Music

"Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche
 
In the last two years, I have expanded my musical preferences alot.  Consider 200 snowmen.  Now that is alot of snowmen.  But multiply that by 5 to get 1000 snowmen--each with its own fashion--, and you have quite a bit more snowmen--each with its own fashion.  That is approximately the best analogy I can give you on how much my musical taste has increased in the past year or two.  It is now over 9000.

One of the most important additions to my taste is the Indie genre--with the other most important genre being rock!!  Here is an example of some of the expanded taste music:


Chicago by Sufjan Stevens

A Man From Argentina- Billie the Vision and the Dancers

transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie

It is SSSSOOOOO nice to find a new song that you love.  It makes life so much better.  BTW, I read an article on existential depression and how it proliferates in gifted people much sooner than in older people.  And I don't want to say I am gifted, but with all my pragmatic viewpoints, I feel that I quite easily could have been existentially depressed.  (I don't know if I still am, but I think I was at one point.)

I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
when the water filled every hole.
and thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
making islands where no island should go.
oh no.
...
...
...
the distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
it seems farther than ever before
oh no.

I need you so much closer

I SSEEEEE YYYOOOUUU

What is the ring of power supposed to represent?  I know that it represents power--duh--, but it represents other things too.  Some off the top of my head are greed, lust, burden, and single-mindedness.  But there has to be more to it than just that.  So i ask you, could you please give me a complex analysis of the Ring of Power from the Lord of the Rings?

To tack on to that, how does sauron fit with the ring?  What does he represent besides just EVIL?

And now, one of my favorite quotes (i love every single line in the movie, just saying.  I would like to write down every line, but that would take a bit too long): "Smeagol, what is it!!??  It's sticky!!"

I wanna KEEEUULLLL some bitches

That is all.

Thank you.

To Christians:

Please DO teach your children to be highly moral.  I don't want people pissing in my cheerios just for the laugh.  I prefer a society that is at least slightly conscientious enough to open a door for a man when he has his hands full or an old woman who has had trouble with walking recently.

However.

Before the things you say regarding religion, you should assert, "A single man, who lived 2000 years ago when people fought with swords, bows, and spears and had very little concern if any for science, said...".  Then you should conclude your remarks with, "Everything that I have just said to you is entirely based on either my own personal, pathetic (pathos) experience or else the sheep-like mentality of a mindless follower."

BAAAAH, BAAAAAH.  Let's just herd 'em up, and move 'em out.  YEEHAW.

It is kind of confusing, though, to know that Christianity has lasted so long and with such a following.  I suppose that it is either the HOPE that people are full of or the sociological factors of SHEEP-herding that has caused this continuation.  (Surely it cannot be truth--that makes no sense... ...)... (Think about it...) ...


Senses = Ethos, Logos, and Pathos (in a non-rhetorical sense)
-according to Lucretius

You Raise Me Up- Josh Groban

The Ghost of Corporate Future- Regina Spektor

Curs in the Weeds- Horse Feathers

My Last Song to Jenny- The Avett Brothers

All because of you...

All because of you...
All because of you...

All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long.
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can lay my head down,
Inside these arms of yours.

All because of you,
I believe in angels.
Not the kind with wings,
No, not the kind with halos,
The kind that bring you home,
When home becomes a strange place.
I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.

Rise Against- The Good Left Undone

Rise Against- Behind Closed Doors

Quiet

You say if you could fly, you'd never come back down.  You only have eyes for that blue, blue sky.

I keep on wondering.  And it gets me nowhere.  I feel, and yet I do not feel.  But it does not matter.  There is a sky above me.  There is a ground below me.  There is a brain in my head.  And there are friends in my life.  I should not want more, and I should always be happy.  Because life is fair.  Because order is nonexistent.  Because I actually exist. 

Be happy everyone.  And strive for that blue, blue sky.  Do not let me fool you; I am trying to be optimistic.

It matters innumerably.

On a side note, SPIDERS!!!!  We kept this in our house for like a half a year.  He was on the inside side of the window sill in our kitchen.

 

Go Einstein!!

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm