jimmydumps/sunnyjimmy

We live with the illusion of personal power - I choose to do this, not that, I will be this kind of person, not that, I will think like this...

I have to tie my feet down on the beach so I don't float away...

can you be silent in the silence can you hear the dark child calling beyond the crooked river do you see the dark star falling can you ...

There 's the process of weeding out.  The process of holding on.  The process of letting go.  It's all just process...

Winter in Chicago means, hunkering down some evenings, with a space heater, a cup of hot tea and some cool DVDs.  We have a great video stor...

NASA provides us with this picture of Earth. The Blue Marble, our little planet. It's spinning out there in space. We are tiny beings...

Last evening, flicked on the radio and listened to Obama's speech.  It was all so rational, logical, middle of the road.  I pretty much ...

Fear and contempt too.  Yes, Kevin Drum tells us that Newt is not only channeling anger, he is the prefect embodiment of a class of folks w...

I myself am surprised by how entertaining the GOP primaries have been so far.  It's kind like watching a Zombie Death Match; Brain-Dead ...

I walked with a boxer named Peaches yesterday morning.  We walked along Lake Michigan.  It was a mass of choppy ice.  The beach was icy, the...

As they say "everyone is a star."   And also in this media-saturated world, everyone is a critic too.  We are all so pop-culturall...

I love to read books about music and musicians.  And contrary to Frank Zappa 's take ( " Most rock journalism is people who can...

Awhile back I saw Cameron Crowe's documentary on Pearl Jam .  It was pretty inspiring.  I was kind of blown away by the way Eddie Vedder...

I woke up with this phrase circulating through my head... "The circus-like nature of my existence..."

We might be swimming against the tide, but swim we must.  Working on the packaging for our new CD, still on target for a Spring 2012 release...

I'm not big on going to church.  They don't build churches to the "all-encompassing, non-judgmental, universal vibration" ...

Milan Kundera famously wrote about the "Unbearable Lightness of Being."   And his novel does an admirable job of showing just how ...

"Grappling with meanings."  Yeah, that's kind of a life-time quest.  And it's probably a fool's quest.  Kind of like ...

I've lived in America my entire life.  Ventured out of the country a couple of times.   I still grapple with the "meaning" ...

I don't care if things are going good, or going bad, or whatever.  I hear all these Republicans blathering on about this and that, it...