Lyric Stash

?Tis The Season to Be Jolly ? Right? (ThirdAge)
I love happy people. Most of us all love and want to be around happy people. But I think I?ve learned the most from those who are temporarily in a funk ? only, however, if they confess to it and ask for help. I had an interesting reminder of this recently and it has really stuck with me since then.

Travel: Land Of The Thunder Dragon (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
PRISTINE: One of Bhutan?s greatest icons is the Taktshang Monastery, or ?Tiger?s Nest?, which is perched on a cliff. It takes about two hours to hike up to the monastery.

Violin upheaval (Peoria Journal Star)
It's been a tumultuous few years for Tantric frontman Hugo Ferreira: record labels collapsing. Band members leaving. Uncertainty around every corner.

Magazine remembers Elysian Field (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Louisville rock 'n' roll hasn't gone starving for attention during the past 20 years or so (think bands such as My Morning Jacket and Days of the New). But Louisville rock has a rich history dating to the 1960s, and one of the city's seminal bands was Elysian Field.

Review: "Homage" at the Art Gym (The Oregonian)
What's going on here is a celebration of representational art's rediscovered vigor.