Exempli Gratia

On this Sabbath day, June the first two-thousand eight, after a 'wonderful' catholic mass (more on this later), a lot of random yet delightfully pleasing things occurred/entered my thoughts, thus prompting me to share them herewith...

1) From approximately 2:00PM until 3:30PM, there were two AEX guys gracing the state of Connecticut with their presences.

-C. Scott Aitken (per usual) and...

-NATE MOORE. I got a wonderful phone call from Nate at 2:00 this afternoon, the purpose of which was to inform me that he was entering the state with the intent of passing through it, on his way to the Massachusetts coastline. Congratulations to Nate for being a part of Connecticutian Studies - 101.

2) I remembered the wonderful cinematic epic tale of "Willow" and watched portions on "YouTube". If you haven't seen the film, you ought to do so and soon. As Aaron Gottier commented, "...the eighties were SO much better at this kind of thing than we are nowadays...", 'that kind of thing' being fashioning quality original fantasy films.



3) After that, Aaron said to me "Let's punch each other in the librarian." Also random.

4) I found my soundtrack from "The Pianist", the 2002 film and winner of three academy awards. Fryderyk Chopin's music is prominent in the film, namely the Grande Polonaise brillante for piano & orchestra in Eb Major, op.22. Quite lovely.

Prayers go out to Mark Sandvig, Will Ross and Chris Martin as they begin their three-week back-packing "vacation" in Denali, Alaska. An inspiring adventure it is indeed.

And in the spirit of adventure, please enjoy the video clip from "Willow" found above, as well as the newly updated audio clip to the right.