Loose Leaf Notes

1. Yes, it’s true. Floydfest is moving to a new location. Joe and I have been to every Floydfest in its 20-year history of being on the mountain off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Joe has worked for the festival in different roles over the years, and I’ve been blogging and covering the festival for the local paper since 2005, so much so that I have a sidebar category just for Floydfest (and Yoga Jam) HERE.

2. The Floydfest media pit was never a mosh pit where you needed to wear a helmet, but here we are, picking apples nearby on the Parkway and taking a last ride through the site.

3. Without Love, Where Would You Be Now? HERE.

4. Yes, they played Ride Sally Ride.

5. Saying Goodbye or It’s a Bumpy Ride?

6. The word “music” starts with “muse” for a reason.

7. After a while all those positive New Age directives for happiness just sound like someone telling me what to do, but I never feel like that with the muse because the muse has no agenda and makes no judgements about happiness or sadness, which are part of the same spectrum.

8. Funny how insomnia and amnesia rhyme and sound like they are related words.

9. When sleep is a flirt / that won’t commit / and my body is a burden / deprived of slumber / I drown myself / in the desire to go under / as I wait for sleep’s / sweet amnesia… Read When Sleep Plays Hard to Get in its entirety HERE. 

10. Insomnia comes from the Latin insom(nis), meaning “without sleep.” This is formed from the prefix in–, in this case meaning “not,” the root somn(us), meaning “sleep,” and the ending -ia, which is used in the names of diseases. Amnesia, loss of memory, is from the Greek amnesia “forgetfulness,” and from a- “not” and mnesi- “remembering.”

11. Quote or quip?

12. We Live in a Golden Age of Ignorance- In looking at what he calls the trickle-down theory of ignorance that has shaped the present-day GOP, Political Satirist Andy Borowitz fearlessly asks the key question: “Who is the most ignorant person the US is willing to elect?”

13. Muse it or lose it.

____________Thirteen Thursday