Interesting Links

I have lots of links that I've ommited to post.

1) A fascinating post on how Joshua Bell played the violin in a DC subway station and very few people stopped to listen.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies

...If we can't take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that -- then what else are we missing?

...We're busy. Americans have been busy, as a people, since at least 1831, when a young French sociologist named Alexis de Tocqueville visited the States and found himself impressed, bemused and slightly dismayed at the degree to which people were driven, to the exclusion of everything else, by hard work and the accumulation of wealth.

2) Books do indeed furnish a room.

3) An easter lesson. People, think for yourselves (which reminds me how much I love Monty Python).

4) The best books under 100 pages. I've been meaning to read Candide for a long time.

5) Favorite Monteverdi.

6) Favorite Wagner. Wagner of Oscar Wilde fame "I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says."

7) Book that blows Tyler away.

8) Favorite things Italian.

9) Favorite things German/Bach.

10) Best novels about politics.

11) If you want to speak with a human.

12) How to appreciate Shakepeare.

13) Favorite things Brazil.

14) Why do Investment Bankers get paid so much?

15) Why aren't US sports fans more violent? -- It's the price of the tickets!