A friend introduced us to this: Cat Power’s Jukebox
It’s somewhere between Mellisa Etheridge and Joni Mitchell.
Category: Fun
The Art of Happiness
I’m reading a book “The Art of Happiness” by Howard Cutler. He’s a psychiatrist who spent time talking with the Dalai Lama. Here’s an interesting quote about what a psycologically happy person is:
Well, I would regard a compassionate, warm, kindhearted person as healthy. If you maintain a feeling of compassion, loving kindness, then something automatically opens your inner door. Through that, you can communicate much more easily with other people. And that feeling of warmth creates a kind of openness. You’ll find that all human beings are just like you, so you’ll be able to relate to them more easily.
New art
My brother, Bob Ware, keeps me well stocked with art work. Here’s one of his latest photographs that is hanging on my wall.
Naturally, this low-res image doesn’t do the subtlety of the original justice.
REM: Accelerate
I got REM’s latest: Accelerate:
It’s good but honestly part of what may REM great back in the day was they had a new sound. Well, that was 20 years ago. Good stuff but not novel.
Guggenheim: Cai Exhibit
We went to the Guggenheim yesterday (10 min walk and Credit Suisse has a corporate membership so it’s free). Usually I think the building ends up being more interesting then the exhibit but this exhibit of work by Cai
was really interesting.
He uses Chinese themes to contrast the failures of both Western and Chinese cultures.
For example, this represents both the Cultural Revolution’s ruinous attempt with the great leap forward but also Western’s society’s preference for the obvious.
Cai is into explosions as art. There were lots of videos of things being ignited and exploded. This installation is a great use of the Guggenheim. It’s a static view of a car being blown up.
Earth Hour
We did our part for Earth Hour on Sat, Mar 29th. So at 8pm, we turned off most of the power in the house. We had a nice candlelit family time and played card for a while. Much better then the watching TV (the usual).
A way cool place
We went to a really, really cool place. “Smoke” up around 106th and Broadway.
Smoke
Here’s the best I could do with a cell phone in a dark place.
Mama Mia
I saw “Mama Mia” Fri night. 
We went for my birthday. It was fun but not inspirational. I’m proud to say I only knew a few of the songs.
Times Square was packed! The sidewalks were 10 people deep with no room to pass.
After that, we went to an Iranian New Year’s party. Sorry, no photos.
Trip pictures
We got some more photos online from the trip to the British Virgin Islands.
Here are Faranak’s photos and John posted his photos as well. Here’s the best of the best and the rest of the best.
Of course, I tend to like photos of boats and water.
Sunset’s are always good.
British Virgin Islands
We spent 8 days sailing in the British Virgin Islands. Well, less the 36 hours we spent in airports, runways, and airplanes trying to get there.
Checkout Faranak’s fuller description and see some more photos.
Pete Ware 