgil continued walking, Dante observed the burning desert. He saw that the stone bank of the river was like a wall built in a country below sea level to keep sea water out of a field so that it could be used to grow crops. In that case, the walls make the field fertile rather than infertile. Here in the burning desert, of course, the wall is unable to make the burning desert fertile.
Virgil and Dante had left the wood of the suicides far behind, and now one of the groups of running sinners were coming towards them.
These are some of the sodomites, Virgil thought. They are men who sought sex with other men. They took something that ought to be fertile and made it infertile.
The men looked at Dante the way that some men will look at other men at night, and one of the sodomites recognized Dante and touched the hem of his clothing and shouted, “This is a marvel!”
Dante looked closely at the burned features of the sodomite, recognized him as a man he had known and still respected, and said, “Is this really you here, Sir?”
This is Brunetto Latini, Virgil thought. This sodomite was famous for his writings, including the Trésor, which recounted much encyclopedic knowledge of his day. After the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, he was exiled from Florence. In addition to being a scholar, he was a Guelf.
You have something to learn here, Dante. You do not have homosexual feelings, yet you have something to learn from Brunetto Latini. He was a scholar, but he was very concerned with becoming famous through his writing. You, Dante, need to be more concerned with telling the truth in your writing than with becoming famous through your writing.
You, Dante, are in the Inferno to learn things that will keep you out of the Inferno. What you need to learn here is to not take something that should be fertile and make it infertile. This, of course, is what the sodomites do. No amount of homosexual intercourse will result in the birth of a baby from that union.
Souls in the Inferno know the future, and so I know that you will later be engaged in what should be a fertile act: the writing of The Divine Comedy. To make that work fertile, you must tell the truth in it. What could make the act of writing The Divine Comedy infertile? If you write in order to become famous instead of writing in order to say the truth, The Divine Comedy will not be the fertile work of art that it could and should be.
Brunetto said to Dante, “If it is OK with you, I would like to talk to you for a while, while I let the rest of my group run on ahead.”
Dante replied, “I would like that. Please stay a while and talk to me, as long as my companion here does not mind.”
“I will, then,” Brunetto said, “but I must keep on running beside you. Any of my group who stops for even a moment is condemned to lie on the burning sand for a hundred years, and he is unable to brush the burning flakes of fire from his body during that time.”
Dante continued walking, but he kept his head low to show respect to his friend. Of course, he did not dare to step onto the burning sand.
“You are still alive, so why are you here?” Brunetto asked. “You obviously have an impressive destiny. Who is your guide?”
“In the living world, I lost my way,” Dante said. “I have been trying to find my way to the right path, and yesterday this soul appeared to serve as my guide. This path through Hell is actually the right path to lead me to the path I ought to be on.”
Way to go, Dante, Virgil thought. You no longer think that your great genius is responsible for your being here, although Brunetto seems to think that. Instead, you realize that you so messed up your life that this journey is necessary to save your soul.
“Dante, you are gifted,” Brunetto said. “You are going to be famous. Your name will be in lights. I saw that clearly when I was alive, and if I had not died when I did, I would have continued to encourage you.
“But not everyone feels about you the way that I do. Some people are your enemies. You will do good deeds, but those people will not recognize them. They will make your life hard. Do not allow them to keep you from your destiny and from the fame that ought to be yours.”
“I wish that you were still alive,” Dante replied. “When you were alive, you taught me how people can make themselves eternal.”
Be careful, Dante, Virgil thought. You say that Brunetto taught you how people can make themselves eternal. That is a reference to becoming famous on Earth through writing.
Yet Brunetto is in Hell for all eternity. Brunetto did not teach you about the right kind of “eternal.” Brunetto was all about gaining eternal fame on Earth, not eternal life in Heaven.
If you, Dante, were to concentrate on becoming famous rather than telling the truth in The Divine Comedy, you may end up like Brunetto, with fame that is not long lasting on Earth and with punishment that is eternal in the Inferno.
If you, Dante, were to concentrate on becoming famous rather than telling the truth in The Divine Comedy, you might not put Popes in Hell, but instead flatter them so that you could be their guests and drop their names to other people.
If you, Dante, were to concentrate on becoming famous rather than telling the truth in The Divine Comedy, you might not put any of your friends in your Inferno, but instead you might put only your enemies in your Inferno.
