…I learned from Dale. Well, not really. In fact, I stole this idea from my Facebook friend Steve Lawson. In a way, most of the things I learn about the internet I learn from my internet addicted friends (no offense Mr Lawson.)
At any rate, this is a fun watch….something to jump start your weekend.
They have a shot at Lollapalooza this year…a long shot because they entered late but take a listen to their stuff on the site and then, if it so pleases you (and I know that it will because, well…they rock…) then take a moment to vote them into the top 100 bands vying for position.
This comes from my sis for your added motivation:
Lollapalooza. It’s a huge music festival that has a contest every year where local bands can win a spot on one of the stages. It’s massive. Huge, awesome, amazing. Anyway- I submitted our band and all we have to do to get past the first round is stay in the top 100 bands in votes. Now, we’re a little late to enter– just today… so we need to catch up. But the bands in the bottom of the 100 are only at around 250 votes…so we CAN DO IT!!! Ok here is the link to vote… send it to people who believe in making great things happen… and — of course vote yourself!! Post it on blogs… we need a full on campaign!!!
I admit it. I’ve become addicted to Twilight. The book series written by Stephanie Meyer centers around an “ordinary” 17 year old girl who falls for a brooding hunky vampire. At first blush it may seem a plot for a paperback romance but I think what sets this apart is that Stephanie Meyer is a very good writer. The characters are complex and conflicted, they are three dimensional. I like that in a story.
But now I’m addicted and I’m not the only one so I’m wondering what that’s all about. What IS it about the “dark” that draws us in? I suppose this is an age old quandry; people who profess to follow the light move toward darkness. I dunno, it’s sexy I guess. It’s human, it’s imperfect, it’s tremendously flawed…maybe it’s just easier to connect to those traits, to feel comforted somehow by them.
There is something about it; choosing the burger over the salad, the candy bar over the carrot stick, the beach over the sermon. Or maybe it’s not only about choosing the things that are bad for me. I’ve long been a proponent of balance…everything in moderation. In reality, without the dark then light really ceases to have meaning. The light is only the light because of the contrasting darkness, yes?
I have no idea where I’m going with this. I just know that now I really want some cookies.
I’ve been reading “Blink” recently. The subtitle being, “The Power of Thinking without Thinking.”
It’s a bit hard to explain except to say that one “take away” I have is that often when we experience something new and have a negative reaction that it’s not so much that we don’t LIKE it, but rather that it was not what we expected. If we have the experience again we find that perhaps we do not dislike it as much as we had thought. Stuff really does GROW on us…that’s science for you.
I thought this was a good opportunity to test that out in practice.
This is a Japanese girl band I like a whole lot from back in my neo-punk days, Shonen Knife. They rock. They do.
So you’re job is to listen to this not once but at least say, 10 times (depending upon how much it appeals to you….or not…) and see if it grows on you. You should be glad I did not choose Marilyn Manson for our test subject.
Brown Mushrooms
Shall we go out looking for big mushrooms
On the silver plate
Shall we go out looking for brown mushrooms
More than five inches across
Maybe we can find them very soon
Maybe we can find them at the Italian restaurant
Shall we go out looking for big mushrooms
Piled high on the plate
Shall we go out looking for brown mushrooms
Like an open umbrella
Maybe we can find them under the moon
Maybe we can find them at the Italian restaurant
In fifteen minutes
They’ll become appetizers
They’ll be cut into pieces
To be mushroom spaghetti
We’re all looking for tasty big mushrooms
We’re all looking for tasty big mushrooms
Maybe we’ll find magic very soon
Maybe we’ll find magic at the Italian restaurant
In fifteen minutes
They’ll become appetizers
They’ll be cut into pieces
To be mushroom spaghetti
We’re all looking for tasty big mushrooms
We’re all looking for tasty big mushrooms
We’re all looking for tasty big mushrooms
We’re all looking for tasty…
Big mushrooms
Big mushrooms
Big mushrooms
Big mushrooms
For no reason whatsoever I wanted to put this vid up today. I love that Shawn Colvin…a whole, whole lot. These lyrics have been in my head a lot lately so I thought I’d put this up. It’s one of my favorite Shawn Colvin tunes and of course Chris Botti, is an amazing musician as well…amazing.
I’m having coffee with a friend tomorrow at BongoJava. It’s in a neighborhood where I hope to live one day, East Nashville, very funky and artsy.
BongoJava has the distinction of having discovered the “Nun Bun” which is a cinnamon roll bearing a striking resemblance to Mother Teresa. Now, since someone googled me with “Mother Teresa tattoo” recently I felt this was a good follow up.
Read all about the Nun Bun here. Seriously, go and read it. It is very entertaining. You will never look at cinnamon rolls the same way again.
I have walked by the same pile of laundry every day for a week. It is clean, folded and ready to go to it’s home in the kids’ drawers upstairs. One flight of stairs. One pile of clean laundry. One week.
Every time I walk by the pile of laundry I look at it, make a mental note to take it upstairs and effectively snub it for the moment.
I googled “procrastination” the other day hoping that there was some sort of herbal supplement or prescription drug available to overcome this malady. One site had the “cure for procrastination” so I went there. The cure, it stated was to “do something productive.”
there you go. why didn’t I think of that?
So, the radical thought for this week…”do something productive.”
I’m still high on my Scott Cairns encounter a couple of weeks ago. The “poem” below comes from his book, “Love’s Immensity” in which he translates and adapts the works of early church Christian mystics. I love this stuff…take this one slow and let it slide over you a few times before deciding what you “think” about it.
Beckoning Beauty
St. Denys the Areopagite (translated and adapted by Scott Cairns)
It is forever so-
unvarying, unchanging-
beautiful but not
as something
coming into birth
or falling into death,
and not as what
might grow or might
decay, nor is it
beautiful now and otherwise then.
It is in itself and of itself
the uniquely and eternally
beautiful, and the great creating
cause that bekons
all creation, and holds
all things in the pulse
of its existence,
bears them, keeps them
by the longing within them
to share in what it is- which is
to say, to share in what is beautiful.
For those of you who asked to hear the music to The Shore here ’tis. Please bear in mind the fact that I recorded it into my laptop without fancy equipment…seriously….and in fact, the whirring sound you hear in the background at some point is my computer’s hard drive. Nice touch, huh? I will also tell you that yes, that is my fine beginner guitar work there. It’s coming along.
One day, I will master this and I shall rule the world of technological things….either that or I will hire someone to do this for me.
metaphorfrom the Latin. metaphora, from Gk. metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, lit. "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
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