Loose Leaf Notes

1. “It used to be that artists never took credit for their own work. There was this thing literally called “the muse.” Every once it a while it comes to visit you and it’s not up to you. At some point in history we got rid of that idea and starting taking credit. Some people think that’s when drug addition and alcoholism came into play because all the pressure was on us to create …” – Chris Wood of the Wood Brothers on the Workshop Porch at Floydfest

2. What do Trump followers and some Bernie Only followers have in common?  Both camps put their hopes in one man fixing everything.  Both think the worst of the government.  Both have spread exaggerated, one-dimensional or dehumanizing rhetoric about Hillary Clinton and both are big on law and order, meaning that they’d like to see her locked up for any and all, real or perceived wrong doing.

3. When people from either of these camps re-post misinformation and smear campaigns from questionable sites, it’s likely to backfire because when they do post something true, they’re like the boy who cried “wolf” too many times and probably won’t be believed.

4. I call the above photo ‘What’s Bugging You?’

5. You can get things at Floydfest that you can’t get easily get in the mainstream. You can actually get a good cup of tea, utensils that are bio-degradable, recycling bins at every turn and hand washing stations at every porta-john row.

6. When is shade shadow and shadow shade?

7. I can’t help but think that the above Floydfesters hanging over the fence during the Bruce Hornsby set look like zombies.

8. The theme for this year’s annual Floydfest was dreamweavin,’ which meant the display of lots of dream catchers and the poetic license to call it Floydfest 16, even thought it was actually #15.  Organizers hosted a secret stage, glow-in-the-dark installation and concert in the woods that started at 2 a.m. early Sunday morning.  It was dubbed Lost in Time, referring to the 15th Floyfest that leap-yeared from last year’s 14th to the 16th with the help of some Dreamweavin’ and a little Wrinkle in Time.

9. A painter named Bruce paints the musician named Bruce at Floydfest. Watch HERE. 

10. Cecilla Levy is an artist that transforms paper from old books into beautiful teacups and saucers. She says, “My working material, paper – mainly from old books – is fragile and perishable. I tear, cut and shred the pages and merge them together again using papier-mâché technique. The book is recreated in a way, but takes on a new form. The two-dimensional becomes three-dimensional. The process is slow and meditative.” –See some of her work HERE. 

11. “Just living is not enough; one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – A butterfly in a Hans Christian Anderson story

12. Change can happen slow, fast, from within and without, and sometimes we are forced to change by circumstances, like the possibility of a Trump presidency or climate change.

13. If these people weren’t so happy, I’d think they look like zombies too.

___________Thirteen Thursday