(photo snatched from the best friend's awesome blog)
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
-- Kurt Vonnegut, author
"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
--George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Mrs. Warren's Profession
"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
--Stephen King
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
-- John F. Kennedy. Remarks made on the 20th anniversary of the Voice of America at H.E.W. Auditorium, February 26, 1962
"Before the week is out, be a patriot: Encourage a child to fall in love with a book. Apply for a library card. And accept the ALA's invitation to Let Freedom Read."
--Linda Campbell, Star-Telegram Staff Writer, "Here's a novel thought: Don't restrict books"
"I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world."
--Rory Edwards, 12, Washington Post, Getting It Down at Writing Camp
The Diary of a Disappointed Book from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.
finally, here's a song for your saturday morning. the husband and i saw the counting crows last night at the ford amphitheatre, expecting to hear just a few songs (to go along with a movie screening) and instead was treated with an awesome full show in an intimate, gorgeous venue. recovering the satellites was so amazing live!
gonna get back to basics
guess i'll start it up again
i'm fallin' from the ceiling
you're falling from the sky now and then
maybe you were shot down in pieces
maybe i slipped in between
but we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see
just you and me
so why'd you come home to this sleepless town
it's a lifetime commitment
recovering the satellites
all anybody really wants to know is...
when you gonna come down
your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays
and she watches as her babies drift violently away
'til they see themselves in telescopes
do you see yourself in me?
we're such crazy babies, little monkey
we're so fucked up, you and me
so why'd you come home to this faithless town
where we make a lifetime commitment
to recovering the satellites
and all anybody really wants to know is...
when are you gonna come down
she sees shooting stars and comet tails
she's got heaven in her eyes
she says i don't need to be an angel
but i'm nothing if i'm not this high
but we only stay in orbit
for a moment of time
and then you're everybody's satellite
i wish that you were mine
so why'd you come home to this angel town
it's a lifetime decision
recovering the satellites
everybody really knows for sure...
that you're gonna come down
that you're gonna come down
(mp3) recovering the satellites by counting crows
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