Maxwell King Center

This Morning I found the following note pinned on an announcement board in the Maxwell King Center in Melbourne, Florida:

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where the thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side – Hunter S. Thompson.

Folger’s

I saw a great commercial for music education in school on TV the other day. Paid for in part by Folger’s coffee. Beautifully put together it explained the advantages of teaching music to children in plain and convincing English. Congrats to Folger’s for doing that……whatever we think of their coffee…. : )
Hm, we are definitely watching way too much TV these days……

Interpreters

I watched an interview with Afghan men on TV yesterday. They were being asked by a reporter why they were bringing opium to the West when the Koran didn’t allow drugs. The answer was something to the effect that it was complicated but that if the money they got for the opium was used against the non-believers then it was OK. Then one man was asked whether he would blow up a schoolbus if they were aked to. He answered that if the scholars told him to do that he would. The men kept referring to the Koran and to the islamic scholars that interpreted it for him. I kept wanting the reporter to ask the men whether they could read, because I got the sense that these men could not read the Koran themselves, but rather depended on the interpretation of a scholar. This reminded me of how the catholic church for the longest time spoke latin and the catholic priests were the interpreters that were the link between the Bible and the people. Without the ability to read there can be no freedom…..

CNN

We have never before watched this much CNN. It seems the TV on the bus is on almost 24/7. The first person back on the bus after our show will turn on CNN. No partying – just disussing the events and trying to wrap our minds around it.