Dante continued talking to Brunetto, “I will write down your prophecy about the enemies who will want to hurt me. A Heavenly lady will be able to make clearer to me all that you have said. I have heard other prophecies that she can also interpret.”
Virgil, pleased that Dante had listened carefully to what had been said to him, repeated a proverb to Dante, “He listens well who notes well what he hears.”
Dante then asked Brunetto about some of the other sinners with him.
Brunetto replied that many clerics and many men of letters were in his group. By name he mentioned Francesco d’Accorso, a lawyer from Florence who also had taught law at the University of Bologna, and Andrea de’ Mozzi, who from 1287 to 1295 had been the Bishop of Florence.
Then Brunetto said, “I would like to stay and talk with you longer, but I cannot. The dust rising from the desert over there shows that a new group of sinners is arriving, and I must not mingle with them.
“I do ask of you one thing: Remember my Trésor. On it my fame rests.”
Then Brunetto, a naked sinner, raced away the way a naked runner at Verona would compete in a race. He ran quickly, as if he would take the first prize.
I hope that you, Dante, have learned what you ought to have learned, Virgil thought. Brunetto truly has a keen interest in fame. However, compromising your artistic vision for fame is a sin. If you don’t tell the truth in your art, your art will not live on and it will not positively affect other people.
Ironically, if you do tell the truth in your art, it can live on and positively affect other people, and your fame will be greater than if you had compromised your artistic vision. You, Dante, may be remembered as one of the greatest poets who ever lived. At best, Brunetto will be a footnote in future scholarly volumes. If you achieve your destiny, Dante, and if you resist writing simply in order to be famous, anyone who reads the Trésor hundreds of years from now will read it only in the hope that he or she will learn more about you, Dante.
Books should be fertile; books written only to make the writer famous are infertile.
JUNO BEARD
Ready Aim Flowers Musical Guest on Fridays Live
Dave Deibi – Guitar/vocals
Hope Worstell – Keys
Adam West – Guitar
Juno Beard – Bass
Haley Byas – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9wZ7OY1GfE
READY AIM FLOWERS
Ready Aim Flowers 4/1/2022
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Ready Aim Flowers Musical Guest on Fridays Live: “Might Could”
Dave Deibi – Guitar/vocals; Hope Worstell – Keys; Adam West – Guitar; Juno Beard – Bass; Haley Byas – Drums
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Ready Aim Flowers on Instagram
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Ready Aim Flowers on SoundCloud
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Ready Aim Flowers on BandMix
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Ready Aim Flowers on Amazon
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Ready Aim Flowers on YouTube (Topic)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxDDUIZ6nx2azru9hObC9RA
RECOMMENDED READING:
Bre Offenberger: “Friendship and Flowers.”
Athens-based band Ready Aim Flowers envelops good vibes, raw emotion in its sound.
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ADAM REMNANT
“Adam Remnant is a songwriter, producer, and photographer living in Athens, Ohio. Remnant got his start in music fronting the folk-rock band Southeast Engine. As the principal singer and songwriter of the band, Remnant and his bandmates garnered critical acclaim from publications such as Paste Magazine, Pitchfork, NPR, American Songwriter, Magnet, Stereogum, PopMatters, AV Club, and many more. They established a substantial following over the years, releasing five albums and touring across the United States and Canada.
“As Southeast Engine wound down, Remnant began plotting his way forward as a solo artist. He assembled a little studio in his basement and earnestly began writing & recording the songs that comprise the 2016 EP, When I Was a Boy, as well as the 2018 LP, Sourwood. Remnant’s signature baritone voice and literary songwriting act as the focal point in the productions spanning between folk, rock, and indie sounds mined from a Midwest basement.
“In the summer of 2019, Remnant took up film photography as a new means of artistic expression. Remnant’s photography explores many of the same themes of his music, including place, memory, history, and identity. Remnant typically shoots landscape/documentary style color photos of his surroundings as well as neighboring towns and cities.
“Remnant continues to work on new music, including a recently completed full length album, entitled Big Doors. An EP tentatively titled Rainy Day Savings is also in the works. The new recordings are performed by Adam Remnant and his working band, consisting of brother, Jesse Remnant, on bass and harmony vocals; Ryan Stolte-Sawa on violin and harmony vocals, and Jon Helm on drums.”
