David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

How I Fight Cabin Fever on Snow Days

‘Thurn and Taxis’ (a board game) board games
The Top Three Funniest People in the World

Robin Williams Sean Martin My Wife
My Carbon Footprint

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An Album I’ll Always Love

FlowerPower Girl Grateful Dead–Dick's Picks
Seven of Cups

consequences that far outweigh the pleasure that might be fleetingly gained. if we don’t know what to choose, we should consider leaving them all alone indicative of a temptation which will cost much more than it gives Greed, triviality, surrender of moral ethics are the big problems when this card appears. If you feel impatient…
Treatise on the Seven Spiritual Weapons

(1) to be careful always to do good (2) to believe that we can never achieve anything truly good by ourselves (3) to trust in God and, for His love, never to fear the battle against evil, either in the world or in ourselves (4) to meditate frequently on the events and words of Jesus’…
Throw Down Your Heart

In everything one does, music is there. Bela Fleck returns the Banjo to Africa. The premise is strong, the music is amazing, the photography is poor at best–lots of scanning smiling faces, moving cameras, and extreme closeups–I assume that this is in part because of the location & documentary nature of things, but still with…
Zombieland

I watched this on instant view from netflix–I watched the first half on the mac and the last 30 minutes on the iPhone. It is way better then I thought it would be–there are very funny scenes, Bill Murray is fantastic in it, the Kiss at the Fair scene is one of the best post…
Dreadheads: Portrait of a Subculture

I got this from Netflix. I watched the first thirty minutes with Lisa standing and laughing. I watched the last hour at 1:00 AM laughing. Clearly the highlights are all the dead intelligentsia commenting–Blair and the boys are just constantly a crack up. Weir is very spaced out. The heads themselves are all over the…
Curse of Yig by H.P. Lovecraft

I read this online & then listened to the hplovecraft.com podcast which discusses this great tale. Actually, a fairly straight foreword horror tale–what tied it to my own experience the most directly was the native american drumming. I got a whiff of UCLA Ethnomusicology during that section–something that I need to work more on next…