The joys of an old flame
0 Comments Published by Nincompoopery has ensued on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 9:31 PM.
Music is something meant to be everlastingly fresh. I love music that I can listen to and discover something new about years later. A band that has been everlastingly new for me is Five Iron Frenzy.
It seems like every time I listen to one of their albums I can find something else that I did not know was there before. Sometimes it's a guitar or horn part that I never recognized or it might be a new harmony for me to sing along with.
Recently what has changed for me in their music is the lyrics. I have found new meaning in some verses that I didn't think about very much when I was in junior high or high school.
So here's to FIF. They always will be my favorite band.
Rest in peace. You're still alive in my heart.
Speaking of great music I've decided to start posting what music I am currently listening to in each of my blogs so here you go...
Albums currently in heavy rotation:
In Rainbows-Radiohead
Volume One-She & Him
Spring-Jon Foreman
Funeral-Arcade Fire
The Alchemy Index ,Volumes I and II-Thrice
It seems like every time I listen to one of their albums I can find something else that I did not know was there before. Sometimes it's a guitar or horn part that I never recognized or it might be a new harmony for me to sing along with.
Recently what has changed for me in their music is the lyrics. I have found new meaning in some verses that I didn't think about very much when I was in junior high or high school.
So here's to FIF. They always will be my favorite band.
Rest in peace. You're still alive in my heart.
Speaking of great music I've decided to start posting what music I am currently listening to in each of my blogs so here you go...
Albums currently in heavy rotation:
In Rainbows-Radiohead
Volume One-She & Him
Spring-Jon Foreman
Funeral-Arcade Fire
The Alchemy Index ,Volumes I and II-Thrice
"Consider the advantages"
1 Comments Published by Nincompoopery has ensued on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM.
I am currently reading That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis. This is the third and final installment in his Space Trilogy. I am about halfway through it and if the second half is nearly as good as the first it might very well become my favorite book of all time.
I want to share a paragraph that I found interesting and perhaps insightful of our modern society's desire to control the natural world (even though this book was written in the 40s). In this selection the character Filostrato is proposing that trees on earth be done away with and replaced by something more manageable.
"But consider the advantages! You get tired of him in one place: two workmen carry him somewhere else: wherever you please. It never dies. No leaves to fall, no twigs, no birds building nests, no muck or mess."
"...I foresee nothing but the art tree all over the earth. In fact, we clean the planet."
"I would not have any birds either. On the art tree I would have the art birds all singing when you press a switch inside the house. When you are tired of the singing you switch them off. Consider again the improvement. No feathers dropped about, no nests, no eggs, no dirt."
I want to share a paragraph that I found interesting and perhaps insightful of our modern society's desire to control the natural world (even though this book was written in the 40s). In this selection the character Filostrato is proposing that trees on earth be done away with and replaced by something more manageable.
"But consider the advantages! You get tired of him in one place: two workmen carry him somewhere else: wherever you please. It never dies. No leaves to fall, no twigs, no birds building nests, no muck or mess."
"...I foresee nothing but the art tree all over the earth. In fact, we clean the planet."
"I would not have any birds either. On the art tree I would have the art birds all singing when you press a switch inside the house. When you are tired of the singing you switch them off. Consider again the improvement. No feathers dropped about, no nests, no eggs, no dirt."
Spring Break starts today for me and tomorrow I am venturing on a trek with my family to Destin, Florida. We will be driving for twelve hours in my parents' recently purchased conversion van. The trip will look a little something like this:
More to report next week.
More to report next week.