Adam Remnant on Bandcamp
https://adamremnant.bandcamp.com
Adam Remnant Official Website
Adam Remnant on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@adamremnant9479
Adam Remnant Photography
https://www.adamremnant.com/photography
Adam Remnant on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1JSsIQJ3ZI4SvETqdZEt5m
Adam Remnant on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/adamremnant
Adam Remnant on iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/artist/adam-remnant-31287218/
Adam Remnant: “Ohio”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfAfYDzPNQ
Adam Remnant: “Three Miles”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlOwxr304c
Adam Remnant: Basement Tapes — “She has a Way of Finding Me Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZocFYnqCxE
“Basement Tapes is a series of videos with live performances recorded to an analog tape machine here in my basement home studio. Inspired by the spirit of Bob Dylan & the Band’s Basement Tape sessions, this series serves as a sort of sandbox for alternative takes, demos, covers, and more experimentation.”
Adam Remnant: “Run of the Mill” (George Harrison cover on 4-track cassette)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhUqBRtHKN8
Caitlin Kraus: “Follow Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdywiZXm2nc
“A huge and sincere thank you to Adam Remnant for his direction of the video and to the Hocking College students listed in the following credits: AC – Alex Rhinehart & Najayah Shepard; Grips – Alex Rhinehart, Alexis Pariseau, Najayah Shepard, Nate Ruhl, & Richard Valentine; On-set Photographer – Ivan Reardon.” — Caitlin Kraus
Supernobody: “Sheep”
“Lead track from Supernobody album YOU CAN’T GO BACK. This video was made by Adam Remnant and his video production team at Hocking College in Nelsonville, OH 2019.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaw3n6pfFSc
ADAM REMNANT PLAYLIST
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TOM RIGGS: Music to Consider (YouTube)
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SOUTHEAST ENGINE ALBUMS
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote, “There is joyousness unrestrained by inhibition in the songwriting of Southeast Engine. [Canary] is my favourite album of theirs. Wonderful! Favorite track: ‘Red Lake Shore.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about CANAANVILLE, “This was the last recording released by Southeast Engine. It’s only four songs, but they are four songs of such magnificence that we wonder what this band could have become. Favorite track: ‘Great Awakening.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about FROM THE FOREST TO THE SEA, “A very well put-together album. Each song flows into the next. A proper album. Favorite track: ‘Preparing for the Flood.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about A WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL, “There’s a real retro feel to this album. Like with The Jayhawks, you get a real sense that these tunes could have originated from the 60s or 70s. Favorite track: ‘Oh God, Let Me Back In.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about COMING TO TERMS WITH GRAVITY, “I love this band’s sound. There’s a bit of Americana, a bit of indie, a bit of folk and even a bit of psych. They are probably what Dr Dog would sound like if they weren’t so mad. Favorite track: ‘Undergrad.’”
ADAM REMNANT
Adam Remnant: “Three Days”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlOwxr304c&list=PL3X4xRPh97Z9zZDxmcV5OSGEhogUHrJYy
Adam Remnant with Mery Steel: “She Has a Way of Finding Me Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtwMmsD8J4w&list=PL3X4xRPh97Z9zZDxmcV5OSGEhogUHrJYy&index=2
Adam Remnant: “Ohio”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh1keaAqu_o&list=PL3X4xRPh97Z9zZDxmcV5OSGEhogUHrJYy&index=4
ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS ON BANDCAMP AND/OR LIVE FROM HOME
All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love. And as is well known, Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee are very large suburbs of Athens, Ohio.
Adam Remnant
Albert Rouzie
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Gifts”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Angela Perley
Angela Perley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “What is This You Have Done to Me”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mregk-X_Llg
Angela Perley: 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh1CEb8b_yw
Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons at 2016 Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoUV7-q_ISY
Angie Heimann
Angie Heimann: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Girl with the Chestnut Hair”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue6ooyuPpgI
Attila Horvath
Ben Davis, Jr.
