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Days with David Bowie
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. David Bowie
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J. R. R. Tolkien *I 3 1892 — The Life You Give
J. R. R. Tolkien, born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is the writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). At age four, Tolkien, with his mother and younger brother, settled near…
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Days with David Bowie
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. David Bowie
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Days with David Bowie
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. David Bowie
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Jennifer Higdon *XII 31 1962 — The Life You Give
Jennifer Higdon is one of the leading composers in the USA from the turn of the 21st century era. Her earliest compositions date to the early ’80s, but she emerged as an important figure in the period of the new millennium with such orchestra works as blue cathedral (1999), City Scape (2002), and Concerto for…
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Rudyard Kipling *XII 30 1865 — The Life You Give
Rudyard Kipling, born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in Bombay [now Mumbai], India, is the short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Life Kipling’s…
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mission will travel
this is a vibrant, lively moment, under which conditions I have been aiming at trees, streets, people, flowers, food, and animals with different cameras for a few weeks now. Just two days away from relocating back to the many European countries I have known and loved during my twenty-five years there, and I have been…
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Pablo Casals *XII 29 1876 — The Life You Give / La Vida Que Das
Pablo Casals, born Pau Casals i Defilló, on December 29, 1876, in Vendrell, Spain, was cellist and conductor, known for his virtuosic technique, skilled interpretation, and consummate musicianship. Biografía en español después de la foto Casals made his debut in Barcelona in 1891 after early training in composition, cello, and piano. After further study in…
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Manuel Puig *XII 28 1932 — The Life You Give
Manuel Puig, born Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne on December 28 1932, in General Villegas, Argentina, is the novelist and motion-picture scriptwriter who achieved international acclaim with his novel El beso de la mujer araña (1976; Kiss of the Spider Woman, filmed 1985).Puig spent his childhood in a small village on the pampas, but moved at…
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