Spent most of the afternoon at the public library reading about the origins and forms of ragtime, the haiku form, simon and garfunkel, celebrity excursions in the world of recording and musical instruments across the world. Of course, I checked out some stuff:

• CDs
  
  
  
  • Reunion Concert/The Everly Brothers
  
  
  • Security/Peter Gabriel
  
  
  • An Evening of Acoustic Music/Taj Mahal
  
  
  • Tequila: The Very Best of The Champs/The Champs
  
  
  
  


• VHS: The Wild Bunch (director's cut) and Unforgiven


• Books:
  
  
  
  • Poetry and Experience/Archibald Macleish
  
  
  • The Beatles recording sessions/Mark Lewisohn {more descriptive page}
  
  
  • Tunesmith: Inside the art of songwriting/Jimmy Webb