Practice Good Theory

JC Penny recently fired its CEO -- Ron Johnson -- because his concept of simplicity was not working. With hindsight, we see that they forgot an important fact: for the typical JC Penny customer --  shopping is a game . Exploration: Imagine a computer maze game. It has twists and turns. Imagine that you had to discover gold and treasure  hidden along the way, by exploring, discovering, and then learning tell-tale signs -- often coming up empty-handed, but finally hitting pay-dirt. Now imagine the game developer decided to simplify things  by removing the maze. Instead, he gives you a straight hallway. And, why hide the gold --- such a waste of time? He simply places it on clearly-visible tables along the way. Perhaps the tables are placed so the gold jumps into your hand as you pass by. You start the game, press the forward key for a while, and you're done. You get through at record speed, and with all the gold. Simple and efficient... great if this was something ...

Add this: David Gilmour sings Shakespeare's Sonnet #18  ( a post about it ) ------------- previously listed ---------------- " Golden Slumbers Kiss your Eyes " by Thomas Dekker sung as Golden slumbers (by the Beatles) ; [I like K.D. Lang's version ] The ballad " Scarborough Fair "., sung by many ( Sarah Brightman , Celtic Woman , Emerson Lake and Palmer, Simon and Garfunkel ) . Words We are the Music Makers , by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (by the Northwest Choral Society ) Poem recitation here . She walks in Beauty (Lord Byron), sung by Sissel , for the movie "Vanity Fair" (Also, a church choir version) [Rehtaeh seems to do the same version.] Invictus, by "The Peter Ray Band" The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, sung by Loreena McKennitt (One could turn this approach on its head: Instead of putting a poem to music, find a tune and write a poem to it. This has been done with songs like Yankee-Doodle and others. The famili...