NYC 2018

Many Things to be Done

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• Bound and Consecrate by Daniel Speyer
• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death

Dusk

• Somewhere to Begin ◦ by Sara Thompsen ◦ Music and Dreams aren't solutions, but they are starting points

Twilight

• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• Origin of Stories, Twilight Edition by Raymond Arnold and Daniel Speyer
• Endless Light Above Me by Raymond Arnold ◦ The first part of a song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Night

• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• No Royal Road to Knowledge; No Mercy for Ignorance by Daniel Speyer
• The Voicing of Fear by Daniel Speyer ◦ How much we have to lose and how little chance we have to keep it
• A Little Echo by Raymond Arnold (with a few bits by Daniel Speyer) ◦ Love, life, death, and the desperate hope for life again
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• We Are Here by Daniel Speyer
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire

Morning

• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• Endless Light Around Me by Raymond Arnold ◦ The second part of a song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities
• Somebody Will by Sassafrass ◦ I can't solve the entire problem, but I can contribute, and trust my tribe to go the rest of the way
• Well, Will Somebody? by Daniel Speyer

Days to Come

• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein