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Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Calvacca blog: Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., living in Virginia for 16 years. A journalist, writer and communications manager with interests in sports, music and the environment.

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QUOTES

Random food for thought.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry.'"
- John Lennon

"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."
- Dalai Lama

"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
- John Adams

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
- Henry David Thoreau

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
- Stephen Hawking

"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
- Bob Dylan

"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
- Neil Young

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
- Keith Richards

"Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things."
- Diane Sawyer

"I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism."
- Charles Kuralt

"The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them."
- Jane Goodall

"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."
- Jacques Cousteau

MUSIC & STUFF

This section includes some of my musical endeavors, experiences and favorite bands.

Are You Ready?

I hung out with this band for a week many years ago while vacationing with my family in Miami Beach, Fla. We shot pool and they gave me this autographed album, which indirectly inspired me to learn guitar. Quite a thrill for a 12-year-old Long Island kid. Click the image to watch video.

A couple of my old bands

The Clueless Bandits
Crystal Legend

Crystal Legend, New City, NY

From left: Mick Calvacca, Brian Jones, Pat Sharkey, Scott Abrams, circa 1975

Neil Young fans

Check out Neil's garage by clicking on the picture above

Rolling on

39 albums and counting. Click the logo.

ANIMAL RIGHTS & OTHER INTERESTS

It is important that those left in our care are watched over with respect and treated with dignity. It is also important that we respect each other as we try to share this planet.

Help wildlife in the Gulf

Click here to donate to various organizations helping to save wildlife threatened by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reality check: Dismal truth about oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

Just how much oil has been spilled in the Gulf of Mexico before the BP accident? Those who are defending the safety record of off-shore drilling, including Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (who wants rigs in the Mid-Atlantic), are either uninformed or lying about totals. Read more about what really has been going on in the Gulf for many years.