Peter Amidon
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Creative Procrastination Drives the World
Male
60 years old
Brattleboro, VERMONT
United States
Last Login: 7/15/2008
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Peter Amidon's Interests
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| General | traditional dance, choral arranging, storytelling, harmony singing, movies, reading fiction, traveling/performing with Mary Alice, going to Sam and Stefan music events, contra dancing, Sacred Harp singing, publishing dance and singing CD's and books, Macintosh stuff, neighbors and friends, church stuff, successful aging, reading fiction, movies, watching movies, reading fiction, Steve Martin's comedy (have you seen the pencil throwing episode of SM on David Letterman? O My God!) | | Music | Bartok, Talking Heads, samamidon, American shape note - especially the Western MA singers, Sweetback Sisters, Assembly, anything Stefan drums in, Nowell Sing We Clear, Nightingale, Beatles, Doveman, David Byrne, Nico Muhly, stars like fleas, Mary Alice's new CD, Anonymous 4, Boston Camerata, Guilford Community Church Choir, Hallowell, BMC Community Chorus, River Singers, John Tavener (the old one), Village Harmony, Kathy Bullock's gospel piano playing and singing. | | Movies | *Sense and Sensibility, *Shakespeare in Love, *The Remains of the Day, *Secrets and Lies, The Best of Youth , *American Beauty, *Howard's End, Station Agent, Before Sunrise, *Love Actually, *What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Stage Beauty, Transamerica, *Sex, Lies and Videotapes. (*=seen at least twice and was at least as good the 2nd time.) | | Television | We rent TV shows on Netflix: most recent favorites: the new BBC "Bleak House" and "Tipping the Velvet". "House of Cards", "Prime Suspect". Thank you BBC! | | Books | Books I have read at least twice and were better the second time around: Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, Middlemarch, Crime and Punishment, Parting of the Waters by Taylor Branch, Middlemarch. I read the Idiot twice and it was pretty wonderful the second time, but not as good as the first time; still, I find the opening 100 - 200 pages life-changing as I try to become more like Prince Myshkin. I just finished World Without End, the wonderful sequel to Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. | | Heroes | Sam. Stefan. Al Gore. Kathy Leo. Gabe, Steve Martin, Mary Alice, Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu, oh yes, speaking of bishops, Bishop Gene Robinson. Bob Henry. |
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Peter Amidon's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Children: | Proud parent | | Occupation: | musician |
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About me:
I don't know how it happened, but somehow, one day, at the Old Songs Festival, Roger the Jester and I ended up in the children's tent at the same time. Without any consultation, I started telling a story and Roger acted it out. We have done it a lot since then, calling the act "We Know Not What We Do" and it is one of my favorite things to do on this planet. About me: I love to tell stories, write choral arrangements of songs, sing with Mary Alice and with the boys and with the Guilford Community Choir and with Hallowell (our hospice singing chorus) and go for walks and watch movies and share meals and gossip with friends and read a good book and improvise on the piano and lead dancing with children and be surprised by wonderful music and have New York City shift my paradigm.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Dostoevsky, George Elliot, Bela Bartok, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and, oh yes, George Elliot. I have already met quite a few people that I would have liked to meet.
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