Ben Davis, Jr.: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Leaves”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKq8s7tQ8d4
Billy Rhinehart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Simple as I Look”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
Bob Stewart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Morning Turn”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuQ1ZpwjNY
Bruce and Gay Dalzell: Live From Home (Holiday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
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Burger Big
Caitlin Kraus
Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Caitlin Kraus: 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJFIal2SyU
Camille Karavas: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Heard You Talking in My Sleep”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FE6ueEeZs
Carrie Elkin
Carrie Elkin: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Gift”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69Emfug1bw
Corbin Marsh Band
Dallas Craft
Dan Canterbury: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Diary of a Turtle”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcao2v5g0I
Danny Schmidt
Danny Schmidt: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Bovine Serenade”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBPv2RNuzY
Dave “Hedgehog” Mason
Don Baker: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Billy and Jenny and Joe”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5xqJX9Vq4
Donna Mogavero: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Restless Night”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KI8rMXiq0
Eric Gnezda: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFDnzfEDV4
Harlan Dalzell: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of Harlan Dalzell’s “Annalee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVlLX923HM
Jesse Remnant
Jordan Tice
Jordan Tice: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Stuff of Dreams”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrfY6QP4k0
Keith Larsen: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Long Time”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIV13letIk
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Kim Richey
Kim Richey: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Visit”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BPWKgada4
Larry Elefante
Liz Woolley
Liz Woolley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Madeleine”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrrMtOEPJY
The Liz Woolley Band
Lost Orchards (Ron Freeman)
Mark Hellenberg (drummer)
Megan Bee
Megan Bee: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Cannot Look Away”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frS-AXopsnQ
Megan Wren: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The COVID Waltz”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2-2wAFDWg
Michael Rinaldi-Eichenberg
Mike Ratliff
Nathan Zangmeister: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Taking the Long Way Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2CHeFb_Kw
Nick Vandenberg
Nick Vandenberg: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Astronomic Principle, or When You Come Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBLap2HcCw
No Stars
Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of “My Neighborhood,” previously recorded by Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcuXJdIeoA
Rachel Figley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Trick of the Light”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXqHfxpRYY
Rachel Mousie
Rachel Mousie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Late November”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHh1S9-waY
Rusty Smith and Friends
Sneakthief
Scott Minar: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Sorrows of Late Day”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8XRA9PUmg
Steve Zarate
Steve Zarate: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Early September”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVY6t5zZmM
Supernobody (with Matt Box)
Todd Burge
Todd Burge: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Things I am for You”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGPI43gjqQ
Vincent Trocchia
Vincent Trocchia: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRD1DKnRk3Q
William Matheny
William Matheny: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Don’t Know Why”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcmUVpjVhk
Wolfmen
Woody Pines
The Corbin Marsh Band EP (FREE DOWNLOAD)
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Sejanus’ Fall: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Inferno: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Paradise: A Retelling in Prose
The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar: A Retelling
George’s Peele’s David and Bathsheba, and the Tragedy of Absalom: A Retelling
George Peele’s Edward I: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale: A Retelling
George-a-Greene: A Retelling
The History of King Leir: A Retelling
Homer’s Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose
J.W. Gent.’s The Valiant Scot: A Retelling
Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
John Ford: Eight Plays Translated into Modern English
John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Fancies, Chaste and Noble: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lady’s Trial: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy: A Retelling
John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice: A Retelling
John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Queen: A Retelling
John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Campaspe: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Endymion, The Man in the Moon: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Galatea: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Midas: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Mother Bombie: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao: A Retelling
John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon: A Retelling
John Webster’s The White Devil: A Retelling
King Edward III: A Retelling
Mankind: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy: A Retelling
The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Retelling
The Summoning of Everyman: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Retelling
The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno
Caitlin Kraus: “This Body”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Kp-P3oio
Notes for “This Body”:
A song for the rights of all: the right to be safe in our bodies, the right to make decisions for our bodies, and the right to be who we are in our bodies. (Lyrics below.) I wrote this song […] out of the need to process my anger at women’s rights being taken away and for what this means for other rights down the line. A never-ending issue it seems, but one we can’t stop fighting for. A big thank you to Tom Riggs for taking footage of my first performance of this song with Mark Hellenberg on drums at The Union in Athens, OH.
CAITLIN KRAUS: GONE BEYOND album
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CAITLIN KRAUS: WHAT RISES album
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CAITLIN KRAUS: “Waiting for the World” / “Dead Man” EP
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